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From an upmarket illustrated hotel guide c1913/14 a fine colour advert for the Regent St branch of Boots the Cash Chemists, Regal House. This branch was one of the stars of the rapidly growing Boots estate of shops - founded in Nottingham the company were one of the earlier national brands.
Coonalpyn – from Desert to Downs.
In the early years, Coonalpyn was known as the Ninety Mile Desert. It was not a desert in a true sense as it consisted of Mallee scrub, yaccas and banksias interspersed with lagoon and swamp flats, low fossil limestone hills and sand ridges. Early in 1850 Police Inspector Tolmer travelled through this vast uninhabited area on his way to the Victorian Goldfields to safely bring gold back to SA for assaying here. After 1852 Government wells and signs were established every 20 miles to aid travellers passing though the desert country. The pastoral era began with John Barton Hack who had a pastoral property here and chose the name Coonalpyn Downs for his estate from a local Aboriginal word meaning barren woman. Coonalpyn Downs was a 123 square mile leasehold property. It had several owners in the 19th century and the homestead was a substantial six roomed stone dwelling. By 1895 the land from Tailem Bend through to Coonalpyn and Tintinara was being managed under pastoral lease by the Cooke Family. Parts of it were resumed by the government to create settlements along the intercolonial railway line to Melbourne but larger areas were not resumed until the early 20th century. Coonalpyn is situated in the Hundred of Coneybeer which was declared and surveyed around 1895. (Frederick Coneybeer was a unionist and state parliamentarian for most years from 1893 to 1930.)
In 1887 the Adelaide-Melbourne rail link opened up the area and a small settlement at Coonalpyn was established. It began with the Coonalpyn Post Office followed by the primary school in 1889. But the township of Coonalpyn was proclaimed in 1909. The Coonalpyn Congregational (now Uniting) Church on Poyntz Terrace now the Dukes Highway was built in 1927 but Congregational services were held in the old institute from 1907. Fund raising for the Coonalpyn Congregational Church was under way by 1919. Also in 1927 the primary school moved from the institute hall where it had been held to a new government school room in the western part of Coonalpyn. Coonalpyn originally had two Lutheran Congregations (Bethlehem and Emmanuel) which were formed in 1930 and in 1940 respectively. They both held services in the Institute but in the early 1950s the two congregations cooperated to build a Lutheran Church at a cost of £5,000 that both congregations could use. The new church was dedicated in November 1952 and was the first Lutheran Church in Australia to serve both main Lutheran synods (ELCA and UELCA). In 1966 with Lutheran churches unification it changed its name to Redeemer Lutheran Church. E.T.S.A power came to Coonalpyn in 1962. Before this, private operators supplied electricity. A boost to the community occurred in 1968 when a water pipeline from Tailem Bend to Keith was constructed. The Coonalpyn Hotel was proposed in 1953 and finally constructed in 1956. The town has a general cemetery on the outskirts. The stone RSL Hall was the original institute hall which closed in 1953 when a new one opened. This institute was open by 1906 and during the 1930s and 1940s Catholic masses were held within it. The old institute was sold at public auction in 1954. It is not known when the RSL acquired it. The new 1953 Institute was built at a cost of £8,000 and it was opened by the Premer Sir Thomas Playford. Catholic masses were moved to the new institute after 1954. The town also still holds an annual agricultural show which was first held in 1945. A new bank of Adelaide opened in 1954 in the former chemist shop. The town was growing.
In the early 1950s the town boomed as the so called Ninety Mile Desert was transformed into the Coonalpyn Downs with the addition of trace elements to the soil which suddenly made them productive for some crops but especially for pastures (subterranean clover) for sheep and cattle. This important work took years of research and development and the actual discovery of the importance of trace elements to soil fertility was only discovered by intelligent chance by scientist Hedley Marston and his colleague David Riceman. Riceman noticed grass under coper power lines was greener than grass elsewhere because of constant dripping water from the wires in winter. He investigated this further. Marston’s work with trace elements transformed the Ninety Mile Desert from poor scrub to thriving farms carrying luxuriant pastures. Deficiencies of copper and zinc as well as of phosphorus in the sandy soils of the area were demonstrated by Marston's colleague, D.S. Riceman. Co-operative experiments with a private landowner, Mr J.E. Becker (later Sir Ellerton Becker) were begun by Riceman in 1944 which led to a definition of the mineral nutrients limiting pasture establishment. Superphosphate appropriately supplemented with copper and zinc gave spectacular pasture and cropping results. The Australian Mutual Provident Society invested capital in family farm holdings and first developed much of the land which it later sold to farmers. The prices of land in the Coonalpyn district and Keith area rose from about 25/- per hectare to about £25! This was a major scientific breakthrough. Much of David Riceman’s experimental work was carried on the property of Sir Ellerton Becker near Keith.
Today after decades of decline it is now revitalised by the silo art of the town. Bulk handling of grain began in SA in the early 1950s but most silos in the Upper South East were only built in the 1960s or later. They are now managed by Viterra grain buyers and exporters. Victoria began silo art in Australia and created a specific silo art trial across the Victorian Wimmera several years ago. Coonalpyn decided to follow suit in an attempt to revitalise the town. The silo art in Coonalpyn was only completed in April 2017. The paintings are 35 metres high. Five silos were painted and the work was done with a grant from the Coorong Council. $80,000 was needed for the project with local fund raising and grants from Country Arts SA and the Regional Arts fund. The Coorong Council employed the services of Brisbane artist Guido van Helten who created the first silo art mural in the Victorian Wimmera town of Brim. Helten visited the town of Coonalpyn for most of the month of February and decided to use actual portraits of children from the Coonalpyn School. They are truly stunning and they are encouraging some of the four to five thousands vehicles a day that pass through the town to stop and look more closely at the silo art. Van Helten has painted similar giant silos in Florida, Russia, Mexico, Poland, the Ukraine, and Belgium etc. To take advantage of the silo art a new café and coffee shop has opened in Coonalpyn. South Australia is unlikely to create a silo art trail as the next silos transformed by art are in Kimba about 660 kilometres away! Above is the silo art of Brim in Victoria’s Wimmera painted by the same artist but it is less successful than the Coonalpyn silo art. The colours are drabber, all the faces look downwards and it is extremely difficult to tell that the third figure form the left is a female farmer. In our view he should have made the contribution of local women to farming at Brim much more obvious. Coonalpyn is also the home of the Careship Coorong snail farm. It was established in 2011 to provide a kind of therapeutic environment for people suffering from dementia. Volunteers run the snail farm and the coordinator learn of the scheme from care farms in the Netherlands. The farm is home to about 15,000 snails which will be harvested from 2018 as they are destined to become a gourmet style of pâté. The dementia volunteers capture escaped snails and ensure the gardens are thriving to provide food for the snails. The farm has received an Alzheimer’s Australia award and it is the first snail farm in Australia but the concept of care farms for dementia sufferers is more common in Europe.
Steeped in history and just 165 kilometres from Adelaide, Moonta was South Australia's second largest town in its heyday. Moonta's origins in 1861 were very fortunate - a shepherd noticed traces of copper on a wombat burrow, which led to the establishment of the Moonta Mining Company that soon became one of the richest copper mines in Australia.
The ensuing flood of skilled miners from Cornwall changed South Australia's cultural mix. Apart from contributing to an economic explosion, the immigrants brought us Cornish architecture and the delicious Cornish pasties.
Not very long ago, this shop in Upton upon Severn was an independant Pharmacy, but it's now become Boots. Over the
door, it says John Gibbs, M.P.S. Established 1881.
#61 Boots in 113 pictures in 2013
Euroa.
This small town was named from the local aboriginal word meaning joyful. You will find joy in the wonderful red brick architectural inheritance from the 19th century if this interests you. The central part of the town was surveyed in 1850 and settled in 1854. In the early days the town’s wealth came from the surrounding sheep properties and the first three leasehold runs were established in 1838 by the Faithfull, Templeton and Kirkland families. Once the town was established life here was civilised but not exciting for most, until Ned Kelly robbed the bank here in 1878! The buildings indicate the wealth and civility of Euroa. The railway from Melbourne reached the town in 1873 and business boomed. Euroa is situated equidistantly between Melbourne and Albury. Among the many heritage buildings in the main and railway streets area are the railway station (built around 1878); the former grand but faded Colonial Bank built in 1889; the impressive façade of the Euroa Hotel built in 1884; the outstanding and differently styled National Bank on the corner of Binney St ( the main street) built in 1885 ; Blairgowrie House in the main street built in 1890 as chemist shop and residence; the Post Office built in 1890 ; the unusual Art Nouveau style Courthouse built in 1890 and the former Methodist Church built in 1897. At the very end of the main street you can see the squat Anglican Church built in 1884. In the street parallel to the main street is the red brick Euroa flourmill built in 1873 with a new Art Nouveau façade added in 1903. The flourmill closed in 1917. Just along from the flourmill is the Catholic Church which was erected in 1887 (replacing an earlier church built in 1866).
Some lengthy histories for 217 and 225. The building was constructed in 1900 and converted to retail and loft office and residential spaces in 2002.
M. J. Kelling & Company was organized around 1906 by Max Kelling. His older brother Alfred H. Kelling was a professional food chemist and MIT graduate, and it’s likely that his knowledge of that industry played a role in Max entering the field. Two years later, the company opened offices at 52-56 Fifth Avenue (now Wells Street) and 171 S. Canal St. Among their biggest clients were druggists and candy shops — any place with a soda fountain — as the relatively new concept of the ice cream sundae created much greater demand for dessert-nut toppings. Kelling was among the early suppliers, inventing its own sundae recipes.
In 1909, M. J. Kelling & Co. was reorganized as the Kelling-Karel Company; shortly thereafter, the firm’s most enduring product line was introduced: “Double Kay” salted nuts. In 1921, Chicago Commerce reported that “the Kelling-Karel Co. is said to be the largest manufacturer of shelled nuts in the world, The following year, the company moved from 217 W. Huron St. to a new headquarters and plant in the North Pier Terminal building at 365 E. Illinois St. By 1924, the Kelling-Karel Company was officially scrapped and reorganized as the Kelling Nut Company. Two-time Wisconsin governor candidate Judge John C. Karel, with whom Kelling worked under in Milwaukee before entering the nut business, had no duties with the company. During the 1930s, the Kelling Nut Co. established a type of franchise system for its Double Kay Nut Shop. If a drug store or candy shop agreed to exclusively carry Kelling nuts and display and prepare them in the style dictated by the company, they could then advertise themselves as having an “Authorized Double Kay Nut Shop.” The Double Kay Nut Shops were a great success and remained a staple of the business for many years, even during the Depression and World War II.
In 1947, Kelling Nut announced a new headquarters for its general and sales offices, taking over a neoclassical bank building at 2800 W. Belmont Ave., which had been closed since the banking panics of 1930 and 1931. Seeing the trend toward large food conglomerates, Max and Robert Kelling decided there was no real viable future for an independent family business, and they sold the firm to the Corn Products Company of New York in 1967. Following the death of Max Kelling in 1969, the business was taken over in the 1970s by General Foods. It was sold again in the 1980s (along with its old rival the Peterson Nut Co.) to Fairmount Snacks Group, Inc. As late as the early 2000s, Fairmount maintained a brand called “Kelling Kernel Fresh,” which was tied in with Peterson’s products. But after Kanan Enterprises purchased Peterson Nut in 2003, it merged that brand with another historic Cleveland nut business, forming King Nut Companies. References thereafter to the old Kelling name seem to disappear.
Company founder Sidney Shure had an uncle Nathan Shure who was the titular founder of the N. Shure Company in 1888, one of Chicago’s early wholesale mail-order houses. His father, Mandel Shure was a longtime executive with the same firm. Sidney graduated from the University of Chicago in 1923 and soon quickly turned his hobby of radio into a profitable enterprise, first as a salesman for a wholesale dealer, then organizing a radio parts distribution business in 1925. Called Shure Radio Company, it was just Sidney, alone, in a small office, first located at 19 S. Wells St. Despite competition from other small-time radio part suppliers, Shure was one of just six in the nation in 1926 to put out an exclusive mail order catalog. Sidney created an eye-catching publication, featuring more than 1,000 products. By 1928, the company had grown to 75 employees, including his brother Samuel, fresh out of MIT with a master’s degree in heating and ventilation engineering. From expanded offices at 335 W. Madison St., the newly renamed Shure Brothers Company embarked a new mission to win over the wider public.
With several of Shure’s manufacturing partners and key buyers closing after the stock market crash, the Shures did the same, canceling their catalog and letting go almost their entire staff. Samuel saw little hope for recovery and moved to St. Louis to work for a heating and ventilation business.
In the first years of the Depression, S. N. Shure concentrated on radio, presuming Americans’ desire for home entertainment would continue growing. With large companies now able to mass-produce affordable all-in-one tube radio sets, Shure looked to accessories like radio microphones. With engineer Ralph Glover. they developed the first Shure-produced microphone. Shure Brothers moved into a new building at 225 W. Huron St., which offered room for manufacturing and lab research. A national sales team was set up in 1932, and wide-scale production began on the 33N and the company’s first condenser mic, the 40D. At the time, there were only four companies in America manufacturing microphones. Sidney Shure never entirely lost his instinct for diversification. In the late 1930s, his company was one of the few in the world producing carbon, crystal, condenser and dynamic mics, as well as medical tech like the “Stethophone,” hearing-aid devices and an exclusive line of phonograph cartridges.
During World War II, Shure Brothers produced the plastic, hand-held T-17 microphone, which became the preferred model for the Army and Navy. As consumer products were shelved and all attention shifted to military contracts, Shure’s wartime workforce ballooned to more than 1,200, rapidly building not only the T-17, but the T-30 Throat Microphone, HS-33 and HS-38 Headset Mics, the M-C1 mic for oxygen masks and many others.
In 1956, Shure’s corporate offices moved to a new modern facility at 222 Hartrey Ave. in Evanston. The company became the world leader in phonograph cartridges during the 1950s, supplying the top record player manufacturers like RCA, Magnavox and Emerson, while pioneering one of the first wireless microphone systems and the first phono cartridge equipped for stereo recording. In 1981, at age 79, Sidney Shure semi-retired into a chairmanship, promoting James Kogen to the role of president and general manager. At this stage, Shure Brothers still had several manufacturing facilities in the Chicagoland area (Evanston, Arlington Heights and Wheeling), as well as a Shure Electronics plant in Phoenix. With Chinese imports increasingly competing at lower costs, Shure soon followed moved most of its microphone and phonograph manufacturing to Mexico. In 2005, Shure opened its first plant in China, as well.
While most of Shure’s manufacturing jobs left Chicago, the headquarters remained in the area, moving to 5800 W. Touhy Ave.in Niles, IL, in 2003. Shure Inc. — having dropped the “Brothers” from the name in 1999 — returned to its microphone roots in the ‘90s and ‘00s, not only producing their classic designs, but a host of new wireless mics. They also now produce high-end headphones, personal monitor systems and integrated conferencing systems.
The Three Rabbits was situated at 833 Romford Road London E12, closing around 2000.
It is thought that an alehouse has stood on the site of the Three Rabbits pub, on the corner of Rabbits Road since the 1630's.
The pub was said to have been used by dealers trading at the annual cattle fairs on what is now Wanstead Flats, until the nineteenth century.
The earliest listing of this building is around 1820s.
Following the revamp of the huge Saloon Bar in the 70s there was live music on Fridays and Saturdays. In the 80s. the so called "has beens" circuit saw Billy J Kramer, Hermans Hermits, Dave Berry, Wayne Fontana and The Swinging Blue Jeans play here. Almost opposite the pub was a Butchers that Brian Poole of the Tremeloes had once owned.
The pub had a large cellar and there were many tales told among the staff of seeing a ghost both in the cellar and elsewhere in the pub.
Near the end it was known as Pharaohs Bar & part of the pub was "Backstage" a food and cabreret bar.
The site is now a chemists now run by Boots but was Anthony's Pharmacy up till around 2010 & there are flats above.
Old image courtesy of National Brewery Heritage Trust.
Macquarie Street, Hobart.
Advertising the Kevin Corby Chemist, this vintage beauty once flashed the words ‘KEVIN’ ‘CORBY’, ‘CHEMIST’ and ‘NOW OPEN’ to drivers approaching Hobart from the south.
Recently featured as the setting for a four part BBC2 documentary called the Victorian Pharmacy. As well as the vast array of tinctures, potions and medicines on display in the Chemist shop at Blist Hill there is a side room where the joys of Victorian dentistry can be experienced.
Happy 161st Birthday Julius Richard Petri from the State Library of NSW, 22 May 2013. Chemists making aspirin or the new penicillin?
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Renegades of Rhythm (DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist)
Le Trianon - 22/02/2015
© 2015 Laurent Besson, Tous droits réservés.
A chemist's shop joins the parade.
A 3D shopfront modification of the standard Kingsway Models HIgh Rd shops kit.
One more unit to be filled and then the whole building can be bedded into the base.
Chemists Shop, Blists Hill
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The contents and fittings in the Chemist shop were originally from a simular chemists in Bournemouth. This shop is a treasure trove of long forgotten medices and embrocations, including the chemists mixing jars and raw materials, some of which would have contained long banned substances such horrors as sulphers and strychnine
On a less gory note this chemist also sold the likes of old style cough sweets, liquorice root ect. priced in Victorian money, these could be purchased by visitors who first exchanged their modern day money at the on site Lloyds Bank building at an exchange rate of 40 new pence to 1 old penny.
Diolch yn fawr am 68,267,224 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mwynhewch ac arhoswch yn ddiogel
Thank you 68,267,224 amazing views, enjoy and stay safe
Shot 09.09.2018 at Blist Hill Victorian Museum, Shropshire Ref 136-356 Ref 136-371