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Highfield House

Highfield House was built in 1826 by Edward Curr (1798-1850), a grazier and director of the Van Diemen's Land Company. In my first upload today I gave you some historical information about them, so won't repeat myself here. [As always I prefer viewers to look at each of the photographs I post each day to follow the story.]

Convicts were used to build Highfield House, and there is even a ruin of the convict barracks or gaol that I will show you tomorrow. Although relations with the convicts here were not always the best, it has to be said they still did a wonderful job:

"Curr admitted being a 'coercive master' who doled out strict justice and discipline. Despite the benefits of rations, wood and water, differences between Company and colonial wages led indentured servants to abscond or seek legal loopholes to escape Company servitude. Such problems led Curr to proclaim that the Company 'owed everything we are and have' to the favour of convict labour. While settlers clamoured for convicts, the Company was (by deduction from quit rent) theoretically paid for taking them. Moreover, arrangements were made for agricultural workers sentenced in England for protest activities to be assigned as Company convicts. When convicts were no longer assigned, the Company still pressed for special consideration. As regards numbers, these ranged from 35 convicts in 1827 to a peak of 117 in 1835. Although Company convicts had a good reputation, incidents such as the escape of six convicts in a sealing vessel in 1828 or the 1835 plan to capture Circular Head and seize the Company schooner Edward are worthy of note." www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/V/...

Here are some marvellous interior shots of the restoration work that has taken place at Highfield House. tasmaniantimber.com.au/stories/highfield-house-restoring-...

Taken in: Australia / Tasmania / Highfield Historic Ste (show map)

Taken on: July 6, 2021

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