Goyder's Camp & Early Darwin

DARWIN SESQUICENTENARY

150 years ago Goyder's 'Camp in the Saddle' at the dawn of Darwin

Goyder's Camp in the saddle between the Residency 'Government House' & where Fort Hill once stood.

The purpose of this page is to gather & sort images of 'the camp' with the objective of creating a 3D digital reconstruction and fly through time video of the creation of Darwin incorporating current drone footage with historical images by Captain Sam Sweet, Inspector Paul Foelsche, Florenz Bleeser et al.

The photogrammetry is to be superimposed upon 360° HD drone video with a 3D reconstruction of the camp and a fade through time from 1869 to 2019 including imagery of the proposed landmark hotel development.

The internationally significant Overland Telegraph & Undersea Cable stories ran concurrently with Goyder's Party founding Darwin - critical to the survival Australia's northern capital they are major heritage assets lying fallow.

SLSA B-15373 possibly by Goyder 1869

SLSA B-1048 William Hoare 1869

SRG67_19_12 SLSA Norton Green - Bennett's Grave on Fort Hill 1869

SLSA B-3239 Hoare 1869 grave on Fort Hill - Bennett was speared at Fred's Pass on 28th May 1869 & Hazard died of rheumatism 9th June

SW Herbert SLSA D6995

Stitch of 2 SLSA images - shed and baths at right

SLSA B-16791-15

Most early images are by Capt. Sam Sweet - master of the Gulnare & de facto expedition photographer - the official photographer & draughtsman, Joseph Brooks, produced a small number of stereo images which were intended to afford perspective. They worked together producing almost identical views. Many prints are cropped enlargements.

Most other images are by Inspector Paul Foelsche with material from Anton Bleeser, Sir Baldwin Spenser et al. Dates & attribution are 'as given'.

GOYDER'S GHOSTS

Captain Samuel Sweet was master of the Gulnare - pictured below at right of image. He used a 'wet plate' photographic process which was tedious, protracted & tortuous for all concerned, especially in the Wet, so some of the men simply wandered off during the exposure of the plate and created Goyder's Ghosts.

Capt. Sweet's signature was the anchor - visible beside the boat on the beach - this motif and some ghosts will likely make an appearance.

The metal sheds, tents & other buildings will be 3D modelled and imagery superimposed over the framework to produce an accurate & realistic scene.

Early Darwin stitch by Mike Owen - Telegraph Camp - Goyder's Camp & Gulnare at anchor - ghosts of wet plate process removed

SLSA Sweet PRG-742-5-81 from Palmerston Hill 1870

SLSA B-4656 Sweet 1870

PRG742_5_93

SLSA B-4652 Sweet - 1870

Foelsche NLA an11360266-

NTRS 3420 Foelsche

PRG-742-5-100 road to Palmerston aka Signal Hill

SLSA B-22244 Sweet c1870

SLSA B9728 Palmerston. The Store - erected 1869 - image ca 1869

SLSA B-39594 Sweet 1870

SLSA B-1154 Brooks c1870

NTL PH 0002-0161 Roger Nott col. 1870 - ? Sweet with Brooks stereo below

SLSA B-1155 Brooks c1870

SLSA B-1152 Brooks c1870 stereoscopic

1869

SLSA B-1153 Brooks c1870

SLSA B-1156 Brooks c1870

NTL PH0837-0014_stereo Brooks

SLSA B-1153 Brooks c1870

NTL PH0837-0004_stereo

B-56580 William Barlow 1875

SLSA B-4653 Sweet Stables 1870

B-56552 by William Barlow - Mrs Barlow & their house

SLSA B-56579 William Barlow 1875

SLSA Sweet 1870 B-4647 Fort Hill camp

Sweet - Fort Hill in background - flagstaff just visible

VSL H141679 Views of the saddle from below the Residency on Palmerston Hill

Beach Views

SLSA B1151 Brooks c1869 stereoscopic image

SLSA desalination unit

Suggested desalination unit - boiler x Midge

Detail of desalination boiler?

1872

SLSA B-9741 Ned Tuckwell - carpenter shipwright 1870 - he was at Escape Cliffs

SLSA PRG-742-5-99

SLSA Fort Hill

SLSA Sweet 1870 B-4649

Hamilton & Hake image Escape Cliffs c1845

SLSA Palmerston Warden's Office ca 1870 - ? X Escape Cliffs

SLSA B9734 Palmerston, Medical Officer's Quarters and Senior Surveyor's Quarters ca 1870

SLSA Sweet (14) 1870 B-4637

Victoria State Library Sweet 20 - Port Darwin Telegraph Station

SLSA B24165

SLSA B-24168 1896 Foelsche

Port Darwin west side 'Fort Hill' - MO Residence - S.S. Charlton

nla.pic-an11360266-63 Estella and S.S. Charlton at Port Darwin, August 1878

1887 Foelsche NLA version of NTGL PH0002-0005 1-11-1879 - centre is Govt. Surveyor's residence - foreground Govt. Medical Officer's residence.

SLSA B-5041 Estelle August 1878

Fort Point NTL PH0238-0412 Foelsche 10 June 1875

NTL PH0747-0072 Foelsche 1883 Officer's Quarters

NLA Foelsche 1875 - an 11360266-88

NLA Foelsche 1889 - an 11360266-

Foelsche SLSA B-5039 - 1878 Residency is not as advanced as in 1875 image above

Early Darwin stitch by M. Owen - Foelsche NTRS 3420 P1 - 5 & SLSA B-5039 1878

Early Darwin stitch by M. Owen of Foelsche NTRS 3420 P1 - 5 & 16

Foelsche NTRS 3420_P1_photo 5

Foelsche NTRS 3420_P1_photo 16

The Residency & BAT Offices

SLSA Sweet 1870 B-4637

SLSA Sweet 1870 PRG-742-5-108

Foelsche SLSA B-5039 - 1878 detail see image above

SLVic H141687 Government House & the Camp

NLA Foelsche 1875 - an 11360266-88 detail

B-10103 Foelsche - possible cyclone damage though bananas are fine

NLA Foelsche 1889 - an 11360266-

SLSA B5062 Foelsche

SLSA B5060 Foelsche

SLSA PRG-742-5-108 Sweet 1870ish

NLA Foelsche an11360266-72 1879

NTRS 3420_reverse of image at right which is taken from the up-stairs window at extreme left.

NLA pic an11360266 - Foelsche

NLA an11360266-44

NTRS 3420_P1_photo 38ew from Residency 1st floor - Foelsche - NTL Foelsche PH0002-0044 Cnr Esplanade & Mitchell showing store of Gore & Co. BAT - taken from Residency upstairs find others

NLA 146751668 Garden Party after Administrator's Levee JP Campbell 1912

The Residency - Government House 1974 post Cyclone Tracy

British Australia Telegraph Company {BAT}

Stitch by Mike Owen of Foelsche BAT & Residency 1879c NLA an11360266 images

NTL Moire Album PH1060_FOELSCHE_p0023 Telegraph Buildings 1873

nla.obj-141838308 Telegraph buildings, B.A.T. May, 1878 Foelsche, P.

nla.obj-141838403 O.T. Telegraph Station, Masters Quarters and Office, May, 1878 Foelsche, P.

post office BAT 1900

Early Darwin

SLSA Foelsche B-5066 Fort Hill c1880

The Palmerston Wesleyan Chapel SLSA B46857 Foesche

NLA 150838741 Catholic Church pre 1897 cyclone Bleeser

NTL PH0747-0112 Foelsche Knight's Folly - HMAS Myrundum - a mud hut built by prison labour - it burned down.

Foelsche tin bank

NLA version of NTL PH0747-0116 the Millars House on Stokes Hill Foelsche 1889

nla obj-150842782 Catholic Church 1897

SLSA B-5061 Stokes Hill & yards 1880s

NLA Bleeser

nla.obj-150823624 - Govt Res - Snr Surveyors House 1897 web

The Victoria Hotel

nla 671 Bleeser

nla 608 Bleeser 1897

nla 829 Bleeser 1897

SLSA B5060 Foelsche

SLSA B-24187-8 Town Hall 1895

SLSA B-5059 Palmerston Town Hall built 1883 - Foelsche

NTL PH0347-0002 Foelsche 1879 - quartz crushing mill at Virginia Mine where Stapleton Court Malak was constructed in 1975 - hills are wrong surely

SLSA Chinese humpies 1890

SLSA B5040 Palmerston Hospital above Doctor's Gully 1883

B-24182 Drwn Railyard as seen from the Jetty 1894

B-24245 Foelsche 1888c Darwin Archery Club

The Fanny (Fannie) Bay Gaol - Early 20th Century

Fanie (Fannie) Bay Gaol 1937

SLSA B-23031 Fannie Bay Gaol 1914 - Parap Steamer Watch Tower

NTRS-203335-20 Item 16 1924-36 Railway Offices

Early Darwin by Street

Mitchell Street

NTRS 3420_P1_photo 38ew from Residency 1st floor - Foelsche - NTL PH0002-0044 Cnr Esplanade & Mitchell showing store of Gore & Co. BAT - taken from Residency

NLA.obj-141836956 Mitchell Street, looking NW, 3rd June, 1875 Foelsche

nlaMAWLQF6F Government Offices and Police Inspector's Quarters, June 1879

NLA Foelsche images series an11360266

NLA Foelsche series 11360266 - predates image above

Post-cyclone Florenz Bleeser 1897

NTL PH 0002-0035 Foelsche 1879 Mitchell St from Cable Co. yard showing Vabian Louis Solomon store & Govt. Secretary's office at end.

NTRS 3420-24 Foelsche Commercial Hotel Mitchell St Darwin 1874

Esplanade

M. Owen stitch of Foelsche images SLSA B5060 & B50602

NLA pic-an11360266-46-v 1875

nla.obj-141840404 The Gaol and Esplanade, June 1879 Foelsche, P.

nla.obj-141840500 Court House and Esplanade, June 1879 Foelsche, P.

nla.obj-141841656 Police Station, Palmerston, December 1879 Foelsche, P. A new build between images above

Unsorted by Street

Foelsche NLA an11360266-2 First Lock Up Port Darwin 1889

SLSA B-10838 c1870

SLSA B-72713-7 from Fort Hill 1899-1918

Foelsche NLA an11360266-1 First Land Survey Office Port Darwin 1889

nlaRQAHMNQ3 Smith Street, Darwin, looking SE, June 1879

SLSA B-18601 c1920 unk

SLSA B-24187-12

SLSA B46855 Foelsche Palmerston Saw Mill

SLSA B-72667-8 'Chinatown, Darwin. Taken from banyan tree near corner of Bennett and Smith Streets and looking towards Man Fong Lows store in Cavenagh Street. The buggy is opposite to Wing Cheo