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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.
c1912 postcard view of North Jefferson Street in Huntington, Indiana. This night view was looking northwest from the Franklin Street intersection. The first sign on the left advertised the GLOBE store. Both the 1904 and 1912 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets show a clothing store on the west corner (302 North Jefferson Street) of this intersection. The sign behind the GLOBE sign probably advertised a drug store located next door (308 North Jefferson Street). A 1902 directory lists an O. Grafton jeweler at this location while the 1904 Sanborn™ map set shows a drugs and jewelry business. The 1912 map set shows just a drug store. The next sign north advertised DICK’S. This may have been the clothing store shown in both the 1904 and 1912 map sets at (312 North Jefferson Street).
The tower in the distance on the other side of the street was probably the St. Mary’s Catholic Church bell tower. The church is still located north of John Street in the 900 block of North Jefferson Street. The Sanborn™ map sets report the tower being 130 feet tall.
On that same side of the street, two jewelers’ trade signs (oversized pocket watches) hung above the sidewalk. The 1904 and 1912 Sanborn™ map sets show jewelers next door to one another at 331 and 335 North Jefferson Street. The next business sign to the south was in the shape of a boot. Both Sanborn™ map sets show a boots and shoes store at that location (323 North Jefferson Street). The MARX sign appears to be next door (319 North Jefferson Street). The 1904 map set shows a clothing store at that location while the 1912 map set shows a 10c store. The BRADLEY BROS. DRUGS REXALL STORE sign advertised the drugstore on the north corner of the Franklin Street intersection. A 1905 druggists’ directory¹ listed the Bradley Brothers business. A 1908 directory² listed only Oscar E. Bradley as a Huntington pharmacist. A separate 1908 publication³ listed John H. Bradley of Huntington as a newly registered pharmacist.
1. The Era Druggists Directory Eleventh Edition (New York, NY: D. O. Haynes & Co., 1905). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=bantAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Indiana Board of Pharmacy. Ninth Annual Report (Indianapolis, IN: William B. Burford, 1908). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=afjqAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
3. Ezra J. Kennedy, ed. The Pharmaceutical Era, Volume 39 (New York, NY: D. O. Haynes & Co., 1912). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=-MDmAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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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
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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
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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
Se trata de una de las dos acuarelas del mismo tema pintadas por Sargent de esta fuentecita situada en el centro del mayor de los Jardines Altos del Generalife.
El detallismo y precisión "fotográfica" de Sargent, le hace representar el caño de agua que cae sobre el cubo tal como recoge la fotografía.
c1912 postcard view of a celebration in downtown Columbia City, Indiana. This was a scene on Van Buren Street at the intersection of Line Street. The photographer was on the second floor of the building at the northwest corner of that intersection and facing southeast when he took the photograph. The crowd and activities in this scene were on Van Buren Street and Line Street was in the lower right-hand corner. An automobile was towing a bi-plane, but had stopped in the street. A bandstand was set up in the intersection. It appears they were preparing to move the bandstand to let the automobile and bi-plane pass. One band member was carrying his horn, but most instruments were lying on the bandstand. A couple of boys with bicycles were behind the bandstand and a dog was watching the activities.
Many of the signs in this scene are unreadable because of the quality of the photograph. However, the 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set is helpful in identifying some of the businesses. For example, there is no visible sign on the two-story wood frame building at the left edge of this view, but the map set shows a bowling alley in that building in 1910. That building (213 West Van Buren Street) was on the east side of the alley between Line and Chauncey Streets. On the west side of the alley (215 West Van Buren Street), the map set shows a harness and repository business. The advertising in one of the display windows appears to include the word BUGGIES. Next door, the dark sign with the white border included the word FURNITURE, but the remainder of the sign is unreadable. The map set shows a furniture business at that location (217 West Van Buren Street). The name EYANSON was carved in the stonework at the top of the façade on the next building to the west. Signs advertising a DENTIST had been mounted in the second-floor windows. The banner downstairs advertised EYANSON’S SALE. This was the C. J. Eyanson’s Sons Co. store. The 1910 map set shows a clothing, boots and shoes business at this location (219 West Van Buren Street).
Next door to the west, three men were watching the festivities from a balcony. Below them, the easternmost (left in this view) display window included the word MARKET while a SHOES sign was hanging in the westernmost window. The 1910 map set shows a meat market and a shoe store at these locations. The word GROCERIES was printed on the side of the awning at the corner business (225 West Van Buren Street). The visible portion of the name on the front of that awning was _OUNTZ & HALLAUER. Online references to this grocery typically use the Yontz & Halleur spelling of the business name. The 1910 map set shows a grocery at this location. One of the signs on the side of the building advertised HONEST SCRAP chewing tobacco.
Numerous flags were on display in this scene, and they included three different designs: pre-1908, 1908-1912 and post-1912 when Arizona and New Mexico were added to the Union.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
c1912 postcard view of a celebration in downtown Columbia City, Indiana. This was a scene on Van Buren Street at the intersection of Line Street. The photographer was on the second floor of the building at the northwest corner of that intersection and facing southeast when he took the photograph. The crowd and activities in this scene were on Van Buren Street and Line Street was in the lower right-hand corner. An automobile was towing a bi-plane, but had stopped in the street. A bandstand was set up in the intersection. It appears they were preparing to move the bandstand to let the automobile and bi-plane pass. One band member was carrying his horn, but most instruments were lying on the bandstand. A couple of boys with bicycles were behind the bandstand and a dog was watching the activities.
Many of the signs in this scene are unreadable because of the quality of the photograph. However, the 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set is helpful in identifying some of the businesses. For example, there is no visible sign on the two-story wood frame building at the left edge of this view, but the map set shows a bowling alley in that building in 1910. That building (213 West Van Buren Street) was on the east side of the alley between Line and Chauncey Streets. On the west side of the alley (215 West Van Buren Street), the map set shows a harness and repository business. The advertising in one of the display windows appears to include the word BUGGIES. Next door, the dark sign with the white border included the word FURNITURE, but the remainder of the sign is unreadable. The map set shows a furniture business at that location (217 West Van Buren Street). The name EYANSON was carved in the stonework at the top of the façade on the next building to the west. Signs advertising a DENTIST had been mounted in the second-floor windows. The banner downstairs advertised EYANSON’S SALE. This was the C. J. Eyanson’s Sons Co. store. The 1910 map set shows a clothing, boots and shoes business at this location (219 West Van Buren Street).
Next door to the west, three men were watching the festivities from a balcony. Below them, the easternmost (left in this view) display window included the word MARKET while a SHOES sign was hanging in the westernmost window. The 1910 map set shows a meat market and a shoe store at these locations. The word GROCERIES was printed on the side of the awning at the corner business (225 West Van Buren Street). The visible portion of the name on the front of that awning was _OUNTZ & HALLAUER. Online references to this grocery typically use the Yontz & Halleur spelling of the business name. The 1910 map set shows a grocery at this location. One of the signs on the side of the building advertised HONEST SCRAP chewing tobacco.
Numerous flags were on display in this scene, and they included three different designs: pre-1908, 1908-1912 and post-1912 when Arizona and New Mexico were added to the Union.
From a private collection.
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c1912 postcard view of a group of young men at Spartanburg, Indiana. Some of them have been identified. They were listed from right to left on the back of the postcard, but the following list is from left to right. It is based on the note on the back of the postcard and subsequent review by Jean (Chenoweth) Keesling Lindstaedt, daughter of Glen Chenoweth.
(Frank, Lee or Roy) Crist (graduation years 1906, 1907, 1911, respectively)
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(Frank, Lee or Roy) Crist (graduation years 1906, 1907, 1911, respectively)
Lester Clark (graduated 1906)
__??__
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__??__ Morgan (graduated ?)
Rob Morgan (graduated ?)
Glen Chenoweth (graduated 1912)
Russell Yeatts (graduated 1909)
The c1912 date is based on the fact that Glen Chenoweth graduated from Spartanburg High School in 1912. We’re guessing he was about 18 years old when the photograph was taken. He later taught at Spartanburg High School and then became the school’s principal. He and Russell Yeatts were lifelong friends. The VELOX stamp box on the back side of the postcard was used on that company's postcard paper from 1907 to 1917.
The structures in the background appear to be basketball backboards. The scene may have been at the school south of town.
From the collection of Thomas Keesling.
Selected close-up sections of this postcard can be seen here, from left to right in the image.
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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
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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
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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
In loving memory
Of our dear mother and father
GERTRUDE LOUISA COX
Who passed peacefully
February 12th 1940, Aged 58 years
Also
RICHARD CHRISTOPHER COX
(1st Essex Regiment)
Who gave his life at Arras in the
Great War April 13th1917
Aged 37 years
He giveth his beloved ????
COX, RICHARD CHRISTOPHER
Rank:………………………..Private
Service No:………………….29080
Date of Death:………………13/04/1917
Age:………………………….36
Regiment:……………………Essex Regiment, 1st Bn.
Panel Reference:……………Bay 7.
Memorial:…………………..ARRAS MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of Christopher and Martha Cox; husband of Gertrude Louisa Cox, of Dorothy House, Beeston Rd., Sheringham, Norfolk.
CWGC: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/745813/COX,%20RICHARD...
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Private 29080 Richard Christopher Cox was Killed in Action on the 13th April 1917 whilst serving with the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. He was born and resident Sheringham, enlisted Cromer.
The Medal Index Card for Private 29080 R C Cox, Essex Regiment, is held at the National Archive under reference WO 372/5/63037
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D1980493
The 1917 Probate Calendar records a Richard Christopher Cox of Dorothy House, “Sherringham”, Norfolk, a Private in the 1st Essex Regiment, who died in France on the 13th April 1917. Probate was granted at the London Court on the 18th December 1917 to Robert West, Fisherman, and Walter Charles Bill and Arthur Edward Wallis, Railway Clerks. His effects were valued at £1,972 18s 4d.
probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Cox&yea...
No match on Picture Norfolk.
Richard is remembered on the Sheringham War Memorial
www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Sheringham.html
and on the memorial in St Peter Church Sheringham.
1879 Birth of Richard
The birth of a Richard Christopher Cox was recorded in the Erpingham District of Norfolk in the October to December quarter, (Q4), of 1879.
1881 Census of England and Wales
The 1 year old Richard C Cox, born Sheringham, was recorded at a dwelling on Mill Road, Sheringham. This was the household of his parents, Christopher, (aged 41 and a Herring Curer from Beeston, Norfolk) and Martha, (aged 35 and from Aylmerton, Norfolk). As well as Richard their other children are:-
Dorothy S……aged 12……..born Runton, Norfolk
Mary L………aged 6……….born Sheringham
Catharine J…..aged 4……….born Sheringham
1882 Birth and baptism of Gertrude
The birth of a Gertrude Louisa West was recorded in the Erpingham District of Norfolk in the January to March quarter, (Q1), of 1882.
The baptism of a Gertrude Louisa West, no date of birth recorded, took place on the Aylsham Primitive Methodist Circuit on the 5th March 1882. Her parents were Robert, a Fisherman, and Louisa Sophia West. The family lived at Lower Sheringham.
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The baptism of her sister. “Mable Augusta G????” West, born 2nd October 1883, was also recorded on the Aylsham Primitive Methodist Circuit – this time on the 11th November 1883. Her parents were Robert, a Fisherman, and Louisa West. The family lived at “Sherringham”.
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1891 Census of England and Wales
The Cox family were now recorded living at Dorothy House, Hill, Lower Sheringham. Father Christopher, (50), now describes himself as a Fish Merchant. He lives at this address with wife Martha, (47), and children Louisa, (16 and a School Teacher), Kate, (14) and Richard (11).
There is no obvious match for the Sophy\Sophia Cox who is recorded on the later censuses.
The 9 year old Gertrude West, born Sheringham, was recorded at a dwelling on Station Road, Lower Sheringham. This was the household of her parents, Robert, (aged 32 and a Fisherman from Sheringham) and Louisa, (aged 28 and from Sheringham). The couple have another daughter, Mabel A, (aged 7 and born Sheringham).
1901 Census of England and Wales
The Cox family are now recorded at “Dorothy House”, Mill Lane, Sheringham, raising the prospect that they have been at the same address for the previous two censuses. Christopher (62) is a Fish Merchant working from home, living with Martha, (55), Louisa, (26 and an Assistant School Mistress), Richard, (21, Fish Merchant) and Sophy, (aged 16 and born Sheringham, shown as the daughter of Christopher and Martha).
The West family were recorded living at “Edinburgh House”, Mill Lane, Sheringham. Father Robert, (42), was still a Fisherman. Mother Louisa, (38), is now recorded with a birthplace of Trimingham. Still living with them are daughters Gertrude L, (19) and Mabel A., (17, Dressmaker).
1905 – Marriage
The marriage of a Richard Christopher Cox to a Gertrude Louisa West was recorded in the October to December quarter, (Q4), of 1905 in the Erpingham District of Norfolk.
1905 – Norfolk Register of Electors
A Richard Christopher Cox was entitled to vote in County and Parish Elections as a result of having a Land and Shed at Beeston Road, Sheringham.
1905 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2CMW-9QK
1906 – Birth and Baptism of of Mabel Ena Cox
The baptism of a Mabel Ena Cox, born 4th June 1906, took place at the United Methodists Chapel, Sheringham, on the 1st July 1906. Parents were Richard and Gertrude Cox. The family lived then at Edinburgh House, Sheringham.
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1906, 1907, 1908 and 1909 – Norfolk Register of Electors
A Richard Christopher Cox of Dorothy House, Sheringham was entitled to vote in Parliamentary and Parish Elections as a result of having Freehold of a house at New Street, Sheringham. He was also entitled to vote in County and Parish Electors as a result of having a Land and Shed at Beeston Road, Sheringham.
1906 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H1Q-LCK
1906 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H1Q-LY6
1907 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HYL-PM2
1907 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HYL-PGH
1908 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2CM4-RPF
1908 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2CM4-T6M
1909 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H1P-HNL
1909 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H1P-CH1
1909 – Birth of Ida Louisa Cox
The birth of an Ida Louisa Cox was recorded in the July to September quarter, (Q3), of 1909 in the Erpingham District of Norfolk.
The East Anglian Ancestors site advises that Ida married a Cecil Lincoln and died in 1999.
eastanglianancestors.co.uk/fam8398.html
By that time the published General Registrars Office Index of Deaths for England and Wales also include the date of birth. The Ida Louisa Lincoln whose death was recorded in the Norwich District in Q1, 1999 was born the 6th June 1909.
1910 and 1911 – Norfolk Register of Electors
A Richard Christopher Cox of Dorothy House, Sheringham was entitled to vote in Parliamentary and Parish Elections as a result of having Freehold of a house at New Street, Sheringham. He was also entitled to vote in County and Parish Electors as a result of having a Land and Shed at Beeston Road, Sheringham.
1910 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2CMH-N2S
1910 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2CMH-JZQ
1911 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2CM2-58C
1911 Census of England and Wales
The 30 year old Richard Cox, a Fish Hawker from Sheringham, was recorded as the married head of the household at Criss Cottage, Beeston Road, Sheringham. He lives there with his wife of 5 years, Gertrude, (aged 29 and from Sheringham) and their two children Ena, (aged 4) and Ida, (aged 1) – both born Sheringham.
His widowed mother Martha, (66 and now shown as born West Runton) and sister Sophia, (27), were still living at Dorothy House.
Post August 1911 it became compulsory when registering the birth of a child in England and Wales to also record the mothers maiden name. A search of the General Registrars Office Index of Births for England and Wales 1911 – 2006 produces many matches for the combination of births registered with the surname Cox, mothers maiden name West throughout this period, but one from early on stands out – the birth of a Gertrude M Cox whose birth was registered in the Erpingham District in the April to June quarter of 1912.
This is confirmed by this family history site, which shows Gertrude May, born c1912 as the third child of Richard and Gertrude. It also shows she married a Bernard J Gilbert and died in 1999.
eastanglianancestors.co.uk/fam8398.html
By that time the published General Registrars Office Index of Deaths for England and Wales also include the date of birth. The Gertrude May Gilbert whose death was recorded in the North Walsham District in Q4, 1999 was born the 2nd May 1912.
1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915 – Norfolk Register of Electors
A Richard Christopher Cox of Criss Cross Cottage, Sheringham was entitled to vote in Parliamentary and Parish Elections as a result of having Freehold of a house at New Street, Sheringham. He was also entitled to vote in County and Parish Electors as a result of being the householder of a Dwelling House at Criss Cross Cottage, Beeston Road, Sheringham.
1912 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HBW-YY3
1912 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HBW-BX1
1913 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2CMX-WT6
1913 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2CMX-4J2
1914 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2CMF-NJ2
1914 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2CMF-JD8
1915 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H17-XZ8
1915 Source: familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H17-X14
1917 – Death of Richard
I suspect the 13th was the last day he was seen alive.
Thu., Apr 12, 1917
The Bn. marched from billets at FOSSEUX to ARRAS (abt 10 miles) and on arrival was at once ordered to proceed with the remainder of the 88th Bde to relieve the 37th Bde near MONCHY-LE-PREUX. The Bn arrived at ARRAS at 3pm and left to carry out the relief 4 miles off at 6.30pm. Owing to intense congestion on the road and other delays the relief was not completed until 3am on 13th.
Prior to leaving ARRAS orders had been issued for an attack on the German line in company with the 1st NFLD to be made on the 13th at an hour to be notified later.
The attack was to be made from an Assembly trench which was to be dug on the night of the 12/13 by 2nd Hants, 4th Worcs were in support to the attack.
Owing to the late hour at which the Brigade relief was completed & consequent impossibility of making adequate preparation for the attack the operation was postponed.
At daylight therefore on the 13th the Brigade was situated as shown in the attached map.
At 11am orders were received to make the attack at 2pm. These orders also were cancelled a few minutes before Zero.
During the night 13/14 the 2nd Hants dug the required assembly trench and operation orders were issued to the Bn. by Lt. Col. Halaham. App. B.
At 5.30am on 14th the barrage fell and the battalion left the trench & carried out the assault.
In spite of a certain weakness of the barrage the objective was gained and by 6.30am all companies had reported that they were busy digging in.
In the mean time "X" Coy detailed to form a flank guard to the thence attacking Coys had at once come in contact with the enemy.
Therefore acting under Capt. Foster's orders No. 5 Platoon got into shell holes at about 0 1b 8.1 and opened fire. No. 8 Platoon being checked by machine gun fire from ARROW COPSE No 7 was directed to outflank this copse with the result that No 8 could again get forward , capturing the 2 machine guns & driving the enemy out of the copse. The small wood at O 2a 7.5 was also in hostile occupation but was cleared by Lewis Guns & Rifle Grenades. The Company then moved forward to the N. end of the copses where all platoons came under fire from a line of hidden machine guns. The company now began to form the chain of strong points as detailed in operation orders.
From this point no further definitive news could be gathered as to the fate of this company. A few men eventually rejoined the battalion & from their statements it is certain that all Platoons their proper positions where they were at once attacked by very superior German forces & were finally overwhelmed in these positions at a time between 6.30 and 7.30 am.
The main attack by the remaining 3 Coys having reached their objective by 6.30 am started to dig in and reports were sent back to Bn. Hqrs that large forces of the enemy could be seen in the BOIS du SART & the BOIS des AUBE PINES and that all covering parties were sent forward were at once coming under heavy machine gun & rifle fire.
It became apparent rapidly to the Coy commanders that an immediate counter attack was being prepared and this also was reported to Bn. Hqrs. These reports were confirmed by two Coy commanders in person returning wounded from the main attack. [Capt Tomlinson Capt Caroline]
Steps had already been taken to get the Artillery on to the points where the enemy was reported to be massing but owing to the destruction of the wires by shell fire it was an hour before the guns opened fire.
By 7.30am the counter attack had fully developed in all its strength of at least 9 battalions. The weight of the attack seems to have come from the N. East & thus fell on "X" Coy. This Coy in spite of a stout resistance was gradually overwhelmed. Vide app. C.
From 7.30 onwards no reports, messages or wounded men arrived at Bn Hqrs or the Aid Post it is therefore apparent that "X" Coy having been overrun the hostile forces got between MONCHY & the attacking Companies of the Essex & NLFD. No men have returned from these Companies.
As soon as it became clear that MONCHY itself was being attacked patrols were put out from Hqr party to hold street barricades in MONCHY. No German succeeded in entering MONCHY. It must be remembered that during all this time the town was under an intense enemy barrage thus rendering it almost impossible to reinforce or support the two Battalions & making the work of the respective Hqrs parties extremely arduous.
Except for a certain amount of support from the 4th Worcester & 2dn Hants they fought on alone & these two battalions broke up a German attack designed not to drive them back but to retake MONCHY itself.
Appendix C. contains a copy of the Special Order issued by the G.O.C. 88th Bde.
Of the Officers who went into action the following is killed : 2/Lt. L. Cousins.
The following are wounded :- Capts R.E.G. Caroline, J. Tomlinson, Lieuts ?.W.J. Taylor
R. Eastwood. 2/Lt's H. Ockendon, S. ?. Andrew, F.W. Barker.
The following are missing :- Capt H.J.B. Foster, Lt C.R. Brown, 2/Lts A.L. Piper, S.N.R. Eyre, C.H. Feline H.R. Newth, P.W. Coombs, L.F. Portway; G.W. Turk.
Total casualties 17 officers & 644 OR. out of a strength of 31 officers & 892 O.R.
Sun., Apr 15, 1917
The remnants of the Battalion were now withdrawn & went to billets in ARRAS.
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1940 – Death of Gertrude
The death of a Gertrude L Cox, aged 58, was recorded in the Bury St Edmunds District of Suffolk in the January to March quarter, (Q1), of 1940.
The 1940 Probate Calendar records that a Gertrude Louisa Cox of Trelyon, Barford Road, Sheringham, widow, died at 75 Horringer Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk on the 12th February 1940. Probate was granted at the Norwich Court on the 11th July 1940 to Mabel Ena Grice, single woman, (had she divorced her husband?), Ida Louisa Lincoln, (wife of Cecil Lincoln), and Gertrude May Gilbert, (wife of Bernard James Gilbert). Effects were originally valued at £7,713 14s 2d, but this was subsequently re-sworn as £8,188 14s 2d.
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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
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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.
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.
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Bark beetle infested tree felled with blasting powder. Craggy Mountain Bark Beetle Control Project. California.
Most of the men hired on this project were local ranchers and miners. These men knew how to use blasting powder and figured that it was easier to shoot down infested trees than to saw them down.
Tom Lane, a member of the crew, had a box camera and wanted a picture just as the blast exploded. He lashed his camera to a stake, 15 feet fom the tree, tied a string around the tree at the height where the blast would occur and attached one end of the string to the camera shutter. The picture was a success, but the front part of Lane's camera was wrecked.
Photo by: Tom Lane
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 caption 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...
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
The aerial pic is from 1960. Modern houses in Fowlers Lane (seen on right of middle pic) are at an angle to the main road, as the old ones were in 1914.
All the buildings in the 1912 photo had been demolished by 1972. Nearby cottages in Binfield Road somehow escaped the wrecking ball, and must be Bracknell's only surviving row of dwellings from the late Victorian/Edwardian era. At any rate, I can't think of any others.
Brading, Isle of Wight
Cottage. Late C17 or early C18. 2 bay end chimneystack cottage altered and extended in C20. Marked AD 1547. Built of random rubble with red brick quoins and dressings and half-hipped thatched roof. 1 storey and attics. 2 windows 2 triple C19 casements with leaded lights but in original wooden mullioned surrounds. Wooden door surround and top opening plank door.
Hipped thatched porch of c1920 on rustic supports. Right-hand side has C20 painted brick extension with thatched roof. Left-hand side has c1912 painted brick lean-to with tiled roof.
Interior has inglenook fireplace with chamfered wooden bressumer with stops and chamfered joists with run out stops. Iron hooks for climbing up the chimney. The spine beam, which is stopped in 2 places shows the ground floor originally consisted of 2 rooms. C18 winder staircase and roof with staggererd purlins, chamfered with run out stops at the ends.
The story of Little Jane was preserved by Legh Richmond, curate of Brading, in a religious tract called Annals of the Poor.
Jane Squibb died of tuberculosis on 30th Janiuary 1799 in her fifteenth year.
She impressed Legh Richmond initially by learning by heart the texts of two headstones in the churchyard at Brading.
Her own headstone bears the following, now worn, inscription:
Tread gently o'er this grave as ye explore
The short and simple annals of the poor.
A child reposes underneath this sod;
A child to memory dear, and dear to God.
Rejoice! Yet shed the sympathetic tear.
Jane 'The Young Cottager,' lies buried here.
c1912 postcard view of a celebration in downtown Columbia City, Indiana. This was a scene on Van Buren Street at the intersection of Line Street. The photographer was on the second floor of the building at the northwest corner of that intersection and facing southeast when he took the photograph. The crowd and activities in this scene were on Van Buren Street and Line Street was in the lower right-hand corner. An automobile was towing a bi-plane, but had stopped in the street. A bandstand was set up in the intersection. It appears they were preparing to move the bandstand to let the automobile and bi-plane pass. One band member was carrying his horn, but most instruments were lying on the bandstand. A couple of boys with bicycles were behind the bandstand and a dog was watching the activities.
Many of the signs in this scene are unreadable because of the quality of the photograph. However, the 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set is helpful in identifying some of the businesses. For example, there is no visible sign on the two-story wood frame building at the left edge of this view, but the map set shows a bowling alley in that building in 1910. That building (213 West Van Buren Street) was on the east side of the alley between Line and Chauncey Streets. On the west side of the alley (215 West Van Buren Street), the map set shows a harness and repository business. The advertising in one of the display windows appears to include the word BUGGIES. Next door, the dark sign with the white border included the word FURNITURE, but the remainder of the sign is unreadable. The map set shows a furniture business at that location (217 West Van Buren Street). The name EYANSON was carved in the stonework at the top of the façade on the next building to the west. Signs advertising a DENTIST had been mounted in the second-floor windows. The banner downstairs advertised EYANSON’S SALE. This was the C. J. Eyanson’s Sons Co. store. The 1910 map set shows a clothing, boots and shoes business at this location (219 West Van Buren Street).
Next door to the west, three men were watching the festivities from a balcony. Below them, the easternmost (left in this view) display window included the word MARKET while a SHOES sign was hanging in the westernmost window. The 1910 map set shows a meat market and a shoe store at these locations. The word GROCERIES was printed on the side of the awning at the corner business (225 West Van Buren Street). The visible portion of the name on the front of that awning was _OUNTZ & HALLAUER. Online references to this grocery typically use the Yontz & Halleur spelling of the business name. The 1910 map set shows a grocery at this location. One of the signs on the side of the building advertised HONEST SCRAP chewing tobacco.
Numerous flags were on display in this scene, and they included three different designs: pre-1908, 1908-1912 and post-1912 when Arizona and New Mexico were added to the Union.
From a private collection.
The full postcard image can be seen here.
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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.
As the name suggests, this house is situated at the end of the path up to the castle, but its original location was on Dogpole. It was built in the late C16th, moved here in 1702 and was restored in c1912.
The Reverend Edmund Dana and his wife lived here. She was related to William Pulteney who owned the castle, which is presumably why they lived here.
c1912 postcard view of the Main Street Bridge in Lafayette, Indiana. This view was from the West Lafayette side of the Wabash River looking east-southeast toward downtown Lafayette. The bridge provided a vehicular connection between the two cities as well as an interurban and streetcar link. The area was served by the T.H.I. & E. (Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern) and the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley (later the Fort Wayne and Northern Indiana) traction companies.
The predominant landmark in this scene beyond the bridge was the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, located on the south side of Main Street between Third and Fourth Streets. Among the visible business signs was the WM. FOLCKEMER & SON sign at the left edge of the postcard. This sign was on a four-story building (202 Main Street) that stood along Second Street. The 1907 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set shows a furniture, undertaking and casket business in this building. The Folckemer furniture factory was located a short distance away at Brown and Fourth Streets. Another barely readable sign advertised ___ISON BROS. The Jamison Bros. Department Store stood across the street from Folckemer’s on the northwest corner at Main and Second Streets. Below those two signs was another that advertised the LAFAYETTE LUMBER & MFG CO. The sign also advertised INTERIOR FINISH — STORE FIXTURES — LUMBER, LATH & SHINGLES. The office (208 North Second Street) was located midway between Main and Ferry Streets. Their planing mill was at the southwest corner at Second and Ferry Streets. Lumber was stored along the river.
Another sign was visible through the bridge structure to the right of the Jamison sign. It advertised ____ HOTEL. The 1907 Sanborn™ map set shows the Hines Hotel southeast of the intersection at Main and Second Streets. The 1915 map set shows the St. Nicholas Hotel at that location. The 1909-1910 Polk city directory listed the St. Nicholas Hotel at 205-211 Main Street.
The signs that could be seen through the bridge structure on the right advertised the FRED REULE business. The 1909-1910 Polk directory listed products including hardware, agricultural implements, seeds and carriages. The business occupied much of the block south of Columbia Street between First and Second Streets. The 1907 map set didn’t identify the business owner’s name, but the 1915 map set identified this as The Johnson Hardware Co. Below that business in this scene, a sign advertised the H. B. LYMAN business. This was Harry B. Lyman and the advertisements in the Polk directory listed products such as lime, cement, plaster, sewer pipe and fire brick. The business address was listed as 110-112 North Second Street, but the business occupied the south half of that block between Main and Columbia Streets.
At the right edge of this scene, the sign advertised a FIREPROOF GARAGE. The 1915 Sanborn™ map set shows this garage on the south side of Columbia Street between First and Canal Streets. Notes on the map sheet say the structure was built with a capacity of 25 cars in 1911 using fireproof construction techniques. That means this postcard photo was taken between the time the garage was built in 1911 and the occurrence of the Great Flood in March of 1913 that damaged this bridge. Shortly after the flood, the Tippecanoe County Commissioners decided to spend $250,000 for a new 740-foot-long concrete replacement bridge.
Signs on both sides of the entrance to the streetcar/interurban section of the bridge warned DANGER STOP KEEP OUT. Below the sign on the right, the posters advertised “THE PINK LADY.” It was a 1911 Broadway musical comedy. A poster on the other side of the bridge announced COMING: ABORN _______ GRAND OPERA COMPANY MADAM BUTTERFLY. Online newspaper archives include reports of the Aborn English Grand Opera Company performing “Madam Butterfly” in Nebraska in late 1911 and in Pittsburgh and Providence in early 1912.
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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.
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.
Source: Scan of original photograph from our image collection.
Image: P30844.
Date: c1912.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
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A very early photograph of Manchester Road, Swindon.
The crowd are watching a procession led by a marching band.
Digital image made from postcard in Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society Archives. Copyright Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, Inc. Learn more about the B&MRRHS at www.bmrrhs.org. Photo 1610A
c1912 postcard view of a celebration in downtown Columbia City, Indiana. This was a scene on Van Buren Street at the intersection of Line Street. The photographer was on the second floor of the building at the northwest corner of that intersection and facing southeast when he took the photograph. The crowd and activities in this scene were on Van Buren Street and Line Street was in the lower right-hand corner. An automobile was towing a bi-plane, but had stopped in the street. A bandstand was set up in the intersection. It appears they were preparing to move the bandstand to let the automobile and bi-plane pass. One band member was carrying his horn, but most instruments were lying on the bandstand. A couple of boys with bicycles were behind the bandstand and a dog was watching the activities.
Many of the signs in this scene are unreadable because of the quality of the photograph. However, the 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set is helpful in identifying some of the businesses. For example, there is no visible sign on the two-story wood frame building at the left edge of this view, but the map set shows a bowling alley in that building in 1910. That building (213 West Van Buren Street) was on the east side of the alley between Line and Chauncey Streets. On the west side of the alley (215 West Van Buren Street), the map set shows a harness and repository business. The advertising in one of the display windows appears to include the word BUGGIES. Next door, the dark sign with the white border included the word FURNITURE, but the remainder of the sign is unreadable. The map set shows a furniture business at that location (217 West Van Buren Street). The name EYANSON was carved in the stonework at the top of the façade on the next building to the west. Signs advertising a DENTIST had been mounted in the second-floor windows. The banner downstairs advertised EYANSON’S SALE. This was the C. J. Eyanson’s Sons Co. store. The 1910 map set shows a clothing, boots and shoes business at this location (219 West Van Buren Street).
Next door to the west, three men were watching the festivities from a balcony. Below them, the easternmost (left in this view) display window included the word MARKET while a SHOES sign was hanging in the westernmost window. The 1910 map set shows a meat market and a shoe store at these locations. The word GROCERIES was printed on the side of the awning at the corner business (225 West Van Buren Street). The visible portion of the name on the front of that awning was _OUNTZ & HALLAUER. Online references to this grocery typically use the Yontz & Halleur spelling of the business name. The 1910 map set shows a grocery at this location. One of the signs on the side of the building advertised HONEST SCRAP chewing tobacco.
Numerous flags were on display in this scene, and they included three different designs: pre-1908, 1908-1912 and post-1912 when Arizona and New Mexico were added to the Union.
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White Bay Power Station was initially built by NSW Rail Commissioners to provide power for Sydney's growing rail network.
The power station was constructed in two stages. The first stage, built between 1912 and 1917, consisted of a boiler house, standing roughly where the present boiler house stands, and part of the turbine hall and switch house. The second stage, which commenced in 1925, saw the completion of the turbine hall and switch house.
After the Second World War, the first boiler house was demolished and, between 1950 and 1958, replaced in two stages with the present boiler house.
By the 1970s, demand for power from White Bay had diminished to such an extent that the second boiler house was pulled down and the turbines sold. The power station was decommissioned on 25 December 1983.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the power station was gradually stripped, except for items identified for heritage conservation
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office: NS392/1/201
A selection of glass plate negatives taken by C.P. Ray. View the entire NS392 series
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c1912 postcard view of the Main Street Bridge in Lafayette, Indiana. This view was from the West Lafayette side of the Wabash River looking east-southeast toward downtown Lafayette. The bridge provided a vehicular connection between the two cities as well as an interurban and streetcar link. The area was served by the T.H.I. & E. (Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern) and the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley (later the Fort Wayne and Northern Indiana) traction companies.
The predominant landmark in this scene beyond the bridge was the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, located on the south side of Main Street between Third and Fourth Streets. Among the visible business signs was the WM. FOLCKEMER & SON sign at the left edge of the postcard. This sign was on a four-story building (202 Main Street) that stood along Second Street. The 1907 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set shows a furniture, undertaking and casket business in this building. The Folckemer furniture factory was located a short distance away at Brown and Fourth Streets. Another barely readable sign advertised ___ISON BROS. The Jamison Bros. Department Store stood across the street from Folckemer’s on the northwest corner at Main and Second Streets. Below those two signs was another that advertised the LAFAYETTE LUMBER & MFG CO. The sign also advertised INTERIOR FINISH — STORE FIXTURES — LUMBER, LATH & SHINGLES. The office (208 North Second Street) was located midway between Main and Ferry Streets. Their planing mill was at the southwest corner at Second and Ferry Streets. Lumber was stored along the river.
Another sign was visible through the bridge structure to the right of the Jamison sign. It advertised ____ HOTEL. The 1907 Sanborn™ map set shows the Hines Hotel southeast of the intersection at Main and Second Streets. The 1915 map set shows the St. Nicholas Hotel at that location. The 1909-1910 Polk city directory listed the St. Nicholas Hotel at 205-211 Main Street.
The signs that could be seen through the bridge structure on the right advertised the FRED REULE business. The 1909-1910 Polk directory listed products including hardware, agricultural implements, seeds and carriages. The business occupied much of the block south of Columbia Street between First and Second Streets. The 1907 map set didn’t identify the business owner’s name, but the 1915 map set identified this as The Johnson Hardware Co. Below that business in this scene, a sign advertised the H. B. LYMAN business. This was Harry B. Lyman and the advertisements in the Polk directory listed products such as lime, cement, plaster, sewer pipe and fire brick. The business address was listed as 110-112 North Second Street, but the business occupied the south half of that block between Main and Columbia Streets.
At the right edge of this scene, the sign advertised a FIREPROOF GARAGE. The 1915 Sanborn™ map set shows this garage on the south side of Columbia Street between First and Canal Streets. Notes on the map sheet say the structure was built with a capacity of 25 cars in 1911 using fireproof construction techniques. That means this postcard photo was taken between the time the garage was built in 1911 and the occurrence of the Great Flood in March of 1913 that damaged this bridge. Shortly after the flood, the Tippecanoe County Commissioners decided to spend $250,000 for a new 740-foot-long concrete replacement bridge.
Signs on both sides of the entrance to the streetcar/interurban section of the bridge warned DANGER STOP KEEP OUT. Below the sign on the right, the posters advertised “THE PINK LADY.” It was a 1911 Broadway musical comedy. A poster on the other side of the bridge announced COMING: ABORN _______ GRAND OPERA COMPANY MADAM BUTTERFLY. Online newspaper archives include reports of the Aborn English Grand Opera Company performing “Madam Butterfly” in Nebraska in late 1911 and in Pittsburgh and Providence in early 1912.
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