A horse and plough at Redhill, South Australia
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382555)
Rockingham, Australia
May 28, 2018 5:23pm CST
On our way to Adelaide in South Australia, we passed through the small town of Redhill. It was formerly called Broughton as it is adjacent to the Broughton River. It once had a hotel, blacksmith, general store, school and several churches as well as other businesses but most of these have gone now.
It was renamed as Redhill in 1940 and was for many years the terminus of the broad gauge branch railway which connected with the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway. The link, when completed in 1938, meant three different gauges were sited there.
The role of the heavy horse is remembered with this replica of a draught horse pulling a single furrow plough. Some places change so much over time don't they?
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@snowy22315 (209177)
• United States
29 May 18
That's a great statue. You had posted a pic of you kids going to school on a horse. My mom and uncle up as farm kids too..and they walked until they got into HS. My uncle said he did ride his horse to school a time or two though as well!
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@JudyEv (382555)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 May 18
Yes, my brother and sister rode to school for a while but they were quite a bit older than me.
@popciclecold (40214)
• United States
30 May 18
@JudyEv It looks real. Is it hot there.
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@JudyEv (382555)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 May 18
@popciclecold It would get very hot there in the summer.
@epiffanie (11336)
• Australia
29 May 18
oh! the town is no longer populated ?..
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@epiffanie (11336)
• Australia
30 May 18
@JudyEv wow.. you’d think that they would be more friendly to visitors in their town.. but maybe they’re the only ones left because they don’t like people..
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@JudyEv (382555)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 May 18
@epiffanie It could be. They were just very offhand so if they are like that to everyone, most people would just go somewhere else if they had the choice.
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@mlgen1037 (29882)
• Manila, Philippines
29 May 18
Hi Judy. Yes, that is so true. I actually thought that was a real horse there.
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@mlgen1037 (29882)
• Manila, Philippines
29 May 18
@JudyEv It has and it is really fascinating.
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@JudyEv (382555)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 May 18
It would be a rude shock if we all had to go back to using horses!
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
29 May 18
Hello @JudyEv Things change in the name of progress. But I like to think that everything is much better now.
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@JudyEv (382555)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 May 18
I don't think anyone would really want to go back to those days.
@Tampa_girl7 (54739)
• United States
29 May 18
I bet from a distance it looks very real.
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@JudyEv (382555)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 May 18
It was hard to get a good angle for the photo but it certainly looked very authentic from the road.
@wolfgirl569 (136008)
• Marion, Ohio
29 May 18
All places have changed over time. They still are, we just dont think about it. But our grandkids will see the difference in photos
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@JudyEv (382555)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 May 18
Some of the old photos are quite fascinating with what they show.
@RasmaSandra (98129)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
29 May 18
Love the photo. I think that those times were nice seeing the horses. When I see all the crazy drivers here I remember when my mom told me when she was little in the 1900s about 1917 as a little girl she always wanted her dad to treat her to a buggy ride. Those days there were no cars in Riga and it was not so polluted but my mom said even then people has such jokes as when all the horses in Riga fart, Riga smells 
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@JudyEv (382555)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 May 18
The draught horses were a class all of their own that's for sure.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
29 May 18
That's cool. Made for photo ops!
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