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Tarragindi, a residential suburb, is six km south of central Brisbane. It includes the localities of Ekibin and Wellers Hill.
The area was originally known as Sandy Creek, a watercourse with headwaters at Toohey Mountain and flowing northward through the Tarragindi Recreation Reserve to join Ekibin Creek just beyond Sexton Street.
In 1890 William Grimes settled at Sandy Creek on land either side of Andrew Avenue, north-west of the Tarragindi Hill reservoir. The Grimes household employed a Pacific Islander, Tarragindi, and when told that 'Tarragindi' meant camp on a hill, Grimes gave that name to his new house. Tarragindi Hill was a bus destination name in the 1920s, and the name was formally adopted in 1931.
Tarragindi was a rural area until the interwar years. A Congregational chapel was built in the early 1900s, but there was no school, other church building or public hall. The Ipswich Road electric tram reached Yeronga Park in 1915, but there was ample undeveloped land between Ipswich Road and Tarragindi to absorb any demand for house lots. An early murmur of development was the formation of the Sandy Creek Progress Association (c1919) which sponsored fund-raising for a public hall. The Tarragindi Memorial Hall at Fernvale Road and Andrew Avenue was built in 1932, and the Association also lobbied for a district primary school. In the 1920s land was provided for soldier settlement poultry farmers.
A sign of advancing suburbanisation came with the building of a service reservoir on Tarragindi Hill in 1922. Four years later a primary school was opened at Weillers Hill (changed to Wellers Hill in 1950).
Immediately after World War II Tarragindi was an outlying suburb. The Ipswich Road tram had been extended to the Salisbury munitions works in 1940 and all of Tarragindi could be reached from a tram stop. The area became known as a shanty town where people could run up shelters during the postwar housing shortage. Later there were War Service and Housing Commission estates.
The school expanded in the 1950s and church congregations which had met in the hall or private houses raised money for new buildings: Methodist (1950), Catholic (1955), Baptist (1956), Presbyterian (1957) and Anglican (1959). Post Offices at Tarragindi and Wellers Hill were opened in 1957 and 1964. Service reservoirs were built at Wellers Hill in the 1970s, by when nearly all of the district was fully urbanised.
Commuting to town could be done by train from Yeerongpilly, by bus or by car along the Southeast Freeway (1977). Alternatively the freeway could be travelled to Mount Gravatt or the Nathan campus of Griffith University (1980).
Tarragindi, a suburb of the 1950s-60s, is bounded on its east by the freeway which looks across a series of hills and valleys with houses, public parks and the occasional high-gabled church. There are local shops along Toohey Road.
Tarragindi history: Queensland Places – Tarragindi
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Tarragindi, a residential suburb, is six km south of central Brisbane. It includes the localities of Ekibin and Wellers Hill.
The area was originally known as Sandy Creek, a watercourse with headwaters at Toohey Mountain and flowing northward through the Tarragindi Recreation Reserve to join Ekibin Creek just beyond Sexton Street.
In 1890 William Grimes settled at Sandy Creek on land either side of Andrew Avenue, north-west of the Tarragindi Hill reservoir. The Grimes household employed a Pacific Islander, Tarragindi, and when told that 'Tarragindi' meant camp on a hill, Grimes gave that name to his new house. Tarragindi Hill was a bus destination name in the 1920s, and the name was formally adopted in 1931.
Tarragindi was a rural area until the interwar years. A Congregational chapel was built in the early 1900s, but there was no school, other church building or public hall. The Ipswich Road electric tram reached Yeronga Park in 1915, but there was ample undeveloped land between Ipswich Road and Tarragindi to absorb any demand for house lots. An early murmur of development was the formation of the Sandy Creek Progress Association (c1919) which sponsored fund-raising for a public hall. The Tarragindi Memorial Hall at Fernvale Road and Andrew Avenue was built in 1932, and the Association also lobbied for a district primary school. In the 1920s land was provided for soldier settlement poultry farmers.
A sign of advancing suburbanisation came with the building of a service reservoir on Tarragindi Hill in 1922. Four years later a primary school was opened at Weillers Hill (changed to Wellers Hill in 1950).
Immediately after World War II Tarragindi was an outlying suburb. The Ipswich Road tram had been extended to the Salisbury munitions works in 1940 and all of Tarragindi could be reached from a tram stop. The area became known as a shanty town where people could run up shelters during the postwar housing shortage. Later there were War Service and Housing Commission estates.
The school expanded in the 1950s and church congregations which had met in the hall or private houses raised money for new buildings: Methodist (1950), Catholic (1955), Baptist (1956), Presbyterian (1957) and Anglican (1959). Post Offices at Tarragindi and Wellers Hill were opened in 1957 and 1964. Service reservoirs were built at Wellers Hill in the 1970s, by when nearly all of the district was fully urbanised.
Commuting to town could be done by train from Yeerongpilly, by bus or by car along the Southeast Freeway (1977). Alternatively the freeway could be travelled to Mount Gravatt or the Nathan campus of Griffith University (1980).
Tarragindi, a suburb of the 1950s-60s, is bounded on its east by the freeway which looks across a series of hills and valleys with houses, public parks and the occasional high-gabled church. There are local shops along Toohey Road.
Tarragindi history: Queensland Places – Tarragindi
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Tarragindi, a residential suburb, is six km south of central Brisbane. It includes the localities of Ekibin and Wellers Hill.
The area was originally known as Sandy Creek, a watercourse with headwaters at Toohey Mountain and flowing northward through the Tarragindi Recreation Reserve to join Ekibin Creek just beyond Sexton Street.
In 1890 William Grimes settled at Sandy Creek on land either side of Andrew Avenue, north-west of the Tarragindi Hill reservoir. The Grimes household employed a Pacific Islander, Tarragindi, and when told that 'Tarragindi' meant camp on a hill, Grimes gave that name to his new house. Tarragindi Hill was a bus destination name in the 1920s, and the name was formally adopted in 1931.
Tarragindi was a rural area until the interwar years. A Congregational chapel was built in the early 1900s, but there was no school, other church building or public hall. The Ipswich Road electric tram reached Yeronga Park in 1915, but there was ample undeveloped land between Ipswich Road and Tarragindi to absorb any demand for house lots. An early murmur of development was the formation of the Sandy Creek Progress Association (c1919) which sponsored fund-raising for a public hall. The Tarragindi Memorial Hall at Fernvale Road and Andrew Avenue was built in 1932, and the Association also lobbied for a district primary school. In the 1920s land was provided for soldier settlement poultry farmers.
A sign of advancing suburbanisation came with the building of a service reservoir on Tarragindi Hill in 1922. Four years later a primary school was opened at Weillers Hill (changed to Wellers Hill in 1950).
Immediately after World War II Tarragindi was an outlying suburb. The Ipswich Road tram had been extended to the Salisbury munitions works in 1940 and all of Tarragindi could be reached from a tram stop. The area became known as a shanty town where people could run up shelters during the postwar housing shortage. Later there were War Service and Housing Commission estates.
The school expanded in the 1950s and church congregations which had met in the hall or private houses raised money for new buildings: Methodist (1950), Catholic (1955), Baptist (1956), Presbyterian (1957) and Anglican (1959). Post Offices at Tarragindi and Wellers Hill were opened in 1957 and 1964. Service reservoirs were built at Wellers Hill in the 1970s, by when nearly all of the district was fully urbanised.
Commuting to town could be done by train from Yeerongpilly, by bus or by car along the Southeast Freeway (1977). Alternatively the freeway could be travelled to Mount Gravatt or the Nathan campus of Griffith University (1980).
Tarragindi, a suburb of the 1950s-60s, is bounded on its east by the freeway which looks across a series of hills and valleys with houses, public parks and the occasional high-gabled church. There are local shops along Toohey Road.
Tarragindi history: Queensland Places – Tarragindi
Flickr user Fiona Petty suggest this is 176 Bramston Street, Tarragindi on the corner of Chamberlain street.
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Tarragindi, a residential suburb, is six km south of central Brisbane. It includes the localities of Ekibin and Wellers Hill.
The area was originally known as Sandy Creek, a watercourse with headwaters at Toohey Mountain and flowing northward through the Tarragindi Recreation Reserve to join Ekibin Creek just beyond Sexton Street.
In 1890 William Grimes settled at Sandy Creek on land either side of Andrew Avenue, north-west of the Tarragindi Hill reservoir. The Grimes household employed a Pacific Islander, Tarragindi, and when told that 'Tarragindi' meant camp on a hill, Grimes gave that name to his new house. Tarragindi Hill was a bus destination name in the 1920s, and the name was formally adopted in 1931.
Tarragindi was a rural area until the interwar years. A Congregational chapel was built in the early 1900s, but there was no school, other church building or public hall. The Ipswich Road electric tram reached Yeronga Park in 1915, but there was ample undeveloped land between Ipswich Road and Tarragindi to absorb any demand for house lots. An early murmur of development was the formation of the Sandy Creek Progress Association (c1919) which sponsored fund-raising for a public hall. The Tarragindi Memorial Hall at Fernvale Road and Andrew Avenue was built in 1932, and the Association also lobbied for a district primary school. In the 1920s land was provided for soldier settlement poultry farmers.
A sign of advancing suburbanisation came with the building of a service reservoir on Tarragindi Hill in 1922. Four years later a primary school was opened at Weillers Hill (changed to Wellers Hill in 1950).
Immediately after World War II Tarragindi was an outlying suburb. The Ipswich Road tram had been extended to the Salisbury munitions works in 1940 and all of Tarragindi could be reached from a tram stop. The area became known as a shanty town where people could run up shelters during the postwar housing shortage. Later there were War Service and Housing Commission estates.
The school expanded in the 1950s and church congregations which had met in the hall or private houses raised money for new buildings: Methodist (1950), Catholic (1955), Baptist (1956), Presbyterian (1957) and Anglican (1959). Post Offices at Tarragindi and Wellers Hill were opened in 1957 and 1964. Service reservoirs were built at Wellers Hill in the 1970s, by when nearly all of the district was fully urbanised.
Commuting to town could be done by train from Yeerongpilly, by bus or by car along the Southeast Freeway (1977). Alternatively the freeway could be travelled to Mount Gravatt or the Nathan campus of Griffith University (1980).
Tarragindi, a suburb of the 1950s-60s, is bounded on its east by the freeway which looks across a series of hills and valleys with houses, public parks and the occasional high-gabled church. There are local shops along Toohey Road.
Tarragindi history: Queensland Places – Tarragindi
Flickr user Fiona Petty suggest this is 176 Bramston Street, Tarragindi on the corner of Chamberlain street.
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Tarragindi, a residential suburb, is six km south of central Brisbane. It includes the localities of Ekibin and Wellers Hill.
The area was originally known as Sandy Creek, a watercourse with headwaters at Toohey Mountain and flowing northward through the Tarragindi Recreation Reserve to join Ekibin Creek just beyond Sexton Street.
In 1890 William Grimes settled at Sandy Creek on land either side of Andrew Avenue, north-west of the Tarragindi Hill reservoir. The Grimes household employed a Pacific Islander, Tarragindi, and when told that 'Tarragindi' meant camp on a hill, Grimes gave that name to his new house. Tarragindi Hill was a bus destination name in the 1920s, and the name was formally adopted in 1931.
Tarragindi was a rural area until the interwar years. A Congregational chapel was built in the early 1900s, but there was no school, other church building or public hall. The Ipswich Road electric tram reached Yeronga Park in 1915, but there was ample undeveloped land between Ipswich Road and Tarragindi to absorb any demand for house lots. An early murmur of development was the formation of the Sandy Creek Progress Association (c1919) which sponsored fund-raising for a public hall. The Tarragindi Memorial Hall at Fernvale Road and Andrew Avenue was built in 1932, and the Association also lobbied for a district primary school. In the 1920s land was provided for soldier settlement poultry farmers.
A sign of advancing suburbanisation came with the building of a service reservoir on Tarragindi Hill in 1922. Four years later a primary school was opened at Weillers Hill (changed to Wellers Hill in 1950).
Immediately after World War II Tarragindi was an outlying suburb. The Ipswich Road tram had been extended to the Salisbury munitions works in 1940 and all of Tarragindi could be reached from a tram stop. The area became known as a shanty town where people could run up shelters during the postwar housing shortage. Later there were War Service and Housing Commission estates.
The school expanded in the 1950s and church congregations which had met in the hall or private houses raised money for new buildings: Methodist (1950), Catholic (1955), Baptist (1956), Presbyterian (1957) and Anglican (1959). Post Offices at Tarragindi and Wellers Hill were opened in 1957 and 1964. Service reservoirs were built at Wellers Hill in the 1970s, by when nearly all of the district was fully urbanised.
Commuting to town could be done by train from Yeerongpilly, by bus or by car along the Southeast Freeway (1977). Alternatively the freeway could be travelled to Mount Gravatt or the Nathan campus of Griffith University (1980).
Tarragindi, a suburb of the 1950s-60s, is bounded on its east by the freeway which looks across a series of hills and valleys with houses, public parks and the occasional high-gabled church. There are local shops along Toohey Road.
Tarragindi history: Queensland Places – Tarragindi
Research the history of your house: www.publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/brief-guides-at-qsa/r...
Tarragindi, a residential suburb, is six km south of central Brisbane. It includes the localities of Ekibin and Wellers Hill.
The area was originally known as Sandy Creek, a watercourse with headwaters at Toohey Mountain and flowing northward through the Tarragindi Recreation Reserve to join Ekibin Creek just beyond Sexton Street.
In 1890 William Grimes settled at Sandy Creek on land either side of Andrew Avenue, north-west of the Tarragindi Hill reservoir. The Grimes household employed a Pacific Islander, Tarragindi, and when told that 'Tarragindi' meant camp on a hill, Grimes gave that name to his new house. Tarragindi Hill was a bus destination name in the 1920s, and the name was formally adopted in 1931.
Tarragindi was a rural area until the interwar years. A Congregational chapel was built in the early 1900s, but there was no school, other church building or public hall. The Ipswich Road electric tram reached Yeronga Park in 1915, but there was ample undeveloped land between Ipswich Road and Tarragindi to absorb any demand for house lots. An early murmur of development was the formation of the Sandy Creek Progress Association (c1919) which sponsored fund-raising for a public hall. The Tarragindi Memorial Hall at Fernvale Road and Andrew Avenue was built in 1932, and the Association also lobbied for a district primary school. In the 1920s land was provided for soldier settlement poultry farmers.
A sign of advancing suburbanisation came with the building of a service reservoir on Tarragindi Hill in 1922. Four years later a primary school was opened at Weillers Hill (changed to Wellers Hill in 1950).
Immediately after World War II Tarragindi was an outlying suburb. The Ipswich Road tram had been extended to the Salisbury munitions works in 1940 and all of Tarragindi could be reached from a tram stop. The area became known as a shanty town where people could run up shelters during the postwar housing shortage. Later there were War Service and Housing Commission estates.
The school expanded in the 1950s and church congregations which had met in the hall or private houses raised money for new buildings: Methodist (1950), Catholic (1955), Baptist (1956), Presbyterian (1957) and Anglican (1959). Post Offices at Tarragindi and Wellers Hill were opened in 1957 and 1964. Service reservoirs were built at Wellers Hill in the 1970s, by when nearly all of the district was fully urbanised.
Commuting to town could be done by train from Yeerongpilly, by bus or by car along the Southeast Freeway (1977). Alternatively the freeway could be travelled to Mount Gravatt or the Nathan campus of Griffith University (1980).
Tarragindi, a suburb of the 1950s-60s, is bounded on its east by the freeway which looks across a series of hills and valleys with houses, public parks and the occasional high-gabled church. There are local shops along Toohey Road.
Tarragindi history: Queensland Places – Tarragindi
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Tarragindi, a residential suburb, is six km south of central Brisbane. It includes the localities of Ekibin and Wellers Hill.
The area was originally known as Sandy Creek, a watercourse with headwaters at Toohey Mountain and flowing northward through the Tarragindi Recreation Reserve to join Ekibin Creek just beyond Sexton Street.
In 1890 William Grimes settled at Sandy Creek on land either side of Andrew Avenue, north-west of the Tarragindi Hill reservoir. The Grimes household employed a Pacific Islander, Tarragindi, and when told that 'Tarragindi' meant camp on a hill, Grimes gave that name to his new house. Tarragindi Hill was a bus destination name in the 1920s, and the name was formally adopted in 1931.
Tarragindi was a rural area until the interwar years. A Congregational chapel was built in the early 1900s, but there was no school, other church building or public hall. The Ipswich Road electric tram reached Yeronga Park in 1915, but there was ample undeveloped land between Ipswich Road and Tarragindi to absorb any demand for house lots. An early murmur of development was the formation of the Sandy Creek Progress Association (c1919) which sponsored fund-raising for a public hall. The Tarragindi Memorial Hall at Fernvale Road and Andrew Avenue was built in 1932, and the Association also lobbied for a district primary school. In the 1920s land was provided for soldier settlement poultry farmers.
A sign of advancing suburbanisation came with the building of a service reservoir on Tarragindi Hill in 1922. Four years later a primary school was opened at Weillers Hill (changed to Wellers Hill in 1950).
Immediately after World War II Tarragindi was an outlying suburb. The Ipswich Road tram had been extended to the Salisbury munitions works in 1940 and all of Tarragindi could be reached from a tram stop. The area became known as a shanty town where people could run up shelters during the postwar housing shortage. Later there were War Service and Housing Commission estates.
The school expanded in the 1950s and church congregations which had met in the hall or private houses raised money for new buildings: Methodist (1950), Catholic (1955), Baptist (1956), Presbyterian (1957) and Anglican (1959). Post Offices at Tarragindi and Wellers Hill were opened in 1957 and 1964. Service reservoirs were built at Wellers Hill in the 1970s, by when nearly all of the district was fully urbanised.
Commuting to town could be done by train from Yeerongpilly, by bus or by car along the Southeast Freeway (1977). Alternatively the freeway could be travelled to Mount Gravatt or the Nathan campus of Griffith University (1980).
Tarragindi, a suburb of the 1950s-60s, is bounded on its east by the freeway which looks across a series of hills and valleys with houses, public parks and the occasional high-gabled church. There are local shops along Toohey Road.
Tarragindi history: Queensland Places – Tarragindi
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Tarragindi, a residential suburb, is six km south of central Brisbane. It includes the localities of Ekibin and Wellers Hill.
The area was originally known as Sandy Creek, a watercourse with headwaters at Toohey Mountain and flowing northward through the Tarragindi Recreation Reserve to join Ekibin Creek just beyond Sexton Street.
In 1890 William Grimes settled at Sandy Creek on land either side of Andrew Avenue, north-west of the Tarragindi Hill reservoir. The Grimes household employed a Pacific Islander, Tarragindi, and when told that 'Tarragindi' meant camp on a hill, Grimes gave that name to his new house. Tarragindi Hill was a bus destination name in the 1920s, and the name was formally adopted in 1931.
Tarragindi was a rural area until the interwar years. A Congregational chapel was built in the early 1900s, but there was no school, other church building or public hall. The Ipswich Road electric tram reached Yeronga Park in 1915, but there was ample undeveloped land between Ipswich Road and Tarragindi to absorb any demand for house lots. An early murmur of development was the formation of the Sandy Creek Progress Association (c1919) which sponsored fund-raising for a public hall. The Tarragindi Memorial Hall at Fernvale Road and Andrew Avenue was built in 1932, and the Association also lobbied for a district primary school. In the 1920s land was provided for soldier settlement poultry farmers.
A sign of advancing suburbanisation came with the building of a service reservoir on Tarragindi Hill in 1922. Four years later a primary school was opened at Weillers Hill (changed to Wellers Hill in 1950).
Immediately after World War II Tarragindi was an outlying suburb. The Ipswich Road tram had been extended to the Salisbury munitions works in 1940 and all of Tarragindi could be reached from a tram stop. The area became known as a shanty town where people could run up shelters during the postwar housing shortage. Later there were War Service and Housing Commission estates.
The school expanded in the 1950s and church congregations which had met in the hall or private houses raised money for new buildings: Methodist (1950), Catholic (1955), Baptist (1956), Presbyterian (1957) and Anglican (1959). Post Offices at Tarragindi and Wellers Hill were opened in 1957 and 1964. Service reservoirs were built at Wellers Hill in the 1970s, by when nearly all of the district was fully urbanised.
Commuting to town could be done by train from Yeerongpilly, by bus or by car along the Southeast Freeway (1977). Alternatively the freeway could be travelled to Mount Gravatt or the Nathan campus of Griffith University (1980).
Tarragindi, a suburb of the 1950s-60s, is bounded on its east by the freeway which looks across a series of hills and valleys with houses, public parks and the occasional high-gabled church. There are local shops along Toohey Road.
Tarragindi history: Queensland Places – Tarragindi
Research the history of your house: www.publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/brief-guides-at-qsa/r...
Tarragindi, a residential suburb, is six km south of central Brisbane. It includes the localities of Ekibin and Wellers Hill.
The area was originally known as Sandy Creek, a watercourse with headwaters at Toohey Mountain and flowing northward through the Tarragindi Recreation Reserve to join Ekibin Creek just beyond Sexton Street.
In 1890 William Grimes settled at Sandy Creek on land either side of Andrew Avenue, north-west of the Tarragindi Hill reservoir. The Grimes household employed a Pacific Islander, Tarragindi, and when told that 'Tarragindi' meant camp on a hill, Grimes gave that name to his new house. Tarragindi Hill was a bus destination name in the 1920s, and the name was formally adopted in 1931.
Tarragindi was a rural area until the interwar years. A Congregational chapel was built in the early 1900s, but there was no school, other church building or public hall. The Ipswich Road electric tram reached Yeronga Park in 1915, but there was ample undeveloped land between Ipswich Road and Tarragindi to absorb any demand for house lots. An early murmur of development was the formation of the Sandy Creek Progress Association (c1919) which sponsored fund-raising for a public hall. The Tarragindi Memorial Hall at Fernvale Road and Andrew Avenue was built in 1932, and the Association also lobbied for a district primary school. In the 1920s land was provided for soldier settlement poultry farmers.
A sign of advancing suburbanisation came with the building of a service reservoir on Tarragindi Hill in 1922. Four years later a primary school was opened at Weillers Hill (changed to Wellers Hill in 1950).
Immediately after World War II Tarragindi was an outlying suburb. The Ipswich Road tram had been extended to the Salisbury munitions works in 1940 and all of Tarragindi could be reached from a tram stop. The area became known as a shanty town where people could run up shelters during the postwar housing shortage. Later there were War Service and Housing Commission estates.
The school expanded in the 1950s and church congregations which had met in the hall or private houses raised money for new buildings: Methodist (1950), Catholic (1955), Baptist (1956), Presbyterian (1957) and Anglican (1959). Post Offices at Tarragindi and Wellers Hill were opened in 1957 and 1964. Service reservoirs were built at Wellers Hill in the 1970s, by when nearly all of the district was fully urbanised.
Commuting to town could be done by train from Yeerongpilly, by bus or by car along the Southeast Freeway (1977). Alternatively the freeway could be travelled to Mount Gravatt or the Nathan campus of Griffith University (1980).
Tarragindi, a suburb of the 1950s-60s, is bounded on its east by the freeway which looks across a series of hills and valleys with houses, public parks and the occasional high-gabled church. There are local shops along Toohey Road.
Tarragindi history: Queensland Places – Tarragindi
Research the history of your house: www.publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/brief-guides-at-qsa/r...
Tarragindi, a residential suburb, is six km south of central Brisbane. It includes the localities of Ekibin and Wellers Hill.
The area was originally known as Sandy Creek, a watercourse with headwaters at Toohey Mountain and flowing northward through the Tarragindi Recreation Reserve to join Ekibin Creek just beyond Sexton Street.
In 1890 William Grimes settled at Sandy Creek on land either side of Andrew Avenue, north-west of the Tarragindi Hill reservoir. The Grimes household employed a Pacific Islander, Tarragindi, and when told that 'Tarragindi' meant camp on a hill, Grimes gave that name to his new house. Tarragindi Hill was a bus destination name in the 1920s, and the name was formally adopted in 1931.
Tarragindi was a rural area until the interwar years. A Congregational chapel was built in the early 1900s, but there was no school, other church building or public hall. The Ipswich Road electric tram reached Yeronga Park in 1915, but there was ample undeveloped land between Ipswich Road and Tarragindi to absorb any demand for house lots. An early murmur of development was the formation of the Sandy Creek Progress Association (c1919) which sponsored fund-raising for a public hall. The Tarragindi Memorial Hall at Fernvale Road and Andrew Avenue was built in 1932, and the Association also lobbied for a district primary school. In the 1920s land was provided for soldier settlement poultry farmers.
A sign of advancing suburbanisation came with the building of a service reservoir on Tarragindi Hill in 1922. Four years later a primary school was opened at Weillers Hill (changed to Wellers Hill in 1950).
Immediately after World War II Tarragindi was an outlying suburb. The Ipswich Road tram had been extended to the Salisbury munitions works in 1940 and all of Tarragindi could be reached from a tram stop. The area became known as a shanty town where people could run up shelters during the postwar housing shortage. Later there were War Service and Housing Commission estates.
The school expanded in the 1950s and church congregations which had met in the hall or private houses raised money for new buildings: Methodist (1950), Catholic (1955), Baptist (1956), Presbyterian (1957) and Anglican (1959). Post Offices at Tarragindi and Wellers Hill were opened in 1957 and 1964. Service reservoirs were built at Wellers Hill in the 1970s, by when nearly all of the district was fully urbanised.
Commuting to town could be done by train from Yeerongpilly, by bus or by car along the Southeast Freeway (1977). Alternatively the freeway could be travelled to Mount Gravatt or the Nathan campus of Griffith University (1980).
Tarragindi, a suburb of the 1950s-60s, is bounded on its east by the freeway which looks across a series of hills and valleys with houses, public parks and the occasional high-gabled church. There are local shops along Toohey Road.
Tarragindi history: Queensland Places – Tarragindi
In loving memory of
Capt. J T COLEMAN
Died 23rd April 1919
Aged 57 years
"RESTING"
Block 44C Plot 64
Also in plot is:
Elizabeth Anne COLEMAN
died 18 February 1953
of Jubilee Home, Christchurch
aged 90 years
Born: Australia
Length of time in NZ: 72 years
Info from Cemetery database:
of Ranfurly Street, Christchurch
Staff Officer and born in England
Press, Volume LV, Issue 16505, 24 April 1919, Page 1
COLEMAN—On April 23rd, at his residence, 18 Ranfurly street St. Albans, Captain Joseph Coleman, late N.Z.S.C., beloved husband of Elizabeth Annie Coleman; aged 56 years. At rest.[6]
New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17146, 28 April 1919, Page 6
CAPTAIN JOSEPH COLEMAN. The death is announced of Captain Joseph Coleman, which occurred at his residence, St. Albans, Christchurch, a few days ago. Captain Coleman, who was 56 years of age, was formerly a bombardier in the Permanent Artillery at Lyttelton, later becoming a sergeant-major instructor. Subsequently he gained his commission, and was attached to the New Zealand Staff Corps. Captain Coleman served in the South African War, 1902, gaining the Queen's Medal, with one clasp.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17560, 2 May 1919, Page 4
Captain Coleman, whose death at Christchurch Was reported a few days ago, had a long, useful, and even distinguished career in the service of New Zealand. In connection with the dispatch of the contingents during the Boer war he did very fine work.
As Staff-Sergeant-Major he was put in charge of the instructional work at the Addington Camp, where the members of the Third (Rough Riders) Contingent were encamped, and the contingent left New Zealand not only well equipped but thoroughly well instructed. After the departure of the Third Contingent, Staff Sergeant - Major Coleman was constantly engaged training troops for active service, and accompanied the Tenth Contingent to South Africa.
A native of Winchester, England, Captain Coleman's father was an Indian civil servant, and Captain Coleman spent eight years at college in India, coming to New Zealand as a young man. He joined the Constabulary Field Force, raised to quell the Maori rising in Taranaki and the West Coast in 1881, and was present at the capture of Te Whiti at Parihaira. He was transferred to the Permanent Artillery in, 1885, on its formation during the Russian war scare. On the establishment of the present territorial system, he was attached to the 4th (Waikato) Regiment, his duties as instructor involving much arduous traveling. Later he was transferred to organise Group 20, Wanganui. This was during the height of the war, when the Defence department was short of men, and was not able to allot a full staff to Captain Coleman. With his customary enthusiasm he threw himself into the work of organising the group, and at the same time he worked strenuously in the recruiting campaign.
Overwork and over strain resulted in his suffering a breakdown in health, which was of such a serious nature that two years and a half ago Captain Coleman retired from active service. [1]
His memorial notices in the paper - 1920
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Joseph married Elizabeth Annie COWPER c 1898[3]
They had issue:
Elinor [sic] Josephine Dorothy c1898 [4] and she married Nathaniel John REED c1919 [5]
She died 30 October 1926 aged 28[7]
Electoral Roll
1900 Lyttelton
Noted as a drill instructor, of Sumner Road, Lyttelton.
Elizabeth as his wife.
His probate is available:
www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=22395292
References:
[1]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[2]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZ...
[3]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: marriage registration 1898/2437
[4]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: birth registration 1898/12291
[5]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: marriage registration 1919/7646. Note her name is entered as "Eleanor"
[6]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[7]
Eleanor is noted in the Christchurch City Council cemetery database as Eleanor Dorothy May of 17 Elm Grove and is buried in Block 44C Plot 46
In loving memory of
Capt. J T COLEMAN
Died 23rd April 1919
Aged 57 years
"RESTING"
Block 44C Plot 64
Also in plot is:
Elizabeth Anne COLEMAN
died 18 February 1953
of Jubilee Home, Christchurch
aged 90 years
Born: Australia
Length of time in NZ: 72 years
Info from Cemetery database:
of Ranfurly Street, Christchurch
Staff Officer and born in England
Press, Volume LV, Issue 16505, 24 April 1919, Page 1
COLEMAN—On April 23rd, at his residence, 18 Ranfurly street St. Albans, Captain Joseph Coleman, late N.Z.S.C., beloved husband of Elizabeth Annie Coleman; aged 56 years. At rest.[6]
New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17146, 28 April 1919, Page 6
CAPTAIN JOSEPH COLEMAN. The death is announced of Captain Joseph Coleman, which occurred at his residence, St. Albans, Christchurch, a few days ago. Captain Coleman, who was 56 years of age, was formerly a bombardier in the Permanent Artillery at Lyttelton, later becoming a sergeant-major instructor. Subsequently he gained his commission, and was attached to the New Zealand Staff Corps. Captain Coleman served in the South African War, 1902, gaining the Queen's Medal, with one clasp.
**************************************
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17560, 2 May 1919, Page 4
Captain Coleman, whose death at Christchurch Was reported a few days ago, had a long, useful, and even distinguished career in the service of New Zealand. In connection with the dispatch of the contingents during the Boer war he did very fine work.
As Staff-Sergeant-Major he was put in charge of the instructional work at the Addington Camp, where the members of the Third (Rough Riders) Contingent were encamped, and the contingent left New Zealand not only well equipped but thoroughly well instructed. After the departure of the Third Contingent, Staff Sergeant - Major Coleman was constantly engaged training troops for active service, and accompanied the Tenth Contingent to South Africa.
A native of Winchester, England, Captain Coleman's father was an Indian civil servant, and Captain Coleman spent eight years at college in India, coming to New Zealand as a young man. He joined the Constabulary Field Force, raised to quell the Maori rising in Taranaki and the West Coast in 1881, and was present at the capture of Te Whiti at Parihaira. He was transferred to the Permanent Artillery in, 1885, on its formation during the Russian war scare. On the establishment of the present territorial system, he was attached to the 4th (Waikato) Regiment, his duties as instructor involving much arduous traveling. Later he was transferred to organise Group 20, Wanganui. This was during the height of the war, when the Defence department was short of men, and was not able to allot a full staff to Captain Coleman. With his customary enthusiasm he threw himself into the work of organising the group, and at the same time he worked strenuously in the recruiting campaign.
Overwork and over strain resulted in his suffering a breakdown in health, which was of such a serious nature that two years and a half ago Captain Coleman retired from active service. [1]
His memorial notices in the paper - 1920
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CH...
Joseph married Elizabeth Annie COWPER c 1898[3]
They had issue:
Elinor [sic] Josephine Dorothy c1898 [4] and she married Nathaniel John REED c1919 [5]
She died 30 October 1926 aged 28[7]
Electoral Roll
1900 Lyttelton
Noted as a drill instructor, of Sumner Road, Lyttelton.
Elizabeth as his wife.
His probate is available:
www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=22395292
References:
[1]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[2]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZ...
[3]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: marriage registration 1898/2437
[4]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: birth registration 1898/12291
[5]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: marriage registration 1919/7646. Note her name is entered as "Eleanor"
[6]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[7]
Eleanor is noted in the Christchurch City Council cemetery database as Eleanor Dorothy May of 17 Elm Grove and is buried in Block 44C Plot 46
The Greville Emerald Tiara c1919
Like all great jewels, this tiara has been through several re-incarnations. It was originally made by Boucheron in Paris in the early 1900 for the heiress the Hon. Mrs. Greville as a circular crown of diamond-set papyrus leaves. As fashions changed, in 1910 Mrs Greville thought the tiara was too imposing and went back to Boucheron to have it remodelled into a lighter headband or bandeau shape tiara. In 1919 it was further adjusted so that it could be worn lower on the forehead. Its final tweak was in 1921 when the geometric pattern of diamonds and emeralds was added and this is the version we saw Princess Eugenie wearing it down the aisle. Unlike the tiara’s original crown design, the bandeau style is streamlined and geometric with no ornamental scrolls or twirls rising above the frame for a cleaner look in keeping with the 1920’s flapper-style fashion revolution. Mrs Greville was pictured in the piece just once, at a concert at the Austrian Legation in London in 1937.
For more history we have to thank Geoffrey C. Munn and his well-researched book: Tiaras, a History of Splendour. According to Mr Munn, the Hon. Mrs Greville had been a long-time friend of the Royal Family and the Duke and Duchess of York - who later became Prince Albert and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother – they spent their 1923 honeymoon at her home, Polesden Lacey. Famous for her honesty Mrs Greville was not shy of the fact that her wealth came from her father’s brewing business. She was known to state: ‘I’d rather be a beeress than a peeress.’ In her will, she bequeathed her entire jewellery collection to the Queen Mother, who, when she died in 2002 left her jewellery to be inherited by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, who in turn lent it to Princess Eugenie for the ‘something borrowed’ wedding item.
When Princess Eugenie of York married Mr. Jack Brooksbank, it was not only the first time that she wore a tiara in public, it was also the first instance when one of the British Royal Family’s most precious tiaras surfaced after being locked up in the royal vault for over seven decades. Contrary to popular speculation that Princess Eugenie would wear her mother’s York Diamond Tiara, the bride, instead, borrowed The Queen’s Greville Emerald Kokoshnik tiara. It is made up of brilliant and rose-cut diamonds that are pavé set in platinum. The delicate weave of the tiara highlights six emeralds that are inset to each side, although only four or five to a side are visible, with a massive stone in the centre. In the book Boucheron: The Secret Archives, it is revealed that the tiara’s oval central emerald is a whopping 93.70 carat. It features five horizontal bands of diamonds, set with six hexagonal emeralds on the third row, on either side. Centred on a large cabochon emerald surrounded by rose-cut diamonds. An elegant jewel such as this would be estimated to fetch £5 million to £10 million at auction, as of 2019.
To complete Princess Eugenie’s wedding day look, she wore a pair of diamond and emerald drop earrings given to her by her husband Jack Brooksbank which perfectly complemented the tiara.
THIS COPY comes from China. it is close but It only has 4 emeralds at each side instead of the six, so is shorter in length towards the back, where it should nearly join together. The earrings are close but of course the emerald stones are not faceted but cabochon.
Photo taken by Property Appraiser's office c1965; 316 Simonton St.; built c1919; Saunders Wholesale; Sqr 24, Pt Lot 2
See where this picture was taken. [?]
Wealthy pastoralist and company director Leslie Sprague built Dungowan Flats in 1919 naming them after his country property Dungowan Station, 33 kilometres east of Tamworth. The Flats offered their privileged tenants a home with 'every modern convenience' (fully supplied with electricity, telephones and an 'electric elevator'.
A commercial kitchen on the ground floor serviced the Restaurant De Luxe above. In 1925 the company Dungowan Ltd converted the Paramount Picture Theatre next door into the Cabaret Dungowan where grand social occasions were celebrated. An ice skating rink was added at the end of the 1920s, creating a complex of buildings extending to the corner of Ashburner Street and South Steyne.
In loving memory of
Capt. J T COLEMAN
Died 23rd April 1919
Aged 57 years
"RESTING"
Block 44C Plot 64
Also in plot is:
Elizabeth Anne COLEMAN
died 18 February 1953
of Jubilee Home, Christchurch
aged 90 years
Born: Australia
Length of time in NZ: 72 years
Info from Cemetery database:
of Ranfurly Street, Christchurch
Staff Officer and born in England
Press, Volume LV, Issue 16505, 24 April 1919, Page 1
COLEMAN—On April 23rd, at his residence, 18 Ranfurly street St. Albans, Captain Joseph Coleman, late N.Z.S.C., beloved husband of Elizabeth Annie Coleman; aged 56 years. At rest.[6]
New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17146, 28 April 1919, Page 6
CAPTAIN JOSEPH COLEMAN. The death is announced of Captain Joseph Coleman, which occurred at his residence, St. Albans, Christchurch, a few days ago. Captain Coleman, who was 56 years of age, was formerly a bombardier in the Permanent Artillery at Lyttelton, later becoming a sergeant-major instructor. Subsequently he gained his commission, and was attached to the New Zealand Staff Corps. Captain Coleman served in the South African War, 1902, gaining the Queen's Medal, with one clasp.
**************************************
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17560, 2 May 1919, Page 4
Captain Coleman, whose death at Christchurch Was reported a few days ago, had a long, useful, and even distinguished career in the service of New Zealand. In connection with the dispatch of the contingents during the Boer war he did very fine work.
As Staff-Sergeant-Major he was put in charge of the instructional work at the Addington Camp, where the members of the Third (Rough Riders) Contingent were encamped, and the contingent left New Zealand not only well equipped but thoroughly well instructed. After the departure of the Third Contingent, Staff Sergeant - Major Coleman was constantly engaged training troops for active service, and accompanied the Tenth Contingent to South Africa.
A native of Winchester, England, Captain Coleman's father was an Indian civil servant, and Captain Coleman spent eight years at college in India, coming to New Zealand as a young man. He joined the Constabulary Field Force, raised to quell the Maori rising in Taranaki and the West Coast in 1881, and was present at the capture of Te Whiti at Parihaira. He was transferred to the Permanent Artillery in, 1885, on its formation during the Russian war scare. On the establishment of the present territorial system, he was attached to the 4th (Waikato) Regiment, his duties as instructor involving much arduous traveling. Later he was transferred to organise Group 20, Wanganui. This was during the height of the war, when the Defence department was short of men, and was not able to allot a full staff to Captain Coleman. With his customary enthusiasm he threw himself into the work of organising the group, and at the same time he worked strenuously in the recruiting campaign.
Overwork and over strain resulted in his suffering a breakdown in health, which was of such a serious nature that two years and a half ago Captain Coleman retired from active service. [1]
His memorial notices in the paper - 1920
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CH...
Joseph married Elizabeth Annie COWPER c 1898[3]
They had issue:
Elinor [sic] Josephine Dorothy c1898 [4] and she married Nathaniel John REED c1919 [5]
She died 30 October 1926 aged 28[7]
Electoral Roll
1900 Lyttelton
Noted as a drill instructor, of Sumner Road, Lyttelton.
Elizabeth as his wife.
His probate is available:
www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=22395292
References:
[1]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[2]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZ...
[3]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: marriage registration 1898/2437
[4]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: birth registration 1898/12291
[5]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: marriage registration 1919/7646. Note her name is entered as "Eleanor"
[6]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[7]
Eleanor is noted in the Christchurch City Council cemetery database as Eleanor Dorothy May of 17 Elm Grove and is buried in Block 44C Plot 46
In loving memory of
Capt. J T COLEMAN
Died 23rd April 1919
Aged 57 years
"RESTING"
Block 44C Plot 64
Also in plot is:
Elizabeth Anne COLEMAN
died 18 February 1953
of Jubilee Home, Christchurch
aged 90 years
Born: Australia
Length of time in NZ: 72 years
Info from Cemetery database:
of Ranfurly Street, Christchurch
Staff Officer and born in England
Press, Volume LV, Issue 16505, 24 April 1919, Page 1
COLEMAN—On April 23rd, at his residence, 18 Ranfurly street St. Albans, Captain Joseph Coleman, late N.Z.S.C., beloved husband of Elizabeth Annie Coleman; aged 56 years. At rest.[6]
New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17146, 28 April 1919, Page 6
CAPTAIN JOSEPH COLEMAN. The death is announced of Captain Joseph Coleman, which occurred at his residence, St. Albans, Christchurch, a few days ago. Captain Coleman, who was 56 years of age, was formerly a bombardier in the Permanent Artillery at Lyttelton, later becoming a sergeant-major instructor. Subsequently he gained his commission, and was attached to the New Zealand Staff Corps. Captain Coleman served in the South African War, 1902, gaining the Queen's Medal, with one clasp.
**************************************
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17560, 2 May 1919, Page 4
Captain Coleman, whose death at Christchurch Was reported a few days ago, had a long, useful, and even distinguished career in the service of New Zealand. In connection with the dispatch of the contingents during the Boer war he did very fine work.
As Staff-Sergeant-Major he was put in charge of the instructional work at the Addington Camp, where the members of the Third (Rough Riders) Contingent were encamped, and the contingent left New Zealand not only well equipped but thoroughly well instructed. After the departure of the Third Contingent, Staff Sergeant - Major Coleman was constantly engaged training troops for active service, and accompanied the Tenth Contingent to South Africa.
A native of Winchester, England, Captain Coleman's father was an Indian civil servant, and Captain Coleman spent eight years at college in India, coming to New Zealand as a young man. He joined the Constabulary Field Force, raised to quell the Maori rising in Taranaki and the West Coast in 1881, and was present at the capture of Te Whiti at Parihaira. He was transferred to the Permanent Artillery in, 1885, on its formation during the Russian war scare. On the establishment of the present territorial system, he was attached to the 4th (Waikato) Regiment, his duties as instructor involving much arduous traveling. Later he was transferred to organise Group 20, Wanganui. This was during the height of the war, when the Defence department was short of men, and was not able to allot a full staff to Captain Coleman. With his customary enthusiasm he threw himself into the work of organising the group, and at the same time he worked strenuously in the recruiting campaign.
Overwork and over strain resulted in his suffering a breakdown in health, which was of such a serious nature that two years and a half ago Captain Coleman retired from active service. [1]
His memorial notices in the paper - 1920
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CH...
Joseph married Elizabeth Annie COWPER c 1898[3]
They had issue:
Elinor [sic] Josephine Dorothy c1898 [4] and she married Nathaniel John REED c1919 [5]
She died 30 October 1926 aged 28[7]
Electoral Roll
1900 Lyttelton
Noted as a drill instructor, of Sumner Road, Lyttelton.
Elizabeth as his wife.
His probate is available:
www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=22395292
References:
[1]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[2]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZ...
[3]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: marriage registration 1898/2437
[4]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: birth registration 1898/12291
[5]
NZ Department of Internal Affairs: Historic birth death marriage indexes: marriage registration 1919/7646. Note her name is entered as "Eleanor"
[6]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[7]
Eleanor is noted in the Christchurch City Council cemetery database as Eleanor Dorothy May of 17 Elm Grove and is buried in Block 44C Plot 46
At Stourbridge Town Station, the only stop on the shortest railway in Europe!
The original station opened in 1879. The line was threatened with the axe by Beeching in 1965. It became unstaffed by 1967.
The old station building demolished in 1979. The line cut back by 70 yards.
New station building built in 1994.
Line used to be operated by Class 153. But now used by the Stourbridge Shuttle - Class 139 built by Parry People Mover.
After a day out in Stourbridge, it was time to get the Stourbridge Shuttle back to Stourbridge Junction (where I would get my connecting main line train back home).
View of the Church of St John the Evangelist from Stourbridge Town Station. It is Grade II listed.
Church of St John the Evangelist, Dudley
1.
1682 ST JOHNS ROAD, STOURBRIDGE
Church of St John the
Evangelist
SO 9083 1/51
II
1860-1. Architect G E Street. Sandstone with brick bands and dressings.
Unbroken slate roof. Nave, aisles, short chancel, and porch on north side. No
tower, but a tall fleche (originally leaded) on roof. Plate tracery throughout
nave. Five cusped lancets and "Early French" rose window at west end. Circular
clerestory windows. Chancel has five-light bay tracery east window. Vigorous
stiff leaf capitals to nave arcades. Marble tile reredos. Stone sedilia.
Original choir benches with vigorously carved poppy heads. Original font with
elaborately decorated iron work cover. Glass mainly c1919 and 1927.
Now simply known as St John's United Reformed Church.
Taken from a print in my collection, no further details known. Photograph taken between 1919 renumbering and 1922 rebuild.
Sole member of GSWR class 11, built April 1897. Rebuilt as shown November 1911. Became 394 under the June 1919 renumbering scheme. Rebuilt December 1922. Became LMS 14509 after the 1923 grouping and withdrawn November 1934.
Copyright - All Rights Reserved - Black Diamond Images
The American Excelsior motorcycles were built by Excelsior-Henderson motorcycles.
The American Excelsior Motorcycle is unrelated to motorcycles in Britain and German which also carried the name Excelsior. The Schwinn Henderson motorcycle was the first to officially break the 100mph barrier.
The Schwinn Bicycle Company was founded in 1895 as the Arnold, Schwinn & Company, with Adolph Frederick William Arnold as Schwinn's other backer. They made bicycles and Schwinn's new company prospered due to a sudden bicycle craze in America. By 1905 with the arrival of other forms of transport including the motorcycle the bicycle boom ended.
"Realizing he needed to grow the company, Ignaz Schwinn purchased several smaller bicycle firms, building a modern factory on Chicago's west side to mass-produce bicycles at lower cost. He finalized a purchase of Excelsior Motorcycle Company in 1912, and in 1917 added the Henderson Company to form Excelsior-Henderson. In an atmosphere of general decline elsewhere in the industry, Schwinn's new motorcycle division thrived, and by 1928 was in third place behind Indian and Harley-Davidson."
....... "At the close of the 1920s, the stock market crash decimated the American motorcycle industry, taking Excelsior-Henderson with it. Arnold, Schwinn, & Co. (as it remained until 1967) was on the verge of bankruptcy. With no buyers, Excelsior-Henderson motorcycles were discontinued in 1931.
Ignaz's son, Frank W. "F. W." Schwinn, took over day-to-day operations at Schwinn. Putting all company efforts towards bicycles, he succeeded in developing a low-cost model that brought Schwinn recognition as an innovative company, as well as a product that would continue to sell during the inevitable downturns in business cycles." - Ref - Wikipedia
In a nutshell the Schwinn companies endured difficult times and continued operations essentially as bicycle manufacturers but increasingly as distributors of products produced in Asia until the early 2000's by which time a continuous line of Schwinn family association with the company ended when it was sold to Pacific and Nautilus in 2001.
The National Motor Cycle Museum of Australia is located just off the Pacific Highway at Nabiac on the NSW Mid North Coast. The museum is open everyday and houses a very large collection of well over 800 motorcycles and interesting collections of other historical memorabilia.
See where this picture was taken. [?]
Wealthy pastoralist and company director Leslie Sprague built Dungowan Flats in 1919 naming them after his country property Dungowan Station, 33 kilometres east of Tamworth. The Flats offered their privileged tenants a home with 'every modern convenience' (fully supplied with electricity, telephones and an 'electric elevator'.
A commercial kitchen on the ground floor serviced the Restaurant De Luxe above. In 1925 the company Dungowan Ltd converted the Paramount Picture Theatre next door into the Cabaret Dungowan where grand social occasions were celebrated. An ice skating rink was added at the end of the 1920s, creating a complex of buildings extending to the corner of Ashburner Street and South Steyne.
Source: Digital image.
Image: P...
Date: Unknwon.
Repository: From the collection of Paul Williams.
Used here by very kind permission.
HOOPER COLLECTION COPYRIGHT P. WILLIAMS.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
The Greville Emerald Tiara c1919
Like all great jewels, this tiara has been through several re-incarnations. It was originally made by Boucheron in Paris in the early 1900 for the heiress the Hon. Mrs. Greville as a circular crown of diamond-set papyrus leaves. As fashions changed, in 1910 Mrs Greville thought the tiara was too imposing and went back to Boucheron to have it remodelled into a lighter headband or bandeau shape tiara. In 1919 it was further adjusted so that it could be worn lower on the forehead. Its final tweak was in 1921 when the geometric pattern of diamonds and emeralds was added and this is the version we saw Princess Eugenie wearing it down the aisle. Unlike the tiara’s original crown design, the bandeau style is streamlined and geometric with no ornamental scrolls or twirls rising above the frame for a cleaner look in keeping with the 1920’s flapper-style fashion revolution. Mrs Greville was pictured in the piece just once, at a concert at the Austrian Legation in London in 1937.
For more history we have to thank Geoffrey C. Munn and his well-researched book: Tiaras, a History of Splendour. According to Mr Munn, the Hon. Mrs Greville had been a long-time friend of the Royal Family and the Duke and Duchess of York - who later became Prince Albert and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother – they spent their 1923 honeymoon at her home, Polesden Lacey. Famous for her honesty Mrs Greville was not shy of the fact that her wealth came from her father’s brewing business. She was known to state: ‘I’d rather be a beeress than a peeress.’ In her will, she bequeathed her entire jewellery collection to the Queen Mother, who, when she died in 2002 left her jewellery to be inherited by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, who in turn lent it to Princess Eugenie for the ‘something borrowed’ wedding item.
When Princess Eugenie of York married Mr. Jack Brooksbank, it was not only the first time that she wore a tiara in public, it was also the first instance when one of the British Royal Family’s most precious tiaras surfaced after being locked up in the royal vault for over seven decades. Contrary to popular speculation that Princess Eugenie would wear her mother’s York Diamond Tiara, the bride, instead, borrowed The Queen’s Greville Emerald Kokoshnik tiara. It is made up of brilliant and rose-cut diamonds that are pavé set in platinum. The delicate weave of the tiara highlights six emeralds that are inset to each side, although only four or five to a side are visible, with a massive stone in the centre. In the book Boucheron: The Secret Archives, it is revealed that the tiara’s oval central emerald is a whopping 93.70 carat. It features five horizontal bands of diamonds, set with six hexagonal emeralds on the third row, on either side. Centred on a large cabochon emerald surrounded by rose-cut diamonds. An elegant jewel such as this would be estimated to fetch £5 million to £10 million at auction, as of 2019.
To complete Princess Eugenie’s wedding day look, she wore a pair of diamond and emerald drop earrings given to her by her husband Jack Brooksbank which perfectly complemented the tiara.
THIS COPY comes from China. it is close but It only has 4 emeralds at each side instead of the six, so is shorter in length towards the back, where it should nearly join together. The earrings are close but of course the emerald stones are not faceted but cabochon.
The Greville Emerald Tiara c1919
Like all great jewels, this tiara has been through several re-incarnations. It was originally made by Boucheron in Paris in the early 1900 for the heiress the Hon. Mrs. Greville as a circular crown of diamond-set papyrus leaves. As fashions changed, in 1910 Mrs Greville thought the tiara was too imposing and went back to Boucheron to have it remodelled into a lighter headband or bandeau shape tiara. In 1919 it was further adjusted so that it could be worn lower on the forehead. Its final tweak was in 1921 when the geometric pattern of diamonds and emeralds was added and this is the version we saw Princess Eugenie wearing it down the aisle. Unlike the tiara’s original crown design, the bandeau style is streamlined and geometric with no ornamental scrolls or twirls rising above the frame for a cleaner look in keeping with the 1920’s flapper-style fashion revolution. Mrs Greville was pictured in the piece just once, at a concert at the Austrian Legation in London in 1937.
For more history we have to thank Geoffrey C. Munn and his well-researched book: Tiaras, a History of Splendour. According to Mr Munn, the Hon. Mrs Greville had been a long-time friend of the Royal Family and the Duke and Duchess of York - who later became Prince Albert and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother – they spent their 1923 honeymoon at her home, Polesden Lacey. Famous for her honesty Mrs Greville was not shy of the fact that her wealth came from her father’s brewing business. She was known to state: ‘I’d rather be a beeress than a peeress.’ In her will, she bequeathed her entire jewellery collection to the Queen Mother, who, when she died in 2002 left her jewellery to be inherited by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, who in turn lent it to Princess Eugenie for the ‘something borrowed’ wedding item.
When Princess Eugenie of York married Mr. Jack Brooksbank, it was not only the first time that she wore a tiara in public, it was also the first instance when one of the British Royal Family’s most precious tiaras surfaced after being locked up in the royal vault for over seven decades. Contrary to popular speculation that Princess Eugenie would wear her mother’s York Diamond Tiara, the bride, instead, borrowed The Queen’s Greville Emerald Kokoshnik tiara. It is made up of brilliant and rose-cut diamonds that are pavé set in platinum. The delicate weave of the tiara highlights six emeralds that are inset to each side, although only four or five to a side are visible, with a massive stone in the centre. In the book Boucheron: The Secret Archives, it is revealed that the tiara’s oval central emerald is a whopping 93.70 carat. It features five horizontal bands of diamonds, set with six hexagonal emeralds on the third row, on either side. Centred on a large cabochon emerald surrounded by rose-cut diamonds. An elegant jewel such as this would be estimated to fetch £5 million to £10 million at auction, as of 2019.
To complete Princess Eugenie’s wedding day look, she wore a pair of diamond and emerald drop earrings given to her by her husband Jack Brooksbank which perfectly complemented the tiara.
THIS COPY comes from China. it is close but It only has 4 emeralds at each side instead of the six, so is shorter in length towards the back, where it should nearly join together. The earrings are close but of course the emerald stones are not faceted but cabochon.
This is St John's United Reformed Church, off St John's Road in Stourbridge, West Midlands.
The church is behind Stourbridge Town Station. And is Grade II listed under it's original name Church of St John the Evangelist.
Church of St John the Evangelist, Dudley
1.
1682 ST JOHNS ROAD, STOURBRIDGE
Church of St John the
Evangelist
SO 9083 1/51
II
1860-1. Architect G E Street. Sandstone with brick bands and dressings.
Unbroken slate roof. Nave, aisles, short chancel, and porch on north side. No
tower, but a tall fleche (originally leaded) on roof. Plate tracery throughout
nave. Five cusped lancets and "Early French" rose window at west end. Circular
clerestory windows. Chancel has five-light bay tracery east window. Vigorous
stiff leaf capitals to nave arcades. Marble tile reredos. Stone sedilia.
Original choir benches with vigorously carved poppy heads. Original font with
elaborately decorated iron work cover. Glass mainly c1919 and 1927.
The Greville Emerald Tiara c1919
Like all great jewels, this tiara has been through several re-incarnations. It was originally made by Boucheron in Paris in the early 1900 for the heiress the Hon. Mrs. Greville as a circular crown of diamond-set papyrus leaves. As fashions changed, in 1910 Mrs Greville thought the tiara was too imposing and went back to Boucheron to have it remodelled into a lighter headband or bandeau shape tiara. In 1919 it was further adjusted so that it could be worn lower on the forehead. Its final tweak was in 1921 when the geometric pattern of diamonds and emeralds was added and this is the version we saw Princess Eugenie wearing it down the aisle. Unlike the tiara’s original crown design, the bandeau style is streamlined and geometric with no ornamental scrolls or twirls rising above the frame for a cleaner look in keeping with the 1920’s flapper-style fashion revolution. Mrs Greville was pictured in the piece just once, at a concert at the Austrian Legation in London in 1937.
For more history we have to thank Geoffrey C. Munn and his well-researched book: Tiaras, a History of Splendour. According to Mr Munn, the Hon. Mrs Greville had been a long-time friend of the Royal Family and the Duke and Duchess of York - who later became Prince Albert and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother – they spent their 1923 honeymoon at her home, Polesden Lacey. Famous for her honesty Mrs Greville was not shy of the fact that her wealth came from her father’s brewing business. She was known to state: ‘I’d rather be a beeress than a peeress.’ In her will, she bequeathed her entire jewellery collection to the Queen Mother, who, when she died in 2002 left her jewellery to be inherited by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, who in turn lent it to Princess Eugenie for the ‘something borrowed’ wedding item.
When Princess Eugenie of York married Mr. Jack Brooksbank, it was not only the first time that she wore a tiara in public, it was also the first instance when one of the British Royal Family’s most precious tiaras surfaced after being locked up in the royal vault for over seven decades. Contrary to popular speculation that Princess Eugenie would wear her mother’s York Diamond Tiara, the bride, instead, borrowed The Queen’s Greville Emerald Kokoshnik tiara. It is made up of brilliant and rose-cut diamonds that are pavé set in platinum. The delicate weave of the tiara highlights six emeralds that are inset to each side, although only four or five to a side are visible, with a massive stone in the centre. In the book Boucheron: The Secret Archives, it is revealed that the tiara’s oval central emerald is a whopping 93.70 carat. It features five horizontal bands of diamonds, set with six hexagonal emeralds on the third row, on either side. Centred on a large cabochon emerald surrounded by rose-cut diamonds. An elegant jewel such as this would be estimated to fetch £5 million to £10 million at auction, as of 2019.
To complete Princess Eugenie’s wedding day look, she wore a pair of diamond and emerald drop earrings given to her by her husband Jack Brooksbank which perfectly complemented the tiara.
THIS COPY comes from China. it is close but It only has 4 emeralds at each side instead of the six, so is shorter in length towards the back, where it should nearly join together. The earrings are close but of course the emerald stones are not faceted but cabochon.
The Greville Emerald Tiara c1919
Like all great jewels, this tiara has been through several re-incarnations. It was originally made by Boucheron in Paris in the early 1900 for the heiress the Hon. Mrs. Greville as a circular crown of diamond-set papyrus leaves. As fashions changed, in 1910 Mrs Greville thought the tiara was too imposing and went back to Boucheron to have it remodelled into a lighter headband or bandeau shape tiara. In 1919 it was further adjusted so that it could be worn lower on the forehead. Its final tweak was in 1921 when the geometric pattern of diamonds and emeralds was added and this is the version we saw Princess Eugenie wearing it down the aisle. Unlike the tiara’s original crown design, the bandeau style is streamlined and geometric with no ornamental scrolls or twirls rising above the frame for a cleaner look in keeping with the 1920’s flapper-style fashion revolution. Mrs Greville was pictured in the piece just once, at a concert at the Austrian Legation in London in 1937.
For more history we have to thank Geoffrey C. Munn and his well-researched book: Tiaras, a History of Splendour. According to Mr Munn, the Hon. Mrs Greville had been a long-time friend of the Royal Family and the Duke and Duchess of York - who later became Prince Albert and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother – they spent their 1923 honeymoon at her home, Polesden Lacey. Famous for her honesty Mrs Greville was not shy of the fact that her wealth came from her father’s brewing business. She was known to state: ‘I’d rather be a beeress than a peeress.’ In her will, she bequeathed her entire jewellery collection to the Queen Mother, who, when she died in 2002 left her jewellery to be inherited by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, who in turn lent it to Princess Eugenie for the ‘something borrowed’ wedding item.
When Princess Eugenie of York married Mr. Jack Brooksbank, it was not only the first time that she wore a tiara in public, it was also the first instance when one of the British Royal Family’s most precious tiaras surfaced after being locked up in the royal vault for over seven decades. Contrary to popular speculation that Princess Eugenie would wear her mother’s York Diamond Tiara, the bride, instead, borrowed The Queen’s Greville Emerald Kokoshnik tiara. It is made up of brilliant and rose-cut diamonds that are pavé set in platinum. The delicate weave of the tiara highlights six emeralds that are inset to each side, although only four or five to a side are visible, with a massive stone in the centre. In the book Boucheron: The Secret Archives, it is revealed that the tiara’s oval central emerald is a whopping 93.70 carat. It features five horizontal bands of diamonds, set with six hexagonal emeralds on the third row, on either side. Centred on a large cabochon emerald surrounded by rose-cut diamonds. An elegant jewel such as this would be estimated to fetch £5 million to £10 million at auction, as of 2019.
To complete Princess Eugenie’s wedding day look, she wore a pair of diamond and emerald drop earrings given to her by her husband Jack Brooksbank which perfectly complemented the tiara.
THIS COPY comes from China. it is close but It only has 4 emeralds at each side instead of the six, so is shorter in length towards the back, where it should nearly join together. The earrings are close but of course the emerald stones are not faceted but cabochon.
Source: Digital image.
Set: WIL04.
Date: c1919.
Photographer: William Hooper.
HOOPER COLLECTION COPYRIGHT P.A. Williams.
Repository: From the collection of Mr P. Williams.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Title: Sears family
Collection: Sears
Date: c1919
Inscription: The Sears family. Standing at back Tom, Harold, In front, Dorothy, grandmother (Martha Mary), Patricia, King, grandfather Sears, Charlie, Clara (John is missing from photo as he had left home). Taken about 1919
Photographer: Marchant Studio, Gawler, SA
The Greville Emerald Tiara c1919
Like all great jewels, this tiara has been through several re-incarnations. It was originally made by Boucheron in Paris in the early 1900 for the heiress the Hon. Mrs. Greville as a circular crown of diamond-set papyrus leaves. As fashions changed, in 1910 Mrs Greville thought the tiara was too imposing and went back to Boucheron to have it remodelled into a lighter headband or bandeau shape tiara. In 1919 it was further adjusted so that it could be worn lower on the forehead. Its final tweak was in 1921 when the geometric pattern of diamonds and emeralds was added and this is the version we saw Princess Eugenie wearing it down the aisle. Unlike the tiara’s original crown design, the bandeau style is streamlined and geometric with no ornamental scrolls or twirls rising above the frame for a cleaner look in keeping with the 1920’s flapper-style fashion revolution. Mrs Greville was pictured in the piece just once, at a concert at the Austrian Legation in London in 1937.
For more history we have to thank Geoffrey C. Munn and his well-researched book: Tiaras, a History of Splendour. According to Mr Munn, the Hon. Mrs Greville had been a long-time friend of the Royal Family and the Duke and Duchess of York - who later became Prince Albert and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother – they spent their 1923 honeymoon at her home, Polesden Lacey. Famous for her honesty Mrs Greville was not shy of the fact that her wealth came from her father’s brewing business. She was known to state: ‘I’d rather be a beeress than a peeress.’ In her will, she bequeathed her entire jewellery collection to the Queen Mother, who, when she died in 2002 left her jewellery to be inherited by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, who in turn lent it to Princess Eugenie for the ‘something borrowed’ wedding item.
When Princess Eugenie of York married Mr. Jack Brooksbank, it was not only the first time that she wore a tiara in public, it was also the first instance when one of the British Royal Family’s most precious tiaras surfaced after being locked up in the royal vault for over seven decades. Contrary to popular speculation that Princess Eugenie would wear her mother’s York Diamond Tiara, the bride, instead, borrowed The Queen’s Greville Emerald Kokoshnik tiara. It is made up of brilliant and rose-cut diamonds that are pavé set in platinum. The delicate weave of the tiara highlights six emeralds that are inset to each side, although only four or five to a side are visible, with a massive stone in the centre. In the book Boucheron: The Secret Archives, it is revealed that the tiara’s oval central emerald is a whopping 93.70 carat. It features five horizontal bands of diamonds, set with six hexagonal emeralds on the third row, on either side. Centred on a large cabochon emerald surrounded by rose-cut diamonds. An elegant jewel such as this would be estimated to fetch £5 million to £10 million at auction, as of 2019.
To complete Princess Eugenie’s wedding day look, she wore a pair of diamond and emerald drop earrings given to her by her husband Jack Brooksbank which perfectly complemented the tiara.
THIS COPY comes from China. it is close but It only has 4 emeralds at each side instead of the six, so is shorter in length towards the back, where it should nearly join together. The earrings are close but of course the emerald stones are not faceted but cabochon.
The Greville Emerald Tiara c1919
Like all great jewels, this tiara has been through several re-incarnations. It was originally made by Boucheron in Paris in the early 1900 for the heiress the Hon. Mrs. Greville as a circular crown of diamond-set papyrus leaves. As fashions changed, in 1910 Mrs Greville thought the tiara was too imposing and went back to Boucheron to have it remodelled into a lighter headband or bandeau shape tiara. In 1919 it was further adjusted so that it could be worn lower on the forehead. Its final tweak was in 1921 when the geometric pattern of diamonds and emeralds was added and this is the version we saw Princess Eugenie wearing it down the aisle. Unlike the tiara’s original crown design, the bandeau style is streamlined and geometric with no ornamental scrolls or twirls rising above the frame for a cleaner look in keeping with the 1920’s flapper-style fashion revolution. Mrs Greville was pictured in the piece just once, at a concert at the Austrian Legation in London in 1937.
For more history we have to thank Geoffrey C. Munn and his well-researched book: Tiaras, a History of Splendour. According to Mr Munn, the Hon. Mrs Greville had been a long-time friend of the Royal Family and the Duke and Duchess of York - who later became Prince Albert and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother – they spent their 1923 honeymoon at her home, Polesden Lacey. Famous for her honesty Mrs Greville was not shy of the fact that her wealth came from her father’s brewing business. She was known to state: ‘I’d rather be a beeress than a peeress.’ In her will, she bequeathed her entire jewellery collection to the Queen Mother, who, when she died in 2002 left her jewellery to be inherited by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, who in turn lent it to Princess Eugenie for the ‘something borrowed’ wedding item.
When Princess Eugenie of York married Mr. Jack Brooksbank, it was not only the first time that she wore a tiara in public, it was also the first instance when one of the British Royal Family’s most precious tiaras surfaced after being locked up in the royal vault for over seven decades. Contrary to popular speculation that Princess Eugenie would wear her mother’s York Diamond Tiara, the bride, instead, borrowed The Queen’s Greville Emerald Kokoshnik tiara. It is made up of brilliant and rose-cut diamonds that are pavé set in platinum. The delicate weave of the tiara highlights six emeralds that are inset to each side, although only four or five to a side are visible, with a massive stone in the centre. In the book Boucheron: The Secret Archives, it is revealed that the tiara’s oval central emerald is a whopping 93.70 carat. It features five horizontal bands of diamonds, set with six hexagonal emeralds on the third row, on either side. Centred on a large cabochon emerald surrounded by rose-cut diamonds. An elegant jewel such as this would be estimated to fetch £5 million to £10 million at auction, as of 2019.
To complete Princess Eugenie’s wedding day look, she wore a pair of diamond and emerald drop earrings given to her by her husband Jack Brooksbank which perfectly complemented the tiara.
.THIS COPY comes from China. it is close but It only has 4 emeralds at each side instead of the six, so is shorter in length towards the back, where it should nearly join together. The earrings are close but of course the emerald stones are not faceted but cabochon.
The pond has been replaced by a road called Knox Green. Try telling that to the ducks.
For a close-up of the sign on the shed-like building, see here: www.flickr.com/photos/49428126@N00/16598121416/
For a close-up of the shop on the right, see Here: www.flickr.com/photos/49428126@N00/16623511672/
For a very big scan of the whole of the 1919 image, see here: www.flickr.com/photos/49428126@N00/16437197150/
Steeple of St. Mark's church in background and school to left.
John R Newell is second from right (in sailor top).
This is my Grandmother in her striped play suit, holding a couple of Easter baskets.
Comparing to other photos, she looks about 4 years old here, which would make the year 1919.
I just love her shoes!
Greenwood collection, via Frank Palmos journalist see also MOV Charles H. Perrin Album Collection, Victorian Bushfires Collection (collected by Graeme Butler for Buln Buln Shire history, 1970s)
CHUVA COLOR by ANNE | pt | 7-29-2010 | mouse | 1280 x 586
title: chuva color
artist: anne
tool: mouse
country: pt
date: 7-29-2010
colors: 155
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Greenwood collection, via Frank Palmos journalist (collected by Graeme Butler for Buln Buln Shire history, 1970s)
Grandfather Robert John Daniel (Roy) Phelan (on the right), Private 3782, 46th Btn, AIF, left Melbourne on troopship 'Nestor' 28 Feb 1918. Arrived England 22 April 1918. Left for France 8 July 1918. Badly injured in head by shrapnel 18 September 1918. Left England for Australia 19 April 1919 on the 'Marathon'.
Does anyone recognise the uniform of the soldier on the left.
Born Margaret Fenwick about 1886. married Arthur Williamson until his death c1919 due to war injuries. Three children Arthur born 1912, Catherine and Mary.
Met William Barker had two daughters Edie and Elizabeth.
She died in 1941 during a war time blackout. the air raid precaution noted that there was light coming from her house. they noted that she had died and had accidentally moved the curtains as she fell.
Outside of the cafe at Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery is a terrace. It has views of the city of Nottingham!
Views from the terrace at Nottingham Castle.
A British Waterways building.
Grade II listed.
British Waterways Warehouse to Rear of Numbers 17 to 23, Nottingham
NOTTINGHAM
SK5739SW WILFORD STREET
646-1/23/715 (East side)
British Waterways warehouse to rear
of Nos.17-23 (odd) (not included)
II
Canal warehouse, now disused. c1919. Brick, with concrete
basement, blue brick plinth and concrete dressings, and flat
roof behind parapet. Plinth, second floor sill band, string
course, chamfered brick eaves. Windows are metal framed
glazing bar casements. 6 storeys plus basement; 21 windows,
arranged 2:1:4:1:4:1:4:1:3. Wedge-shaped, with splayed front
following the line of the canal. The 2 lower floors have
2-light segment-arched windows, and between each pair, loft
doors. Upper floors have similar fenestration, with
flat-headed windows, and bays divided by pilasters.
Listing NGR: SK5718839289
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
- Top left and bottom right: "Cabine Telephone" (phone booth in French)
- Top right and bottom left: Biking along a river in France.
- Middle: Maybe a French farm house?
These all look like Lucy Phillips (later Lucy Bird). But that would mean that she traveled to France with Byron Bird, who was in the 547th Engineers Service Battalion in France from Oct 1918 to Jul 1919. Maybe she headed to France after the Germans surrendered, when it was clear that Byron would need to spend more months in support of the AEF troops until they returned to the United States?
Album B Page 55
View the entire album of Aunt Lucy from the 1910s.
Initially New Zealand's military pilots were trained at the 2 private flying schools situated at Kohimarama, a seaplane base in Auckland and Sockburn in Christchurch. Once trained these pilots invariably left for England to join the RAF.
The Canterbury Aviation Co.
Choice of Site for the Aerodrome
It may be thought that with the wide area of the Canterbury Plains from which to choose, there should have been no difficulty in selecting a good aerodrome. At least a dozen excellent sites were offered and inspected, but the difficulty of the problem lay in the desire of the Provisional Directors to select the best site possible, and one which could not be eclipsed by future rivals. They looked ahead to the time, after the war, when an aerodrome would be a practical necessity for every city the size of Christchurch, when the postal service would be carried by air, and private owners would want their hangars and aerodrome just as motorists now need a garage. Accessibility to the city would then become a point of primary importance. The site finally selected is under six miles from the centre of the city, and within a few minutes' walk of the electric trams and of a railway station (Sockburn). The site possesses other special advantages. It adjoins the Canterbury Park Trotting ground, which affords good landing ground in case of emergency and is not likely to be built over, and perhaps more important still, it is within reach of electric light and power supply from the Government installation at Lake Coleridge.
In May, 1916, Henry Wigram moved in the Legislative Council:- "That in view of the rapid development of the science of aerial navigation that has taken place in recent years, this Council suggests that the Government should establish a school or schools of flying in preparation for the formation of an aviation corps for purposes of national defence."
The Leader of the Council, the Hon. Sir Francis Bell, speaking on behalf of the Government, advised that the establishment of schools of aviation was not, a practical necessity of the moment, and his colleague (the Minister of Defence), with whom he agreed, thought that it could not then with advantage be undertaken by the Government. The Minister of Defence indicated that while the Government was not prepared to establish a South Island school, it had no objection to its being undertaken by private enterprise.
On August 26, 1916 the first meeting was held of the Provisional Board of the Canterbury Aviation Co. chaired by the Mayor of Christchurch and a large and influential Board of Directors was elected.
Aeroplane Fleet
One of the first acts of the Board of the Canterbury Aviation Co. had been to take over the contract entered into by the Chairman, Henry Wigram, for the purchase of two Cauldron Anzani aeroplanes and to order a third machine of the same make. The first machine to arrive, though not the first ordered, was a 60 h.p. dual-control, and after the first few flights it developed structural weakness in its engine, and had to go into dock for extensive repairs. While these repairs were being carried out, Mr Mackie set to work to build a plane for a 45 h.p. engine, originally imported by Lieut. Scotland, and afterwards purchased by the Company. The pupils all lent a hand at the building, and the new machine was flown by Mr. Hill on July 21. It was christened "White Wings" by the boys, and was a great success, all the pupils for the first few months taking their tickets on it. Mr Mackie came to us from the Auckland School at Kohimarama, where he had already established a reputation as a builder of aeroplanes. Since he has been with us he has built several more planes, which are not only cheaper than the imported models, but considerably lighter and possessing greater stability, so much so in fact, that we are now importing engines only, and building our own planes. Mr Mackie has been equally successful as a maker of propellers.
Flight Instructor
Mr C.M. Hill, who had been chief instructor in the Hall Flying School, at Hendon, England, was appointed as Canterbury Aviation Co. instructor, and arrived in Christchurch on May 3, 1917, about a fortnight after the first machine had been delivered.
WIGRAM AERODROME.
MANAWATU TIMES, VOLUME XLVI, ISSUE 2687, 3 JULY 1923, PAGE 5
WIGRAM AERODROME COMPLIMENT TO PIONEER IN NEW ZEALAND AVIATION.
[Per Press Association.]
CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night.
As a compliment to the Hon. H. F. Wigram, the Government has decided to rename the Sockburn aerodrome the Wigram aerodrome. Mr Wigram, chairman of the Canterbury Aviation Company, made a gift of £10,000 to the Government towards the purchase price of the aerodrome, and its new name is in recognition of this fact, as well as of Mr Wigram's valuable pioneering work in aviation in New Zealand.
The first 100 pilots, by Henry Wigram
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East window of the chancel at Gedling, consisting of three lancets and a quatrefoil light above. The glass appears to be a fine late work by Henry Holiday c1919 (or could possibly be by Holiday's follower William Glasby). Thus far I can find no documentary confirmation but the bold style of drawing speaks for itself.
All Hallows at Gedling (immediately east of Nottingham) is a grand 13th/14th century building with a very tall north west steeple.
The interior is spacious and has several features of interest, including a strange 'flattened' effigy of a priest in the chancel, and a fragment of medieval sculpture in the north aisle.
There is some good glass in the east window that appears to be a late work of Henry Holiday, whilst the recent glass at the corresponding end of the church makes a more contemporary statement.
The church is normally open only on Wednesdays.
This is St John's United Reformed Church, off St John's Road in Stourbridge, West Midlands.
The church is behind Stourbridge Town Station. And is Grade II listed under it's original name Church of St John the Evangelist.
Church of St John the Evangelist, Dudley
1.
1682 ST JOHNS ROAD, STOURBRIDGE
Church of St John the
Evangelist
SO 9083 1/51
II
1860-1. Architect G E Street. Sandstone with brick bands and dressings.
Unbroken slate roof. Nave, aisles, short chancel, and porch on north side. No
tower, but a tall fleche (originally leaded) on roof. Plate tracery throughout
nave. Five cusped lancets and "Early French" rose window at west end. Circular
clerestory windows. Chancel has five-light bay tracery east window. Vigorous
stiff leaf capitals to nave arcades. Marble tile reredos. Stone sedilia.
Original choir benches with vigorously carved poppy heads. Original font with
elaborately decorated iron work cover. Glass mainly c1919 and 1927.