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"Cherrington", Mount Barker
Cherrington, Mount Barker. Off Hawthorn Road (off the Adelaide Road), built as the homestead of an 80 acre farm owned by William Tonkin, sold to Mr. Teakle who rented the building to Mr and Mrs Harrison for the Harrison Ladies' School. It was not called "Cherrington" until later. Mrs Harrison also had another school in Gawler Street, Mount Barker. Cherrington was built by William Tonklin. Mr David Teakle who lived in it also owned land from the Adelaide Road back to Dunn's Run. The photograph shows the family including five small girls and servants standing on the verandah and in the garden.
A.W. Richardson store, Mount Barker
A.W. Richardson, druggist and bookseller, store in the main street (now Gawler Street).
Mount Barker
View of Gawler Street.
Mount Barker
View of Gawler Street.
Mount Barker
View of Gawler Street.
Mount Barker
View of Gawler Street.
Barker's Drapery, Mt. Barker
Barker's Drapery on Gawler Street.
Barker's Drapery, Mt. Barker
Mrs. Sophia Barker's shop on Gawler Street.
Cycle shop, Mt. Barker
Mumford's cycle shop on the corner of Walker & Gawler Streets, now site of State Bank.
Soldiers, Mount Barker
Enlisted soldiers with horse drawn wagons returning from camp in Gawler St.
Celebrations at Mt. Barker
Celebration procession proceeding up Gawler Street to Adelaide Road.
Soldiers, Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier Soldiers at Gawler Military Cam p. L-R: Capt. J.J. Harrington, Lieut. R.M. Haig, Jack Harrington, Lieut. Groth. A researcher suggests that, based on a photograph of Australian Military Units in the 'Observer, Saturday 5 April 1913, Haig and Harrington are named the wrong way round in this description.
Group of James Martin and Co
Group of James Martin and Co. staff members. Back Row, Left-right: ?; Wally Ayling; Alan. Sixth from the left is Leonard Southall Bennett (timekeeper).
"Ferry Landing" Port Adelaide
The "Ferry Landing" Port Adelaide. The Ferry carried people across Gawler Reach.
The "Port River" Port Adelaide
The "Port River" looking east along the Gawler Beach, Port Adelaide.
Centenary re-enactments at Port Lincoln and Happy Valley
Record of the re-enactments staged as part of the Port Lincoln Centenary celebrations.
Aerial view of Port Noarlunga
Aerial view of Port Noarlunga. The reef and jetty are visible. The Port Noarlunga Hotel can be seen on the corner of Gawler Street. The Institute building can also be seen. The Onkaparinga River is just out of view to the left of the photograph. Christies Beach and Hoseshoe Reef are out of view to the right of the photograph. The land to the left in the foreground looks like the flood plain of the Onkaparinga River.
The "Well", Port Noarlunga
The "Whip Well" was on the corner of Gawler Street and Witton Road, Port Noarlunga. The water was drawn by use of a primitive whip. The Port Noarlunga General Store can be seen in the background
Captain Charles Sturt
Captain Charles Sturt, born India and joined the British Army, he arrived in Australia in 1827. Australian explorer, in 1830 he discovered and named the Murray River, an event that gave new impetus to the settlement of South Australia. In 1838 he brought cattle overland to Adelaide from Sydney, after which Governor Gawler appointed him South Australian Surveyor-General and Registrar-General. Sturt later undertook additional expeditions into central Australia, but his health failed and he returned to England in 1851.
Captain Charles Sturt
Pencil sketch on paper portraying Captain Charles Sturt. Montefiore was a friend of Sturt and made an original sketch in 1849. It is believed this artwork is a copy of that original sketch, which was used in an obituary to commemorate Sturt, after his death in 1869.
Autumn at Uraidla
Watercolour on paper by George Whinnen, showing the Uraidla landscape, viewed from a hill. Signed on bottom left.
Sketches by Stephen King
Forty four sketches by Stephen King of John McDouall Stuart's expedition of 1861-1862 across Australia. To see individual images do a NUMBER search on B 486/1-16, 19-45. Some of the sketches were copied by King some years after he completed the original versions. (There were no sketches numbered 17 and 18. No. 17 is a letter from John McDouall Stuart to Stephen King's mother at Kingsford, Gawler, and has also been digitised as B 486/17.).
North Terrace
This is a sketch apparently copied from a lithograph shown at B 9483/9. Various buildings are numbered which indicates that there was a key to identify them, which is not included on the sketch. A key published in the 'Register' newspaper, 26 March 1910, page 6, identifies the buildings in the sketch, using a numbering system. The title is 'Key to a View of North Terrace'. Then as follows: 1. Old theatre, 2. Sidney hotel, 3. Residence of Mr. J. Morphett, 4. Morphett street, 5. Trinity Church, 6. Residence of Rev. C. B. Howard, 7. South Australian Bank, 8. King William Street, 9. Post Office, 10. Stephens place, 11. South Australian School, 12. Bank of Australasia, 13. Office of South Australian Record, 14. Beck & Co.'s warehouses, 15. Auction rooms, 16. Wesleyan Chapel, Gawler place, 17. Rev. T. Q. Stow's Congregational Chapel, 18. Police station, 19. British Society's Schoolhouse, 20. Government House. See B 75089 for a key to the buildings.
Windmill Hotel, Prospect
Windmill Hotel, Prospect was licensed in 1843 and served traffic passing through to Gawler, also carts and bullock wagons carting ore from Burra and Kapunda. The photograph shows a driver sitting in his carriage having a tankard of beer. Other horses,men and carriages can be seen also. Harry (Henry John)Boord was the proprietor.
Bronze Plaque
Bronze plaque attached to the Flinders Monument, Stamford Hill in 1934. The plaque states " This place from which the Gulf and its shores were first surveyed on 26 February 1802 by Matthew Flinders, RN Commander of HMS 'Investigator'. The discovery of the country now called South Australia was set apart on 12 January, 1841 with the sanction of Lt. Col. Gawler KH, then the Governor of the Colony and in the first year of the Government of Captain G Grey. Adorned with this monument to the perpetual memory of the illustrious navigator His Honored Commander by John Franklin, Captain RN KCM. KR. Lt. Governor of Van Diemen's Land".
Tanunda District Council Chamber
Tanunda District Council Chamber October 28, 1933. Two large palm tress are shading the stone building. In the adjacent reserve stands a monument to Ephrahim Henry Coombe, 1858-1917, born at Gawler, who represented the Barossa in the House of Assembly. Tanunda was proclaimed 16th August 1855. Area was 48 square kilometres.
Tanunda Post Office
John Walden's coach departing from Tanunda Post office for Gawler.
Haycutting at Turretfield
Haycutting at Turretfield.
"Kercoonda" House at Undalya
"Kercoonda" house, thought to be one of first homes built north of Gawler at Undalya since demolished.
Virginia Bridge
[General Description] Virginia Bridge over the Gawler River.