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Site of Wesleyan preaching place & schoolroom 1865 until Semaphore Wesleyan (now Uniting) church opened 1867. Listed in Directories: 1888-89 Day School, 1890 Day School – Miss Westover & Miss Shellam, 1891-92 Day School – Miss Strickland & Miss Shellam.
“In 1865 a small preaching place and a Sunday school were opened at the corner of Hall street, and Woolnough road when the neighbourhood was a dreary waste of spinifex and reeds, and when the houses were few and poorly built.” [Register 6 Oct 1927]
“In 1865 preaching services and a Sunday school were held in a small building, situated near where Hall Street and Woolnough Road now intersect, and owned by Mrs. Harvey. The building was used as a schoolroom, and was placed at the disposal of the people, and was worked in connection with Port Adelaide from the North Adelaide circuit. The room (about 20 x 14) was very low at the eaves, and an ordinary man could not stand upright near the wall; but the roof being pitched gave additional height in the centre, where the late Mr. John Millard (the local schoolmaster), a man of fine physique, stood and 'pitched the tunes'. At this time but few possessed hymnbooks, and the preacher gave out the hymns two lines at a time, which proceeding was not always 'favourable to the tune'.” [Aust Christian Commonwealth 14 Sep 1917]
“The Founding of the Church. In 1865, he said, a small preaching place and a Sunday school were opened on a block of land at the corner of Hall Street and Woolnough Road. Semaphore, at a time when the neighborhood was a dreary waste of spinifex and reeds, and when the houses were few, and poorly built.” [Port Adelaide News 7 Oct 1927]
“Miss Shellam, Woolnough road, Exeter.—Studies resumed Tuesday. April 7. Next quarter begins April 13.” [Advertiser 7 Apr 1891]
“Miss Shellam's School, Woolnough-Road, Exeter.—Studies resumed on Tuesday. January 19th. 1892.” [Advertiser 13 Jan 1892]
Foundation stone 27 Nov 1882 by Mr L L Furner, designed by D Williams, Jnr with schoolroom beneath chapel, opened 20 Mar 1883, final service 26 Mar 2000, restored 2013-14. Earliest services in wooden chapel in Turton St, opened 25 Nov 1878, later used as a school.
“A few months ago, circumstances forced upon the attention of the Semaphore Baptist church and congregation the necessity of securing a new place of worship combining in itself the following advantages:— 1. A better and more prominent site. 2. A more substantial and permanent building. 3. Enlarged accommodation. The present wooden chapel was built four years ago in a narrow side street. During this winter it has been found only large enough for ordinary morning congregations, and it became a serious question how friends who visit the seaside could be accommodated in the summer. . . The building is to be constructed of Dry Creek stone, with cement dressings, and the style is that often adopted by Baptists and generally known as ‘tabernacle style’.” [Advertiser 28 Nov 1882]
Signal Post F in Boort, one of the last Semaphore Signals left in use on the former Victorian Railways network.
Trains and Railway Items in North Western Victoria - April 2022.
Transpennine Express bi-mode 802211 passes the cleared semaphore and signal box at Barton Hill as it works 1P22 Scarborough to York.
185123 departing Blackpool North station with plenty of semaphores in view living on borrowed time,.
Sitting in a box since 1968. 47 years later (probably more since it was last used), worked as soon as connected to a supply.
Two semaphore signals: one, NT5, belonging to Norton-on-Tees signal box; the other, NE23, a distant belonging to Norton East.
In the background is a cricket pitch; a sight screen is to the left and a small shelter is just to the right of the signals. Beyond that are some houses.
This is the largest carousel in Australia, built in Adelaide in the early 1920s.
Semaphore, South Australia
washington, dc
hand coated platinum print from an 8x0 neg taken with a most honorable 12" red dot artar lens
TfW DMU 197102 is seen working 1D15 Crewe to Holyhead as it passes the still-operational and still-hand-worked distant signal at Tŷ Croes. The signal box is approximately 1km away.
Northern DMU 156479 passes a pair of semaphores as it approaches Sellafield station. In the foreground is another semaphore on a rather rusty pole, accompanied by a ground disc. In the background on the left, DRS 37402 is parked in a siding.
These are the three semaphores at the west siding switch at Levy, New Mexico. The Raton Line is BNSF, historic AT&SF track and presently used by the Southwest Chief, Amtrak Trains 3 and 4. This sequence shows signals responding to the approach of westbound number 3, the train passing through the signals and then the signals clearing. The semaphore protecting the west end of the siding is always in stop position.
Number 3 rolls down the track profile - two more sets of semaphores occur in the next few miles, an intermediate set and a three signal set at the east siding switch at Wagon Mound.