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Court House, Clare

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1872, Photograph, B 13399

Court House and Institute, Clare. The Courthouse was built in 1878 and occupied from 1880. The first Courthouse and police station in Clare was built in 1850

Clare girls Band

c. 1914, Photograph, B 16615

Clare girls Band m during World War I - A.I. Stacy, conductor).

Clare Girls Band

c. 1914, Photograph, B 21589

Clare Girls Band organised during World War I.

Clare Presbyterian Church

c. 1900, Photograph, B 61834

CLARE: Members of the congregation outside the Clare Presbyterian Church.

Ford's Hotel, Clare

1864, Photograph, B 678

Ford's Hotel, Clare - for an historical note see the "Northern Argus, Nov. 12 1920.

Roman Catholic Church, Clare

c. 1900, Photograph, B 16604

Roman Catholic Church, Clare.

[General description] Clare, the old gum tree. Sturdy gum tree with a wide girth in a rural setting. A water tank and fences can be seen in the photograph. [On back of photograph] Situated on the bank of the Hutt River to the right of the Clare Brewery, looking south. It was under this tree that the pioneer of Clare, E.B. Gleeson, pitched his tent. He had a retinue of Hindu servants, one of whom was named Gongo, an expert axeman who chopped out a kind of easy chair in the trunk. Above it is the incision that held one end of the ridge pole of his tent, now calloused over. There are many pleasant memories attached to the old tree. A limb now fallen and lying to the right, was often used by the daughters of widow Nolan on Sunday afternoons, for fixing swings for the pleasure of the children who had no Sunday School to attend. Near it on the left was Gleeson's waterhole, where the youths of Clare learned to swim.

Views of Clare

Immig, John, 2006, Photograph, B 71453/1-30

A collection of images of Clare.

Clare, the Main Street

Chandler, R. H., 1933, Photograph, B 6250

Clare, the Main Street. Photograph taken 26th February 1933 shows the Main North Road lined with shops, a garage, a bank and a church. The town was established in 1842 by John Horrocks and named after his ancestral home in County Clare, Ireland. Original inhabitants were the Ngadjuri people. White settlers originally named it Inchiquin. Clare Valley was known for its copper, farming and the first grapes were grown in 1851 by Jesuit priests from Silesia (Poland).

Clare Hotel

1912, Photograph, B 16645

CLARE: Two cars parked outside the Clare Hotel, one serving as the Clare to Riverton bus, with drivers, passengers and onlookers.

Thomas Stanley Fitzsimons, Clare

Galvin, J., c. 1895, Photograph, PRG 1652/16/20

Cabinet portrait photograph of Thomas Stanley Fitzsimons, son of Thomas Francis Fitzsimons, when he was a young boy at Clare. He is sitting in a cart attached to a goat, with three ladies standing near.

c. 1912, Photograph, B 50521

Members of Clare Girl Guide Company. There were no other Guides in Australia at this time, company attached to Buckingham Palace: standing l-r Merv Taylor, Doss Bowley, Lil Pink, Alice McDougal, Rita French: sitting l-r: Gwen Raymond, Miss Harriet Penelope Catt (Lt.) Janet Craig, Mrs Stacy (Capt), Ada Scott. The girls standing at the rear are using semaphore flags to spell out "BP", the name that the founder, Robert Baden-Powell, is known by.