OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Wagon and gun, 1994

DATE1994

MEDIAImage

PHOTOGRAPHERAGFA

COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society

REG NO.P442

HISTORY

This photograph was taken in the back yard of the Hastings Museum. The gun is a 40 pounder Armstrong Gun which had just been restored, with the wheels made by Cambridge Carriage Company of Gosford. NSW. This gun was one of four, 40 pound guns which came to Hastings in the 1890s because of the perceived Russian invasion threat. The wagon was only on loan to the museum and had since been returned.

DESCRIPTION

This image shows a wagon, a roller and a gun barrel mounted on a field carriage sitting on a green lawn. A long plank is lying across the roller. A small shed is behind the wagon and a large shrub is behind the shed. Part of a tiled roof can be seen behind a wooden fence on the right-hand side.

SUBJECTS

Cannons, Carts and wagons, Construction equipment, Guns, Military history, Wagons

KEYWORDS

Cambridge Carriage Company, Hastings Museum