Burra

Burra Burra Print Shop

Brooks, Cathy, 1986, Photograph, B 46395/393

Burra Burra Print shop.

Bon Accord Hotel

Whitford, Ken, 1971, Photograph, B 21548

Bon Accord Hotel at Aberdeen, a drawing by Ken Whitford.

Floral Pageant

1936, Photograph, B 8334/12

The Burra float at the floral pageant.

Floral Pageant

1936, Photograph, B 8334/13

The Burra float at the Floral Pageant.

Elder Smith stock yards

c. 1880, Photograph, B 56362

GENERAL: Elder Smith stock yards at a country sheep sale, possibly at Burra.

Road train on Koomerloo Station

c. 1925, Photograph, B 57245

BURRA : Albert Stanley Laver driving a road train on Koomerloo Station near Burra, owned at that time by Mr. Warnes. The road train was a Jeffery Quad (four-wheel drive and four-wheel steering). Mr Warnes owned two of these, number 8026 registered in 1917 and number 01381 registered in 1918.

Windmill between Hawker and Burra

Bull, Jean, 1981, Photograph, B 69251/82

Windmill on an artesian bore between Hawker and Burra.

The Burra Hall

Cheer Up Society, c. 1918, Photograph, SRG 6/34/14

Bird's eye view of the interior of the Burra Hall, the main hall of the Cheer Up Hut in Adelaide, set up with tables for dining and with five Cheer Up Society workers standing beside one. There is a piano and phonograph on the stage which is draped with the Australian flag and the Union Jack, and there are photographs of servicemen around the hall. [On the back of photograph] 'The Cheer Up Hut / World War I / The Burra Hall / about 1918 / Ready for daily Service and ex-Servicemen's "free" meals (guests of the Society - through generosity of the Public & Voluntary / helpers.) Photo in panels of men who made the supreme sacrifice'.

Letter to James Coke

Leach Richardson & Co., 1847, Manuscript, PRG 1114/10

Letter to James Coke from Leach Richardson & Co. of Swansea, Wales concerning the shipment of ores ex the Burra Burra mine.

1933, Photograph, B 8633

Commercial street west side. Business's to be seen include McKenzie and Company Grocers, Frank Spencer Jeweller, JW Sullivan Tobacconist, Hairdresser, The Record Print Office and the Bank of Australasia. There are several cars and a lorry parked on the street.