A barrow

It's been a while since I participated in My World Tuesday so once again I show my overseas visitors scenes from 'Our Brisbane' 


Starting with a disused barrow taken at Ormiston House I took some time ago.

Hope Sugar Mill, Ormiston

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!

No hope for Hope

Visiting Ormiston House yesterday I found this cairn in the garden dedicated to captain Louis Hope, a Scotsman who built the first sugar mill in Australia specifically designed to crush sugar cane. Mills before were also used to crush other produce. Unfortunately, a few years later, Louis Hope was sued by a neighbour / tenant for not crushing his cane properly. The mill at the time was not working properly and Hope claimed it was not his fault that the cane didn't get crushed properly. The court didn't see it that way and Hope was ordered to pay the litigant £1,200, so upset was Hope by this decision, he packet up his family, shut up the house, destroyed the mill and sailed back to the United Kingdom, never to return again to Australia.