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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi talks with reporters on her way in to a meeting with House Democrats and Vice President Joe Biden in Washington, D.C., U.S., on August 1, 2011. Photographer: Jay Mallin/Bloomberg
Bluebird Art & Crafts, 3 & 4 The Strait
3 Strait was a house, now shop built in 1780. 1844, T Veiza and Co, debt collectors; 1885, R Swallow, wallpaper dealer (along with 2 The Strait); 2002-2012 Knights Shoes; 2013 RubyRedKids childrens toys. Same build as 2 Strait.
4 Strait was a house, now shop built in 1780. 2002 Knights Shoes. Not the same build as 2 and 3 Strait. Rear single-storey warehouse added in 1926 for F Graves, since replaced by 2-storey warehouse.
The Strait is the junction between Steep Hill and the top of the High Street. It was created, along with Steep Hill, when the line of Ermine Street was diverted to the east. Called Straite in 1790. Previously the location of the local Corn Market in the 14th century. The east side was widened at the south end in 1896. Numbers 16 and 17 were demolished sometime before 1955.
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Kapunda.
Six years after the founding of the colony, SA was producing almost no wheat and the government was near bankruptcy. Governor Gawler had run up huge debts that the SA Company and the British government were unwilling to pay. Governor Grey arrived to face these problems but the discovery of commercial quantities of copper at Kapunda saved the state. Captain Charles Bagot of Koonunga Station discovered the copper and conferred with Francis Dutton of Anlaby station who had also discovered copper. They kept the news secret whilst they applied for 80 acres of land to be surveyed which they then bought at auction. Thus the two purchased the Kapunda copper mine with Bagot owning 75% and Dutton 25%. The first samples were assayed and averaged 23% pure copper, an extremely high rate for any mine. Cornish miners were secured for the mining jobs and mining began in January of 1843. The first shipment of copper reached England in 1845 and the royalties from the sales revived the states flagging economy. The first group of three blocks of miners cottages owned by the mine were built in 1845 really marking the beginning of the town. They were near the Dutton chimney stack and whim. Over the next thirty five years the mine delivered about £1,000,000 of wealth and the township of Kapunda grew quickly to become a major SA town. Dutton sold his share of the mine in 1846 for a huge sum (£16,000) which allowed him to invest in the even wealthier Burra copper mine. Bagot became the major shareholder but sold out to an English company within a couple of years although he maintained financial involvement with the mine until 1859. He returned to Adelaide and built Nurney House North Adelaide. His younger son Edward lived on in the district and established a stock agent and wool handling business when the railway reached Kapunda in 1860. This business eventually merged into Elder Smiths Goldsborough Mort. Edward Bagot was an important pastoralist with several stations in the far north of SA and a boiling down works at Thebarton.
William Oldham became the mine superintendant in 1848, as well as the Congregational minister, the town surveyor, the local post master and a local businessman. To many he is considered the “father” of Kapunda! From 1866 Captain Osborne succeeded William Oldham as the mine superintendent until the mine closed in 1878. At first copper was carted to Port Adelaide by bullock dray, a six day journey. It was then exported to Wales for smelting. Soon the Welsh joined the Cornish in Kapunda and smelting operations began in the town in 1849. In 1851 three hundred men, including woodcutters were employed in the smelting works. The town had taken its name from an Aboriginal word “cappie oonda” which means spring. There were several mines with different names on the site.
In 1850 the Cornish miners built the still impressive Dutton chimney which draw the draft from the Buhl Enginehouse furnaces via a lined tunnel up into the air through the chimney stack. The Cornish traditionally built round chimney stacks and the Welsh built square chimney stacks. The Buhl pump house drew water out of the main shaft which was up to 360 feet deep. Then in 1861-62 a second winding house to haul up copper ore was built further up the hill but for some strange reason it was named the Buhl Winding house although it never contained a Buhl engine. A significant part of the Buhl Winding House ruins remain on the site. Although the first mining was simple open cut mining undertaken by miners and tributers (who were paid according to how much ore they extracted), deep shafts were soon needed to reach the underground lodes of ore. The deepest shafts sunk were 150 m (490ft) and mining operations were complex. By 1861 the mine employed 340 men and boys. Just two years later mining operations were scaled down (Moonta Mine had begun by that time) and the mine reverted to open cut mining. Low grade ore was mined until 1878, the year after the Burra mine closed. Some tribute work continued in the mine until 1912. Almost nothing remains to mark the site of the copper smelters which were on the southern edge of the mine site off Perry Road.
The original private township was called North Kapunda and it was laid out by the North Kapunda Mining Company in 1846 although many miners were living on the lands of the Dutton copper mine before that time. These early miners squatted on land even if they built a hut or cottage on it. In 1849 the government belatedly surveyed a town which it called Victoria and then Kapunda. Look at a map of Kapunda today and you can see this government town delineated by South, North, and West terraces. This is the northern half of today’s Kapunda where the old primary school is located. Government facilities followed soon after the founding of the mining town with the police station, now a private residence being erected in 1852. Later in 1866 the impressive Court House was built adjacent to the police station still in the private township of the Kapunda Mining Company. The early Congregational Church of 1857 was also built on land obtained from the Kapunda Mining Company. The town prospered greatly once the government railway arrived in 1860. It then became the terminus for the bullock drays carting copper ore from Burra. It was during the 1860s and 1870s that many of the fine buildings in the town were erected. At this time Kapunda was larger than Gawler and Glenelg and in 1850 Kapunda was larger than Brisbane! It was the first town in SA with gas street lighting from around 1870. Kapunda also had its own newspaper from 1864 when the Kapunda Herald was established. Andrew Thomson of Osborne House bought the newspaper later that year. The paper still operates today as the Barossa and Light Herald (from 1908) and is the largest circulating regional weekly newspaper. Thomson also ran the general store, which is now the information centre.
Once the mine closed in 1878 the town focused on its agricultural hinterland and Sir Sidney Kidman played a major role in developing the town. He regularly held horse and cattle auctions behind the North Kapunda Hotel in the main street and by the time of his death in 1935 he owned or had a financial interest in 68 large properties which covered over 100,000 square miles ( 64 million acres or 259,000 square kms ) of Australia. Victoria is only 227,000 square kms! Kidman donated his home to the education department in 1921 for it to become Kapunda High School- one of the first high schools outside of Adelaide. In 1876 a local Scot, Alexander Greenshields built a mansion for £4,000 which he called Lanark after his birthplace in Scotland. He was a wealthy Kapunda draper and store owner. Sir Sidney Kidman bought the house around 1897 and renamed it Eringa. A major fire destroyed the roof of Eringa in 1902 and the Art Nouveau style Marseille tile roof replaced the original roof. The western wing was also added at this time and if you get to go inside you can see the delightful Art Nouveau ceiling motifs and the leadlight windows featuring bull rushes. When Sidney and his wife Bel moved to Adelaide they purchased a house at 76 Northgate Street Unley Park which they also named Eringa. Sir Sidney Kidman died here in 1935 and was buried nearby in the Mitcham cemetery. The Kidman Empire was inherited by his son Walter and other family members. Sir Sidney Kidman was mourned by people around the world and the almost illiterate 13 year who set about to create a pastoral empire on his own died an extremely wealthy man. Kidman was knighted partly for his generosity and bequests to the Inland Mission, the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and other charities. During World War One he had also donated hundreds of horses, produce, especially beef and other materials to the Australian war effort including two fighter airplanes. As a generous employer it was not surprising that his employees put on a rodeo party for his 75th birthday in 1932 in the Adelaide Parklands. 60,000 people attended! Kidman was meant to be as comfortable talking to British royalty as to his stockmen. Although the Kidman properties are only half what they used to be in size they are for sale for round $350 million in 2015.
APRIL 11, 2023 WASHINGTON DC. WORLD BANK GROUP/INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 2023 SPRING MEETINGS
Overcoming Debt, Generating Growth
Rising interest rates and slowing global growth are tipping a growing number of countries into debt crises. Yet global initiatives to help countries overcome these vulnerabilities have proved insufficient. Debt transparency remains inadequate. These vulnerabilities are making it harder for many developing economies to recover from the setbacks of the past three years. This event explores what they can do to avoid debt crises and generate growth at a time when public-debt levels are at 50-year highs.
Speakers: David R. Malpass, President of the World Bank Group; Tina Vandersteel, Head of Emerging Country Debt, GMO; Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance, University of Chicago's Booth School; Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance, University of Chicago's Booth School; Nigel Clarke, Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Jamaica. Host: Paul Blake, External Affairs Officer, World Bank Group Photo: World Bank / Leigh Vogel
The greatest gift we have given each other in this new year is being officially DEBT FREE!!! (except our mortgage) In the last year, 2008, we have paid off 3 college loans, 2 vehicles, 3 credit cards, and all my camera/business equipment. This is due in large part to my husband's ability to be downright brutal in his budgeting. I didn't always appreciate his tightness, but I sure am grateful that he dragged me kicking an screaming down this debt free road.
Often in my line of work passers-by will ask me to take their pictures with an assortment of iPhones and cheap digital point and shoot cameras. In the case pictured here I agreed to their request provided that I could also shoot one from my Kowa/SIX of their pre-wedding bachelorette outing.
Without time to change lenses I fired away with a 1:3.5/55mm wide angle lens achieving some measure of success. They were confused when I told them that the image could not be seen on a LCD display on the rear of the camera . . . Film?? Really?!
This photo was shot from a Kowa/SIX medium format camera with a KOWA 1:3.5/55 lens using Fujicolor Pro 160NS film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
David Cooper
Chief Investment Officer, Purdue Research Foundation
Tonio DeSorrento
Co-Founder and CEO, Vemo Education
Helaine Olen
Blogger, Opinions, The Washington Post; Author, "Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry"
David Klein
CEO and Co-Founder, CommonBond
Tracy Palandjian
Co-Founder and CEO, Social Finance
Scott Pulsipher
President, Western Governors University
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1/19/2010
This one is for Amy Spanos very cool around the world project.
Take a picture of yourself, state your name, what country you are from and what your county brought the world.
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i knew i had to do some kind of acknowledgement to my one and only true love, rock music. this seemed the most obvious choice.