The One Who Built Tasmania: John Lee Archer
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John Lee Archer was the Civil Engineer and Colonial Architect in Van Diemen's Land, serving from 1827 to 1838. During his tenure, Archer was responsible for all Tasmanian government buildings including those for penal and military purposes. He was also a student of the works of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio active in the Venetian Republic.
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I have watched all your videos. Love em... I was wondering, down the line, if you could do a Bruny island video, especially on how impotent Adventure Bay is..
Your doing a great job, you and your dog... keep it up.
@@colinrichardson2489 I'd like to Colin.
John Lee Archer's story is not one of an architect but one of a magician. He imagined buildings that not only built a colony but created images and emotions that are uniquely Tasmanian. It's disappointing, that at the time, his grand visions for places like Salamanca were not brought to fruition, and a genuine waste his talents weren't utilised more. Hobart lives with Archer's legacy today, and we're Better for it. Thanks Mr Archer.
I've a copy of Roy Smith's book - 'John Lee Archer Tasmanian Architect and Engineer (1962), which is a great read on Archer's works, with lots of plates and photos!
Thank you Angus for another informative video. The convict labourers were very skilful in their work too, the Ross Bridge is a prime example.
It’s sad that John Archer was isolated from his profession aged only 47.
Very skilful, yes. No one person makes a built structure of such size.
Great style bringing this often dry type of architectural history alive. Thanks Angus.
Cheers again, Carl
Cheers, Carl
It always seems than one man’s decision (in this case Franklin) can so easily change another man’s career and with it, his contributions to society. Thanks Angus, a great tale.
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Hopefully you can check out the “ calendar house “ built just outside Ross, designed by William Archer and completed in 1867. I was stopped by security just before the access bridge last xmas
Amazing building
Loving the Sonics hat. The retro look is a masterful selling piece of your presentations. ;)
They should bring that team back
Buildings that stand the riggers of time, not so new builds now. Thanks for the research, excellent!
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Magnificent story telling again from Angus. The drone work is super.
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You have a wonderful westie, I have one too. They are such beautiful dogs
He's actually a Jack Russell. Looks rather similar though.
@@angusthornett never have I ever seen a jack Russell with such long hair or so white! Beautiful dog regardless
Wonderful Angus. I did a brief study on Ross for my hospitality degree in 1985. I didnt do it justice. You just did.
Thanks, Andrew
Thanks you, Andrew
Such beautiful buildings and structures, although I've seen these buildings many times I still stop and admire the beauty of them, another great video, thanks Angus.
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Good one Angus, I have lots of photographs of John Archers works.. i jwas impressed. It gave Hobart particularly a gentle Georgian atmosphere, i also take the diversion into Ross when I come that way. Ross bridge is a classic. Your day there didn’t do it justice. Great video.
No, Ross has a lot more going on in those terms.
@@angusthornett I totally agree. Bridge is gateway in to a village locked in time. Churches ,post office and pleasant Main Street avenue. Best of all had a great cafe.
Interesting watch, thanks mate. Been living abroad for nearly a decade. It's nice to get the occasional glimpse of home that you provide, historical and otherwise. Take it easy.
Thanks, mate
Another wonderfully informative video. Archer certainly left a wonderful legacy in the things he designed - something that can't be said for a lot that has followed him unfortunately
Thanks. One of your best. Made great sunday dinner family viewing. Especially as our son is gonig to visit Parliment tomorrow.
Glad you all enjoyed it.
Great video Angus. Learned a lot about Archer and his beautiful, lasting buildings and other works. Seems like there's hardly a person who lives in or visits Tasmania who isn't the better for having seen Archer's buildings and other projects.
One looks at your video and narrative work and also get a 'good feeling'.
Thank you
I just popped back to my beloved home state to prepare for my return to live in a few years with my fiancé, who is of Welsh heritage. She adores the architecture of Tasmania, & is opening my eyes to things I never really saw before. It’s been fantastic.
I loved your comment about modern architecture. I believe it is by design to dull the senses, as there is a grand plan by the powers to be. Are you aware of Tartarian architecture & it’s relevance to history & mankind, & it’s destruction by those who wish us no good?
It's just a drop off in taste, is all.
Thank you Angus for another fantastic video, your research and sense of compassion is amazing. I have just comeback from a visit to Tasmania to visit the places of my youth and to see the changes of the past 40 years. Your insights were very valuable to me. Once again thank you.
Cheers, Kerry
I had no idea I had vivited so many of his buildings when I was last down there. Truly amazing and imformative video. Good one mate.
Thanks, Danny
Your certainly making the proposition of moving to Tasmania more and more appealing.
I wouldn't recommend anyone move to Tasmania.
@@angusthornett why Is that?
1 hour episode would be nice , your a knowledgeable chap. His building's are very perportioned and pleasing to the eye
They do look good
thank you for this informative programme . his legacy will indeed be for futer generations to appreciate. interesting point of him being buried in Stanley too, hope peoplle there know and appreciate ithis. thanks.
He's a person of historical note up there.
Thanks Angus! John Lee Archer is my great, great, great, great grandfather, and I didn't know much about him. I design and build hospitals, universities and towers for a living. Perhaps I inherited his genes strongly.
John Lee Archer might not have been the actual designer of some of the buildings he has been credited with designing.
As head of his Department, it was his job to liaise with the Colonial Secretary and the Lieutenant Governor directly, no one else's. So in some cases it was other people employed in the Civil Engineer's Department who actually did the work of preparing the designs, and JLA himself was merely the one who forwarded them, and history has subsequently given him the credit for being the designer rather than just the conduit for the design.
The Ross Bridge is a case in point: John Lee Archer receives all of the credit for being the one who designed the Ross Bridge, even though he does not deserve such credit. He did draw up an early design for the bridge, but his design did not end up being the one which was used.
An architect employed in the Civil Engineers Department named Charles Atkinson was the person who actually drew up the design for the Ross Bridge.
You're right. Most names are lost in the broad strokes of history.
Another wonderful video, how lucky we are that some of it still exists. Thank you.
It's fortunate
Another great story you’re told. Thanks Angus
Cheers, Anthony
Brilliant video. That guy was given so much responsibility at such a young age and sure made the most of it. Thank you for all the research and effort put into this one!
Thank you very much, Jessica. History is, for the most part, the biographies of young people.
Those are the most historic works in tasmanian history that i reckon the entire tasmanian community would want to kill them if they ever thought of demolishing them.
I wouldn't say that people's taste has gone off, I'd say that having ugly architecture is useful for control as people are less uplifted as a result of it's presence (worse if it's massively present, and even worse if a society is lacking in other areas such as beautiful art, beautiful clothing, scenic views, nature, etc), therefor willing to accept most things for a sense of direction (and people are more willing to accept something the lower the bar for entry is -- beauty isn't always easy to grasp, less so to create, but people know it when they see it). With beautiful architecture being called expensive and wasteful, which clearly isn't the case given John Lee Archer's success, people aren't moved by their poor taste but because they have been made to think beauty is unattainable. It's quite sad, annoying, and disgusting, that people would actively work to make us think it's virtuous to live in an ugly world so that we can be easier to control, but if I'm right then someone has. Very good video, thank you for putting a name to a lot of the buildings around Tasmania!
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Fantastic research and attention to detail. Bring on another Angus.
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Awesome bro !! Love your work
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Nice work. John Lee-Archer
Very interesting. I'm a tour guide at the Hobart Penitentiary Chapel and Historic Tours which discusses a lot of his work. Very talented.
Great info
Thanks, Steve
@@angusthornett Always mate!
Terrific video. I had no idea. Thanks for opening my eyes!
love it totally amazing, i love his work. im researching colonial architecture and your videos are always excellent
Thanks, Ivan
An interesting video Angus, cheers.
Cheers, Trevor
Great work, Angus! So many of Hobart’s great buildings.
Thanks, Peter
Fascinating! Thanks Angus for another excellent history lesson on Tassie!
He also designed the the Hobart Convict Penitentiary Chapel.
He did
Another very interesting video Angus. Thank you.
Thanks, Ricky
Awesome. No idea what this will be about really. I guess I do. Looks interesting.
This is so interesting! Thankyou for your historical research and story telling!
Thank you
@@angusthornett I do a land use and precinct planning (often with community members and stakeholders) and I can just picture you presenting in community engagement sessions to share the story of a place and give a sense of place! Do you do that kind of stuff?
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Nice work
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Another great video, thanks Angus.
Cheers, Ron
Fantastic blog
Thanks Angus, keep up the good work.
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Approved in 2 days, just a little different to the HCC today 🤣
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Love this one mate, thank you.
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wonderful. never knew any of this
Glad you enjoyed
Thank you... very interesting...
Thanks for watching
I'm loving all your videos Angus. Thank you for the research, effort and passion you put into them. Very informative. Gives me a different perspective as I get around.
Thanks for watching, Marcus
Thanks for the post and all the efforts.
Thanks Angus, I’m really enjoying your work. Would you know if he has relationship with the Archers of Woolmers estate near Longford?
No idea.
I don't believe so. Originally John Lee Archer's family name was hyphenated Lee-Archer, and no connection to the Woolmers Estate
What we need is to have male prisoners quarrying stone so that stone can be used for all public buildings. Tasmania has vast stone resources.
I think that would be a rather problematic way to obtain stone.
But even putting that aside, the real problem is the lack of those traditional stonemason's skills which would be necessary to build like they did in the past. There is a real scarcity of people with the skills to do the work.
There was talk a while back of creating a School of Stonemasonry and basing it in the now-disused Primary School at Ross, but I don't think anything ever came of it.
We''ve got books like Arthur Haddon's. Nothing much is going to happen on nutcase island ever again. They're just subdividing it into cul de sacs. Lots of interesting developments in new urbanism. @@Cynwidion
as allways great vid dude :)
Great stuff mate
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Great video, thanks 👍
Thanks, Peter
Alas you can no longer get access to the calendar house as the road is now private property.
Amazing building, especially for Tasmania
Awesome thanks
Beautiful.
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Thank you, Blake. Appreciate the contribution.
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I currently live in Launceston, maybe I should persuit making this content here..
You definitely should.
@@angusthornett Can't, lacking a small white dog.
@ManualGaming generally speaking there should be more Tasmanian TH-camrs
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It is interesting to note that slaves do not build beautiful things as is evidenced by the great pyramids, to work in service of the Pharoh or the King was an honour to one's entire family. So it leads me to think that Archer was a civilized man who treated the workforce rather well, given the circumstance. The Ross Bridge is an example of that, his designs were/are magnificent but the craftsmanship that went into the structure was excellent also which you just don't get from a poorly treated workforce.
It is most evident that elegance has left our society by looking at the modern designs of our buildings.
Wow Tasmania actually has a history. I thought it was something the rest of us Australians prefer to keep quiet about.
333rd 👍🏻 thumbs up. very interesting. the works are quite amazing given the challenges.. apparently corruption was rife and a guy called Jorgen Jorgensen was brought in..
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cool.
You and me both live in the wrong time.
I would love to live 150 years ago. A much nicer time.
I don’t want to live in the past.
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Ok, I'll travel back in time and you enjoy the fascist NWO..
Enjoy.
Viva Palladio!!
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Thanks a lot, Jon. Big help to the channel.