Talk:Prospect Reservoir
Latest comment: 9 years ago by Spathaky in topic Forty-roomed mansion
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Requested move edit
- The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 16:40, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Prospect reservoir → Prospect Reservoir – Need to use correct title case for a proper noun. — Jeremy 08:59, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
- Support. Proper noun, consistency with other reservoirs in Category:Reservoirs and dams in Australia. Jenks24 (talk) 18:24, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
- Support. Proper noun needs capitalization. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 21:49, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
Forty-roomed mansion edit
Two myths under History: 1. VH was not built as a forty-roomed mansion 2. It was demolished in 1929 not 1926.
Both are incorrect statement from ADoB:
E. W. Dunlop. "Lawson, William (1774 - 1850)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, online edition. Australian National University, has "In 1912 it was used by the army and many of the larger rooms subdivided, giving rise to a myth that it had been a "forty-roomed mansion" in Lawson's time." (Retrieved 29 August 2006.) But Dunlop also states "The house was demolished in 1926."
The intention of demolishing it was reported in SMH in 1926 but it didn't happen until 1929. "The building was razed in 1929." Australian Government, Site of Veteran Hall http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=2989. I will edit the article shortly. Mike Spathaky (talk) 03:16, 15 January 2015 (UTC)