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I've traveled to the Big Sur coast for years and have always thought staying at the Post Ranch Inn would be the height of my traveling experience. However with the minimum room rate at $550 and the ocean room views at $1,000-$2,000 per night, this thought has just remained in my imagination.
On my last visit though, I did stop for lunch and spent an hour or so walking around the grounds and can understand why people go there. Besides the absolute beauty of the setting, the architecture is stunning in how it unobtrusively blends into the landscape. Many of the cottages are built into the cliffs and covered with natural grasses on their roofs so that you are hardly aware of their presence.
The Hundred of Caltowie was declared in 1871 and open for farming settlement and the town of Caltowie surveyed in 1871 making it the oldest town after Melrose on this Willochra Plains weekend tour. The railway from Port Pirie/Gladstone was extended to Jamestown in 1878 and Caltowie had a railway siding from then. As the nearest railhead for the areas to the north which were opened up from 1871/1872 the town’s prospects were good, but they failed to materialise. But because of the wheat trade a flourmill was erected in Caltowie in 1881. Tenders for its construction were called in 1880and by 1881 the flourmill was available for rent in 1881. No takers came forward and so after a public meeting in the Caltowie Institute the Caltowie Steam Flourmill Company was formed. Many local farmers bought shares for £5 each. The flourmill had a rail siding and so was expected to do well. The Company renewed the lease in 1884 but profits did not materialise and it was put up for sale in 1892 and 1893. The mill was eventually sold to James Both in 1894 and shareholders received about 10 shillings a share, having to pocket a £4.50 loss per share. James Both ran the mill well into the 1920s. Both called it the Roller Flour Mills. The mill was struck by lightning in 1927 but suffered little damage. James Both's son Edward Both invented a cheap plywood iron lung at the height of the polio epidemic in Australia in 1938. It sold for £100 unlike the metal American respirator which cost £2000 in Australia. Both's iron lung was sold in England, Australia and eventually America. Edward Both was a professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide. He also did work on electrocardiograms and humidicribs for premature babies. The flourmill is now all demolished except for one office building.
The extant significant buildings in Caltowie are the Commercial Hotel. The Commercial Hotel was first licensed in March 1873 and built about that time. Today’s Commercial Hotel building looks to date from around 1900 as it is very Edwardian. The original 1873 hotel would have been a small basic structure. The town had a government school from 1876 with a dedicated schoolroom being built in 1880. It is now a shabby residence. The first church in the district was the Wesleyan Methodist which opened early in 1873. Three years later in 1876 it was sold to the Lutherans. It housed the first government school in Caltowie from 1876 until a government school was built in 1880. The porch was added in 1960 and the last service was held in 1981 before the building was sold for a home. The Caltowie Soldiers Memorial Hall dated 1926 was opened around 1880. The Soldiers Memorial rooms were added to the front of that old building. Architecturally the most impressive building is the former National Australasian Bank built in 1876 by city architect Daniel Garlick. It became a Bank of Adelaide by 1909 and is now a beautiful residence. Beyond the encircling parklands is the Catholic Church sector. The original rustic St Killian’s Catholic Church was built here by the Jesuits of Seven Hills in 1875. A second church was opened in 1885 replacing this early one. It was demolished in 1982 and the stained glass windows were purchased by the Robin Hood Hotel at Norwood. The Sisters of St Joseph ran their convent school in the original Catholic Church (1875) from 1887 until 1962. Before that time they ran the school in other buildings from 1876 to 1887. Part of the Convent School still remains as a private residence. So until the 1960s Caltowie had enough students for a small state and a Catholic school.
Travelling North West along the Kilbun High Road between Belsize Road and West End Lane there remains a number of rather grand looking buildings once housing well known high street shops typical of the later part of the 20th century
The buildings in this photo include 50 – 56 Kilburn High Road. Up until around 1930 these were the business premises of a successful draper, David Fearn & Co. Following this 50 - 52 became Montague Burton, later Burton's Taylors and 54 – 56 British Home Stores.
The date above 54 – 56 shows the date it was rebuilt, 1930. Presently these premises are occupied by a later chain, Primark and 50 – 52 by HSBC
Although I lived in this area as a boy and teenager in the 1940s to 1960s I cannot honestly say what was in the now unused spaces at the crown of these buildings. Probably the the Burton's Taylors would have a logo, something like this: www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/2462519752/in/set-7215... and the other the letters B.H.S. Maybe Primark and HSBC are getting around to doing something similar.
The following link from the British History Online website includes some interesting history of British trade and industry in Kilburn High Road. Mostly under "Trade and Industry" www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22647&st...
Post script: Since this photo was first posted I have received more information about which shops occupied this group of buildings in 1960 from Flickr member "bowroaduk" www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/ . My memories would have been mostly through the 1950/60s and this recent information certainly corresponds to how I recall these buildings and shops. I believe that hovering over each shop with the mouse pointer on the photo will show which company occupied each shop in 1960. Probably the most interesting is the shop now occupied by Nationwide, far right hand side. It would have one time been a J. Lyons Tea Shop. People in England about the 1950/60s will remember these shops well. To my knowledge self-service tea shops. This link tells you lots about J. Lyons & Co and includes some photos typical of their shop fronts. www.kzwp.com/lyons/
Mine are the green toes. You can tell because my skin is the most pale.
My mother is the foot in a sock. She doesn't like pedicures but we didn't want to leave her out.
Depending on which you think is the front and the back! :-)
Contains a concertinaed strip of double sided (picture on both sides) postcards. Age is unknown (to me, likely not to wintorbos) but some have cars on, so I think it the late 1910's or early 1920's. Cards appear to be Valentines (the manufactuer not the day)!
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Day 252, Thursday, September 9th, 2021
Post-Surgical Appointment
I drove mom to her post-cataract surgical appointment the following day. She did great, the surgery went perfectly, and her vision tested at 20/40 the day after surgery. The doctor was very pleased. He did sort of dismiss her concerns about remembering the surgery and feeling uncomfortable, that was unfortunate. The left eye will be done 2 weeks after the first. It will be weird to see my mom without glasses! She’s been wearing them my whole life and has always been very near-sighted. She will still glasses for reading up close.
Nikon D750 | 20mm | f/2.5 | 1/160 | ISO 1600 | handheld
Post Night for Class of 2018 Infantry Cadets, February 7, 2018 (US Army Photo by Cadet Alex Gudenkauf)
Poster reminding the public to post their Christmas cards and parcels early to ensure delivery.
Commissioning body: Post Office Savings Bank.
Printer/Publisher: H.M. Stationery Office press.
From the HA Rothholz Archive.
Posted some pictures out in snow earlier. Still haven't been posted.
Trying this. Not sure what is going on. If you click my page you'll see.
Anyways...... Someone said to me I've been getting girlier lately.
Have no idea where they got that. See........ I still wear leather....
Tuttles 🐒🐣🐤🐥💋💋💋
From the Liverpool Daily Post (a sadly missed quality regional newspaper) , Dated Monday 19th September 2005, an article reporting on the previous Saturdays trip from Liverpool to York, which featured 71000 ‘ Duke of Gloucester' only between Liverpool and Stalybridge, being failed on arrival there due to a faulty valve. From here 66081 took the train to York, but to quote later from the piece (which wouldn’t fit on the scanner) –
“A preserved veteran diesel locomotive Class 40,No.40165 (that’s what was printed!) was obtained to return the special train from York. By lucky chance, the locomotive was built at the Vulcan Foundry, Newton le Willows in 1960. Prof Toyne, a dedicated rail enthusiast said – Triumph was snatched from the jaws of defeat. We left Liverpool hauled by the ultimate British steam locomotive and returned pulled by one of the first diesels to replace steam. Nothing could have been more symbolically appropriate”.
Managed to get to York for the return, probably the last time various cranks have dropped what they were doing at short notice to chase some unplanned 40 mileage.
In October 21-22, 2017, the LIRR replaced the Post Avenue Bridge in Westbury – a span struck by dozens of overheight trucks in recent years resulting in train delays. Work was completed ahead of schedule, with the first regularly scheduled train passing over the new bridge at 1 a.m.
The new bridge’s height clearance now allows trucks of up to 14 feet to safely pass underneath, improving LIRR system infrastructure and service reliability. The old bridge -- that hovered over Post Avenue at 11 feet 10 inches -- had been struck by trucks between five and nine times per year in each of the past six years. Train delays in both in both directions would loom as LIRR crews worked to determine its safety and structural stability before restoring train service.
Photo: MTA Long Island Rail Road / Dominick Cervo
Post boxes in Lydiate, Sefton, Merseyside have been yarn bombed with Christmas decorations. Even a tree stump got the treatment. Identity of the yarn bombers is a mystery but they cheer up all who spot them.