currency creek

c. 1905, Photograph, B 15740

The Inn at Currency Creek. Currency Creek was once considered by William Light as the location of the capital of South Australia. Currency Creek is located between the mouth of the Finniss River and Currency Creek. By 1885 Currency Creek had just 13 houses, 130 residents and a few public buildings. A church and school were built and later closed and the town Institute was built in 1913. Goolwa became the more popular town as Currency Creek went into decline. Currency Creek Inn was established in 1842 as a two storey Georgian style building but was only legally licensed from 1858

Currency Creek

c. 1908, Photograph, B 15739

Bridge into Currency Creek. Panoramic view of Currency Creek which was once considered by William Light as the location of the capital of South Australia. Currency Creek is located between the mouth of the Finniss River and Currency Creek. By 1885 Currency Creek had just 13 houses, 130 residents and a few public buildings. A church and school were built and later closed and the town Institute was built in 1913. Goolwa became the more popular town as Currency Creek went into decline

Currency Creek

c. 1908, Photograph, B 15738

Panoramic view of Currency Creek which was once considered by William Light as the location of the capital of South Australia. Currency Creek is located between the mouth of the Finniss River and Currency Creek. By 1885 Currency Creek had just 13 houses, 130 residents and a few public buildings. A church and school were built and later closed and the town Institute was built in 1913. Goolwa became the more popular town as Currency Creek went into decline

Canoe tree, Currency Creek

Joyner, Frederick Allen, c. 1920, Photograph, B 62710

CURRENCY CREEK: A gum tree near Currency Creek which has had its bark cut into by Aboriginal people in order to make a canoe.

Steel delivery at Currency Creek

Fidge, E. L., c. 1914, Photograph, BRG 201/13/2/22

A twelve horse team being used to bring a delivery of steelwork. Supplied and erected by Forwood Down Ironworks of Kilkenny, for a bridge on the Victor Harbor railway line near Currency Creek, South Australia. A researcher has provided the following information: The steelwork in this photo is for the bridge over the Onkaparinga River at Noarlunga as part of the construction of the railway to Willunga. On the end of the bridge is written 'Willunga Abutment', meaning this end towards Willunga when installed.

Currency Creek railway bridge

Clough, Charles Frederick, c. 1890, Photograph, B 62316

CURRENCY CREEK: Currency Creek railway bridge.

Residence at Currency Creek

Sumerling, Patricia, 1979, Photograph, B 55590

CURRENCY CREEK: Large house at Currency Creek photographed before the removal of the verandah.

Currency Creek Railway Station

1992, Photograph, B 56937

CURRENCY CREEK: A distant view of the Currency Creek Railway Station. Note may be reproduced but acknowledgement for State Heritage Branch is required.

Railway bridge, Currency Creek

Pritchard, Hal, 1975, Photograph, PRG 1561/6/1/18

Railway bridge, Currency Creek, 1975.

Daniel Myrrick's mill in Currency Creek.

Ragless, Margaret E., 2005, Photograph, PRG 1631/104/248

View of the old mill at Currency Creek, worked by Daniel Myrrick in 1863. To see a selection of photographs in this collection, search on Archival number PRG 1631/104.

Currency Creek

c. 1880, Photograph, B 73198

View of creek at Currency Creek. A person is standing by the creek, and a group of people are standing on a bridge in the background.

Currency Creek

c. 1890, Photograph, B 10335

Railway Bridge, Currency Creek.

Bridge, Currency Creek

c. 1872, Photograph, B 11706

Currency Creek railway bridge. Sweet Adelaide 405. This bridge was built by Sara and Sons and opened in 1869. The iron girders were made in the Goolwa Foundry. The Freestone used in the construction of the bridge came from a nearby quarry and the Bluestone came from the Port Elliot quarry near Nangawooka. There were matching stone piers at the top of each abutment and at the end of each wing wall but these had disappeared by the 1940s

Currency Creek

c. 1870, Photograph, B 14973

Landscape featuring the Currency Creek Viaduct, taken from the creekbed. See B 11706 for a different view and information about the bridge.

Currency Creek

c. 1900, Photograph, B 15737

Train crossing railway bridge near Currency Creek. The road bridge can be seen in the foreground. This stunning viaduct was built in 1869 for the horse tramway from Goolwa to Strathalbyn and was then strengthened for the railway line from Goolwa to Strathalbyn in 1883

Currency Creek

c. 1905, Photograph, B 17152

The Inn at Currency Creek.

Currency Creek

c. 1905, Photograph, B 17153

Panoramic view of Currency Creek.

Currency Creek Viaduct

Belcher Brothers, c. 1890, Photograph, B 18278

Currency Creek Viaduct. For dimensions and builders' names, please see Library Staff.

Currency Creek

Higgins, Miss, c. 1868, Artwork, B 22166

The first railway bridge or viaduct over Currency Creek.

Currency Creek

c. 1907, Photograph, B 24278

Train crossing bridge at Currency Creek.

Bridges, Currency Creek

c. 1906, Photograph, B 24279

Bridges over Currency Creek.

School, Currency Creek

Premier Photography (Victor Harbor, S.A.), c. 1940, Photograph, B 37005

The school at Currency Creek.

Currency Creek

c. 1900, Photograph, B 44617

Waterfall on Currency Creek.

Currency Creek

c. 1900, Photograph, B 44618

Waterfall on Currency Creek.

Men erecting a railway bridge

c. 1930, Photograph, BRG 201/13/2/7

Close view of men working on erecting a new steel bridge for the Victor Harbor railway line near Currency Creek, South Australia; the steelwork was supplied by Forwood Down ironworks of Kilkenny, South Australia.

Currency Creek

1938, Photograph, B 10352

Old mill, Currency Creek worked by Daniel Myrrick in 1863. According to local legend an illicit still was at one time operated in an underground chamber. The mill has alternatively been referred to as Myrick's Mill or Claughton's Mill. Daniel Myrick was seen at Currency Creek or Goolwa by 1855 whereas Daniel Merrett's family are said to have arrived in Goolwa in 1862. Both were involved in ship building. The mill later became a steam driven sawmill. Daniel Myrick has been listed as a carpenter as well as a ship builder. The mill produced flour from wheat in 1868 and that was loaded onto steamers on the nearby Lower Murray.

Railway bridge at Currency Creek

1992, Photograph, B 56948

CURRENCY CREEK: Railway bridge at Currency Creek. Note may be reproduced but acknowledgement for State Heritage Branch is required.

Wide view showing the road and bridge approach to Currency Creek

c. 1900, Photograph, PRG 1258/2/501

Wide view of Currency Creek, showing the road bridge across, and farmlands and two buildings either side of the road in the distance.

Currency Creek showing road bridge

c. 1930, Photograph, PRG 1258/2/503

Currency Creek with the bridge and roadway built up over the flood plain, and farmland either side.

Currency Creek showing road bridge and train crossing the rail bridge

c. 1900, Photograph, PRG 1258/2/506

Currency Creek showing both the road bridge and a train crossing the separate rail bridge. According to a researcher, the train on the bridge is an H class 4-4-0 locomotive all of which were withdrawn in the 1920s but the type of rolling stock behind it suggests a date circa 1900 or even earlier.

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