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The previous parish church was built in 1839. Funds for the new church were largely raised from 'weekly subscribers of small sums' starting in 1885 and continuing for the next 24 years; the total cost was over £13,000, high for a parish church at the time. The commission was given to JS Crowther but passed to Richard Bassnett Preston after Crowther died (in 1893). The builders were Gerrard and Sons of Swinton. The foundation stone of the new church was laid on 31 May 1902, the last day of the Boer War. There was such a generous response to the appeal then made, that the committee decided to build two bays of the nave in addition to the chancel. This portion of the new church was opened on 31 October 1903 and abutted the earlier remaining W end and tower until 1909, when the current W end and tower were added, being completed in 1910. The dedication by Dr Knox, Lord Bishop of Manchester, took place on Wednesday 12 October 1910, the seventieth anniversary of the consecration of the old church.
Pews were paid for through a separate subscription list. The lectern, pulpit and screen (and later the clock by John Smith and Sons of Derby) were given by Alderman WJ Smith, Mayor of Leigh, and the altar in the Lady Chapel was given by Mr Henry Dickinson. The window by Powell and Sons is dated 1911, those by the firm of AK Nicholson range from 1915 to 1938. In 1914, a former member of the church who became Town Clerk of Winchester presented the church with a Bishop’s throne, designed by Preston, and constructed from wood taken from Winchester Cathedral’s roof during repairs. The oak screen to the Lady Chapel resulted from a bequest by the former vicar, Rev JT Lawton (d1930). Sir Charles Archibald Nicholson (1867-1949) designed the reredos, which was added in 1932 (to Rev Lawton’s memory and dedicated by the Lord Bishop of Manchester, Dr Guy Warman) and the altar, both of which were carved by E Bowman and Sons of Stamford, Lincolnshire. The choir stalls, choir screens and sanctuary panelling were added in 1933, given by Mary Alice Grundy and also thought to be by Charles A Nicholson. The oak panelling on each side of the War Memorial was given by Mr William Foulds in 1934. During the 1940s one window was added in each of the S and N aisles, and another in the N aisle thought to be by J Wippell is late C20 in date. The lych gate is first marked on the 1:2,500 Ordnance Survey map of 1953. The church closed for worship in August 2015, and during 2016 suffered from some vandalism which has damaged some of the glass in particular.
Richard Bassnett Preston (1855-1934) had been JS Crowther’s pupil in Manchester before entering independent practice in 1880 in the partnership of Preston and Vaughan. In 1895-8 Preston and Vaughan were responsible for the church of Emmanuel, Southport (National Heritage List for England reference 1379565), to which St Thomas’s bears a strong resemblance.
Sir Charles Archibald Nicholson, second Baronet (1867-1949), was a pupil of JD Sedding, and subsequently worked with Henry Wilson, another of Sedding's pupils. In 1893 he entered independent practice and that year won the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Tite prize for architectural design. He became a fellow of the Institute in 1905. In the course of his career Nicholson was consulting architect to five English cathedrals: Lincoln, Wells, Lichfield, Sheffield and Portsmouth. His cathedral work included the new E chapel at Norwich, various additions to Chelmsford, and the reconstruction of Portsmouth. Internal work and restoration were carried out at Brecon, Carlisle, Exeter, Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Manchester, Salisbury, Wakefield, Wells, and Winchester, as well as at many dozens of parish churches. Archibald Keightley Nicholson (1871-1937), Charles’s younger brother, is said to have produced his first glasswork as early as 1894. In 1907 he set up his own stained glass studios in London, moving to Westminster in 1916 and Gower Street in 1921. In his lifetime, he produced over 700 windows.
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Anglican parish church of 1902-10 by Richard Bassnett Preston of Preston and Vaughan.
MATERIALS: Accrington brick with Runcorn red sandstone dressings and Coniston slate roofs.
PLAN: three-bay chancel with a N vestry and S chapel, two-bay N and S transepts with a S porch, a SW tower and five-bay nave with aisles.
EXTERIOR: standing to the N of Chapel Street in an empty churchyard, partly occupied to the N by a Scout hut and to the E by a small public park.
The brickwork is all in Flemish bond. The chancel is of three bays, divided by plain brick pilasters and with, at each end and flanking the E elevation, stepped buttresses with stone kneelers. The E window has tall ribbed mullions and lively Decorated tracery in the arch. The gable carries an empty stone niche, with a cruciform finial above. Stone sill-and-impost bands return along the N and S walls, which have pointed-arch clerestory windows. These all have Decorated tracery, above a single mullion in the (narrower) chancel and nave W bay windows, and two mullions in the other four bays of the nave.
The N wall has a lean-to vestry at the left, with a Tudor-arched door reached by steps with flanking walls, and a traceried window. The organ loft is parapeted, with a high-level window and an octagonal vice in the NW corner. The transept is also parapeted, but with a gablet over each bay, and a stepped buttress between the bays. The aisle also has a parapet and stepped buttresses between the bays, with a corner buttress. As with the clerestory, the window of the W bay is narrower with a single mullion, the others wider with two mullions, and all have Decorated tracery. The crypt has windows throughout, flat-lintelled and mullioned, with ogee heads. A basement area adjacent to the aisle has stone kerbs and steps, and iron railings. Smaller areas with similar railings are found in the other bays. White pvc rainwater goods* have been installed at low-level, with cast-iron retained at high level. The S wall is very similar, save for a small flat-roofed porch abutting the right-hand bay of the transept, and a two-bay Lady Chapel in place of the vestry at the right, with apsidal E end. A second porch forms the lowest stage of the tower, on the S side of the western bay. This contains a door to the stair, and the two-centred-arched doorway to the S aisle.
The four-stage tower is 20 feet square and is 78 feet high from the ground to the top of the stone parapet, with corner buttresses to almost full height. The parapet is crenellated and richly carved, with a cornice decorated with flowers, fruit, grotesques and animal heads, and a winged gargoyle at each corner. The terminations to the hoodmoulds of the belfry louvres are carved heads: on the S, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York; on the E, Dr Sumner, Bishop of Chester, who consecrated the Old Church, and Dr Knox, Bishop of Manchester, who dedicated the present building; on the N, the Rev Moorhouse James, the first vicar, and the Rev JT Lawton, vicar when the present building was built and dedicated; and on the W, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. The clock faces of the third stage sit in diamond-shaped surrounds, with angels at the top and bottom, and animals and fruit to the left and right. The angels carry shields inscribed (S face) Rex and Lex (meaning king and law), (E face) IHS and Lux (Jesus and light) and (W face) Pax (peace). The second stage has low-level windows with mullions and hoodmoulds. To either side of the main entrance are carved the arms of the Province of York and the Diocese of Manchester, and in a niche above the doorway is a statue of St Thomas. Traceried blind windows flank the doorway, which is reached by modern ramps* and steps* with handrails*. The E and W faces of the lower stage have oculus windows with tracery between the central mullion and transom. The W elevation has a two-light window in each aisle, and buttresses flanking the W window, which like the E window has five mullions and Decorated tracery in the arch.
INTERIOR: the chancel arch rises to a height of 40 feet. The patterned marble floor steps up from the choir and again to the altar rail, and twice further to the E wall. The altar stands on a further central step against the E wall. In the SE corner are sedilia and piscina. The E window is a memorial to those of the parish who fell in the First World War. This takes the form of the Te Deum, with the Incarnation, the Atonement, and the Majesty of Christ surrounded by the worship of prophets, saints and angels. These include St George accompanied by a soldier and an airman and St Nicholas with sailors. The roof is of collared trusses, boarded beneath the rafters and the collars, and with decorative arched braces to the collars and tie beams. The reredos and altar are of oak. The carving depicts the Resurrection, with a central panel showing St Thomas kneeling before the risen Christ, flanked by panels containing two innocent witnesses of the Resurrection (Mary and St John), and two penitent ones (St Peter and Mary Magdalene). The inscription 'Beati qui non viderunt et crediderunt' means 'blessed are those who have not seen and have believed'. Lining the chancel are carved screens to the organ loft and Lady Chapel.
Furnishings include the choir stalls, decoratively carved with vines and animals, carved oak pulpit (at the time of inspection, in pieces in the N transept) and Litany desk. The nave is lofty with red brick walls, red sandstone dressings and arcades of octagonal columns with fillets carried up through the clerestory to moulded capitals which carry the tie-beam braces of the roof, which matches that of the chancel. Some pews remain in the aisles only. The W bay of the S aisle is enclosed by an inserted screen* to form a lobby which houses toilet facilities*.
One window in the N aisle is by James Powell & Sons, another by an unknown designer and a third is thought to be by J Wippell. The designer of one window in the S aisle is also not known. The W window is of clear leaded glass. Otherwise, the windows are by AK Nicholson, mainly given as memorials. The stone font, originally at the W end, currently stands in the N transept. Beneath the W window is a panelled oak First World War memorial, with Second World War names added, and this memorial is also flanked by oak panelling that returns at either side to the first column of the arcade.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the boundary wall to Chapel Street is of red brick with a chevron course and red sandstone copings, and gateposts at the E end. A red brick lychgate with sandstone arches and slate roof has a stone tablet in the gable in memory of the fallen of the Second World War.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:06 pm
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Just registered this morning but i have been a subscriber of BP since many years.
My gurus are KG Maheshwari, Prof B W Jatkar , Shreekanth Malushte and the man of all seasons the Maha Guru Girish Mistry.
I was a salon photographer member of PSI Mumbai, FIP, IIPC, NAPP, but I gave up all this for Photo Blogging..
my website..
www.photographerno1.com 8240 files 6 lac hits in two years.
www.flickr.com/photos/firozeshakir/ 11755 photoblogs in 2 months
I shoot eunuchs hijdas transgenders live with naga sadhus, aghoris, practice shiasm, shoot pictures of all religion without bias..
I am a poet who is at poemhunter.com fighting against racism in poetry.
Thought you guys should know the rest is scattered on the internet..The Indian Pilgrims Progress..
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Hi! Firoz , I think that is your name . It is a nice name - short and easy
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welcome to BP foum!
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Welcome Firoj
You have a "Dhamaal" Ka entry And given us a " Dhassu" introductions.Almost all the biggee names is thrown at us. We are humbled
Now I do request you to post your "Zhakas" picture here. So we all can admire your piece of work
Liu
Me
I am grateful to all of you Panditji , Mcliu Ani for accepting me as your own, I am not here to blow my trumpet I shoot Life as I see it.. there is nothing Jhakas but love for each other irrespective of caste color and creed what I am is in my Photo Blog,..my style of photography is based on Yogic Kundalini uncoiling the serpent before hitting the trigger.. I shoot on one leg and with my eyes closed..
Thank you all.
gopal
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:50 am
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Posts: 174
oh great guy,
great introduction. u are an extrovert person what i felt from yr sayings and sites above.
Respected shri k g maheshwari and prof b w jatkar regularly sent their entries when i conducted 4 all india salons few yrs back.
i met respected shrikantji many yrs back, when i joined JJ School of Arts.
when i read feroz, the thoughts came to me of famous feroz rangoonwala.
anyhow, i welcome u to bp forum (what i noticed, blogging is not here). we view each others photographs and appreciate their efforts. so since u introduced yrself as photographer no.1, with all respects to yr personality, looking forward to see yr work, particularly on glamour. best of luck dear feroz. it will be pleasure for me to see yr sites.
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:24 am
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 174
dear feroz,
read yr posts/blogs, and i am sorry to notice the treatment given to u as shia or muslim. there are ultras in every religion, but i appreciate yr spirit for keeping yr morale high.
no doubt u are a voracious /reader/writer, and yr keyboard runs more than fast, it is again pleasing that u are interested in poetry-which is also my favourites
"woh aaye hamare forum mein, khuda ki kudrat,
kabhi ham unko aur kabhi forum ko dekhte hain.".
personalities like u are rare, and i feel that u will leave a great legacy for the posterity. i and my friends do have respect for yr courage for bearing so much tension and traumas. but what i feel, yr interests in these arts kept u going nonchalantly. forget about religion-we all are bhartiya (not anil bhartiya-a good gentleman).
me
Brother Gopal thank you for your encouraging words , and I am Indian ,and also a member of Mr Anil Bhrtiyas NAPP ,I learnt a lot from him , on trips to Murud to shoot the Bullock Cart race , or to Malshej Ghats, he is the only photographer teacher who teaches through field trips at grass root levels, and most of the photography courses even taught in BMM still adhere to the old school , no changes, no crusader to bring in change.
Photography is big bucks , everybody wants glamour glitz and money.Teachers like Mitter Bedi, Unwallah, Bhardwaj, Phanibanda are are all dead and gne who taught photography once they clamoured and gathered at Photographic Society of India 70 years back, today Photography in camera clubs is about politics, I distanced myself from this state of affairs.
Girish Mistry teaches photography with a pssion and is most respected and revered..but his knowledge comes with a price , but worth it .I learnt my basics with Mr Shreekanth Malushte.. a sincere teacher.
Later through his efforts I became a life member Photographic Society of India Mumbai, and met mu other two Gurus Mr KG Maheshwari whom we call Dronacharya and Black and White Jatkar.Prof Jatkar is the master of monochrome and nudes.
So the most important the core ingredient in Indian Photography is finding a good Guru touching his Feat ..this is called Guru Parampara.. Without Guru there is no Gyan..
This s why we are more powerfully visually stronger and better entrenched than the foreigm Institute learned photographer of the West.
I have another Guru he is a 18 year old American boy from California called Tom, or doyoulike it, I call him my American Guru, he is the finest photographer..
There is another photographer whose work on India is prolific and realistic.. Dr Glenn Losack MD
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Well I will shed light later on Tom, and pictures of Dr Glen Losack you must study , this is the way into the heart of photography.
Photography is shooting and sharing pictures, but Photo Blogging is sharing Life , adding Life to where no Life existed..
So thank you Gopal.. I am just getting a hang here at BP Forum..
I consider Photo Blogging a a spiritual endeavor as a photographer I may be a part of a religiosity but as a Photo Blogger I am beyond all this flowing in the human stream of a superior consciousness...
I am Hindu I am Muslim but I am two sides of the same coin called India.
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:03 pm
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Posts: 163
Firoze,
It is really inspiring to know about your philosophy. Great interprtation of life & photography. You must believe that every people has some hidden intention, who tries to nourish it,few get success, few ....
When we come to know or meet people who always put thrust to fulfill his hidden intention which is not for earning money, fame, clout, we create a barrier arround that man or woman. We never compare him/her with others. I feel you are a guy like that.
Welcome in this FORUM.
Sujit
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:55 pm
Me
Thank yoy Sujit for your hospitality and kindness , and its really nice to know that we bond and our love for photgraphy brings us closer , with pictures we share, I thank not just you but all of you who have responded to me Panditji, Mcliu Ani Gopal and the rest ..those that have read me too, I am not aware of the code of posting etiquette here, so please forgive me for any unintentional lapse on my part, I am an incorrigible photo blogger , words are my birthright and I use them as a pictoral metaphor ..my path to unlearning photography.
Firoze Shakir..
Me
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:52 am
Hi Forum If anyBP Forum member needs guidance in Photo Blogging , or any query in this regard dont hesitate to write me.
People who want to share a unique community of photographers, the short cut is a Photo Blog..
Some of the interesting Photo Blogging site with emphasis on social net working too are
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Blogging may net earnyou big bucks but it gives you a karmic release if you have the zing in you, and if you dont have you develop it, I never wrote a single word , never an article nor any poem..it all happened through Photo Blogging 24 months back..
I rarely post atBuzznet where I am known as Shiathugno1, but it is to Buzznet I owe the development of my psyche ...good friends and outstanding photographers who bought me this far adding the necessary shape to my personality..as an Indian beware Racism exiss but hit back..
dont be scared we Indians have one grand advantage we were born talented by default..thank you India.
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:13 am
Joined: 09 Nov 2005
Posts: 36
Dear Firoze,
Your posts are really interesting and we can see the response you have been receiving on this forum. Thank you for bringing in a new dimension to the forum.
A request: All of your new posts are being posted in the "Who's Who" category, which is primarily for first time introductions. Since your posts are blog-like accompanied by pictures - we would request you to post them in relevant sections like "General Discussions" or "Daily Life" (if your discussions stem from a Daily Life photograph).
Thanks.
Happy Shooting
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Me
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:58 pm
Thank You Administration Better Photography
My relationship with BP goes a very long way back, I would visit your offices I remember and bond with your enthusiastic journos and stafff..
Its just that after I moved away , from analogue photography and gave my soul to the Photo bLog, I realised I had begun to Unlearn Photography. and break the myth created by Times of India blue eyed boy Shobhan Saxena that Photo Bloggers are photographers with a mission of Peace, not failed writers, and murderers, or crazies as suggested each time and each Sunday they write an obitury for the death of the Blog.. but God is kind to Blogges and keeps extending their shelf life.Recently at PSI Mumbai Annual Day where your ex editor Hoshang was the Chief Guest I posed a question about blogging he just looked at me with a vacncy in his eyes.. well Blogging is beyond Smart Photograpy I kept this opinion to myself..Photographers are seduced by the idea of minting money they want to be glitzy, shoot celebs , so hardly any camera club talks about blogging..auacbecause I posted 600 blogs in three days..and scared the veterans of a tsunami in the offing..racism exists among us Indians too and more strongly here than the West..Indians dont like Indians very much..
At Word Press I posted over 500 blogs in a single day..so this is the passion of blogging..I hope to learn from all of you also, and thanks I find your forum an excellent place that nurtures human goodwill.. I am a bit confused about the format here , thanks for the tip, deleting a post should be made simpler even editing too..
As ever
Firoze Shakir
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:07 pm
Sakthivel wrote:
Welcome.
thank you sakthivel for adding me asa contact on flickr .. my flickr site had a lot of crazies and porn artists adding me so I have become more careful, also my pictures because of frontal nudity and bloody images of moharam fall under moderate category, you have to be a flickr member to see my images close to 12000 posted in two and a half month..but you can see the same on Wordpress.. without any problem.
you cannot comment on my pictures if you are not my contact, as there are many Shia baters that have gone abusive and personal intheir religious fundamental attacks on me .
I am a critic of Jehadi Terrorism and Radical Islam..
My flickr pictures are all large files about 4mb each..
Hijdas Transgenders, naga sadhus body piercers ..
Take Care..
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noni
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:38 pm
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
Posts: 75
Hi Firoze,
welcome to forum.As for as i know u can't delete or edit ur post once it is posted.Yes it can be edited in preview mode.Your posted photographs will be deleted if u delete it from original site e.g.flickr.com etc...noni.
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Thank You Noni , I think any website or a forum should be blogger friendly simple and easily understandable, whether a veteran or an amateur should get the hang of it, and edit and delete are very important aspects to control content that goes off hand sometimes.. but I have no complaints my problem is I am a severe diabetic I type with one finger of an injured hand I have diminishing eyesight so I make typo errors that really look bad after posting..and inspite of being a blogger fr two years I am not at all web or net savvy
After this Panditji and his cronies sharpielnof my end .
All these faces that welcomed me to the Better Photo graphy Forum ganged up against me the most vicious the Rogue Pandit
the head of the Muslim hating gang..
I am greatful that Better Photography Adminsitration dealt with this matterjudiciously fairly without any bias
and with respect of human sentiments.
My relationship with Better Photography shall continue..
I will make public the racism in photography that existing the Forum that has been usurped by vested interests., all wearing masks of hate , they welcome newcomers than if you falter or rub any one of them they will make your life unbearable..
Like this vicious Panditji who said if Firoze does not leave I will leave the Forum..
This devious man , Muslim hater, and he cannot deny all this, he hated me from day one realising that his popularity was going to take a beating.
I have no ulterior motive or agenda but to warn others of the duplicity of these hate filled members.,.
Gopal said bloggers are not allowed to the forum vociferously as though he owns the forum..
this despicable lot of , they perhaps were shocked that this Shia Muslim, is an Indian does not wear a goatee or a skull cap..
and perhaps yes as panditji said I am a Bombast, yes but shit head your father did not pay for my education, and I had a more cosmopolitan and Hindu loving upbringing than you..as a Hindu born could ever dream of Messiah of Racist Hate ..
The Kumbh is over long live the Kumbh on Flickr ..
YES I AM A SHIA PANDIT
I DONT NEED THE SAFETY OF A POISONOUS BOTTLE AND END UP A CRAB LIKE YOU
I REITERATE INDIANS ARE THE BIGGER RACISTS..
INDIANS HATE INDIANS
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Oklahoma City received its first telephone in 1893. Tulsa’s first telephone system debuted in 1899, linking 80 subscribers.
By statehood in 1907, Oklahoma boasted 68,125 telephones linked through 715 in-state networks bound by more than 100,000 miles of wire. That same year, the Pioneer Telephone and Telegraph Company, part of the national Bell system, constructed the seven-story Pioneer Building on the 400 block of Broadway in downtown Oklahoma City.
As the number of residents and number of telephones increased, telephone numbers grew longer, and switchboards relied less on operators and more on automation. The prairie poetry of early Oklahoma City telephone exchanges – Sunset and Skyline, Shadyside and Swift – was phased out in favor of seven-digit numbers.
To handle the boom in business, Southwestern Bell built the 16-story Telephone Building at 405 Broadway, next to the Pioneer Building. As technology advanced, the Art Deco palace to modern communication had antennas installed atop its roof in the 1950s and microwave relay equipment in the 1960s, elevating the building into Oklahoma City’s link on AT&T’s coast-to-coast information superhighway.
The hundreds of workers stationed inside the Telephone Building referred to it affectionately by its street address: “the 405.”
Whether by serendipity or design, the Bell engineers who created the North American Numbering Plan in 1947 selected the street address of their Oklahoma City headquarters as the area code to serve the entire state.
And the 405 was born.
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I was a subscriber to Punch, the British humor magazine, from 1987 until it closed in 1992. I started reading it while I was on vacation in England in 1987. This is one of the first cartoons I saw in Punch as a subscriber.
The Hundred of Yaranyacka was proclaimed 20 June 1872. The school opened in 1881 and became ‘Lipson’ in 1909.
Thomas Lipson entered the Royal Navy and in 1836 came to South Australia as Naval Officer for the colony and soon after was appointed Collector of Customs and Harbour Master at Port Adelaide.
His name is remembered in the name of Lipson, north of Tumby Bay: surveyed in 1872 and offered for sale on 17 April 1873. [Ref: Manning’s Place Names of South Australia]
YARANYACKA, Saturday July 2
A meeting of subscribers was held at the Lipson Hotel on Saturday, July 2, for the purpose of appointing Trustees and arranging for the calling for tenders for the erection of an Institute Hall in the Lipson township, near to the Church of England. The subscriptions so far collected amount to £53 10s. The block of land will be obtained from the Government. The building is to be 40 ft long, 20 ft wide in the clear, and 12 ft from floor to ceiling. The trustees appointed by the meeting were Messrs E D Swaffer, C Dutton, and J Barrand. [Ref: Adelaide Observer 16-7-1898]
YARANYACKA, Monday November 10
The opening of the new Institute Hall at Lipson took place today. The weather was all that could be desired, and the attendance was large, many having come from Port Lincoln to take part. Mrs Swaffer performed the opening ceremony.
A cricket match took place on the Lipson Oval between the Lipson Club and the Port Lincoln club, the latter winning by.
A repast was provided by Mesdames Dutton and O'Connor in the new hall. Afternoon tea was provided by several ladies of Lipson and Tumby, and upwards of 200 sat down. In the evening a concert was held. Mr E D Swaffer occupied the chair.
The hall was crowded, many having to stand.
The hall having been cleared by the committee, dancing was kept up till early morning. Refreshments were provided by the Tumby ladies. The takings were about £20. [Ref: South Australian Register 18-11-1898]
In connection with the opening of the Lipson Institute some of the ladies of Yaranyacka and Tumby provided a tea in the new building, and nearly 200 people were present. In the evening, a concert took place, and it was associated with the formal opening of the new building by Mrs Swaffer.
The piano was lent for the occasion by Miss Barrand.
The building was crowded, and a dance followed. The erection of this building is the result of a laudable effort on the part of some of the young ladies of the district, notably Miss McLeod and Miss Jessie Potter.
A cricket match was played in connection with the opening of the Lipson Institute, between the Port Lincoln and Lipson cricket clubs. The scores were — Port Lincoln 84, and Lipson 71. Messrs. S. Valentine and J. Giffen made 22 runs each for the winning team, while Messrs. A. Wishart and E. Swaffer made 22 and 17 respectively for Lipson team. Mrs. Dutton generously provided lunch for both teams. [Ref: Chronicle 26-11-1898]
LIPSON SHOW October 14 – NEW HALL
The Annual Show of the Great Flinders Agricultural and Horticultural Society was held yesterday. About 1,000 persons passed through the gates.
The Institute Hall was sufficiently near to completion to be used for the exhibits and concert.
It is a fine roomy building and a great improvement on the old one.
Tumby Bay Brass Band provided music.
In the evening a successful concert was held in the new hall, which had been temporarily fitted with gas for the occasion. [Ref: Advertiser 18-10-1910]
On Wednesday evening the Premier (Hon J Verran) joined the SS ‘Governor Musgrave’, with the president of the Marine Board on board, and after a somewhat rough passage across the gulf arrived at Tumby Bay early on Thursday morning.
LIPSON INSTITUTE
The party were afterwards driven to Lipson, a distance of about seven miles, where the Premier opened the new institute. It is a splendid, up-to-date structure, and is an excellent tribute to the goaheadness of the people of the district.
Mr E J Barrand introduced the Premier to the people, and after Mr Verran, in a happy speech, had declared the new hall open, Messrs Potter and Wishart moved and extended a hearty vote of thanks to the Premier, who had put up with a lot of inconvenience—including sea-sickness—to be with them.
The Premier and the president of the Marine Board rejoined the ‘Governor Musgrave’, and came back to Wallaroo on Thursday night, and returned by train Friday morning. [Ref: Daily Herald 18-2-1911]
OPENED BY THE PREMIER
Lipson, February 17
For many months preparations have been made for the opening of the new Institute Hall. The Premier (Hon John Verran) was invited to perform the ceremony, and on Thursday morning M. Verran, with two Misses Verran, the President of the Marine Board (Mr Searcy), Captain Weir, and the Premier's secretary arrived by the ‘Governor Musgrave’ at Tumby Bay. They were met by the chairman and members of the district council and were conveyed to Lipson.
There was a large attendance in spite of the harvest. Mr E J Barrand introduced the Premier and welcomed him to the district. The Premier, in a few well-chosen remarks, declared the hall open. He urged the young people of the township to make their new institute stand for morality and higher intellectual pursuits.
The Tumby Brass Band rendered excellent selections.
For years the necessity for a larger hall has been keenly felt, especially at show time. The new hall is the largest on Eyre Peninsula, and no efforts have been spared to make it up-to-date. The decorative Wunderlich ceiling calls for special mention. The hall is lit throughout by acetylene gas, and has every convenience for companies. The total cost was about £500. Of this £100 was raised last year, and the committee are to hold an annual fair till the hall is clear of debt. The second floral fair was opened by the Premier, and was the most successful yet held on this peninsula. The day's takings amounted to £115. [Ref: Advertiser 21-2-1911]
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On the front of the post office is a banner promoting the Fourth Liberty Loan;
In 1940 the Australian Government introduced war loans, which raised money directly from the Australian public to help fund Australia’s war effort. The Government encouraged people to invest in war bonds or certificates that cost 16 shillings and were expected to mature to £1 (20 shillings, so a 25 per cent gain) by the end of the War. The Government also launched a National Savings Campaign to promote the idea that people could invest their savings in war bonds.
The Fourth Liberty Loan was launched in October 1943 and attracted 567,533 subscribers, easily meeting the target of £125,000. The Fourth Liberty Loan offered interest of 3.5 per cent. Twelve major government war loans were offered to the public, known variously as 'liberty’, 'austerity’ and 'victory’ loans. The 'victory’ and 'liberty’ loans were intended to suggest that Australians were investing in victory in the War and in ensuring the continued freedom of the country (which became particularly pertinent with the threat of a Japanese invasion in 1942), while 'austerity’ referred to measures taken by the Government to divert resources to the war effort.
During the War, Australians were able to buy national saving stamps for 5 shillings each, collected in a special booklet that could be redeemed for a bond or certificate. The stamps were sold through banks, post offices and even by movie theatres and retailers. The Government set up War Loans and War Savings Certificates Committees to coordinate the promotion of the scheme and the issuing of bonds and certificates.
By 1942 the sale of war savings certificates was a major source of revenue for the Government. In the 1941-42 financial year the Government spent £319 million on the War, of which £108 million came from taxes (including income tax, which the Commonwealth Government collected under wartime defence powers), £126 million from loans and War Savings certificates, £78 million from Treasury Bills and £6 million from other government funds. In total, Australia spent about £2.1 billion on the War, equal to 30 per cent of the national income over the period.
Launched in 1942, the war loans campaign encouraged people to work longer hours, consume less, recycle and invest any spare cash in war loans. Prime minister John Curtin said that 'The only justification for possessing [spare cash] is that it should be saved and lent to the nation for the nation’s need’ (john.curtin.edu.au). War loans also reduced inflation by absorbing money that might be spent on scarce consumer goods.
Australians were urged to buy war loans through extensive promotional campaigns that included posters, leaflets and cinema, radio, newspaper and magazine advertisements. The print media ran articles encouraging Australians to adopt austerity measures and to invest in war loans and war loan drives held throughout the country. The drives included military parades, displays, demonstrations of equipment, and tours with their aircraft by crew who had served their country with distinction. Towns received a pennant when they reached an allotted quota in the drives.
Advertisements for war loans appealed to people’s patriotism by asking civilians to do their bit at home or, in Curtin’s words, 'there can be no distinction between soldiers and civilians. Everyone has a battle station’ (john.curtin.edu.au). While war loans helped finance the War, they also had an effect on morale on the home front. When he launched the Fourth Liberty Loan, Curtin said the slogan 'back the attack’ referred to the fact that the Allied forces were on the offensive.
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History of Brisbane
Brisbane's recorded history dates from 1799, when Matthew Flinders explored Moreton Bay on an expedition from Port Jackson, although the region had long been occupied by the Yugara and Turrbal aboriginal groups. First Nations Australians lived in coastal South East Queensland (SEQ) for at least 22,000 years, with an estimated population between 6,000 and 10,000 individuals before European settlers arrived in the 1820s.
At this time the Brisbane area was inhabited by the Turrbal people, (Turrbal also being the name of the language they spoke) who knew the area that is now the central business district as Mian-jin, meaning "place shaped as a spike". Archaeological evidence suggests frequent habitation around the Brisbane River, and notably at the site now known as Musgrave Park.
The first convict jail was built in Redcliffe in 1824 and that was moved to the site of the present-day CBD in 1825. Officials believed the natural bend in the river provided an effective barrier against escape.
Read more about the Moreton Bay convict settlement in this article: blogs.archives.qld.gov.au/2021/10/05/moreton-bay-convict-...
Its suitability for fishing, farming, timbering, and other occupations, however, caused it to be opened to free settlement in 1838. Civilian occupation of the area began in 1842, and by the late 1880s Brisbane became the main site for commerce, and the capital-to-be began to develop distinct architectural features and culture.
With an abundance of sunshine and laid-back lifestyle, Brisbane quickly drew people eager to settle in its environs. The city grew steadily over the years and a turning point in its advancement was during World War II when it housed the main allied headquarters in the South Pacific for Australian and American service personnel.
The post-war population boom brought a spurt in industry and Brisbane staked a claim as the third-largest city in Australia.
Despite its rapid progress, Brisbane was often seen as lagging culturally behind Sydney and Melbourne. But two landmark events in the 1980s brought about a major change and accelerated Brisbane towards Australia’s new world city it is today.
The Commonwealth Games came to Brisbane in 1982, and this resulted in a massive injection of new infrastructure and sporting facilities. Then the eyes of the world turned to Brisbane in 1988 and thousands of visitors flocked to Expo 88. The subsequent birth of South Bank on the Expo site has resulted in a thriving cultural hub and Brisbane is more than matching it with its southern counterparts.
FIRST NATIONS HISTORY
Prior to European colonisation, the Brisbane region was occupied by Aboriginal tribes, notably clans of the Yugara, Turrbal and Quandamooka peoples. The oldest archaeological site in the Brisbane region comes from Wallen Wallen Creek on North Stradbroke Island (21,430±400 years before present), however, settlement would likely occurred well prior to this date.
The land, the river and its tributaries were the source and support of life in all its dimensions. The river's abundant supply of food included fish, shellfish, crab, and prawns. Good fishing places became campsites and the focus of group activities. The district was defined by open woodlands with rainforest in some pockets or bends of the Brisbane River.
A resource-rich area and a natural avenue for seasonal movement, Brisbane was a way station for groups travelling to ceremonies and spectacles. The region had several large (200–600 person) seasonal camps, the biggest and most important located along waterways north and south of the current city heart: Barambin or 'York's Hollow' camp (today's Victoria Park) and Woolloon-cappem (Woolloongabba/South Brisbane), also known as Kurilpa. These camping grounds continued to function well into historic times, and were the basis of European settlement in parts of Brisbane.
TOWN PLAN
Buildings were constructed for the convict settlement, generally at right angles to the river's shoreline in the direction of Queen Street, and along the shoreline south-east of today's Victoria Bridge. The outstanding surviving building is the Commissariat Store (1828-29), originally two storeys, in William Street. The street layout, however, developed from a thoroughfare from the river's edge running north-east to the prisoners' barrack near the corner of today's Queen and Albert Streets. When a town survey was done in 1840 that thoroughfare was chosen as the main street – Queen Street – and the grid pattern of square blocks moved out from the Queen Street axis. There were several versions of the town survey. The proposed streets varied in width from 20 to 28 metres but Governor Gipps, anticipating an inauspicious future for the settlement, trimmed them back to the lesser figure. Streets running parallel to Queen Street were named after British and related royalty, among them Queen Mary II, Queen Charlotte (wife of George III) and Queen Adelaide (wife of William IV). William, George, Albert and Edward Streets, running at right angles, had similar royal antecedents. Creek Street's position approximated the course of a minor stream, Wheat Creek.
The town survey occurred about three years after a select committee of the British Parliament had concluded that transportation had ceased to deter crime and, in any event, was tainted with inhumanity. By 1839 Moreton Bay was being transformed from a convict settlement to a free settlement, and in July 1842 the first sales of Brisbane land took place in Sydney. Nearly 60 allotments, each of 36 perches, in North and South Brisbane were offered. Twelve months later blocks in Kangaroo Point were sold. Little care was taken to reserve land or space along the river's edge for public purposes, but the government farm at the south-east end was kept and in time became the botanic gardens.
OUTER SETTLEMENTS
The scatter of urban land sales detracted from North Brisbane's role as a central place in Moreton Bay. Wharves were set up on both sides of the river, and there was an Ipswich-Cleveland 'axis' backed by rural interests which wanted the administrative centre and a port at those places. Probably it was the building of a customs house in 1849 on the river in North Brisbane which had a decisive effect: wharf interests moved, to be closer to the customs house, which in turn influenced the location of warehouses and merchandising. South Brisbane remained at a disadvantage until a permanent Victoria Bridge (1874) replaced ferry crossings.
Four years after the first land sales North and South Brisbane's populations were 614 and 346 respectively. The town was nothing much to look at: convict buildings were dilapidated, new structures had been roughly built and mainly it was the steady inflow of new inhabitants which held the best prospects for improvement. A Catholic school had been opened in 1845 and the Moreton Bay Courier weekly newspaper began publication in 1846, but it was not until the end of the decade that noticeable civic amenities emerged. Coinciding with the arrival of the Fortitude immigrants in 1849 (who were settled outside the town boundary, north of Boundary Street), an Anglican school was opened and a Wesleyan church built in Albert Street. A school of arts was established, moving into its own hall in Creek Street in 1851. Regular postal deliveries were introduced in Brisbane in 1852.
During the 1850s most Churches constructed substantial buildings: St Stephens Catholic in Elizabeth Street (1850), St Johns Anglican, William Street, Presbyterian, Ann Street (1857) and Baptist, Wharf Street (1859). There were three ferry services, to South Brisbane, Kangaroo Point and the 'middle' service from Edward Street, also to Kangaroo Point. The Brisbane Municipal Council was proclaimed, just before colonial self-government, in 1859.
There had been land sales well beyond the town boundaries, but in the early 1860s allotments were cut up for working-class cottages in Spring Hill, Petrie Terrace and Fortitude Valley. In 1861 a census recorded over 8000 people in Brisbane and another 5000 in adjoining areas. An Ipswich to Brisbane telegraph began operation and the unused convict windmill (1828) up in Wickham Terrace was converted to a signal station with a time ball.
TOWN IMPROVEMENTS
Municipal improvements were brought in with improved town lighting from the Brisbane gas works (1864) in Petrie Bight, north of the customs house, and the widely felt need for recreation space was officially recognised by a survey of Yorks Hollow (where the Fortitude migrants had been sent) for Victoria Park. Progress there was slow, with the council using the site for sewage disposal until 1886. Fires rid parts of Queen Street of time-worn commercial buildings in 1864, clearing the way for better structures built under the supervision of fire-protection bylaws. The council also found the need to divide its area into four wards, expanding it into six in 1865 (East, West, North, South, Valley and Kangaroo Point). The council also expanded to a new town hall in Queen Street (1866), by when a short-lived bridge to South Brisbane (1865-67) was in operation. The water supply ponds were hopelessly inadequate, and in 1866 a supply from Breakfast Creek, Enoggera, was turned on.
Gympie gold (1867) brought prosperity to the colony, but the rural-dominated legislature spent the money outside Brisbane, a prime example being the Darling Downs railway to Ipswich (1867) with the intent of having a port on the Bremer River. Legislative shenanigans could not stop the growth of the capital city's population (15,000 in 1871, 23,000 in 1881) nor that of the adjoining suburbs. Brisbane's 1881 population of 23,000 included South Brisbane. Ten years later, after South Brisbane had been made a separate municipality in 1887, their combined populations were 49,000. By 1891 Brisbane and suburbs had a population of over 100,000.
With population and export income from gold there came pressure for public buildings appropriate to the town's growing prosperity. The first of them was the general post office in Queen Street (1872), followed by the government printing office (1874) near the Commissariat Store in William Street. A torrent came in the 1880s, with the Queensland National Bank at the corner of Queen and Creek Streets, the Margaret Street Synagogue, Finney Isles Big Block emporium in Adelaide Street, and in 1889 the new Customs House, the Treasury Building in William Street and the Ann Street Presbyterian church. The legislature aspired to grandeur quite early, in 1868, with its Parliament House near the botanic gardens.
TRAINS AND TRAMS
The Ipswich railway line was joined to Brisbane by a bridge across the river at Chelmer and Indooroopilly in 1876. Ten years later a line to the South Coast was under construction, but the lines were at first organised with rural freight rather than suburban passengers in mind. Suburban transport services started with a horse tram out to New Farm (1885-86), and across the Victoria Bridge to West End. Electric powered trams began in 1887. Central Brisbane was crossed by a Queen Street tram, connected to termini at Newstead, West End and Logan Road at Buranda. The main shopping centre was around Queen, George and Adelaide Streets, competing with Brunswick and Wickham Streets in Fortitude Valley. The south side had shopping at Five Ways, Woolloongabba, and at South Brisbane, although the latter declined after the 1893 floods.
Northside tram lines from Red Hill, Kelvin Grove, Clayfield and Hamilton were opened during 1897-1902, coming into the city via Edward Street in most cases. By 1890 there were also suburban railway lines, to Sandgate via Nundah (1882), to Enoggera and to Cleveland (1889). Brisbane Central station (1889) brought northside travellers right into Brisbane, as before then the Sandgate line had ended at Roma Street via a cost saving line through Victoria Park. The line to Brisbane Central station also passed through busy Fortitude Valley.
With the addition of a tram line to Lutwyche and Kedron in 1913 the pressure of traffic led to the construction of a line along Adelaide Street (1915), which in turn required the Council to widen Adelaide Street by four metres between George and Creek Streets in 1922-23.
HOUSE SIZES
Since 1885 minimum house allotments had been set at 16 perches (10m x 40m). Residents could therefore look forward to more airy, spacious houses outside the city and its adjoining suburbs such as Spring Hill and Petrie Terrace. The better-off population invariably sought out the higher ridges on elevated sites overlooking the river, making Hamilton (with a tram in 1899) one of the most sought after suburbs. It was the new upper-working and middle-class suburbs, however, that showed the change most clearly.
CENTRAL CITY SHOPPING
Central Brisbane had grand department stores, Finney Isles, and Allan and Stark, but not as many as Fortitude Valley. A third one came later in George Street, near the Roma Street railway station: McDonnell and East built a low-rise emporium there in 1912. Commercial and government buildings, usually of a modest height, sometimes had a massive footprint. An exception to the prevailing height practice was the Queensland (later Commonwealth) Bank administration building of eight storeys at the corner of George and Elizabeth Streets (1920) clad with sandstone and granite. The CML building, next to the GPO, went to the legal limit of 11 storeys in 1931 and was exceeded in height only by the Brisbane City Hall tower (1930).
The changing commercial centre was thought to need a distinctive civic space and an Anzac Square was proposed in 1915. It was completed in 1930, coinciding with the City Hall and the construction of a second bridge out of the city, across the river to South Brisbane. Named after William Jolly, first Lord Mayor of the amalgamated Brisbane Metropolitan Council (1925), the bridge was opened in 1932. A third bridge was opened in 1940 from the other (eastern) end of the city across to Kangaroo Point. Neither bridge had trams, but each integrated with the metropolitan council's planned arterial road system.
The opening of the Story Bridge was followed by 20 years of building quietude in central Brisbane. The war and postwar recovery explains part of the inactivity, but central Brisbane made do with its prewar building stock during the 1950s. Suburban expansion was the focus of activity, exemplified by Allan and Stark building a drive-in shopping centre at Chermside in 1957. Another change was the removal of the wholesale food market from Roma Street to Rocklea in 1962.
After recovery from the 1961 credit squeeze, commercial pressure and interstate example succeeded in raising the building height limit. The Pearl Assurance building (1966) at Queen Street was 15 storeys and the Manufacturers Mutual Insurance building (1967), also in Queen Street, was 22 storeys. The SGIO building (1970) in Turbot Street was an even more significant structure.
A lack of building activity in central Brisbane in the 1950s did not detract from its role as a retailing destination. Central city shopping boomed while there were low postwar car ownership and strong radial public transport services. The 1953 retail census for metropolitan Brisbane showed that the city and inner suburbs (Fortitude Valley, Bowen Hills, South Brisbane etc) had 74% of total retail sales.
OFFICES AND SHOPS
Set against the decline in retailing was the growth in high-rise office and commercial buildings. By the late 1980s central Brisbane had about 1.75 million sq metres of office space, ten times the amount of retail floor space. Its share of metropolitan office space was over 70%, and fringe areas such as Spring Hill, Fortitude Valley, Milton and Woolloongabba had another 25%. The change in Brisbane's skyline was evident from across the river, an example being the view from Kangaroo Point to the Riverside Centre office building (1987) at Eagle Street. The eastern commercial end of Ann, Adelaide and Queen Streets began to resemble the closed in narrow streets of Sydney's office precinct.
In contrast to office high rise, the Queen Street retailing centre has kept many of its old buildings. The facades are partly concealed by pedestrian mall shade sails and other structures, but the shops and arcades generate plenty of activity. The most significant addition was the Myer Centre (1988) with eight cinemas and 200 other stores, bounded by Queen, Albert and Elizabeth Streets. It replaced Allan and Stark (Queen Street, opposite side) and McWhirters, Fortitude Valley, which had both been taken over by Myer several years before. When opened, the Myer Centre's retail floor area was nearly 108,000 sq m, 26% more than the largest competing regional drive-in centre, at Upper Mount Gravatt.
PARKS AND RESIDENTS
By the 1960s the growth of metropolitan population and motor traffic was putting central Brisbane's streets under strain. All three river bridges fed into the central business district, although the Centenary Bridge (1960) at Jindalee gave temporary relief. Closer in, relief came in 1969 with the widening of the Story Bridge approaches, and the opening of the fourth Victoria Bridge, often known as the Melbourne Street Bridge. The Riverside Expressway was completed in 1976, a close-in ring road along the western edge of central Brisbane, from Victoria Bridge to the new Captain Cook Bridge, and leading to the south-eastern suburbs. The Expressway decisively altered the appearance of Central Brisbane. The tram crossing had ceased to function when trams were replaced by buses, but a railway crossing came very belatedly with the Merivale Bridge, linking South Brisbane and Roma Street stations in 1978. Prior to that the lines from Beenleigh and Cleveland and the trunk standard gauge from Sydney terminated at the South Brisbane station.
Roma Street had been the site of the wholesale food market, and for decades the land had remained under-used. The central city had incrementally added open spaces to its fabric – King George Square enlarged in 1975 and the Post Office Square opened in 1984 – and in 2001-03 the largest addition, the 16 ha Roma Street Parkland was completed.
Along with Albert Park and Wickham Park, the Parkland gives inner city residents generous open space. The residential population of central Brisbane, however, changed little between 1981 and 2001. The inner city (approximately between Ann and Elizabeth Streets) had just 45 dwellings in 1981 and 689 in 2001. The resident populations for the respective years were 1174 and 976, a decrease. Apartments had replaced boarding houses and rooms. The rest of central Brisbane (including Petrie Terrace) also saw an increase in dwellings (758 to 1282) and a decrease in population (3511 to 1797). Single person apartments had increased, multi-person dwellings had decreased and some of each were not lived in full time, often being held for prospective capital gain. The boom in apartment building from 2001 has added thousands of apartments, many rented by overseas students.
The distinctive features of twenty-first century Brisbane are its increasing resemblance to other capital city office precincts, with forecourts, sub-tropical decorative plants and outdoor cafes. Queen Street's signature silver bullet trams last ran in 1969, but the street's unusual width (Andrew Petrie apparently persuaded Governor Gipps on this point) has provided for a signature shopping mall with generous outdoor seating and dining areas. Out of the central retail area elegant sandstone government and commercial buildings have survived, surely an iconic architectural form. Some buildings have removed their clerks and accountants, substituting hotel patrons, tourists and casino visitors. The historic customs house was purchased by The University of Queensland from the federal government, and includes meeting, dining and gallery space. The City Hall (1930), once the tallest building, has been dwarfed by surrounding skyscrapers, so its clock tower no longer affords a commanding view over Central Brisbane. In 2008 the Brisbane City Council agreed to underpin City Hall which was in danger of gradual sinking on inadequate foundations.
The gothic-style St Johns Anglican Cathedral, commenced in 1901-06, was finally completed in 2009. Bounded by Ann and Adelaide streets, the cathedral roof and other buildings sustained extensive damage in a storm in 2014.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane & www.visitbrisbane.com.au/information/about-brisbane/histo... & queenslandplaces.com.au/brisbane-central
William Huskisson (1770 -1830). First Member of Parliament for Liverpool - 1825 -1830. Killed accidentally by a railway locomotive at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1830.
William Huskisson 1770-1830, M.P. for Morpeth 1796-1802, Liskeard 1804-7, Harwich 1807-12, Chichester 1812-23 and Liverpool 1823-30. He was also President of the Board of Trade from 1823-7.
392/0/10361 DUKE'S TERRACE 05-MAR-10 Statue of William Huskisson II. Memorial statue. 1846. Cast by Ferdinand von Miller, director of the Royal Foundry in Munich, from marble statue of 1836 by sculptor John Gibson. Bronze.
DESCRIPTION: Huskisson is depicted as a standing figure looking down in reflection. He is wearing a Roman toga with right shoulder and part of chest exposed. Left hand raised across chest and right hand holding a scroll. Behind is a bollard inscribed OPUS IOANNIS GIBSON ROMAE. / FUDIT FERD. MILLER MONACHII. / MDCCCXLVII.
Modern granite plinth not of special interest.
HISTORY: William Huskisson (1770-1830) was MP for Liverpool (1823-30), keen advocate for free trade, and supporter of Roman Catholic emancipation. First ever railway fatality, knocked down by Stevenson's Rocket on the occasion of the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830.
A public subscription for a memorial raised £3,000 and a competition was agreed. Subsequently John Gibson, a celebrated local sculptor who had trained under Antonio Canova, was awarded the commission without recourse to a competition. A marble statue of 1833 was placed in Huskisson's mausoleum (q.v.), designed by John Foster Jnr in St James's Cemetery, Liverpool. A large number of subscribers complained that the statue could not be properly seen. Huskisson's wife paid for a second marble version to be made for the Customs House. It was instead placed at the Royal Exchange, London, now in Pimlico Gardens. Mrs Huskisson then paid for the third, bronze version. It was unveiled in 1847 in front of the Customs House. After World War II the Customs House was demolished due to bomb damage. In 1954 the statue was moved to the N end of the boulevard separating Princes Avenue and Princes Road. The pedestal remains, but the statue was pulled from it in 1982 because it was erroneously believed that Huskisson was a slave trader. It was then housed at the Oratory, St James's Mount Gardens until 2005, when it was moved to its present location.
The statue has been restored since 1997 when it was described as having been coated in black epoxy resin and the surface of the bronze was extensively pitted with larger holes.
SOURCES: Terry Cavanagh, Public Sculpture of Liverpool (Liverpool, 1997), 150-3.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION
The memorial statue to William Huskisson is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* It is a well-executed memorial statue by the renowned Victorian sculptor, John Gibson, cast in bronze from the 1846 marble version by Ferdinand von Miller, Director of the Royal Foundry of Munich
* The subject is interestingly portrayed in classical drapery, in the manner of a Roman senator, giving an air of grave dignity and simplicity, in contrast to the prevailing fashion of the time of using contemporary dress for memorial statues
* Huskisson, who was MP for Liverpool (1823-30) and advocate for free trade, is now most commonly remembered for his notorious death as the first ever railway fatality, being run over by Stevenson's Rocket at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830.
Source: English Heritage
From Public Sculpture of Sussex
"On 15 September 1830, at the opening ceremonies for the world's first ever passenger steam railway (between Liverpool and Manchester), Huskisson was run over and killed by Stephenson's Rocket because he had not taken sufficient care before crossing the track to start a conversation with the Duke of Wellington. He lived for a few hours after the accident, was lucid enough to dictate and sign a codicil to his will, and met his end with dignity.
He had been politically instrumental in bringing about the new and very visible triumph of technology that was the Liverpool and Manchester railway line.
William Huskisson was born in Worcestershire in 1770. In 1793 he entered parliament as MP for Morpeth, Northumberland. In 1804 he was elected for the constituency of Liskeard and became Secretary of the Treasury. He held the same appointment in Portland's ministry of 1804-09. In 1811 he became a Commissioner of the Woods and Forests. In 1823 he was appointed as President of the Board of Trade and Treasurer of the Navy in Liverpool's ministry. Under Wellington he was Colonial Secretary but resigned in 1828.
Huskisson had threatened to resign on a number of occasions. Wellington may have been completely wearied by Huskisson's constant threats to resign. Huskisson's tendered his resignation over what was to be done with the two parliamentary seats that were to be disenfranchised for corruption in 1828 (Penryn and East Retford) - not expecting his resignation accepted. Wellington perhaps was glad of an excuse to remove him.
Charles Greville wrote about Huskisson, soon after his death:
Huskisson was about sixty years old, tall, slouching, and ignoble-looking. In society he was extremely agreeable, without much animation, generally cheerful, with a great deal of humour, information, and anecdote, gentlemanlike, unassuming, slow in speech, and with a down-cast look, as if he avoided meeting anybody's gaze. ... As a speaker in the House of Commons he was luminous upon his own subject, but he had no pretensions to eloquence; his voice was feeble, and his manner ungraceful...
[Greville Diaries, 18 September 1830]
There was a similar monument of Huskisson in his toga at the top of Princess Avenue, Liverpool. After the riots of 1981 the bronze statue, some 10 to 15 foot tall, was pulled down by people who thought he was a slave trader. Damage was sustained, the head was nearly smashed off. It lay unceremoniously in a council car park until 1984. The statue is now housed at the Oratory, St James's Mount Gardens. Another statue of Huskisson, dressed in a Roman Toga, stands on the the banks of the Thames in the borough of Westminster.
(www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/people/huskisso.htm)
William Huskisson was the son of William, the second son of William Huskisson of Oxley, near Wolverhampton. He was born at Birch Moreton Court, Warwickshire, on 11 March 1770. His mother, Elizabeth, daughter of John Rotton of Staffordshire, died in 1774, and in the following year William was sent to school, first at Brewood, then at Albrighton in Staffordshire, and afterwards at Appleby in Leicestershire. At an early age he showed mathematical ability. In 1783 his maternal great-uncle, Dr. Gem, a well-known medical man residing in Paris, where he had been physician to the British embassy since 1762, undertook his education. For some years he lived at Paris in the society of French liberals, and made the acquaintance of Franklin and Jefferson. He is said to have entered Boyd & Ker's bank in Paris for a time, but this is very doubtful. He was present at the fall of the Bastille, and in 1790 he joined the ‘Club of 1789,’ a monarchical constitutional club, before which on 29 August 1790 he read a discourse on the currency, which was printed and much applauded. When the French government decided upon the issue of assignats he separated himself from this club. About the same time he was introduced, through Dr. John Warner, the chaplain to the embassy, to Lord Gower (subsequently Marquis of Stafford), then British ambassador at Paris, whose private secretary he became. They remained intimate friends all their lives. On 10 August 1792, after the attack on the Tuileries, he was instrumental in enabling its governor, M. de Champcenetz, to make his escape from the populace. On the recall of the embassy in 1792 Huskisson returned to England. For some time he remained an inmate of Lord Gower's household in England, and thus became well acquainted with Pitt.
By the death of his father in 1790 he became entitled to such of the family estates at Oxley in Staffordshire as remained unalienated, but they were neither extensive nor unencumbered, and, finding himself a poor man, he was glad to avail himself of the offer of a new office, created under the Alien Act, for making arrangements with the émigrés. In this employment, for which his knowledge of the French people and language well fitted him, he became acquainted with Canning, and his talents recommended him to Pitt and Dundas.
In 1795 he succeeded Sir Evan Nepean, on his promotion to be secretary to the admiralty, in the office of under secretary at war. The business of the office was practically done by Huskisson, Dundas, his chief, being otherwise occupied, and it was he who superintended the arrangements for Sir Charles Grey's expedition to the West Indies. His friendship with Lord Carlisle procured him in 1796 the representation of Morpeth; but, always diffident of his own abilities and conscious that he was no orator, he did not speak in the House of Commons until February 1798. In January 1801 he resigned with Pitt, but at the request of Lord Hobart, the new secretary at war, who was unfamiliar with the work of the office, he remained at his post until the battle of Alexandria in March 1801. An unfounded charge was made at the time that Huskisson made use of his knowledge of official secrets in stockjobbing operations, in which he engaged with Talleyrand. Meantime, on the death of Dr. Gem in 1800, he inherited an estate at Eastham, Sussex, then occupied by Hayley, the biographer of Cowper, and another in Worcestershire. This rendered his position in public life unembarrassed.
In 1802 he contested Dover, but was beaten by Trevanion and Spencer Smith, the government candidates, and did not re-enter parliament till February 1804, when he was elected for Liskeard. There was a double return, and a petition was presented against him, but he kept his seat. On the recall of Pitt to office (May 1804) he was appointed a secretary to the treasury, but when the ‘Talents’ administration came in (January 1806) he retired, and went into active opposition. He moved a number of financial resolutions in July 1806, which the chancellor of the exchequer, Lord Henry Petty, was obliged to accept. At the general election in the autumn of 1807 he was again returned for Liskeard; was made secretary to the treasury again in the Duke of Portland's ministry in April 1807; and at the ensuing general election was returned for Harwich, which seat he retained till 1812.
Up to this time Huskisson had rarely engaged in general debate, but had rested content with his reputation as a man of business. In 1808 he took a large share in the rearrangement of the relations between the Bank of England and the treasury, and in 1809 he undertook the reply to Colonel Wardle's motion on public economy. In the same year the Duke of Richmond, the Irish viceroy, was anxious that he should succeed Sir Arthur Wellesley as chief secretary, but his services could not be spared by the English government. Though not personally concerned in the dispute which brought about Canning's resignation in 1809, he resigned with him out of loyalty to his friend, and in his private capacity in parliament remained for some time little noticed. But in 1810 he published his pamphlet on the ‘Depreciation of the Currency,’ which at once met with success and earned him the reputation of being the first financier of the age. In the debates on the Regency Bill he adhered to Canning's views, and in January 1811, when he was sounded about joining the regent's ministry, he rejected the overture. In the following year, if Canning had joined Lord Liverpool, Huskisson would have been chief secretary to the viceroy and chancellor of the Irish exchequer. His adherence to Canning retarded the advance of his public career by many years, and allowed Peel and Robinson, of whom one was his junior and the other much his inferior, to pass him in the race. During this year he became colonial agent for Ceylon. That post, which was worth £4,000 a year, he held till 1823.
At the general election in the autumn of 1812 Huskisson was elected for Chichester. He made several speeches on currency questions in March 1813, and on Sir Henry Parnell's motion on the corn laws he brought forward for the first time his scale of graduated prohibitory duties. Next year on 6 August he succeeded Lord Glenbervie, in Lord Liverpool's ministry, in the woods and forests department, and was sworn of the privy council on 29 July 1814. He quickly mastered the special duties of his office.
In 1815 was passed the first corn law, which absolutely prohibited the importation of corn when the price fell below a certain minimum average, and Huskisson took a prominent part in the debates on the bill. In May 1816 he spoke in the bank restriction debates in favour of leaving to the bank the determination of the time, not to exceed two years, within which they might continue the restriction on gold payments; but two years afterwards he was in favour of granting the bank a further extension of time. He usually voted for Roman catholic emancipation without speaking, and very seldom intervened in a debate on foreign policy. One of his rare speeches on general topics was made in 1821 on Lord Tavistock's motion for a vote of censure on the government for its behaviour to the queen. In 1819 he became a member of the finance committee, and his speech on the chancellor of the exchequer's income and expenditure resolutions probably saved the government from defeat. He also addressed to Lord Liverpool an important memorandum on the resumption of cash payments.
In 1821 he was a member of the committee appointed on Gooch's motion to inquire into the prevalence of agricultural distress, and the report of the committee was principally drafted by him; but his speeches on taxation in the same year gave rise, not unnaturally, to a distrust of him among the agricultural party, which was never afterwards removed. He felt his position in the government to be unsatisfactory, though he did not resign with Canning in that year, and when, at the end of 1821, a rearrangement of the administration was projected and the Irish secretaryship was offered him, he at once refused the post. In February 1822 Huskisson spoke against Lord Londonderry's proposal to lend £4,000,000 for the relief of agricultural distress, and on 29 April and 6 May succeeded in defeating Lord Liverpool's first resolution on the report of the committee on agricultural distress. Thereupon he tendered his resignation, which Lord Liverpool refused, and Huskisson shortly after did excellent service in fighting the country party single-handed on Western's motion for a select committee to inquire into the consequences of the resumption of cash payments, and carried an amendment in the terms of Montague's resolution of 1696, ‘that this House will not alter the standard of gold or silver in fineness, weight, or denomination’.
When Canning rejoined the ministry as foreign secretary in September 1822, he failed in an endeavour to obtain for his friend the presidency of the board of control, with cabinet rank. On 31 January, however, Huskisson was promoted to the treasurership of the navy, and on 5 April to the board of trade, holding both offices together, and he was soon afterwards admitted to the cabinet. The board of trade was an office in which his special knowledge and his advanced free-trade opinions were certain to make him conspicuous. Accordingly, as Canning was retiring from the representation of Liverpool, which he found too laborious for his new position, Huskisson was selected to succeed him as the only tory able to conciliate the Liverpool merchants, and after a hollow contest he was elected, 15 February 1823. Huskisson thus became the prominent representative of mercantile interests in parliament. He was soon active in office, and introduced a bill for regulating the silk manufactures, but owing to the sweeping character of the lords' amendment he dropped it for that session, and did not pass it till 1824. He also introduced and passed a merchant vessels' apprenticeship bill, a bill to remove the restrictions on the Scottish linen manufacture, and a registration of ships bill. He announced his intention of moving the repeal of the Spitalfields acts, and supported Joseph Hume's motion for a select committee on the combination laws, which led ultimately to their repeal.
The year 1825 was one of great activity for him. With the assistance of James Deacon Hume of the board of trade, he completed the consolidation into eleven acts of the whole of the existing revenue laws. He obtained a select committee to inquire into the relations of employers and employed, the result of which was the passing of an act which regulated the relations of capital and labour for forty years. One object of his policy was at the same time to give England cheap sugar; and he also amended the revenue laws in the direction of a modified free trade in regard to other commodities, reducing the old duties on foreign cotton goods, which ranged from 50 to 75 per cent., according to quality, to a uniform 10 per cent. duty on all qualities; on woollen goods from 50 and 67¾ per cent. to 15 per cent., and similar reductions were made in the duty on glass, paper, bottles, foreign earthenware, copper, zinc, and lead.
Early in 1825 Huskisson foresaw the crisis to which excessive speculation was leading. His warnings were neglected, and when the panic came he was accused of having caused it by his policy of free trade. Meanwhile he was busily occupied in negotiations with the American government about the north-western boundary, the navigation of the St. Lawrence, and the slave trade. In 1826 the Liverpool merchants presented him, in acknowledgment of the success of his policy, with a service of plate. He took a prominent part in the debates on the Bank Charter and the Promissory Notes Acts, and on 24 February 1826 delivered what Canning called ‘one of the very best speeches that I ever heard in the House of Commons’ against Ellice's motion for a committee on the silk trade. Later on, in speaking upon Whitmore's motion for a committee on the corn laws, Huskisson, though advocating delay in their repeal, admitted his dislike of the existing system. During the autumn he assisted Lord Liverpool in preparing a new corn bill. The labour thus involved, and the calumnies to which his economic policy had exposed him, permanently injured his health. On 7 May he vindicated his commercial policy against the attacks made upon it by Gascoyne in his motion for a committee on the shipping interest. The speech, which was afterwards published, was one of his best efforts. His corn bill was duly introduced, but was abandoned owing to the opposition of the Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords.
Huskisson was travelling in the Tyrol to recruit his health when the news of Canning's death reached him (August 1827). He hastened home. At Paris a message from Lord Goderich, the new prime minister, offered him the colonial office, with the lead of the House of Commons. His friends urged that there was no other way of securing the continuation of Canning's policy, and he accepted the offer on 23 September 1827. Had he chosen he might have been chancellor of the exchequer. Dissensions soon broke out between him and John Charles Herries, the chancellor of the exchequer, about the appointment of Lord Althorp as chairman of the committee of finance. Huskisson, as leader of the house, insisted upon his nomination; Herries, as chancellor of the exchequer, complained that he had been slighted by not being previously consulted. The dispute grew so severe that Lord Goderich resigned, and was succeeded by the Duke of Wellington.
Huskisson decided to continue in office, and was re-elected at Liverpool without opposition. In addressing his constituents he said that the duke had acceded to his stipulations in favour of the continuance of free trade and Canning's foreign policy. The duke on the earliest opportunity denied this, and Huskisson was obliged to withdraw the statement in the House of Commons on 18 February. The tension between himself and the duke soon became acute. At several cabinets in March a difference of opinion arose on the amendment to the corn bill with regard to the taking of corn out of warehouse, which the duke proposed and insisted upon. Peel and Huskisson were both against it. Huskisson tendered his resignation, but a compromise which he suggested was accepted, and he remained in office. Shortly afterwards it became necessary to decide what should be done with the two seats which would be available for redistribution upon the disfranchisement of Penryn and East Retford for extensive corrupt practices. The duke was for giving both seats to the adjacent hundreds; Huskisson, Palmerston, and Dudley were for bestowing them upon large manufacturing towns.
In the House of Commons Peel advocated a compromise by giving Penryn to Manchester and East Retford to the hundred. Huskisson on 21 March pledged himself to give one seat to a manufacturing town. In the lords it was decided by the government, first, not to deal with both cases together; secondly, to give the Penryn seat to the hundred. In committee of the House of Commons, when the East Retford case came up, it was moved on 19 May to give that seat also to the hundred of Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire. Huskisson and Palmerston, in the belief that the cabinet held that morning had resolved on leaving East Retford an open question, voted against the ministry. Immediately after leaving the house Huskisson wrote to the duke offering to resign if he considered that the interest of the government would be better served by a resignation. The duke had long felt that Huskisson, who entered the administration as the successor to Canning's position, was in some sort his rival. He treated Huskisson's letter as an actual resignation, although Huskisson explained that he only meant to tender it if the duke thought fit to demand it, and he repudiated any formal offer of resignation. But the duke was inflexible, and laid the matter before the king. Huskisson demanded a personal audience of his majesty, but this was refused, and the resignation was definitively completed on the 29th, when he gave up the seals and received expressions of the king's personal regret at his loss. Although he explained in the House of Commons the summary mode by which he had been removed, his party censured him for imperilling the ministry by an ill-timed and factious resignation.
Huskisson appeared little in parliament during the remainder of the session, and, his health failing, he spent the autumn abroad. In 1828 he supported the Roman Catholic Emancipation Bill; made a great speech on the silk trade, and took up the study of Indian questions. In consequence the governorship of Madras was offered him, and he was sounded about the governor-generalship of India, but the state of his health made his acceptance of either post impossible. He was, however, an active member of the East India committee, especially on matters referring to the China trade. During the session of 1829 he was unusually prominent in debate. He made several speeches in favour of moderate reform, warned the ministry that some change was inevitable, and supported Lord John Russell's proposal to confer additional parliamentary representation on Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester. During 1830 his health grew worse, and, though he was able to attend the king's funeral in July, he was seriously ill.
He went to Liverpool in September for the opening of the Manchester and Liverpool railway, and was received warmly by his constituents. On 15 September he attended the opening ceremony. A procession of trains was run from Liverpool. Parkside was reached without mishap. There the engines stopped for water, and the travellers, contrary to instructions, left the carriages and stood upon the permanent way, which consisted of two lines of rails. Huskisson went to speak to the Duke of Wellington, to whom, in spite of their recent disagreement, he felt bound, as member for Liverpool, to show courtesy. At that moment several engines were seen approaching along the rails between which Huskisson was standing. Everybody made for the carriages on the other line. Huskisson, by nature uncouth and hesitating in his motions, had a peculiar aptitude for accident. He had dislocated his ankle in 1801, and was in consequence slightly lame. Thrice he had broken his arm, and after the last fracture, in 1817, the use of it was permanently impaired.
On this occasion he lost his balance in clambering into the carriage and fell back upon the rails in front of the Dart, the advancing engine. It ran over his leg; he was placed upon an engine and carried at its utmost speed to Eccles, where he was taken to the house of the vicar. He lingered in great agony for nine hours, but gave his last directions calmly and with care, expiring at 9 p.m. He was buried with a public ceremonial in Liverpool on the 24th.
Huskisson achieved little success in public life compared with that which his rare abilities should have commanded. His adherence to Canning, combined with a coldness of manner, probably accounts for much of his failure. Lamb, afterwards Lord Melbourne, told Greville that, in his opinion, Huskisson was the greatest practical statesman he had known, the one who best united theory with practice. Sir James Stephen's judgment on him was almost the same. As a speaker he was luminous and convincing, but he made no pretence to eloquence; his voice was feeble and his manner ungraceful. Sir Egerton Brydges, in his Autobiography speaks of him as ‘a wretched speaker with no command of words, with awkward motions, and a most vulgar, uneducated accent,’ but this accent seems to have worn off in later life.
Greville describes him as ‘tall, slouching, and ignoble-looking. In society extremely agreeable without much animation; generally cheerful, with a good deal of humour, information, and anecdote; gentleman like, unassuming, slow in speech, and with a downcast look as if he avoided meeting anybody's gaze. There is no man in parliament, or perhaps out of it, so well versed in finance, commerce, trade, and colonial matters; it is nevertheless remarkable that it is only within the last five or six years that he acquired the great reputation which he latterly enjoyed. I do not think he was looked upon as more than a second-rate man, till his speeches on the silk trade and the shipping interest, but when he became president of the board of trade he devoted himself with indefatigable application to the maturing and reducing to practice those commercial improvements with which his name is associated, and to which he owes all his glory and most of his unpopularity.’
He married, on 6th April 1799, Elizabeth Mary, younger daughter of Admiral Mark Milbanke, who survived him. There was no issue of the marriage. Though so impoverished on entering public life that he sold the family estate at Oxley, his personalty was sworn, 15 November 1830, under £60,000. He received on 17 May 1801 a pension of £1,200 per annum, nominal, £900 actual, with a remainder of £615 to his widow; and in 1828 he received a second pension of £3,000 a year.
Huskisson lived at Eartham House, Eartham, buying the house from the poet, William Hayley."
There is a plaque on the spot where the accident happened that reads:
THIS TABLET A TRIBUTE OF PERSONAL RESPECT AND AFFECTION HAS BEEN PLACED HERE TO MARK THE SPOT WHERE ON THE 13TH. OF SEPT. 1830 THE DAY OF THE OPENING OF THIS RAILROAD THE RIGHT HONBLE. WILLIAM HUSKISSON M.P. SINGLED OUT BY THE DECREE OF AN INSCRUTABLE PROVIDENCE FROM THE MIDST OF THE DISTINGUISHED MULTITUDE THAT SURROUNDED HIM. IN THE FULL RIDE OF HIS TALENTS AND THE PERFECTION OF HIS USEFULNESS MET WITH THE ACCIDENT THAT OCCASIONED HIS DEATH, WHICH DEPRIVED ENGLAND OF AN ILLUSTRIOUS STATESMAN AND LIVERPOOL OF ITS MOST HONOURED REPRESENTATIVE WHICH CHANGED A MOMENT OF THE NOBLEST EXULTATION AND TRIUMPH THAT SCIENCE AND GENIUS HAD EVER ACHIEVED INTO ONE OF DESOLATION AND MOURNING; AND STRIKING TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF ASSEMBLED THOUSANDS, BROUGHT HOME TO EVERY BOSOM THE FORGOTTEN TRUTH THAT “IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH”
(Stephen, Sir Lesley & Lee, Sir Sidney (eds.). (1949) ‘Dictionary of National Biography: from the earliest times to 1900’. Oxford University Press, London.)
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Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany - and one of the oldest. A Germanic tribe, the Ubii, had a settlement here, this was named by the Romans "Oppidum Ubiorum". In 50 AD, the Romans founded "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium", the city then became the provincial capital of "Germania Inferior".
Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch after whom the street is named, was the founder of the first co-operate bank "Vorschussverein", where subscribing workers made small deposits, obtaining proportional credit and dividends. The management was vested in a board composed of subscribers. In 1859 the more than 200 such banks were centrally organized under the direction of Schulze-Delitzsch. IN 1883, when Schulze-Delitzsch passed away, 3.500 co-operative banking branches with more than $100,000,000 in deposits existed in Germany.
End of the 19th century one of these co-oop banks in Cologne financed and built the houses here for its members. Here are still 34 (former) two-family houses, stylistically very similar but in individual forms and designs.
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Cadishead and Irlam Guardian 1933
Notes by 'Qui Vive'
Telephone Exchange.
Only telephone users in the district were aware of the opening of the very fine new telephone exchange at Irlam. The change over from the old to the new, took place in an instant, and the time selected was naturally the quietest period of the day - the lunch hour on Wednesday.
This district is just outside the area where the automatic system is now operating. Though it is the latest method, many subscribers do not give preference to the dial system and the "Central Battery" system installed at the new exchange at Irlam is likely to be quite as satisfactory.
The number of local subscribers has increased from 39 to 219 in 10 years. The district was for some years linked up with Urmston Exchange. I remember very well the difficulty there was in getting the telephone into the district at all.
Mr. Kewell, an architect, who resided in the locality for some years and has still business connections with it, worked hard to bring the district into line with others. It was a feat to obtain the first score of promises to have the instrument installed, but from that time, some 15 years ago, much progress has been made.
The new building is a distinct architectural feature of the district. It has an imposing appearance at the juntion of Roscoe Road and Liverpool Road, where there are three lady operators in the day and Mr. McKechnie, the resident caretaker, attends to calls in the evenings with complete satisfaction.
Cadishead and Irlam Guardian November 11th 1933.
NEW TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
REMARKABLE GROWTH IN A DECADE
UP-TO-DATE MANUAL EQUIPMENT
Many people have watched the progress of the one new building at the junction of Roscoe Road and Liverpool Road, Irlam -- one of the most prominent, from an architectural point of view, in the district. It is the new telephone exchange which was brought into service on Wednesday morning and affords a striking contrast to the premises opposite the Council offices, Irlam, which have served hitherto and proved quite inadequate for the growing requirements of the locality.
EVIDENCE OF DEVELOPMENT
The old exchange at 601, Liverpool Road was opened in August, 1922. At the time there were only 80 subscribers and approximately 50 per cent, of these were transfered from the Urmston Exchange, to which Irlam had previously belonged. The number of subscribers has gradually increased until at the present, there are ???, and it is largely on account of the large growth that a new exchange became necessary. Opportunity has been taken to instal the most up-to-date manual equipment in a new buiding, and it is a credit to the Post Office Telephones Department and an ornament to the district.
NO CHANGE IN METHOD
Although the new type of equipment is very different to that at the old exchange, there will be no change in the method of obtaining calls as far as the subscribers are concerned. One of the main differences that will be effected is in the bringing to account the charges for the calls. Previously, the operator prepared a ticket for every call, but under the new system local and two unit calls will be registered by the depression of a special key by the operator. The depression of this key operates the calling subscriber's meter.
GREATER SCOPE IN KIOSKS
In the past, it has only been possible to obtain calls to a limited number of places from outside calling boxes or street kiosks. With the new system, however, it will be possible to obtain calls to anywhere in the country and to certain places abroad. Coin slots are provided in the boxes for pennies, sixpences and shillings and in addition, the boxes are fitted with two press buttons marked "A" and "B." Button "B" is to be used to refund, when required, money inserted in the box, and the operation of button "A" will deposit the coins that have been inserted into the cash box.
PROCEDURE TO BE ADOPTED
To use one of the new street boxes the following procedure should be adopted. Firstly, ascertain from the directory the number of the person with whom conversation is desired. Then remove the receiver from the rest and insert two pennies in the box. When the operator answers, call out the number required. If the call is a local one and the person required is available, button "A" should be depressed when an answer has been obtained. If the fee for the call is more than 2d., the operator will ask for the additional amount and inform the caller when to press button "A." If the required number is not available, the money will be returned by depressing button "B." A special emergency button, fitted above the telephone, is provided in each street kiosk for calling the operator only in the event of the fire brigade, ambulance, or police being required in an emergency. The receiver of the telephone must first be removed from the rest, and when the operator answers the name of the required service should be passed forward. There is no need to insert any pennies for such calls.
THE CHANGE OVER
The change-over precisely at one o'clock was accomplished without the slightest hitch of any kind. Members of the engineering staff of the telephone department of the G.P.O. were working hard on the final preparations right up to the moment when the old exchange was to be vacated, and business calls were to be made under the new system. Subscribers even did not realise what a great change had been effected-- a complete transformation of the local telephone system. Mr, Battersby, from the Central Office at Chapel Street, Salford, was in charge of the operations, and he told the "Guardian" representative that everything was "O.K."- "In fact," he said, "I am more than pleased with the success of the arrangements."
CENTRAL BATTERY SYSTEM
He said the most modern type of the "Central Battery system" had been installed, and there was not the slightest doubt that a general and permanent improvement in the efficiency of the service had been affected.
The automatic system is the absolute latest, but Irlam and Cadishead are just outside what he termed the local area for the system. Many subscribers will not be sorry either, because the dial system is anything but popular among new telephone users. Immediately after the change over, each subscriber's line was tested to make sure that everything was in order.
"Does your bell ring all right; can you hear distinctly? were the two questions asked, and subscribers generally would note the improvement that had been effected in both respects by the change over, which had been effected without any fuss or public ceremony. Mr, McKechnie (or McKeehnie) is the resident caretaker and evening operator, and there are three lady operators in the daytime.END.
A piece from the book ' A History of Transport and Communication' by Cyril Wheaton:
The first Telephone Exchange in the district was installed in the 1900 although Bell's telephone had been invented as early as 1876.
Mr Outram, an Engineer for the National Telephone Company,installed the first exchange at 68 Whitfield Street,Cadishead, and it became operational in 1900, with five lines, these being Royles Ltd,Partington Coaling Basin,Occleston's Paper Mill, C.W.S. Soap Works and Millington and Sheldrick's Rope and Twine Works.
Mrs Outram who was the exchange operator was on duty 24 hours a day. In the first place it was suggested that the exchange be installed on Liverpool Road,at the corner of Delhi Road,opposite to the new Post Office commisioned in 1965, but due to a dispute over boundaries,it was installed at Cadishead in the house mentioned earlier, this house being the most convenient place to come within the limits of the dispute.
The house at the time was occupied by Mr Robert Taylor as a farm house, and the National Telephone Company paid Mr Taylor the sum of £5 to vacate the premises. Shortly after its installation the lines were transferred to Urmston, but in 1922 they transfered back to Irlam to a shop next to Thompson's Ironmongers,No 601 Liverpool Road,Irlam almost opposite the former Council Offices. At that time there were 57 subscribers.
As the population of Irlam and Cadishead increased, the need for a larger exchange became a necessity, and a new one was built on Liverpool Road,some short distance away, and opened in 1933, and by the 1960's was serving 1,500 subscribers,and was growing at an alarming rate. In September 1966 a new exchange came into operation with an automatic system replacing the manual one, and the old building became obsolete. The new automatic exchange was attached to the new Post Office building.END
If the numbers have remained the same 601 Liverpool Road is now Auntie Nellie's Sweets and Treats (as of 2013).
Joan Dennison
My aunt Eleanor Dennison was supervisor here
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Loved working at the telephone exchange. Just cant believe we answered incoming to Irlam calls and all outgoing calls in such a small room - considering the size of the building. I think there were about 18 or more operator positions in an L shape. The top floor contained the caretakers residence. I remember she used to come into the swichboard room to take over in her dressing gown with her tights ( rolled around her ankles) around 10 00pm each evening. The bottom floor was filled with lots of equipment explaining the need for such a huge building I supposes.. I remember Eleanor the supervisor and Hilda Saunders another supervisor. Also Gwen Bojko (Jones) - Jack Jones M.Ps daughter who was at the time the longest service established employee.
One evening there was a rta outside on Liverpool Road and people were shouting up to the windows of the exchange asking us to phone for an ambulance. Due to protocol or so we were told, we couldnt phone for the ambulance until someone had gone into the call box and made a call to us. We all thought that was ridiculous but someone did call us from the callbox so all was well. Goodness all those years ago in the late 50s early 60's. Still got my memory.
To the left of the building in the image is and old stand for ladders which was used by Ken's D.I.Y.
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Pensando en el gran EDWUARD HOPPER.
XXIII Salón del Manga de Barcelona.
Rincones que hace el mar; calas.
Made in Austria, people and landscapes.
Lalita, un icono de cariño, compañía y bondad.
Arte y forja en L'Espluga de Francolí, (Tarragona).
Cuando murió su amada pensó en hacerse viejo. (A. Machado).
Una ruta por Mura, (Barcelona).
Con mis fotografías pretendo captar el momento o mejor dicho, un “momento” de la vida.
Si esto causa malestar a los protagonistas de mis imágenes, no tengo ningún inconveniente en retirarlas si lo manifiestan; así como enviarle una copia vía e-mail si me lo hacen llegar.
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A professor was walking along a very narrow street when he came face to face with a rival professor.
The street was too narrow for two to pass.
The rival, pulling himself up to his full height, said haughtily:
"I never make way for fools!"
Smiling, the professor stepped aside and said:
"I always do."
Encore une fois, un orchestre symphonique au diapason ! Mon dernier ticket d'abonné. Pour tout autre concert, j'achèterai des billets cette semaine-là si je peux gérer l'effort.
Un professeur marchait dans une rue très étroite lorsqu'il se retrouva nez à nez avec un professeur rival.
La rue était trop étroite pour que deux personnes puissent y passer.
Le rival, se redressant de toute sa hauteur, dit avec hauteur :
"Je ne laisse jamais la place aux imbéciles!"
Souriant, le professeur s'écarta et dit :
"Je fais toujours."
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Title: Miniature photograph of 'The Christian Graces,' Faith, Hope and Charity. A large line and stipple steel engraving sent free to every subscriber to 'Arthur's Home Magazine' for 1873. [front]
Created/Published: N. Y. : Asher & Adams
Copyright date: 1876
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 11 x 7 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Women; Periodicals
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Statement of responsibility: T. S. Arthur & Son
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
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Unlike computer-mediated dating sites like match.com or eharmony.com, the new iPhone app “Singles Around Me,” also known as SAM, is trying to bridge the gap between singles searching for true love and those out to just play the game.
“SAM is a social discovery mobile dating app that offers singles the opportunity to meet, chat, flirt and date other singles in their immediate vicinity,” CEO and creator Christopher Klotz said. “It uses geographical mapping to plot the users’ location and the location of other singles, while offering total control over privacy.”
Klotz, a University of Cambridge graduate, was previously employed at a business that runs an online job board to match employers with job seekers. He didn’t realize that combining his job-matching skills and the GPS capabilities of smartphones could offer a new kind of dating experience, until one night when he was out with friends.
“Transferring this knowledge across to the dating space was logical, however, it was not until I was with some friends in the clubhouse after a round of golf and one of them said, ‘I would love to know if that waitress is single,’” Klotz said. “We try as hard as we can to bring real life back into dating rather than hiding behind a computer screen as one does with traditional dating sites.”
With over one million subscribers, SAM has become a worldwide phenomenon, with users spanning from New York City to London. Unlike dating sites, singles can choose when they want to be seen, with a new technology that allows users to input their exact location, set it to an approximate location which shows singles within a one to two mile radius or just turn their location off. Single college students can turn SAM on when they are at the club and then off when they arrive home.
“Our target audience actually spans across the spectrum from college students upward,” said Klotz. “Really anyone who is single can use the app in an effective way by narrowing down their search criteria. Many have written in to thank us for connecting them with their future girlfriend, fiancé or partner.”
Students with a busy work or school schedule can use SAM to find singles who are free at the same time as them, and are able to match their traits with potential partners.
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Foundation stone 28 Jul 1850 by Bishop Augustus Short, designed by Mr Burnet, opened May 1852, bell installed in tower 1863, new chancel dedicated 20 Dec 1904, re-opened 7 Dec 1930 after renovations, closed c2015, now private. Earliest services had been in the flour mill or Horseshoe Inn.
“A Meeting of the subscribers for the erection of a Church at Noarlunga, was held on Friday last, when Messrs Bosworth, Hollins, and J. S. Clark were elected trustees. The church will be a very pretty structure of stone from the neighbouring quarries, and it is to be on an acre in the township presented by Mr Giles for the South Australian Company.” [South Australian 26 Jun 1850]
“Noarlunga — The foundation stone of the new church to be dedicated to St. Phillip and St. James, was laid on Friday, the 28th ultimo, by the Bishop of Adelaide, in the presence of a numerous, and highly respectable, concourse of the inhabitants. . . Divine service was performed for the first time on Sunday last, at the ‘Horse Shoe’ Inn. Mr Bock, the worthy landlord, fitted up the room for the occasion, and Miss Plaisted led the various hymns on a splendid organ. . . a great improvement upon the pro tempore places of worship previously used at Noarlunga.” [Adelaide Times 3 Aug 1850]
“The towered church of St. Philip and St. James, Noarlunga, perched on a hill, with the silver ribbon of the Onkaparinga winding in and out at its foot, was designed by Mr. Burnet after the model of a church in England.” [Observer 23 Dec 1905]
“St. Phillip and St. James' Anglican Church. . . When services were first held there the gospel was preached in somewhat trying circumstances. There were no window panes, strips of calico serving instead. No floor had been set down, and the congregation rested their feet on the soil. . . The name of the church is derived from the Christian names of two of the pioneer workers in the district — Messrs. James Hughes and Phillip Hollins. Before the erection of the church the former conducted a Sunday school in a flourmill nearby.” [News 16 May 1929]
“Noarlunga . . . A large bronze bell weighing 120 lbs. has been fixed in the tower of the Episcopal Church here, and will be very useful to the members of that congregation. The gentlemen who have kindly taken the trouble to procure the bell are certainly deserving of the thanks of the members of the church. It is of a good tone, but it has not yet been properly rung. Some trees and shrubs have been planted in the ground adjoining the sacred edifice, but whilst the fence is in an open and decayed state, there can be little hopes of seeing plants grow, as pigs, goats, and calves, are constantly getting into the enclosure.” [Advertiser 22 Aug 1863]
“St. Philip and St. James' Church. . . a lecture and concert was held in Mr. Holmes's wheat store in aid of the funds for plastering and ceiling the church. In the afternoon about 100 persons were present, which number was largely increased in the evening.” [Adelaide Observer 14 Apr 1866]
“The anniversary festival of the Sunday school belonging to St, Philip and St. James's Church was held on Thursday. Eighty children marched from the church to the district school room, singing hymns, were supplied with fruit, spent some time in play, and then were provided liberally with other refreshments. Between 50 and 60 adults were next regaled, and the whole company had a day of thorough enjoyment.” [Register 15 Mar 1871]
“St. Philip and St. James, Noarlunga. . . The Wardens' accounts, which were audited and passed, showed the Church to be in a very satisfactory financial position, and clear of all liabilities. . . discharging the balance of building fund, £25, and left £6 7s. 4d. in hand towards further improvement.” [Register 1 May 1873]
“St Phillip’s and St James' Church, Noarlunga. . . A committee was appointed to consider the question of building new chancel and repairing the church.” [Advertiser 19 Apr 1902]
“A new chancel will be dedicated by the Bishop of Adelaide (Dr. Harmer) at Sts. Philip and James, Noarlunga, on Sunday. The church was completed, with chancel and vestry, in 1867, and the present rector is the Rev. T. Wood.” [Advertiser 16 Dec 1903]
“Noarlunga. . . A beautiful carved blackwood reredos for the Church of St. Phillip and St. James was dedicated by Archdeacon Clampett, of St. Matthew's Church, Hawthorn, last Friday evening. The reredos is erected to commemorate the seventy-fifth birthday of the sacred edifice. . . After the service the congregation and friends met in the local hall. . . The reredos is the work of Mr. Price, of Adelaide.” [Observer 17 Oct 1925]
“Many inconveniences have been suffered by the congregation of St. Phillip and St. James' Anglican Church. . . At present the church is in a sad state of disrepair owing to lack .of funds to cope with the ravages which Time has wrought. Such a pitch has the disrepair reached that on rainy days members of the congregation dare not sit in the back rows, for dripping gutters have no respect for Sunday clothes. Recently, also, two churchgoers were rather fortunate in moving from one of the pews just before a large piece of plaster fell from the ceiling. Large cracks may be seen in various parts of the church, inside and out, and the possibility of more plaster falling presents danger. Some of the window frames has become separated partially from the stonework, and to prevent the entry of wind and rain .newspaper has been stuffed into the space. . . From time to time improvements were made to the church, which now boasts a brick floor and leadlight windows.” [News 16 May 1929]
“the third of a series of dances, arranged by Mr. Keith Maynard, for the restoration fund of St. Philip and James Church, Noarlunga.” [Advertiser 11 Jun 1929]
“Hawdon in his first overland expedition (1839) struck the Horseshoe after coming down the Onkaparinga, and from thence was able to make a beeline for Adelaide. . . Mr. Peter Giles, an octogenarian comeback, says that in his days there were only six houses, a brewery, and a flourmill in Noarlunga. Beautiful trees and shrubs, wattle, honeysuckle, silver wattle, sheaoak, tea tree, and masses of wild flowers grew in profusion and beauty along the river bank to Port Noarlunga. . . Philip Hollins was the father of Onkaparinga River navigation. The barge Appoline was built to be towed between Port Noarlunga by a horse on a tow path (1857). Hollins was also the proprietor of the Horseshoe Hotel. . . The Rev. A. Burnett held the first Anglican services in the district in its lodgeroom (1848-1853). . . In the seventies and eighties Noarlunga was the great changing place of the Yankalilla-Adelaide mail. At the Horseshoe Inn the passengers transhipped into a larger or smaller coach as the case might be.” [Advertiser 28 Oct 1929]
“To celebrate the reopening of St. Philip and St. James Anglican Church, Noarlunga, following renovations at a cost of £200, a back to Noarlunga service will be held on Sunday afternoon. It will be followed by a reunion tea. Archdeacon A. W. Clampett, M.A., will preach. There is a special corner for children in the church. It is in the form of a font presented by scholars of catechism.” [News 3 Dec 1930]
“For eighty-one years the Church of St. Phillip and St. James, Noarlunga, has been a prominent landmark on the main South-road. . . Children of the Catechism have furnished the church with a massive font and a shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary.” [Advertiser 17 Oct 1931]
“In the Anglican Church at Noarlunga on Sunday, a memorial window to the late Mrs. Eleanor Maynard was unveiled by the rector (Rev. R. E. Saunders). Designed in a mixture of antique and opaque glass, the window shows the Star in the East shining over Bethleham. Mr. Saunders preached a memorial sermon, taking as text ‘Let your light so shine before men’. Friends of Mrs. Maynard throughout the State contributed to the cost of the window.” [Advertiser 25 Aug 1934]
“Noarlunga. Last week ladles of the St. Phillip and St. James's Church of England Guild conducted a pet show in the institute in aid of the Church of England Diocesan Centenary.” [Advertiser 27 May 1947]
“A Blossom Ball organised by members of the St. Phillip's and St. James's Church of England Guild in aid of the church centenary fund realised £36.” [Advertiser 14 Aug 1947]
“Next Sunday the centenary of St. Philip and St. James Church of England will be celebrated. . . Eucharist, with the Bishop of Adelaide. . . luncheon in Noarlunga Hall. . . Evensong at 3 p.m. . . The first rector was Rev. A. Burnett, who arrived in 1848 and lived in a tent at Willunga. During his term of office the church was contemplated. On July 25, 1850 the land was conveyed under Act 10. 1847, by Messrs. G. F. Angus, Hy. Kingscote and I. R. Todd in trust. . . From 1856 onwards the rectors were Revs. T. R. Neville, E. K. Miller, F. H. Stokes, G. Griffiths, T. Wood, H. C. Thrush, R. E. Saunders and H. J. Hughes, the present rector.” [Advertiser 9 May 1950]
“Edward Giles, who was connected with the South Australian Company and had a farm on the opposite side of the river, gave the land for the church. Mrs. F. Rayner, president of the Ladies' Guild, said originally the church had a slate floor and calico windows.” [News 12 Nov 1952]
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