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Residents, Lake Hamilton

Sladdin, F., c. 1890, Photograph, B 39558

Local residents at Lake Hamilton; the men are identified as Harry Hewett and Abel Rawhine.

Reservoir construction Staff at the Happy Valley Site. View taken in the centre of what became the reservoir. Seated, left to right: Green (surveyor); Eaton (later Engineer-in-Chief); C.S. Mann (Resident Engineer); G.A. Bayer (Head Engineer); Campbell (Clerk); H.P. Shakes (Chief Clerk). Standing: ? ; J. Shakes; McLochlin; Lawson; Scadrett; Dr Proctor; ? ; ? ; ? ; Gibbons; Dearden.

O'Connor Family, Hawker

c. 1890, Photograph, B 37903

The O'Connor Family outside their home at Hawker.

General Store, Hawker

c. 1890, Photograph, B 37904

Group outside P. O'Connor's General Store at Hawker. Fourth from the left is Peter O"Connor and third from the right is J.O.Hedley.

Horse tram, Henley beach

c. 1890, Photograph, B 14984

Passengers boarding and alighting from a horse tram (from the Adelaide & Hindmarsh Tramway Company) on Seaview Road at Henley Beach. A sign on the tram is advertising 'Quaker oats'. In the background is the foreshore, beach and jetty upon which people are promenading.

Schoolchildren, Hermitage

c. 1890, Photograph, B 31073

The Hermitage Public School pupils and their teachers.

Wool Plant, Hindmarsh

Adcock, Thomas, c. 1890, Photograph, B 9776

Wool stacks at W. Peacock & Sons wool Washing Plant. Peacock's wool scouring premises, Hindmarsh. In 1870 a newly erected dam at Hindmarsh, built by W Peacock and Sons was used to wash wool. The dam crossed the River Torrens and was 80 feet in length and 27 feet in thickness. This photograph shows the buildings on Adam Street at Hindmarsh used by W Peacock to treat the wool. GH Michel and Sons later purchased the works in 1903. The bales of wool are piled ten high in a huge stack. Men are standing proudly on top and around the bottom of this stack.

Fire Brigade, Hindmarsh

c. 1890, Photograph, B 35262

Hindmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade with a fire hose reel.

Saw Mill, Hindmarsh Valley

c. 1890, Photograph, B 46915

Sprintmount Saw Mill with bullock teams at Hindmarsh Tiers.

Bullock team at Penneshaw

c. 1890, Photograph, B 17490

Bullock team at Penneshaw.

Penneshaw Hall

c. 1890, Photograph, B 17491

Opening of Penneshaw Hall. According to a researcher the hall was opened in 1911 and is described in the Courier of 2 September 1911 on page 5. It was located on Lot 52 Howard Drive and was demolished in the 1960s.

Village settlement of Holder

c. 1890, Photograph, B 8430

Village settlement of Holder on the River Murray which was established in 1894 at a time of severe drought, high unemployment and the beginning of the Depression. The intention was to retain South Australian men of capital, energy and talent from deserting South Australia. The waste lands along the River Murray were irrigated into usable land. Although the settlement supported 260 people it was abandoned in 1903. The photograph shows a collection of houses and barns surrounded by scrubland.

Village Settlement, Holder

1894, Photograph, B 16035

Holder village settlement, River Murray. This was one of thirteen communal settlements known as village settlements. They were created to ease the economic depression following the major strikes in the 1890's and the bank crash of 1893. Socialist ideas became popular and utopian schemes were appealing to the unemployed and those struggling to make ends meet. Following pumping problems and little knowledge the settlement ceased in 1903 with the remaining leased blocks being amalgamated into the Waikerie Irrigation Area.

Water Source, Horrocks Pass

c. 1890, Photograph, B 1502

The source of Port Augusta's water supply at Horrocks Pass.

Horrocks Pass

c. 1890, Photograph, B 17252

General view of Horrocks Pass.

Newman's Nursery, Houghton

c. 1890, Photograph, B 16019

C. F. Newman & Sons Nursery. In 1856 CF Newman and his young bride cleared land in the District of Highercomb to establish a nursery. By 1880 the nursery was a show piece of the colony listing 300 orchid varieties, 600 rose varieties and 300 different fruit trees. Today the ruins of Newmans Nursery show the location of heated glass houses and later the land was devastated by floods, bushfires, used as a dairy farm and for sheep grazing. The present day nursery on North East Road was established in 1925.

Newman's Nursery, Houghton

c. 1890, Photograph, B 16020

An interior greenhouse scene at C.F.Newman's Nursery. In 1856 CF Newman and his young bride cleared land in the District of Highercomb to establish a nursery. By 1880 the nursery was a show piece of the colony listing 300 orchid varieties, 600 rose varieties and 300 different fruit trees. Today the ruins of Newmans Nursery show the location of heated glass houses and later the land was devastated by floods, bushfires, used as a dairy farm and for sheep grazing. The present day nursery on North East Road was established in 1925.

Newman's Nursery, Houghton

c. 1890, Photograph, B 16021

Interior greenhouse scene at C.F.Newman's Nursery. In 1856 CF Newman and his young bride cleared land in the District of Highercomb to establish a nursery. By 1880 the nursery was a show piece of the colony listing 300 orchid varieties, 600 rose varieties and 300 different fruit trees. Today the ruins of Newmans Nursery show the location of heated glass houses and later the land was devastated by floods, bushfires, used as a dairy farm and for sheep grazing. The present day nursery on North East Road was established in 1925.

Newman's Nursery, Houghton

c. 1890, Photograph, B 16022

Interior greenhouse scene at C.F.Newman's Nursery. In 1856 CF Newman and his young bride cleared land in the District of Highercomb to establish a nursery. By 1880 the nursery was a show piece of the colony listing 300 orchid varieties, 600 rose varieties and 300 different fruit trees. Today the ruins of Newmans Nursery show the location of heated glass houses and later the land was devastated by floods, bushfires, used as a dairy farm and for sheep grazing. The present day nursery on North East Road was established in 1925.