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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.
From a private collection.
The full postcard image can be seen here.
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In loving memory of
John Eugene CULLEN
4/1565 N.Z Tunnelling Company 1914-18
Died 16th February 1953
Aged 84
“He devoted his life to his fellow men”
Wesley Division F Row 4, Plot 31
Portrait photo in comments section: Sourced from Selena of Palmerston North with permission 16/11/2013.
Born: 26 April 1876 according to military enlistment form, however further in on medical board document dated 21 Feb 1918, states he was aged 49 at the last birthday, making him born c1869.
Military records state born in “Arowat, Victoria” – probably likely to be Ararat.
Note that his headstone states 84 years and family information from Ancestry.com states he was born 1868 Ararat, Australia.
Enlisted 16 Oct 1915
Employer at time of enlisting: Public Works Dept, Poverty Bay, Surfaceman. Noted elsewhere states he was also a Printer.
His next of kin is given as “son J W [John White] CULLEN of 7 Miro Street, Auckland.
John appears to have married Lydia Elizabeth WILLIAMS C1896[4]. The following children were born to a Leah Lillian and John Eugene CULLEN according to the NZ Dept of Internal Affairs historic BDM indexes . This appears to be John CULLEN in this grave, as the Franklin mentioned, enlisted in WW1 with service number 12/2260 of the Auckland Infantry Brigade with his father noted as John Eugene CULLEN living at 7 Miro Street. Franklin’s military records are also available online at archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=21005365&am...
Often the informants for births deaths and marriages could misspell or omit names at time of registration.
1 - Clara Bethel Pearl CULLEN born c1895 [5] Died aged 7 weeks c1896 [8]
2 - Franklin Gladstone Eugene born c1896 [7]
8 August 1915 Gallipoli, wounded in left shoulder
12 August 1915 embarked on the Aquitania for London
17 Sept 1915 was in King Georges hospital, London
25 April 1916 [ANZAC day] embarked SS Athenic for NZ from London
He received the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Star medal
He is noted as being born 26 April 1892 at Pukahu and dying on 6 Jan 1972 on death documentation in his military records with next of kin noted as Mrs A.R.M.E. CULLEN, 144 Te Mata Road, Havelock North.
Discharged from active service 14 Nov 1916 due to war wounds.
Noted as 2nd son of John Eugene CULLEN paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=AS... newspaper portrait. So who was the firstborn son? Not John White CULLEN [SEE FURTHER DOWN] as he was supposedly born 1912, not before 1896.
3 - Rosalind Iris Elizabeth CULLEN born c1903 [6] mothers name given as Leah Elizabeth
I can find no death in indexes for Leah, Lillian or Lydia CULLEN – John Eugene’s first wife.
John later married Emily Mary COX. NZ Dept of Internal Affairs historic BDM indexes has 1928 [1] as the registration but it may be that a new marriage certificate was applied for that year.
The child with Emily:
John White CULLEN is noted on NZ dept of Internal Affairs as born c1929 [3] or it is probable that a new birth certificate was acquired as it appears John White CULLEN was born c1912 according to other sources.
Further to John Eugene CULLEN’s war service:
Theatres of operation: Western European: 1916.17.18
Admitted to hospital in France 31 March 1917 with slight hernia
Discharged from military at Etaples due to no longer physically fit for war service on account of illness contracted on active service. Address to be discharged to: 29 Charlotte Street, Mt Eden, Auckland
Disability: [a] overage and [b] inguinal hernia
Essential facts in the history of the disability:
In October 1916 felt pains in left inguinal region. Paraded sick – did not leave the line. Left line March 22nd 1917 with the rupture - sent to 6 stationary Hospital for 11 days, - then to 18 General for operation – there contracted Trench Fever (no operation performed). Then to 5 Con. Con [illegible]. Arrived in Etaples May 1817, cooking whilst in depot. Had to give [illegible] of pain Jan 15th 1918.
Causation of the disability:-
(a) Natural (b) Active service (tunnelling)
Present condition of the patient:
There is a well marked inguinal hernia on left side. Easily reducible.
Looks his age but appears to be fine, is very [illegible].
Recommendation:
That he be sent to New Zealand.
Allowance was being paid for 1 child during war service.
Awarded: British War medal; Victory medal
Occupation noted at John Eugene’s death: Journalist
Emily, John Eugene’s 2nd wife died 10 September 1949 aged 69. The cemetery database states same division [Wesley F] and row [4]as John but plot 3 not 31. Am wondering if this is an error and she is in fact buried with John.
John Eugene’s military records are available to read online:
archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=21005375&am...
SOURCES:
[1]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1928/3934
[2]
Military records
[3]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1929/20564
[4]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1896/369
[5]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1895/8926
[6]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1903/6773
[7]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1896/14140
[8]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Death registration 1896/14140
Source: Digital image.
Set: WIL04.
Date: c.1912.
Repository: From the collection of Paul Williams.
Used here by very kind permission.
HOOPER COLLECTION COPYRIGHT P. WILLIAMS.
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1.
Studland Beach. Verso: Group of Male Nudes by Duncan Grant.
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961).
Oil on canvas, c1912.
Studland Beach is in a quiet bay in Dorset. The idea of the beach as a place for leisure activities was relatively new in 1912. It is a sign of their modernity that Vanessa Bell and her Bloomsbury Group friends holidayed there. This is one of several works by Bell from 1911-12 which show a debt to Matisse in their simplified design and bold colouring. Though an exercise in what her friends, the critics Clive Bell and Roger Fry, called ‘significant form’ (emphasising colour, shape and line rather than subject matter), the picture retains some of the feel of a sunny day by the sea.
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.
From a private collection.
The full postcard image can be seen here.
www.flickr.com/photos/hoosier_recollections/13986806878/
Copyright 2012-2014 by Hoosier Recollections. All rights reserved. This image is part of a creative package that includes the associated text, geodata and/or other information. Neither this package in its entirety nor any of the individual components may be downloaded, transmitted or reproduced without the prior written permission of Hoosier Recollections.
Source: Scan of a colour postcard from our image collection.
Image: P16509.
Date: c. 1912?
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
The 16 Westover Villas were constructed in the late 1830s as part of the Sir George Gervis 'Marine Village of Bourne', along with the Bath Hotel, Belle Vue Boarding House, and the original, single storey town baths.
The Westover Villas lined Westover Rd, which today is home to shops, hotels, cinemas and a vacant ice rink. They were built as high end apartment and boarding houses to be let on short and long term leases, in order to attract early visitors to the fledgling resort.
In 1910, some of the villas were replaced by the Westover Palace Skating Rink and Tea Gardens, one of the town's first major entertainment venues. It later became the Westover Cinema, Dance Palace and Tea Gardens before closing in the 1930s.
In this view we are looking across the front of the building at the drive and tea gardens that fronted Westover Rd, not the busy road it is today of course. In the background are the remaining Westover Villas seen from the side, as they work their way up towards the Bath Rd end.
Part of a large terrace, with shops at street level, was built on the garden and drive in the early 1930s, with the skating rink building itself being retained behind.
Today, it is part of the Brasshouse pub premises and is linked to the pub's entrance building on Westover Rd.
Note. The Westover Rd ICE skating rink opened a little further along Westover Rd. It closed in 1991 and the building has remained empty ever since, well, up to the time of writing in 2011.
Photo taken by Property Appraiser's office c1965; 1229 Whitehead St.; built c1912; Tract 11, Sqr 9, Pt Lot 4, Sub 15
Boys' Brigade, Worthing. Twelve boys perform a gymnastic pyramid while their leader and another boy in full uniform pose beside them. Each of the pyramid boys wears a white top, dark trousers and white lace up plimsoles. Terry Child Postcard Collection. Young Ones Project. TC000823
Source: Digital image.
Set: WIL04.
Date: c1912.
Repository: From the collection of Paul Williams.
Used here by very kind permission.
HOOPER COLLECTION COPYRIGHT P. WILLIAMS.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Photo taken by Property Appraiser's office c1965; 419 United St.; built c1912; Tract 11, Sqr 9, Pt Lot 1, Sub 5
Detail of a neo-medieval window in the north transept at Salle, celebrating historical personages associated with the church, and executed in a very conscious attempt to mimic the 15th century style of original glass here by Herbert Bryans c1912.
SS Peter & Paul at Salle is church I've known about for years, having read the words of many who have waxed lyrical about this grand medieval edifice standing proud in near splendid isolation. The testimonies invariably praise this church as one of the highlights of Norfolk, if not one of the finest parish churches in the entire country; in my mind it thus had much to live up to now that I was finally to see it for myself.
Salle church lives up to all these superlatives and more, it is a magnificent building, first sight of it being something like finding a cathedral in the middle of a rural field! It is late medieval at its best, all of a piece 15th century architecture with many original furnishings to match. My initial impression of the interior was of a large, almost barn-like space filled with antique furniture, a place where the more one looks the more interest one finds in every corner, this being a church that requires very thorough exploration to see all it has to offer.
I fell in love with this church and could easily have spent much longer here (though thankfully didn't as this would have compromised seeing the other gems our generous hosts also had planned for us for the rest of the day!). Salle is a churchcrawler's dream and shouldn't be missed, it is happily normally open and welcoming to visitors.
Photo taken by Property Appraiser's office c1965; 410 Catherine St.; built c1912; Tract 11, Sqr 9, Pt Lot 3, Suba 21 & 23
The Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée - simply known as the PLM - issued some wonderful publicity. This cover, so simply described in striking colours, is a wonderful example of the printer's art as well as that of the designer/artist.
c1912 postcard view of the I. C. Railroad viaduct near bloomfield, Indiana. Also known as the "Tulip Trestle," the structure was built in 1906 to haul coal from the local mines.
From a private collection.
According to the standard catalog of Farm Tractors, the Ajax Auto Traction Company was in business around 1912 and closing shortly after that. Some google searching came up with dates of 1909-1912, and also a picture of a No 2 tractor. No information on how many were made or if any still exist.
Look close at the buildings in downtown Wheeling.
I see things in this postcard photo that I have not seen in other old postcards.
Also take note of the tall building in front of the Schmulbach Building.
I've seen a lot of old Wheeling postcards but very few show a sign on top of that building.
It spells out "The H-O-M-E". (small THE on top of a large HOME) for the "Home Outfitting Co.".
Photo taken by Property Appraiser's office c1965; 415 United St.; built c1912; Tract 11, Sqr 9, Pt Lot 4, Sub 9
Back in the spring of 1909, this major Norwich engineering firm, whose "Rose Lane Works" were just up the road from the new Mountergate carpark's site, were involved in a desperate race - to build and equip a new skating rink for their clients (Messrs Bostock and Fitt, also proprietors of the Hippodrome, on St Giles Street) before their dastardly rivals at the Agricultural Hall could get their much larger version open!
They succeeded, and the "Rinkeries" opened on Easter Monday, 1909, as had been lavishly advertised.
Both establishments prospered for a while, although competition saw prices being cut quite quickly after the novelty had worn off (Norwich's other rink, later St Giles Hall, had been closed for some 20 years by this time).
In their last issue of 1910, one paper recorded... "Since the prices of admission etc have been lowered at the Rinkeries, Rose Lane, Norwich, patrons have not been slow to take advantage. Mr F W Fitt, the manager, has provided cosy tea-rooms which are much appreciated. There are three sessions daily at hours to suit all classes fond of the exercise."
The Rinkeries may well have closed "for the duration" of the Great War but - after one of Boulton and Paul's munition works had suffered a fire that stopped production of fuses for artillery shells - they quickly came a-knocking... the skating rink was acquired, and within three months they were back at work.
(The pair of photos above come from one of B&P's export catalogues, c1912.)
Photo taken by Property Appraiser's office c1965; 417 United St.; built c1912; Tract 11, Sqr 9, Pt Lot 4, Sub 9
See where this picture was taken. [?]
Kingsclere was the first tall block of flats to be erected in Potts Point. It was designed for an exclusive tenant market and the individual apartments were quite generous: “… 6 rooms, kitchen,
pantry, two bathrooms, lavatories, linen, cooks’ and housemaids’ cupboards. There are two
balconies and an escape stair to each flat …” (Building, December 12 1912).
The building was fitted out with the latest technology such as automatic passenger lifts, intercoms to each flat, and complete installation of electrical light and power. It was designed by Halligan and
Wilton, who dressed it in the brick and sandstone beloved of Edwardian architects.
I first came across this story at the 2015 BCD House Party, in the form of an unfinished interesting vintage jigsaw, with a road signpost reading 'To Where' 'To Anywhere' 'To Downing St'. The jigsaw was completed later, at a meeting I didn't attend and its photo appeared in Issue 116. This turned out to be a political cartoon, featuring Winston Churchill and Stanley Baldwin among the riders dating to 1912-13. Intrigued to hear more I did some research, which was printed on pg 10 of Summer 2016's magazine Issue 120. I discovered the comic ballad poem of 1782/5 by William Cowper, 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin - showing how he went further than intended and came safely home again.' From Geert Bekkering's book I learnt how the poem had become a popular sensation, fuelling sales of cheapbooks, prints and broadsheets, with John Wallis producing a jigsaw which sold like hotcakes. William Cowper was an advocate in 1790 for the use of jigsaws for teaching Geography to his friend's six-year-old son.
I did find an image of a print from the 1780s which showed John Gilpin, minus wig, passing the Bell Inn at Edmonton, where he was to meet his wife with the drink - see the British Museum link:.
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1927-1126-1-26-122
This inspired a cartoon in 1846: "Political Cartoon of 'New version of John Gilpin, after Stothard', 1846. Sir Robert Peel, shedding a hat inscribed Toryism and a wig inscribed Conservative, and with a purse, Income Tax, riding furiously towards a door marked Protection. The Duke of Wellington reins in his mount and various other parliamentary figures gesticulate. One, on the left, holds a hoop marked Free Trade."
www.alamy.com/new-version-of-john-gilpin-after-stothard-1...
I also found illustrations to Cowper's poem by Randolph Caldecott, which were republished in 1878 by Edmund Evans and used to inspire both my jigsaw above and the one that appeared at the House Party.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diverting_History_of_John_Gilpin
The cartoonist of the early 20thC was tapping into a rich vein of popular culture to ridicule the governing classes. I looked closely at the Wikipedia page for Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill to try to identify the political incident c1912-13, but was unable to do so - the 1920s looked more credible to me, based on what I'd discovered. I remember having a phone conversation with a BCD member (owner of the cartoon jigsaw) who identified political figures in the horsemen, taking notes and becoming horribly confused because I didn't have the image to hand. I did find an illustration including a sign-post: 'To London', 'To Ware' and the third arm is unreadable, which sparked the imagination of the cartoonist.
Also, published on the same page of the BCD magazine, Stgenix wrote an update about what would one day become my jigsaw. He said that he had the 1878 'Caldecott's Picture Book', which included the poem. It was John Gilpin's wedding anniversary and he was on his way to the Bell Inn at Edmonton. He provided photos of the book's cover, the open spread at the start of the poem and this very jigsaw I've just completed for the BCD magazine.
Later, in June 2016 stgenix put this 600pc jigsaw on ebay - 23x12in, 600pc, 1 repl, several snapped reglued knobs, ,,, very challenging - but without attributing it to Tuck. I didn't win it then but was delighted to win it in July 2020 from a BCD seller in Germany.
c1912 postcard view of Michigan Avenue in Indiana Harbor, Indiana. This view is looking north northwest from the Fir Street intersection. Automobiles and a horse-drawn buggy were parked along the street. A trolley and a streetcar were stopped in the street. Most of the business signs along the west side of the street are unreadable, but the awning at the left advertised THE [HARBOR?] CONFECTIONERY. The next awning appears to include the words THE LION. A barber’s pole stood on the sidewalk near the Guthrie Street intersection. A BUFFET sign was hanging from the building on the northeast corner of Michigan Avenue and Fir Street.
From a private collection.
See where this picture was taken. [?]
Byron Hall was designed by architect C Hamilton and completed in 1929. Its mass of dark bricks,
known colloquially as “liver brick”, is relieved by generous projecting balconies and facetted
bays of windows, as well as an applique of classically derived detailing. This is especially
apparent at the entry and the top of the building, hinting at the influence of the Commercial
Palazzo idiom.
This small streamlined building stands at the corner of Macleay and Orwell Streets.
It dates from the late 1930s or early 1940s and was formerly part of the adjacent Minerva
Café, containing flats and office space. The former Minerva Café and Metro (formerly
Minerva) Theatre form an arresting group down Orwell Street. The Café was designed by
architect Reginald Magoffin, whilst the theatre was initially designed by C Bruce Dellit.
However, the commission was handed over to the nationally important cinema architects
Guy Crick and Bruce Furse. Both were completed in 1939. The theatre stands on the site of
the early house called “Orwell”, after which the street was named.
See where this picture was taken. [?]
The National Theatre was opened as a live theatre/music hall in January 1912. Eventually cinema use came and it was taken over by Hoyts Theatres chain in the late-1920’s, and was renamed Hoyts Balmain Theatre. Remodeled in 1936, in an Art Deco Style.
It was closed in 1964 and uses made of this site included a dance institute and film, T.V., music and recording studio (1965), dance hall (1967), auction rooms (1967), indoor mini golf amusement centre (1973), cinema (1974), roller skating rink (1979) and sound recording studio (1986) Live Theatre
In the late-1990’s, undergoing commercial alterations and additions, known as ‘The Bijou’.
The Vacuum Oil Co toward the back of the image was located on the corner of St Vincent Street and the Minories and H Aldred, letting and bait stables and John Parnham, general smith were located in Mundy Street, between Nile and St Vincent Streets.
Date of original: c1912.
Photograph courtesy of the State Library of South Australia.
Ruskin, BC Canada
Ruskin Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Stave River in Ruskin, British Columbia, Canada. The dam was completed in 1930 for the primary purpose of hydroelectric power generation. The dam created Hayward Lake, which supplies water to a 105 MW powerhouse and flooded the Stave's former lower canyon, which ended in a small waterfall approximately where the dam is today.
Ruskin Dam was constructed along with the Western Canada Power Company's hydroelectric development of the Stave Valley. Stave Falls Dam was completed in 1912 and Alouette Dam, the third dam in the system, in 1928. Construction on Ruskin Dam, about 3 mi downstream of Stave Falls began in 1929 by the British Columbia Electric Railway who had previously bought Western Canada Power in 1921.
In November 1930, the dam was inaugurated and local businessmen and politicians celebrated by dining in its powerhouse. Only two generators were operational at first and the third was added in 1950. The first superintendent of Stave Falls Dam was the namesake for Hayward Lake. In 1961, when the provincial government took over the BC Electric Company, the dam became the property of BC Hydro, a Crown corporation.
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Book cover design by The Decorative Designers (firm, 1895-1932 ) for The Strangling of Persia by W. Morgan Shuster. New York: The Century Co., 1920, c1912. DS315 .S58 1920
In Loving memory of
Sarah Catherine
Beloved wife of
Alexander BAILEY
Died July 7th 1956
Also
Alexander BAILEY
Died 22 May 1978 Aged 92
Also their sons
Sergt. L G BAILEY No 30230
Sapper D A BAILEY No 27805
2nd N.Z.E.F.
Sarah
Block 28 Plot 286NS
Died aged 77
Address at death: 11 Berwick Street, Christchurch
Born: Amberley, New Zealand[8]
Married Alexander c1912 as Sarah NEWBY [5]
Sarah and Alexander also had at least 1 other son, Charles Bertram born c1912[6] and he died c2009[7]
Alexander
Block 28 Plot 286
Occupation at death: Retired railway employee
Born: Balcairn, Scotland
Years in NZ at time of death: 79[9]
Sergeant Lloyd George BAILEY [memorial only]
Occupation pre enlistment: Baker
Marital status: single
Next of kin: Mrs S.C. BAILEY, 211 Earn St., Invercargill, Mother [3]
Address at time of enlistment: 65 Victoria Ave., Palmerston North[3]
Embarkation Unit: 22 (Wellington) Infantry Battalion
Campaign: Western Desert
Last unit served: 22 Motor Battalion
Died: Western Desert, 11 December 1941
Aged 23
Buried: Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya[2]
A Photo of his headstone: www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/lloyd-george-bailey
Sapper David Alexander BAILEY [memorial only]
Occupation pre enlistment: Surfaceman, NZ Government Railways [4]
Marital Status: single
Next of kin: Mr A BAILEY, 211 Earn St., Invercargill, father
Address at time of enlistment: 7 Tone St, Bluff
Embarkation date: 28 August 1940 onboard Empress of Japan
Unit: 17 Railway Operating Company
Campaign: Western Desert
Died: Egypt, Saturday 28th March 1942
Aged 25
Buried: Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt [1]
SOURCES:
[1]
From his Cenotaph database record
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/34259.detail?O...
[2]
From his Cenotaph database record
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/20532.detail?O...
[3]
NZ Army WWII Nominal Rolls, 1939-1948 – Roll 2: 1 Apr 1940 – 30 Jun 1940
[4]
NZ Army WWII Nominal Rolls, 1939-1948 – Roll 2: 1 Jul 1940 – 31 Mar 1941
[5]
NZ Department Internal Affairs Historic BDM indexes: marriage registration 1912/1560
[6]
NZ Department Internal Affairs Historic BDM indexes: birth registrant 1912/10506
[7]
NZ Department Internal Affairs Historic BDM indexes: death registration 2009/300460 which states his birthdate as 22 September 1912
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c1912 postcard view of an Indiana Union Traction Company trolley car stopped at Montpelier, Indiana. Passengers appear to be boarding the car as others watch. An I.U.T. CO. TICKET OFFICE sign is hanging on the front of a building near the left edge of the postcard. Both the 1910 and the 1920 Sanborn fire insurance map sets show the station just north of Greenbush Square at 221 South Main Street. This view is looking south.
From a private collection.
Selected close-up sections of this postcard can be seen here, from left to right in the image.
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Our chief Winster interest in this image is that this is an unused postcard by Albert Marshall of Winster probably taken c1912 in the yard of the Angel Inn, Main Street.
The young woman pictured is Jane Brassington of Youlgreave. Jane was born c1892 and in 1913 she married John William Holmes of Stanton in Peak.
This image is from the Eric Brassington Collection.
Title: Unidentified children [00171-15]
Album: Rainbow
Date: c1912
Place: Rainbow, Vic [possible]
Notes: Seated child is also in photograph P00171-20
Can you identify these people?
c1912 postcard view of South Main Street in Elkhart, Indiana. This view was looking northwest from a point south of Hickory Street (now known as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive). The sign on the utility pole at the left edge of the scene announced INTERURBAN CARS STOP HERE. The 1910 and 1917 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets for Elkhart show a vacant lot on that south corner of the intersection. On the west corner, the sign advertised SUB-POST OFFICE. A U.S. MAIL box stood on the sidewalk. Both map sets show a drugstore on that corner (817 South Main Street). Next door, the small sign hanging from the single-story frame building advertised THE SOUTH SIDE CLEANERS. The 1910 map set shows a confectionery business at that address (811 South Main Street). In 1917, a shoe repairing business was located there.
Farther up the street was a two-story brick building. The sign on the side of that building advertised WILLIAM H. THEIS HARDWARE AND STOVES. A 1912 city directory¹ listed Wm. H. Theis under the “Hardware, Stoves and Tinware” category with an address at 805 South Main Street. Both map sets show the building (with the three bay windows) on the south corner at St. Joseph Street (St. Joe Street today). The map sets also show a hardware store in the south end of that building (805 South Main Street).
The streetcar had a CLEVELAND AVE sign on the front.
The structures on northeast side of Main Street were wood frame and a mix of houses and businesses that included the Monger Lumber Company.
1. Polk’s Elkhart City Directory 1912, Volume II (Detroit, Michigan: R. L. Polk & Co., 1912). Available online at archive.org/details/elkhartindianaci00unse_0.
This image was created by Thomas Keesling from a postcard courtesy of the Indiana Postal History Society.
The full postcard image can be seen here.
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