Following from yesterday's post about Ormiston House, you remember I mentioned that Captain Louis Hope who built the first dedicated sugar mill in Australia, at Ormiston, near Brisbane, spat the dummy after he lost a court case and sailed with his family back to England, but not before destroying the sugar mill so it couldn't be used by anyone else.
That's what he left behind:
The Hope saga is now finished with this post!
A sad end to the saga. "Scorched earth" comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteIt's so interesting that you have recovered that picture to show us. I think that Mr Hope had said: "If I can use it, nobody uses it then"
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