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Train accident, Hawker

1918, Photograph, B 39716

Railway accident at Hawker caused by Engine no.139 hitting a cow in the station yard.

Railway Yard, Hawker

1903, Photograph, B 50516

The railway yard, looking south at Hawker.

Hawker Railway Station

c. 1936, Photograph, B 54572

HAWKER: The railway station.

Exterior of the Anglican Church at Hawker

c. 1910, Photograph, SRG 94/10/29/253

Exterior view of the Anglican Church at Hawker. A group of mainly girls, with a few boys and women are standing outside the fence.

Journal of James C. Hawker

Hawker, James C., 1841, Manuscript, PRG 209/2

Journal by J.C. Hawker of an expedition made to the River Murray 'against the natives in order to recover sheep. (and) to protect another overland party.'

Diary of James C. Hawker on his voyage from Blackwell, England to Adelaide on the 'Pestonjee Bomanjee', 1838

Hawker, James C., 1838, Manuscript, PRG 209/1

Diary of J.C. Hawker, detailing his voyage from England to South Australia.

Diary of George Charles Hawker

Hawker, George Charles, 1840, Manuscript, PRG 847/1

Diary of George Charles Hawker, describing voyage from England to South Australia 1840, life on his station at Bungaree, 1842-1843, voyage from Adelaide to Swansea 1853. Includes diary, probably of Bessie, wife of G.C.H, July 1847.

Sons of G.C. Hawker

c. 1890, Photograph, B 11284

[General description] Group portrait of the sons of the Hon. George Charles Hawker: Standing, l-r: Henry Colley; Richard MacDonnell. Sitting: Rev. Bertram; Robert; Walter; Edward William; Michael Seymour. They have been posed looking in different directions, a fashion in photography at the time.

James C. Hawker

Stump & Co., 1898, Photograph, B 5573

[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of James C. Hawker, with short grey hair and long beard and moustache. He wears a dark jacket and matching waistcoat. One of the three Hawker brothers, James Collins Hawker first came out to Australia aboard the Pestonjee Bomanjee on the 12th October, 1838, a fellow passenger of Governor Gawler. He was a surveyor, explorer, prospector and grazier and co-founder of Bungaree Station.

George Charles Hawker

Nightingale, H. H., 1840, Artwork, B 7471

Pencil on card portrait of George Charles Hawker including some painted detail in pink and in white. Artwork has been signed and dated May 1840 (when Hawker was at Cambridge).

George Charles Hawker

Dalwood, Thomas Caleb, c. 1890, Artwork, B 3712

[General description] This portrait of George Charles Hawker shows his head and shoulders, the face being in seven eights view. He has greying hair and a full beard and moustache. The portrait is entitled 'The late Hon.G. C. Hawker, M.A., M.P.' and is signed by the artist. He was a politician, a grazier and sheep breeder who owned Bungaree Station and an amateur horticulturalist.

Members of the 1890 Pastoral Commission and the Queensland Railways Commission at Hawker

c. 1890, Photograph, PRG 23/6/2/11

Members of the 1890 Pastoral Commission and the Queensland Railways Commission at Hawker. John Fielden, an engineer with the railways at Hawker, is second from right.

The Wenmouth Collection : Hawker

Wenmouth, Bernice Mary, c. 1970, Photograph, B 64310/211

Royal Hotel, Hawker.

Bonds bus outside Wonoka Hotel.

Harris, Kevin, 1946, Photograph, B 70782/6

One of Bonds buses (without the comapany name) parked outside the Wonoka Hotel at Hawker, corner of Wonoka Terrace and Cradock Road on the Hawker to Wonoka run. The hotel's licence ceased in May 1958; the last publicans were James & Joyce Fergusson. The building was demolished in 1980.

Old Ghan Restaurant and Gallery

Cruickshank, Glenys, 2010, Photograph, B 72150

A derelict wagon lies beside the Old Ghan Restaurant and Gallery, previously the Hawker Railway Station built in 1884.

Three little girls of Hawker

Canning, George, 1940, Photograph, PRG 1356/4/13

Three young girls of Hawker, with their toys. The first girl holds the handle of a wire doll's pram with a doll in it, the second a doll and the third another toy baby pram.

Welcoming crowds in London for aviator H.G.Hawker.

c. 1919, Photograph, PRG 280/1/20/355

Welcoming crowds in London for the aviator H.G.Hawker; a group of Australian soldiers are in the foreground.

Mary Hawker at her coming-out dance

Grimmett, Vic, 1961, Photograph, PRG 1662/10/466/2

"Debutante Mary Hawker (right) puts the finishing touches to a bowl of roses before guests arrive for her coming-out dance. Her cousin Jenny Synnot, from Melbourne, looks on. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hawker, of 'North Bungaree', Clare, gave the party for Mary at their town house, 'The Briars', Medindie." Australian Women's Weekly, 7 June 1961, page 17.

Methodist Church, Hawker

1907, Photograph, B 24513

Methodist Church at Hawker.

Charles Allan Hawker

c. 1935, Photograph, B 11121

Charles Allan Seymour Hawker, Minister for Markets(Commerce) and Minister for Repatriation. In 1932 he was replaced and later resigned in protest at the government's refusal to reduce parliamentary salaries during the Great Depression. He continued to represent the people of Wakefield as their Nationalist Party elected representative. He died in the Kyeema airplane disaster near Mount Dandenong in 1938. He had been paralysed from the waist down during the Battle of Broodseinde in 1917. He was eventually able to walk with two sticks

Edward William Hawker

c. 1930, Photograph, B 11249

Edward William Hawker was a politician in colonial South Australia. He was admitted to the Bar in South Australia in 1880. He was a member of the House of Assembly from 1884-1889. He studied mining and metallurgy in Europe and returned to South Australia in 1892. He was a lecturer at the School of Mines and later retired to take up pastoralist pursuits near Bungaree

George Charles Hawker

Watson & Wedd, c. 1880, Photograph, B 7004

[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of George Charles Hawker, M.P, politician and grazier, in three quarter view. He has a grey trimmed beard and moustache and wears a double breasted jacket. He founded the sheep station Bungaree, near Clare in the mid-north.

George Charles Hawker

Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co., c. 1890, Photograph, B 10800

George Charles Hawker, M.P. was an Australian settler and a South Australian politician. After arriving in South Australoian with his brother in 1840 he established a sheep station north of Adelaide near Clare called "Bungaree". He became Chief Secretary, Treasurer and Member of the South Australian Parliament for North Adelaide.

George Charles Hawker

Hammer & Co., c. 1890, Photograph, B 11205

George Charles Hawker, M.P. arrived in South Australia in 1840 aboard the "Lysander". He established a sheep station north of the Clare Valley, now known as Bungaree. He held various positions in government including Chief Secretary, Treasurer, Member for North Adelaide, Member for Victoria and Commissioner for Public Works. He was very interested in the every day life of the colony