HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. 33 Walker, Andrew Brown, Thomas Brown and John Oxley Nor<strong>to</strong>n, made an earnest request <strong>to</strong> the Governor for the appointment of a Police Magistrate : “ We have the honour <strong>to</strong> submit <strong>to</strong> your consideration that since the discovery of gold, the necessity for the attendance of the Magistrates at the <strong>Court</strong> <strong>House</strong> has greatly increased, and their residences being all at a considerable distance from it, we beg very respectfully <strong>to</strong> solicit that a Police Magistrate be again appointed <strong>to</strong> this district.” The position was not tilled, however, until Thomas Brown was appointed Police Magistrate on July 20, 1855. Magistrates of the Bench who assisted Brown during his Police Magistracy were Andrew Brown, James Walker, John Oxley Nor<strong>to</strong>n, Jeremiah Grant, Thomas Cadell, jun., Robert Barring<strong>to</strong>n Dawson, John Delaney and Dr. Robert Rygate. The last named was the medical practitioner of <strong>Hartley</strong> and visited Lithgow by way of D oc<strong>to</strong>r’s Gap which was named after him. H a r t l e y ’ s H e y -D a y . The discovery of gold in the middle west much increased the value of <strong>to</strong>wn property in <strong>Hartley</strong>. The heavier traffic past this posting stage created a demand for labour of every kind, and there was constant work for shoemakers, carpenters, wheelwrights, masons, shepherds and farm labourers. The inns flourished. The <strong>to</strong>wn in 1853 appeared “ romantic, clean, English-like ” . An inn by the river had “ a romantic view from it of the river leaping over rocks, with a pretty s<strong>to</strong>ne bridge over it. English comforts, wax candles, clean linen, good feeding and an attentive ostler ” . The traveller’s expenses at this inn were ostler Is., supper 2s., breakfast 2s., bed 2s., spirits 6d., horse 8s. The roads at this time had been cut <strong>to</strong> pieces b y heavy drays and herds of beasts. They were “ most dreadful roads. Teams stuck in the mud, broken carts, dead horses and bullocks. . . the mail travelling is awfully unpleasant. Country very like Syria, and trees like olive-trees.” The Bathurst Royal Mail in 1856 used <strong>to</strong> leave Market Street, Sydney, just before five in the afternoon. Passengers and luggage proceeded by bus and train <strong>to</strong> Parramatta where a small open coach, the “ Mountain Plumb ” , received them. <strong>Hartley</strong> was reached on the evening of the second day’s travel. A t Little <strong>Hartley</strong>, near the foot of Mount Vic<strong>to</strong>ria, were two or three public houses and smithies, and six or seven substantial dwellings.
ARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE.
- Page 2 and 3: F r a n K /Y a V S o* . 2 b , Q ? b
- Page 5 and 6: 1 f y c f y U j O i r FORE W O R D
- Page 8 and 9: GEOGRAPHICAL IN TROD UCTION. On one
- Page 10 and 11: HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. 5 B o
- Page 12 and 13: HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. T York
- Page 14 and 15: 1 HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. ‘J
- Page 16 and 17: 15 HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. 11
- Page 18 and 19: 17- HABTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE.___
- Page 20 and 21: HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. 15 But
- Page 22 and 23: l \ HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. 17
- Page 24 and 25: 23 HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. 19
- Page 26 and 27: 9 HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. 21 T
- Page 28 and 29: HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. 23 pri
- Page 30 and 31: HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. 25 In
- Page 32 and 33: HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. 27 The
- Page 35: 33
- Page 38 and 39: 30 HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. Acc
- Page 40: Looking back at Hartley from the Ri
- Page 46 and 47: 36 HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. Loo
- Page 48: » cM XI > I >z X m » p 2 ? 5z 1 8
- Page 51 and 52: FOREWORD. Soon after the unveiling
- Page 53 and 54: 4 1 HISTORIC GLENROY, COX’S RIVER
- Page 55 and 56: 4_________HISTORIC GLENROY, COX’S
- Page 57 and 58: 6 HISTORIC GLENROY, COX’S RIVER.
- Page 59 and 60: 8 HISTORIC GLENROY, COX’S RIVER.
- Page 61 and 62: 10 HISTORIC GLENROY, COX’S RIVER.
- Page 63 and 64: 12 HISTORIC GLENROY, COX’S RIVER.
- Page 65 and 66: 6 0 14 HISTORIC GLENR OY, COX’S R
- Page 67: HISTORIC GLENROY. COX’S RIVER. Th
- Page 72 and 73: 18 HISTORIC GLENROY, COX’S RIVER.
- Page 75 and 76: if HISTORIC GLEN ROY, COX'S RIVER.
- Page 77 and 78: HISTORIC GLEN ROY, COX'S RIVER. 21
- Page 79 and 80: T 3 HISTORIC GLENROY, COX^S RIVER.
- Page 81 and 82: HISTORIC GLENROY, COX’S RIVER. M
- Page 83 and 84: HISTORIC GLENROY, COX’S RIVER. 27
- Page 85 and 86: t . o HISTORIC GLENROY, COX’S RIV
- Page 87 and 88: S) HISTORIC GLENROY, COX’S RIVER.
- Page 89 and 90: M U N IC IP A L IT Y OF L IT H G O
- Page 92:
Q> M A P -