This page contains pictures taken on a visit to Martindale Hall during the 1970s.
These pictures were taken on a Kodak Instamatic 25 camera and scanned using the CanoScan FS2710 film scanner.
If you want to see a larger image of any of these pictures, please click on the picture.
Martindale Hall is about three kilometres from Mintaro, near Clare, in the mid north of South Australia, and it was the location for the filming of some of the scenes from Picnic at Hanging Rock. On a rare occasion when it was open to the public, my sister Alison and I drove up there to see it.
Martindale Hall is set amid sweeping lawns and palm trees.
Martindale Hall is constructed of local sandstone. I hope Alison will forgive me for including this picture of her standing by the sundial: I remember that the sundial was a cause of some mirth between us when we overheard a child say, "Mummy! Mummy! Look! The sundial's working!"
There were some museum displays inside. There were also long queues to get inside!
The upstairs windows afforded a good view of the rolling lawns and palm trees.
An area of the garden was set aside for cactus plants.
I don't usually put a lot of links onto my picture pages, but I'm going to make an exception here and include some relevant links:
Martindale Hall A good description of the history of Martindale Hall.
Martindale Hall Bed & Breakfast Martindale Hall is now a Bed & Breakfast! (Or it was in 1997, when this link was created!) Allowing for inflation on the prices quoted on this site, I think that you can expect to pay for the privilege of staying in one of Australia's "stately homes".
