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Chocolat d'Aiguebelle "European Royalty & Palaces" series of 12 issued c1912
No3 King Carol I of Romania and the Royal Palace, Bucharest
Taken from a print in my collection, no further details known. LTSR Intermediate Class, Built by Sharp Stewart entering service October 1900 numbered 58 HORNSEY. Became MR 2165 and name removed c1912. Became LMS 2165 after the 1923 grouping, renumbered 2099 during 1930. Withdrawn March 1951 not received BR number 41917.
Collection Name: MS349 Otto Kroeger Photograph Collection. Click here to view the entire collection on The State Historical Society's website.
Photographer/Studio: unknown
Description: This humorous scene was composed to illustrate the concept of a shotgun wedding. A couple, Bill and Ethel Tellman, sits on a swing while a man, presumably Ethel's father or someone acting like him, sneaks up behind them with a shotgun. Typically in situations like this the would-be bride is pregnant.
Coverage: United States – Missouri – Cole County
Date: c1912
Rights: public domain
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives and The State Historical Society
Image Number: MS349_147.tif
Institution: Missouri State Archives
The buildings on the western side of Islington High Street (beyond the traffic lights) still stand; the Angel Cinema tower was added C1912 (a later picture in this set gives more info). However, St John Street has changed quite dramatically. The buildings on the far left were replaced by a huge modern glass and steel structure named The Angel Building in 2010, set back from the road to allow an avenue of trees along its eastern side. Housing offices, shops and some apartments, a webpage at www.buildington.co.uk gives the following description, "The Angel Building is all about improving radically on the thinking of the past, to provide the best possible office environment for today. A restrained piece of enlightened modern architecture by award-winning architects AHMM, it contains over 250,000 sq ft (NIA) of exceptional office space. With a remarkable atrium, fine café, and exclusively-commissioned works of contemporary art, it also enjoys exceptional views from its enormous rooftop terraces.
This is a building carefully made to greatly reduce its carbon footprint - in construction and in operation. It is highly efficient to run, as befits a Grade A office and retail building built for the second decade of the 21st century."
N.B This picture is part of a set looking at the Angel, Islington, travelling from Rosebery Avenue to Islington Green. To see a disappeared world of electric trams, trolleybuses, cinemas, theatres, fashions and architecture, click this link www.flickr.com/photos/warsaw1948/sets/72157638560394736/
The Metropolitan Line station, originally just round the corner to the right in Pentonville Road, was moved here following the construction and opening of King's Cross Bridge around 1910. It then became possible for trams and general road traffic to access Gray's Inn Road from Caledonian Road. As can be seen in the following pictures in this set, the buildings are all still standing, although their use has changed. Many will remember Hepworth's tailoring shops, common in London until the 1970's, as were Burton's, probably the most famous menswear shops. The tram seen on the extreme right will pass the camera on it's way to Holborn, where it will terminate at the very end of Gray's Inn Road, in view of Staple Inn.
NB to take a trip around the two mainline stations and view the vehicles, architecture and fashions of a bygone age, see the full "King's Cross in the 1950's" set of pictures by clicking this link..... www.flickr.com/photos/59082098@N05/sets/72157626070269684/
Chocolat d'Aiguebelle "European Royalty & Palaces" series of 12 issued c1912
No5 King George I of Greece and the Royal Palace, Athens
Ensign 2¼A Box for 3¼ x 2¼ exposures wooden box with leatherette covering shutter T-1 speed Achromatic Meniscus lens with single viewfinder, Made by Houghtons Ltd London c1912
Lower building 139-141 Stuart Street. DCC Archives, Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board (DDSB) Album 159, pg 3
Lefevre-Utile Biscuits c1912 (reproduction of their advertising portraits by famous artists) ~ artist signed by Francois Martin Kavel (1861-1931)
Here's another view of the old station entrance, looking towards the bottom of Gray's Inn Road.
NB to take a trip around the two mainline stations and view the vehicles, architecture and fashions of a bygone age, see the full "King's Cross in the 1950's" set of pictures by clicking this link..... www.flickr.com/photos/59082098@N05/sets/72157626070269684/
c1912 postcard view of Ohio Street in Indianapolis, Indiana. This night scene was looking west from Massachusetts Avenue. The photographer was looking west through the intersection of Ohio and Pennsylvania Streets where Massachusetts ended.
The building on the left was on the southwest corner at Ohio and Pennsylvania Streets. The 1914 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set identified it as the Newton Claypool Building and a note indicated it was built in 1901. A sign above the display window on that building advertised CITY DRUG____. The 1905 and 1912 R. L. Polk city directories for Indianapolis listed the Francis Pharmacy Company at that location (148-150 North Pennsylvania Street). The sign on the next building west identified the HUME-MANSUR BUILDING. A note in the Sanborn™ map set identified the year of construction as 1911. The next building west was the Board of Trade building on the southeast corner at Ohio and Meridian Streets. All three of these buildings have been removed.
The five-story building in the background was the Marion Building on the northwest corner at Meridian Street. Both it and the smaller building next door have been replaced.
The U. S. Court House and Post Office occupied the block on the north side of Ohio Street between Pennsylvania and Meridian Streets. The 1914 map set listed the year of construction as 1902. The building is still in use today, but not as a post office.
From a private collection.
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PC MacKenzie (on left, wearing First Aid Badge) and a colleague at Tain
ALEXANDER MACLEAN MACKENZIE
Constable 41, Ross & Cromarty Constabulary
Alexander M. Mackenzie was born at Charleston near Gairloch in Wester Ross in 1884. After working locally for some time he joined the Dunbartonshire Constabulary as a Constable in 1903 and served in the Clydebank area.
After 4 and a half years there he returned to his native Ross-shire when he transferred to the Ross & Cromarty Constabulary on 27 September 1907. He joined the Ross-shire Force two years after a new Chief Constable had been appointed. Captain Duncan Finlayson had no previous Police experience but had served 25 years in the Highland Light Infantry, latterly as Divisional Recruiting Officer in Glasgow, so it is possible that the two men already knew each other. Finlayson was from Lochcarron, so with both men being from Wester Ross, it is very likely that their paths had crossed in the Greater Glasgow area.
Alex Mackenzie served for one year in the Burgh of Dingwall before being transferred to Cromarty on 29 September 1908. On 1 July 1909 he was moved to Tain. In 1910 he married his wife Margaret who hailed from Culbokie (on the Black Isle - between Dingwall and Cromarty), and on 9 March 1915 he took over the single-officer Beat of Strathpeffer, a popular spa resort village few miles west of Dingwall. By then they had 2 children and 2 more would be born at Strathpeffer.
On 30 October 1918 Chief Constable Finlayson decided to transfer Alexander again, this time to Finlayson's home village of Lochcarron on the West Coast. The Chief would have had his reasons for so doing, not least of which was doubtless to ensure that he would receive a candid and prompt assessment of the young officer's performance from the residents of the parish. His nearest supervisor was the Sergeant in Kyle of Lochalsh, but the next highest bosses were based in Dingwall, on the East coast far away.
In those days, as indeed now, there is a considerable responsibility vested upon the officer stationed in a locality far from reinforcements. He is the Police, and his behaviour and actions are a direct reflection upon the Force as a whole. Hence why the Chief had moved PC Mackenzie in stages. His experience in Clydebank was of great value but it is a different job working shifts in a big town to working alone in a remote area of the Highlands.
So Captain Finlayson had eased PC Mackenzie in gradually, from working in Dingwall Burgh, then to Cromarty for a taster of quieter life at a two-man post, then further variety in a larger town in the form of Tain. The move to Strathpeffer was definitely to a more rural (single-officer) beat but not that far from the 'metropolis' of Dingwall. That at least meant he could actually get a day off, with cover being provided from Headquarters. With his subsequent move to Lochcarron on the west coast, he would invariably work alone and be very much out on his own.
On 27th November 1919, at the first meeting of the newly instituted Scottish Police Federation (Ross & Cromarty Constabulary Branch), Constable Alexander Mackenzie, Lochcarron, was one of the members elected by the Force. He was also elected to be the sole representative of the Constables in the force at the first Scottish Police Federation Central Conference in Edinburgh on 18th & 19th December 1919.
He was re-elected to the Joint Branch Board in 1920, 21, 22 and 23, and on 16th October 1923 he was appointed Chairman of the Joint Branch Board for that session. He was the first Constable to be so appointed - previously the office had been held by Sergeants.
On 9 May in 1924, with now seven of a family, he had moved to Shieldaig, and he was unable to attend the May Federation meeting. He made it for the August meeting though. He was re-elected Chairman, and also Chairman of the Constables' Branch Board, in October 1924. His colleagues also nominated him to attend the Central conference.
Although Alexander Mackenzie stood for re-election to the Federation, and was indeed returned, he intimated that he had done his bit and sought to demit his offices of Chairman. This was reluctantly accepted and off he went to the 'back benches'.
He was unable to attend the next two meetings of that session but did attend the September one. Again for the 1926-27 session he let his name go forward for election, and not only was he returned to the Board but he was proposed as Chairman of the Constables' Board, although he happily saw yet another Sergeant take the Chairmanship of the Joint Board. He was as usual an ever-present attender that session.
Re-elected to the Board in October 1927, he again accepted the nomination for Chairman of the Constables' Board. This was another session where Alexander had perfect attendance at Meetings. In 1928, he again was elected to the Board but kept his head down when nominations for office for Constables' and Joint Boards were being sought.
In 1929 he had moved again, this time to Achiltibuie on the Coigach peninsula north-west of Ullapool. By this time the family had grown to eight. This transfer took place on 26 June. The move seems to have resulted in him deciding no longer to stand for the Federation, as his name does not appear in the list of those attending (or being absent from) the first meeting of the 1929-30 session, held in Dingwall on 10.10.29. He had however done very well, having served the Federation for 10 years, since the organisation was inaugurated.
In March 1930 Margaret gave birth to their 9th child. Sasgly Mrs MacKenzie died exactly two weeks after the birth.
At their meeting on 14th May 1930 the Joint Branch Board minuted the following item:
(5) Constable Alexander Mackenzie:
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Reference was made to the death of the wife of this Constable,
the fact that he was left with a large, young family to bring up,
and that there had been an outbreak of measles in his family
recently, all of which inflicted a great hardship upon him. The
members of the J.B.B. present expressed their sympathy with this
officer and it was moved, seconded and agreed to that, on account
of the family trouble experienced by Constable Alexander
Mackenzie, Achiltibuie recently and the expenses which he was
necessarily obliged to meet, the Chief Constable be requested to
sanction the taking of a voluntary collection from the members of
the Force on behalf of the Constable.
The result was reported at the meeting of 16th September 1930:
(2) Minute 5 of Previous Meeting:
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The Secretary intimated that, with the permission of the
Chief Constable, the sum of twelve pounds, eight shillings and
sixpence (£12:8:6d) was collected from the members of the Force
on behalf of, and forwarded to, Constable Alexander Mackenzie,
Achiltibuie. Constable Mackenzie's acknowledgement of the money
was read at the meeting.
Old habits perhaps, or maybe simply appreciation for the gesture of his colleagues, but he soon bounced back again and was elected to the Board at the Annual Election in October 1930. Not only that but PC Mackenzie, Achiltibuie, was also elected Chairman again of the Constables' Board. So after only one year away, he was back.
For the February 1931 meeting he was recorded as being at Achiltibuie and for the June one he is shown as being stationed at Coigach. The September one shows him being absent but stationed at Achiltibuie. This shows the transitional stage which the Police Service was in at the time. Some officers continued to refer to the Beat by its locality name, while others would call by the name of the village in which the Police office was located. This stems from the old days when a Constable was not provided with a Police Station and house in the smaller villages but was simply placed wherever a house could be found in the area, and this would double as the Police Station. It was an ad-hoc arrangement similar to the way Parish Registrars and small Sub Post Offices still operate.
Things though seem to have been getting too much for him, as he seems not have stood for the 1931-32 session. Obviously having so many children to care for, as well as his police duties to undertake, meant that he was unable to be away from home for at least one and probably two days which was necessary for travelling and attendance at Federation meetings - which were always held in Dingwall.
His 55th birthday came and went in 1939, when he had attained 35 years service. In normal circumstances he would have been able to claim a well-earned retirement but with the clouds of war over Europe retirement was not an option. Even although he was serving in what was a rural backwater in peace time, it became a strategic location in war. Details of police duties performed in wartime were rarely made known but Constable Mackenzie obviously performed well in what was an important area covering the approach to Ullapool and the Sound of Raasay, an important route for convoys and one liable to be well frequented by U-boats bent upon attacking the important Naval installations at Kyle of Lochalsh to the South and Loch Ewe to the North. So much were his services appreciated that Rear Admiral R. Hill, Flag Officer in Charge, Greenock saw fit in November 1945 to commit to paper his appreciation to Alex for rendering:
"very great help to the Royal Navy in assisting the local Naval
Officer, Ullapool in his various duties during the war 1939-1945"
By that time (since 1935) the Force had a new Chief Constable, William Maclean, who had come through the ranks of the Ross-shire force, and who obviously knew PC Mackenzie very well. Mr Maclean was obviously delighted to pass on, and echo, the appreciation of Rear Admiral Hill.
Alexander Mackenzie finally was able to retire on 29 March 1947 at the ripe old age (for a Policeman anyway) of 63, with 43 years service. Despite his late retiral, he managed to get back a good bit of his contributions in pension ! He remained in the Achiltibuie area for a time, and served for a period as District Councillor for the Coigach area before ill-health forced him to take it easy.
He saw out his twilight years in Tain where he spent many happy years in the earlier part of his Police Service. He passed away in 1968 at the ripe old age of 84, having been on Police Pension for 21 years. He was buried in Culbokie in the Black Isle.
I am grateful to his family for providing photographs of PC MacKenzie during his Police Service.
Lefevre-Utile Biscuits c1912 (reproduction of their advertising portraits by famous artists) ~ artist signed by Delphin Enjolras (1865-1945)
Collection Name: RG152.02 Missouri School for the Blind Photograph Collection
Photographer/Studio: unknown
Description: Eight blind young men from Missouri School for the Blind pose in an acrobatic formation inside a gym. They stand on top of a high platform. Their physical culture trainer Otto H. Boettger stands to the side.
Coverage: United States – Missouri – St. Louis City
Date: c1912-1914
Rights: public domain
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives
Image Number: RG152_01_019.tif
Institution: Missouri State Archives
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The Loggia. View at the Generalife. c1912
La Galería. Patio de la Acequia. Generalife.
Bajo la obra el fragmento de una postal con un encuadre aproximado al de la acuarela.
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The open top motor bus would seem to indicate that this picture was taken slightly before, or perhaps during WW1, but corrections/observations are welcome. In both the horse bus and the motor bus, most passengers occupy the top deck.
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Graeme Butler images from the 1992 survey for the Macedon Ranges Cultural Heritage and Landscape Study published 1994
Dreamthorpe was part of Nathanial Ronalds' (Melbourne florist) house and nursery, set on 22.1/2. acres purchased from the Waterfalls Estate, prior to 1887{ RB1886, c101 no Ronalds; RB1887,283 1st entry}. Reputedly Ronalds sent flowers daily from Macedon to his Swanston Street shop, `Ronalds' Central', while his residential address was in New Street, North Brighton. This shop was later called simple `RONALDS' and was managed by a Miss Fawcett{ WD1899-1900}. By 1893 Mr & Mrs David T Davies had purchased the nursery and added the brick butter factory there{ RB1893,68 NAV increase to 1894 in Mrs DT (Susan) Davies' name; Milbourne, p.76}. The factory was opened in 1893 and was stated by dairying expert, a Mr Wilson, to be `..one of the best equipped factories in the colony' but it was closed in the following year and purchased by the Pioneer Dairy Co{ ibid.; M Hutton pers.com.}. From 1895, Ronalds leased 4.1/2. acres of the Lillies Leaf estate from G Bevis on Brougham Road{ RB1895,644}. He was joined there by his wife, Agnes Ronalds, in 1896 who had a cottage on lot 10 of the same estate (now Apsley){ RB1896-7,889}. Nat died in 1898 but Agnes remained there for many years with a large family, becoming known in the area as Granny Ronalds{ M Hutton pers.com. cites GMM&DHS files}. One of Nat's daughters, Mary, also opened a nursery on the other side of the road (Brookdale, q.v.) in c1927. Meanwhile Dreamthorpe nursery and house had been purchased by gardener, Richard Healy (or Healey) from the Davies estate{ RB1909-10,731; RB1898,718}. Healy ran the nursery there until it was acquired by Judge Henry Edward Hodges, then care of the High Court, c1912-13. The house was enlarged (front rooms) for Judge Hodges (knighted 1918, died at Dreamthorpe 1919) in c1914 and was rated in his wife's name (Alice B Hodges) by c1917. The added rooms had art-metal ceilings and seaweed in the walls for insulation Visitors to the garden in the 1920s described it so: `..apparently careless profusion of trees and flowers. Amongst the ash elm and maple trees, resplendent golden oaks caught the eye and viburnum and clematis harmonised with the alluring colour scheme. Here one saw miniature lakes, winding paths decked with forget-me-nots, shady nooks beneath noble trees and an appealing play of light and shadow through the leaves of myriad tints{ `Gisborne Gazette' 20.11.25}. The name `Dreamthorpe' was recorded in rate books of the 1940s when the property was owned by Catherine M Walker and the house still stood on 22 acres{ RB1945-6,952}. However it was reputedly named so much earlier, by Mrs Hodges, who was also responsible for much of the garden's development, after it ceased to be a nursery{ Gisborne & Mount Macedon District Historical Society- M.Hutton typescript Dreamthorpe 1987}. The garden was also the venue for many community occasions during Lady Hodges' tenure, with many fetes raising money for a variety of charities. Judge Hodges (1844-1919) Hodges was born in Liverpool, England, the son of a ship's captain, and came to the colony in 1854 seeking gold{ JM Young ADB V9}. He took up teaching on the Bendigo goldfields. He obtained a BA at Melbourne University in 1870 and took up private tutorship of the familes of JG Francis and Sir William Stawell. Reputedly, he was also the tutor for the Hamilton children and subsequently came back to the Macedon area, older and more successful. He was called to the bar in 1873 and quickly established a lucrative practice, being appointed an acting Judge of the supreme Court in 1889 (permanent by 1890){ ADB V9}. Here he established a reputation for logical but a sometimes severe demeanour in court, being sometimes prone to sarcasm and emotional outbursts which led to an unprecedented resolution in 1913 from the bar criticising his behavour in court. Alice Hodges was his second wife (m 1909), the widow of Robert Chirnside of Caranballac. As Lady Hodges she lived on at Dreamthorpe there until her death in 1942.
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Lefevre-Utile Biscuits c1912 (reproduction of their advertising portraits by famous artists) ~ artist signed by Hippolyte Berteaux (1848-1928)
The bottom photo shows the statue in its new position, set further back. On the left, the Sainsbury's HQ has replaced the Daily Mirror building, itself a replacement for the bombed Thomas Wallis department store. See further pictures in this set.
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Moorooka, mainly a post World War II suburb, is seven km south of central Brisbane. It is thought that the name was derived from an Aboriginal word describing a nose or referring to the iron bark trees once common in the area. The name appears to have been first used officially for the name of the railway station when it was opened in 1887. Before then, the district was known as Rocky Water Holes and Rocklea East.
Before the opening of the railway line (1885) Moorooka was part of the Yeerongpilly local government division and was entirely rural. There had been cotton and sugar cane grown in the 1860s, and general farming in later years. The nearest place of settlement was Rocky Water Holes (Rocklea) on the Ipswich Road.
An Oddfellows Hall was built in 1887 in Hamilton Road, near the station, serving as a public hall and place of worship until separate churches were built. A post office was opened in 1891.
A sawmill was near the railway line and a tannery further north near the east bank of Moolabin Creek, a tributary of Rocky Water Holes Creek. Moorooka was also a convenient out-of-town place for picnic gatherings. The north-east part of Moorooka, known as Clifton Hill, was a soldier settlement area in the 1920s.
Anglican and Catholic churches were opened in Hamilton Road (c1912, 1919). As Moorooka became dotted with houses, local shops were built away from the station in Beaudesert Road (1925) and Mayfield Road. At the prompting of the progress association the Moorooka primary school was opened in 1929 on a site on Beaudesert Road, in the middle of the emerging suburb. St Brendan's Catholic primary, a short way west, was opened in the same year. A Methodist church (1931) was similarly located in Gainsborough Street.
The construction of the uniform gauge railway line in 1930 involved a transshipping point immediately next to the Moorooka station, and during the war there was industrial and munitions activity both there and at Rocklea. Evans Deakins engineering works were a short way southwards. An American servicemen's camp was north-east of the school, in Mayfield Road, which by 1937 had a tram service along Beaudesert Road.
Returned servicemen's housing and numerous estates quickly filled Moorooka and a shantytown (1946) gained some notoriety. Salisbury High School down Beaudesert Road was opened in 1954. Like the school, retailing moved to the middle of the suburb, with the Moorvale shopping centre in Beaudesert Road, serviced by Brisbane buses and private motor cars. Lutheran and Presbyterian churches (1949, 1955) completed the postwar pattern of worship. At the extreme east the estate of a Moorooka pioneer, James Toohey's 'paddock' was subdivided from 1953 onwards, culminating with a local shopping centre and the Toohey Forest Reserve (mostly in Salisbury and Nathan). An elevated site, it has indigenous vegetation and water supply reservoirs.
Beaudesert Road has retained Moorooka's shopping centre, but the motor car age is catered for in the motor trade mile along Ipswich Road. The former Yeronga fire station (1934), a heritage-listed timber building, is also in Ipswich Road.
Moorooka history: Queensland Places – Moorooka
Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
Lefevre-Utile Biscuits c1912 (reproduction of their advertising portraits by famous artists)"Autumn Flowers, 1906 ~ artist signed by A.Muriguor (?)
Source: Digital image.
Set: WIL04.
Date: c1912.
Photographer: WIlliam Hooper, Swindon.
HOOPER COLLECTION COPYRIGHT P.A. Williams.
Used here by his very kind permission.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Entomological Rangers J.D. Riggs (left) and J.J. Sullivan.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: c.1912
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: H.E. Burke Collection digital files; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.
This photo and the following excerpt are from:
H.E. Burke. 1946. My Recollections of the First Years in Forest Entomology. Berkeley, California. 37 p. www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/recollections-on-forest...
"J.D. Riggs was camp foreman for the Forest Service on the Northeastern Oregon Bark Beetle Control Project and with the Forest Insect Station 5 at Yreka, Placerville, and Ashland from July 1, 1911, until about August 1, 1916, when he resigned to go into mining.
J.J. Sullivan was a woodsman for the Baker Forest Protective Association in the 1910 fall control work for the Northeastern Oregon Bark Beetle Control Project, and a cruiser in the 1911 spring control work. He served as Agent and later as Entomological Ranger with Forest Insect Station at Yreka and Placerville from July 1, 1911, to Sepetember 1915, and then transferred to the Northern Rocky Mountain Station. Sullivan left the Bureau of Entomology in June 1916 to go into lumbering."
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
A look up the Promenade in Llandudno near Llandudno Bay and the Llandudno North Shore Beach.
St George's Hotel on the corner of the South Parade and St George's Place.
Grade II Listed Building
St George's Hotel, St George's Crescent, including forecourt walls in St George's Place
History
The large-scale development of Llandudno as a seaside resort originates from the late 1840s. In 1846, Owen Williams, born on Anglesey, but in business at Liverpool is said to have proposed a resort to John Williams agent of the Mostyn family who had sponsored the enclosure of the common land below the Great Orme. A fisherman's hut below the Great Orme was the meeting place where Owen Williams and The Hon T E M Lloyd Mostyn MP developed the idea. Plans were drawn up by Wehnert & Ashdown, architects and surveyors, of Charing Cross, London. Leases were offered for sale on 29 August 1849.
The St George's Hotel was amongst the first buildings on the Parade, and opened in 1854. It was built for Isaiah Davies, a local man who had inherited the King's Head public house; he allegedly obtained this prime site by cancelling the drinking debts of Mostyn agent John Williams. St George's Crescent was built as a terrace of symmetrical composition which has undergone some later alterations, eg addition of attic storeys, alterations to Wave Crest Hotel and to St Georges’s Hotel. Originally each end block, namely parts of St George’s Hotel and Queen’s Hotel, were of five bays width facing sea; this part of St George’s Hotel now of nine bays width having assimilated an adjacent 5-window unit. The hotel was extended towards the W from 1878. As one of the the most prestigious hotels in Llandudno, guests have included Disraeli, Gladstone, Lloyd George, Churchill, Bismarck, Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie.
Exterior
Hotel. Stucco with rusticated ground floor; slate roof. Three storeys, on basement, plus attic. All sash windows have been replaced by metal casement glazing. Corner block with 9 windows to Parade, 3 windows to St George's Place.
Giant order of Corinthian pilasters to first and second floors; crowing entablature. Above the entablature there is an attic storey with plain pilasters and moulded cornice. Windows with stuccoed shouldered architraves on second floor, first floor sash windows with moulded architraves, and with alternate triangular or segmental pediments on consoles. Ground floor to Parade covered by galzed loggia with balustrade and Ionic columns, deep fascia board; elaborate iron rails to first floor balcony over.
The hotel has taken in the formerly separate building to L. Five windows. At attic level, central dormer with triangular pediment paired sashes; outer bays have dormer (relief decoration) with semi-circular pediments and single sash windows. Modillion cornice. Moulded band course between cornice and 2nd floor windows. Second floor windows are all 12-pane sashes in lugged architraves. On first floor, sashes without glazing bars in moulded architraves; central window has segmental pediment. Central doorway with 2 sash windows to each side covered by glazed verandah.
In St George's Place, centre bay of 3-window block has steps (granite balusters) up to porch with paired granite columns; granite facing to entrance. To R of this, 5-storey tower with hipped roof and round-headed window; 3 round-headed windows at attic level; 2 windows on 3rd, 2nd, 1st floors; bow window below. To R of this, block of 4 storeys and attic, 8 windows; segmental pediments to attic dormers, bracketed cornice; on first floor alternating 1-light and tripartite windows with segmental pediments; on ground floor, alternating bow windows and single-light windows; porch in end bay. Balustraded forecourt walls and piers in St George's Place.
Three storeys and attic. Each end block with sash windows with flat beads on ground floor. There is an ornate iron work balcony parapet of c1912 before first floor of the St George’s Hotel.
Interior
Although some rooms have been combined, retains cornices etc generally Baroque in style. Grand dining room (early C20?) in Adam style with low-relief frieze, swags, panelling etc.
Reasons for Listing
The earliest of the major hotels on Llandudno sea front, which is the most important part of the planned Victorian seaside resort of Llandudno. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
Positive from a found negative of a young man showing off his rides with pride! Can anyone identify the vehicles?? From a trunk full of glass and film negatives taken by a man named Cochrane, who was a cadet in the Royal Navy at the turn of the last century.
The buildings in the distance in Pentonville Road and Caledonian Road have, I believe, been gutted inside, but the facades remain largely unaltered, as seen in the bottom photo, taken in 2013. The original station entrance in King's Cross Bridge has been blocked off.
NB to take a trip around the two mainline stations and view the vehicles, architecture and fashions of a bygone age, see the full "King's Cross in the 1950's" set of pictures by clicking this link..... www.flickr.com/photos/59082098@N05/sets/72157626070269684/