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Bragg's Mill was built in 1757 by William Haylock, a carpenter of Ashdon. In 1813, the mill was advertised for sale, then having two pairs of millstones. At this time it was still an open trestle mill. The mill was extended at the tail c1815.
A roundhouse was added circa 1820. The mill was working until c1912. By 1932 the mill was being propped up from beneath, as the side girt on the left side had failed. The mill was renovated in the late 1950s, but was derelict again by 1974, when further repairs were carried out. The sails were removed in the 1990s.
The mill was restored in 1999 and new sails were fitted in 2006 after being awarded a Lottery grant in 2004.
The Bungalow & Orquil Farm. If you click to see the largest size you will see that there are actually some trees at both The Bungalow and Orquil!
2012 Update - I am in the process of "flitting" to Houton - there are much more generous Sea-Views there!
Inside the 2nd Wendling Store c1912.
L-R: unknown, unknown, unknown, Ernie Endicott, Grover Wilson, Bud Buell
The store was built in October/November of 1900. In 1912, it was expanded to the west. That extension is not in this picture, yet a 48 star flag hangs in the top right, hence the date. The store was closed on Labor Day weekend 1926 when the Red-N-White store held its official opening.
There are many items visible in this photo. On the left we see a stack of canned tomatoes on sale. On the right you can see a roll of wrapping paper for purchases, a scale and cash register. Bare light bulbs hang from the ceiling. Several advertisements and other products can be seen with close examination.
This was a two story building and it housed the Booth-Kelly company offices upstairs. This store also held the US Post Office for Wendling.
If you can identify any of the unknown men, please comment.
St Mary the Virgin, Clumber, Nottinghamshire, 1886-89.
By Bodley & Garner.
For Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle (1864-1928).
Grade l listed.
Nave - Virgin & Child, c1912-22.
Designed by Rev Ernest Geldart (1848-1929).
Bradfield Workhouse was built in 1769 and could cater for 60 inmates, although there were occasionally up to 90. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 grouped parishes together in Unions, and Wortley Union, to which Bradfield had been assigned, was formed in 1838. From that time inmates in Bradfield Workhouse also came from the other parishes in the Union until it was replaced by the Wortley Union Workhouse at Grenoside in 1850.
Those who were in the workhouse most often were women, the elderly and children. It was unusual for whole families to be there, perhaps only when the father was sick or unemployed. Those with mental or physical incapacity also often found themselves in the workhouse.
The building is now split into Church Cottage, Vestry Cottage & Wesley Cottage,
Towngate, High Bradfield.
Publisheer: R Johnstone & Son, Gateshead
The Monarch Series.
Not posted.
HMS Queen Mary leaving the River Tyne c1912. The Wellesley Training Ship can be seen moored in the distance.
She was laid down at Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow, on 6 March 1911. She was launched on 20 March 1912 and was completed in August 1913 at a total cost of £2,078,491.
She came to her end in 1916 during the Battle of Jutland after being hit twice by the German battlecruiser Derfflinger.
For more info click on the liink below.
An early view of the sugar beet factory at Cantley in Norfolk c1912, shortly after it opened. The sugar beet factory was the first of its kind in the UK and was built by the Anglo-Netherlands Sugar Corporation who were, at that time, one of the largest landowners in the area. Production was shortlived as the factory was closed down after the outbreak of the First World War, however, the machinery was maintained throughout its closure and production finally resumed in 1920.
In 1881, Gustav F. Schroeder [1861-1899+] was a 20-year-old apprentice at a German engraving company learning to produce such ordinary objects as dies, stamps and numbering wheels.
One day, US German immigrant Carl Schraubstadter of Central TF (St. Louis) happened to visit Schroeder's employer on a trip to his homeland. Some Rare Thing between them clicked... Schraubstadter convinced Schroeder to engrave type in what was then the US "frontier."
Schraubstadter was a very smart businessman, and hiring Schroeder may have been the smartest thing he ever did! The next year, he and his partner, James A. St. John, did another very smart thing: They hired Nicholas J. Werner [1858-1899+] to produce commercial specimens of their wares.¹
The creative fireworks between these two young men soon produced some of the most spectacular and best-selling display types of all time. In 1889, they partnered as Schroeder & Werner.
During the next two years, they designed and cut caps-only Victoria Italic and six other faces for Central (their best client!). In the meantime, they accepted commissions from Barnhart Brothers & Spindler and Boston TF (by then owned by Central TF).
In 1891, Schroeder moved to Mill Valley, a suburb of San Francisco. Werner continued self employment until 1895, when he was recruited by three of Schraubstadter's sons to join Inland TF, which they established after Central and Boston TFs were sold to ATF. ATF continued showing Victoria Italic until c1912.
In California, Schroeder produced a dual-case Victoria Italic for the ATF-independent Pacific States TF (San Francisco) in 1898.² An ad in the Inland Printer dated December 1898 (pictured above) names Inland TF as the distributor "east of the Rockies."
This letterpress typeface has not been digitally archived for posterity. A partner of The Type Heritage Project [THP] has expressed interest in doing so.
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¹Loy, W.E. (1898–1900): Designers and Engravers of Type. In The Inland Printer December 1898 (Schroeder) and August 1899 (Werner).
²Mullen, R.A. (2005): Recasting A Craft|St. Louis Typefounders Respond To Industrialization, page 144. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
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Moor View, Edensor, Derbyshire, c1912.
Probably by William Henry Romaine-Walker (1854-1940).
Grade ll listed.
Engine No 4347....has "rabbit" motive top r/h corner of crankcase....can anyone tell us what it means?
Window of the now inactive Cap Moule a Chique lighthouse c1912. Located above Vieux-Fort on the southernmost tip of the island of St Lucia in the Caribbean.
Jimbour is a heritage-listed homestead on one of the earliest stations established on the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia, It is important in demonstrating the pattern of early European exploration and pastoral settlement in Queensland, Australia. The building is associated with the development of the Darling Downs and of the pastoral industry in Queensland and is important in demonstrating the wealth and ambition of early Queensland pastoralists.[1][2]
Jimbour House was an ambitious structure in terms of size, style and finish and was intended to support the social and political aspirations of Joshua Peter Bell, an important politician and businessman as well as grazier. It is unique in Queensland as the only genuinely grand country house in the English manner to be built in the state. Other substantial stone homesteads of the era, such as Talgai, Glengallan and Westbrook, came nowhere near to rivalling Jimbour in either size or opulence.
History
Settlement of purchase by WA Russell, 1923
Map of Leichard's exploration route 1844
The property was first claimed by Henry Dennis on behalf of a Scotsman called Richard Todd Scougall in 1842.[3][2] Scougall established a run with sheep and cattle which were driven north from the Hunter Valley. Scougall experienced disease outbreaks and bankruptcy stemming from the collapse of the Bank of Australasia.[3] The property was purchased by Thomas Bell for £3,200 in 1844. Bell was from Ireland and had moved to Australia with his family in 1829.[3][2]
In 1844, explorer Ludwig Leichhardt stayed at Jimbour, at that time the most northerly station on the Downs, preparing for his trip to Port Essington. In 1864, utilising their pre-emptive purchase rights, Thomas Bell, Joshua Peter Bell and John Alexander Bell acquired title to 4,786 acres (1,937 ha) (pre-emptive portion 1) of the Jimbour holding as tenants in common. This pre-emptive purchase included the head station site. Following Thomas Bell's death in September 1872, the Jimbour freehold was transmitted to Joshua Peter Bell, John Alexander Bell and a third brother, Marmaduke Bell, as tenants in common. The original house built by Scougall was burned down in 1867.[3][2]
In about 1873 fashionable Brisbane architects Richard Suter and Annesley Wesley Voysey, in partnership from January 1872 to September 1874, were commissioned to design a new sandstone house, handsome and ambitious in scale and quality, as the main residence at Jimbour. Work on Jimbour House commenced in late 1874,[3] and was completed by early 1877. Slate for the roof was imported from Wales.[3] Gas and water were built into the house. Gas was generated from a coal mine on the property and water via a water tower was pumped by a windmill, the first structure known to be erected in Queensland.[3][2]
Jerry Jerome, an Aboriginal descent from the local Yiman people, was born on 24 May 1874 at Jimbour homestead to Wollon Charlie [father], an Aboriginal labourer, and his wife Guli. Jerry was a local renown horseman, athlete and show boxer, who became an Australian boxing legend. Jerry Jerome,[4] fought 58 boxing battles, 35 were wins and 23 were losses. In 1915 at the age of 41 Jerry resigned from boxing and died penniless in Cherbourg mission in 1943.
In 1877, 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) of land was resumed from the Jimbour pastoral run to establish smaller farms. The land was offered for selection on 24 April 1877.[5]
In 1881, a shortage of working capital led the Bell brothers to merge their financial interests in Jimbour with those of Premier Thomas McIlwraith and JC Smyth, forming The Darling Downs and Western Land Company. In October 1881, most of the Jimbour freehold was transferred to the company, but an area of 100 acres (40 ha) (sub 1 of pre-emptive portion 1), containing the house and most of the outbuildings, was retained by the Bell brothers as tenants in common.
Under Joshua Bell's stewardship the property became known as 'The Mecca of Civilization on the Darling Downs'.[3] Joshua Peter Bell died suddenly in December 1881 and his family commissioned a memorial obelisk that was placed to the west of the main house, near the water tower and church. At this time JP Bell's interest in Jimbour House was transferred to his wife (Lady) Margaret Miller Bell, Sir Arthur Hunter Palmer and Boyd Dunlop Morehead as Trustees.
Jimbour House continued as the principal residence of Lady Bell and her eldest son, barrister Joshua Thomas Bell, following their return to Queensland in 1889. JT Bell became a director of the Darling Downs and Western Land Company, and served as private secretary to Premier Sir Samuel Griffith from 1890 to 1892 before being elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in which he served as a Minister and subsequently Speaker. Following the collapse of the Company in the early 1890s the Bell family assigned their interest in the Jimbour freehold to the Queensland National Bank, on the condition that the family was allowed to occupy Jimbour House, which they did until c1912.
20th century
Jimbour in the 1880s. West façade
Aerial photograph of Jimbour in the 1970s
In 1906, the Closer Settlement Act was passed through the Parliament of Queensland. Steps were taken to compulsorily acquire Jimbour.[3] By 1910, just 100 acres (40 ha) remained.[3] Following the death of JT Bell in 1911, the contents of Jimbour House were auctioned in July 1912 and Lady Bell retired to Brisbane. Through the remainder of the decade the house was occupied by Messrs Thomas and Ryder of Jimbour Station, although they did not acquire title to the house site. In the early 1920s the house on its 100 acres (40 ha) was sold by order of the mortgagee, the Queensland National Bank, with title transferred in October 1922 to Charles Wippell.[3]
The association of the Russell family with Jimbour House commenced in the 1923 when Roma pastoralist Wilfred Adams Russell purchased the property from Wippell.[3][2] Title was transferred to Russell in January 1925. Russell was born in Queensland in 1874 and educated in New South Wales, where he later acquired pastoral and agricultural interests. In 1909, he acquired an interest in Dalmally Station near Roma and took up residence there in 1910. He further extended his pastoral interests with the acquisition of properties at Cunnamulla and Jimbour Station.
At the time of Russell's purchase, Jimbour House was derelict, with several of the ceilings collapsed and only parts of the building habitable, and the gardens were a wilderness.[3] From 1924 to 1925 Russell commenced a major programme of restoration and repair. Ceilings were replaced; a new kitchen was added behind the house, incorporating part of the former covered way between the 1870s house and the 1868 bluestone house; and the gardens were redesigned and extended by Brisbane landscape designer Harry Stokes. The bluestone building was badly damaged and parts of the upper floor had crumbled so it was decided to salvage the ground floor as a single storey building and use this as men's quarters. Russell and his wife strived to discover and collect the original furniture where possible.[3]
On 21 November 1925 Jimbour House was formally re-opened with a fund-raising fete for Dalby Hospital. This commitment to work for the well-being of the community has been continued by the Russell family. Wilfred Russell died in 1932, and the management of Jimbour passed to his son Charles Russell and Charles' wife Hilary.[3] In the 1930s, two large wooden pergolas over the drive at each end of the house and four smaller pergolas in the rose garden were erected, and the rose garden was divided into the four quadrants that now define it. In 1938, the drive was constructed from the front gate to the water tower, and jacarandas and shrubs were planted along both sides.
In the 1950s and 1960s the Russells developed agriculture (especially wheat) in conjunction with livestock at Jimbour, and new facilities were constructed such as stores, grain silos, feedlots and piggeries. Work on the early buildings and the garden also continued. In 1950, a large swimming pool and wading pool were constructed in the front grounds of Jimbour House and children from surrounding properties were welcome to visit Jimbour and use the pool during the summer months. An airstrip was established at the rear of the house in the 1950s. In 1956, the timber water tower was converted into a four-level residence for the gardener. In the 1960s, the 1864 stone store was converted into two flats with the construction of a mezzanine level and the insertion of dormer windows, and a citrus orchard was planted to the east of the swimming pool.
Charles Russell died in 1977, but Jimbour House remains the property of the Russell family. In the late 20th century a stone fruit and pomme fruit orchard was established to the west of the swimming pool and avenues of trees (planted by distinguished visitors) were commenced on the eastern and western sides of the garden. A vineyard was established on Jimbour land in the late 1990s, but this is not included within the heritage boundary. Jimbour was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 1992.[1]
Jimbour today
As originally taken up, Jimbour was a huge property of some 311,000 acres (126,000 ha) and depasturing 250,000 sheep. After further divisions, subdivisions and purchases, the property of Jimbour now comprises 11,200 acres (4,500 ha) of Mountain Coolibahand and Basalt ridges. Roughly 3000 of these acres are under cultivation, used to grow cereal cash crops and winter forage crops for stock. The balance of over 8,000 acres (3,200 ha) is made up of natural and improved pastures for 700 breeding cattle and their progeny to turn off as bullocks and cull heifers. With bought-in stock, over 700 fat cattle per year are produced. The property produces around 30 commercial Charolais bulls annually.[6]
Jimbour's vineyard was planted in 2000 and wine production commenced in 2003. However, despite the most recognised and awarded year in its history, Russell Pastoral Company announced in 2010 that due to the continuing poor financial outlook of the Australian wine industry, it would indefinitely suspend its brand Jimbour Wines.[7]
Today Jimbour combines the attractions of "Living History", from its heritage-listed architecture and gardens, to a busy tourism destination. Events, particularly weddings are often catered for in the historic surrounds. The sights and sounds of yesteryear are preserved alongside the activities of a working property producing fine beef, stud cattle and grain crops.[8]
Architecture
Main House
Deborah Russell garden and house at night
Jimbour House comprises three bays; two longitudinal projecting end bays with a central transverse bay, lined on the principal façade with an open terrace on the upper level supported on Doric order columns on stone plinths, paired in some places. Centrally located on the principal façade is a semi-circular projection, apparent in the roofline and through both storeys. This defines the principal entrance. The roof is steeply pitched, hipped over the three bays of the building and clad with Welsh slates. Dominating the roofline are four large brick chimneystacks with corbelled caps. Projecting from the two ends of the building are classically inspired single-storeyed wings with parapets concealing their rooflines. The terrace on the upper level of the house has been built in at the rear and there is a single-storeyed brick kitchen block below it.
The interior of the house has a wide hall running for most of its length on both levels. Both levels of the hall have a fireplace on one wall, reminiscent of the galleries in English country houses used as winter promenades. The joinery is of a high quality.
The ground floor contains receptions rooms, a billiard room and a large, square entrance hall with a bedroom opening off it. The upper floor echoes the layout of the ground floor and has an open paved terrace, bedrooms, and suites of rooms. One bedroom has two hunting scenes frescoes (drawn directly onto the plaster of the walls) dated 16/11/1879.
Outbuildings
View from the Deborah Russell garden
To the west/southwest of the main house is a large, rectangular building of pecked sandstone blocks, which now accommodates residential accommodation on two levels. Originally constructed as a store, evidence remains of the massive barred windows and catshead to the upper level. The building has a gabled roof with close eaves, clad in corrugated iron, into which dormer windows have been inserted. The end walls have arched openings on the upper level, which are now glazed. One of them has a small balcony. The building has sash windows and one of the external doors has a mail hatch from the days when this building was used as a post office. Partition walls and some ceilings inside are timber. One of the rear rooms has a blue-green lime wash finish that is believed to be early.
Bluestone Building
(1868 residence, remodelled in the 1870s as a kitchen and staff quarters and in the 1920s as men's quarters) To the rear of the main house and separated from it by a garden area, is a single-storeyed, low-set bluestone building with sandstone quoins, rectangular in plan, which was formed from the lower storey of the 1868 main homestead residence. It has a hipped roof clad in corrugated iron. The wall at the eastern end of the building is of weatherboards with bricks infilling between the quoins, following the removal of an adjoining wing. The rooms are arranged in a linear fashion, each opening onto a verandah along the southern side. The interior has fibrous cement linings and battened ceilings. One room has a brick fireplace.
Chapel
The Chapel
Finished in 1868. At some distance west from the main house and north of the main drive (26.96084°S 151.23272°E) is a simple timber chapel set on low stumps. It is rectangular in plan with the sanctuary under a separate roof at one end and a porch at the other. The main roof is clad with late 20th century tiles and has a small belfry. The roofs of the belfry, sanctuary and porch are clad in corrugated iron. The porch roof was for a period raised to accommodate a small film projection room above the door, illustrating the multi-functioned use of this building which for a time housed the Jimbour school. Inside, the main roof is supported on scissor trusses and is ceiled with timber. The nave is lined with composite board and is lit by small lancet windows with coloured glass. There are carved altar rails and font and timber pews.
Water Tower
The Water Tower
(1870s, converted 1950s into residential use)
West of the chapel and the main drive is a tall timber tower 4 storeys in height and square in section, with walls sloping inwards, supporting a large, square, cast iron water tank. The framing is of trimmed tree trunks and hand hewn timber, clad externally with weatherboards dating to the 1870s. The interior now accommodates residential use and is lined with fibrous-cement sheeting and timber cover strips. The ground floor has modern metal-framed sliding doors and windows and contains a visitors' centre and gift shop. The top storey room is decorated with several naïve paintings, executed between 1924 and 1956 by a former employee at Jimbour. From this level, there is external access via a timber ladder to the water tank above. A single storey timber extension has been added to one side.
Bell Memorial
The Bell Memorial is located to the south of the water tower. Metal railings surround the memorial, which comprises a painted masonry obelisk decorated very simply with a border of acanthus below the plinth on which the shaft rests. The memorial below this is square in section with a plaque to each face, two of which are inscribed in memory of Sir Joshua Peter Bell who died in 1881 and of his son Joshua Thomas Bell who died in 1911. A third plaque was inscribed in memory of Lady Bell in 2002. The other face is blank.
Stone Store
Queensland Music Festival 2005
To the west/southwest of the main house is a large, rectangular building of pecked sandstone blocks, which now accommodates residential accommodation on two levels. Originally designed by notable Queensland architect Benjamin Backhouse and constructed as a store, evidence remains of the massive barred windows and catshead to the upper level. The building has a gabled roof with close eaves, clad in corrugated iron, into which dormer windows have been inserted. The end walls have arched openings on the upper level, which are now glazed. One of them has a small balcony. The building has sash windows and one of the external doors has a mail hatch from the days when this building was used as a post office. Partition walls and some ceilings inside are timber. One of the rear rooms has a blue-green lime wash finish that is believed to be early.
*Wikipedia
Local history about Auburn Road, Auburn.
The railway went past Auburn (Liberty Plains) railway station in 1855. The pictorial history of Auburn by Auburn Council 1983.
Auburn is a suburb in the west of Sydney.
Street View: www.google.com.au/maps/@-33.850472,151.0331344,3a,75y,183...
Call number: McFarlin Special Collections PS3531.A769 B28 1912
Title: The battleship boys in the tropics; or, Upholding the American flag in a Honduras revolution
Author: Patchin, Frank Gee, 1861-1925.
Date of publication: 1912
Description: Philadelphia : Henry Altemus Company, c1912.
Notes:
Special Collections note:
Dimensions: 20cm
Persistent URL: library.utulsa.edu//record=b2014646~S0
Repository: McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tulsa. 2933 E. 6th St. Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104-3123
General information about the McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tulsa is available at www.utulsa.edu/libraries/mcfarlin/special-collections.aspx
For 'READY FOR TARK'.
Blarney railway station circa 1912 Ref. 10 old black and white trains transport
From my collection of old pub photos..
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Esprit have now gone and the building has been renovated to accommodate Nike.
Nike Store (formerly Cogan, Betts & Betts & Worth”s No.2 Store & Espirt) 670 Hay St., Mall, Perth, (laneway seen in last photo was called Strelitz Ave, then later Central Ave.)
Built c1912
1912 - 1925 - Cogan Bros, Tailors
1926 - 1931 - Betts & Betts Bootery.
1932 - 1943 - Worth’s No. 2 Store.
1944 - Vacant
1945 - 1949 - Dainty Lady Children’s Outfitters, (fmr in Plaza Arc)
1952 - 1954 - Sportslane
2007- 2012 - Espirt Women’s Store
2016 - 2022 - Nike Store
670 Hay St., Mall, Perth