5/27/2023 0 Comments Cobb quickyIn Warburton there is a Damman St and bridge. The photographer Gustav Melbourne Damman lived in Warburton along with other family members. Not sure if off site links are ok, but here’s a link It has a coach garage, so coaches must still have been in use. “Harcourt” was built mid 1910s finished 1918, by a prominent, wealthy builder Richard Stockdale ass a country home. I’ve spoken to the current owner of “Harcourt” the house next to “Harcourt House”. Austin, K A 1972, The lights of Cobb and Co: the story of the frontier coaches, 1854-1924, : Rigby, p.200 Roderick, C (ed) 1967-69, Collected verse / Henry Lawson, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, p.337ģ. You can also read more about Cobb and Co and the American contribution to the Australian gold rush in this article in the Victorian Historical Magazine.ġ. resources, including books and illustrations, a cashbook, annual reports, a leather money pouch and letters from saddlers and drivers. The coach which made the run was bought by the Federal Treasury for £100 and eventually placed in the National Museum. coach journey took place in South West Queensland on 14 August 1924. He expanded business to New South Wales and Queensland. was purchased by American James Rutherford. He eventually settled in South Africa where he established another Cobb and Co., providing transport between Port Elizabeth and the diamond mines of the Kimberley. In May 1856 Freeman Cobb sold up and returned to the United States. That cheer for her, and cheer for Home, and cheer for Cobb and Co.’ (2) With ‘Auld Lang Syne’ in chorus through roaring camps they go. ‘Five miles this side the gold-field, a loud, triumphant shout:įive hundred cheering diggers have snatched the horses out: In 1897, poet Henry Lawson described the coach-towns and experiences of the drivers in the poem The lights of Cobb and Co.: A fare to Castlemaine cost five pounds, to Bendigo seven pounds and to Maryborough, 124 miles away, seven pounds, ten shillings. Their services to the goldfields were particularly popular. They transported not only passengers around the state, but also prisoners, VIPs, and the mail. Their business proved so successful that routes were expanded across Victoria. Connecting services to Bendigo and Maryborough left from the Victoria Hotel Castlemaine at 6:00am the following morning. Through spring to autumn they arrived in Castlemaine before sunset. The coach stopped at Essendon, Keilor, Gap, Gisborne, Woodend, Carlshrue, Kyneton, Malmsbury and Elphinstone. The passenger service left the Criterion Hotel, Collins Street every morning (Sundays excepted) at 6:00am. The Argus, Tuesday 31 January 1854, page 3 (column 4) On 30 January 1854, American businessman Freeman Cobb and three associates started a passenger coach service to Castlemaine and Bendigo.
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