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Port Hughes Jetty
Port Hughes jetty with horse drawn transport used for carrying produce off shipping.
Beach at Port Hughes
A group of two men and a woman on the beach with a warehouse in the background at Port Hughes.
Penola Railway Station
[General description] Penola Railway Station. It was one of several built to the same design by architect Alfred McBain Bonython at Moonta, Tailem Bend, Wallaroo and Murray Bridge. Railway officials stand in front of the building.
S.A. Company's Basin
[General description] Sailing ships moored at a Port Adelaide wharf. The deck of the ketch in the foreground is crowded with men from the surveying expedition mentioned below. Warehouses can be seen in the background including one with the name Robert Charlick, feed merchant. [On back of photograph] 'S.A. Company's Basin, Pt. Adelaide / From the bridge at the entrance of the basin / A ketch leaving for Arno Bay with surveyors / June 24, 1877 / . Party members: W.C. Gosse, J.C. Hawker, W. Clindening, Chas. Wells, H. Melville, L.C.E. Gee, G.E.H. Ayliffe, Louis Farr, - Kershaw'.
Port Hughes
Port Hughes with H.M.V. "Moonta" coming towards the jetty.
Kadina Township
Lithographic print of a panorama of the main street of Kadina. At extreme left is Robert Hall's store. The large building (centre) is Henry Nankervis's Kadina Hotel (the chimney indicates the location of his distillery). Further to the right is the Wombat Hotel (dark roof), and at extreme right is the two-storey White Lion Hotel. The railway line to Wallaroo is situated where the cart (foreground) is running.
Matta-Matta Mine, Kadina
View of surface installations at the Matta-Matta Mine, near Kadina, attributed to William Wyatt.
Kurilla Mine, Kadina
Lithograph of surface installations at Kurilla Mine, near Kadina.
New Cornwall Mine, Kadina
Lithograph of surface installations at New Cornwall Mine near Kadina, attributed to William Wyatt.
Port Wallaroo from the jetty
Lithographic print of a panoramic view of Port Wallaroo from the Jetty, with the smelting works in the background. A note on the back by O. Pryor reads: 'View of Wallaroo Jetty and Smelting works. Erection of smelters began early in 1861. Ten furnaces completed about September of that year. Fires list in November 1861. Wood fuel used at first, mixed with coal a little later. Architects: G. and E. Hamilton, Adelaide. Contractors: Tiver and Co. Superintendent: Capt. Lysson Jones, formerly of Burra and Kapunda. Stack - 110 feet high, 24 feet square at base, 12 feet square at summit. See the "Observer" for articles on furnaces, jetty & stack (Jan. 25, 1862), opening ceremony and lighting new furnaces (Nov. 16, 1861, Suppl. 4c), new jetty (Nov. 30, 1861, 2b), and arrival of crane and donkey engine for jetty (Dec. 14, 1861, 7g).
S.S. 'Ferret'
Painting of the steamer 'Ferret'. She was an iron screw steamship of 460 tons built in Glasgow in 1871. In 1880 the ship was stolen as part of a conspiracy in which she disappeared from Scotland and reappeared several months later in Australia under a new name. She remained in Australia fror the rest of her working life. The ship was renamed various times including "Bantam" and "India". She was re-registered at Port Adelaide as "Ferret" in 1883. She made weekly round trips from Port Adelaide to Port Lincoln, Moonta, Wallaroo and Cowell carrying passengers and cargo
Tiparra Lighthouse
Tiparra Lighthouse, which was situated approximately 5 miles west of Moonta, out to sea. Built in 1877, it was dismantled in 1996, due to deterioration. Since 2001 it has been restored and rebuilt and stands in Investigator Park, on the seafront at Wallaroo.
Torrens Park Residence
[General description] Torrens Park is a rambling two storey mansion complete with tower built by Sir Robert Torrens in 1853 and sold to Walter Watson Hughes (Torrens' partner in the Moonta Mines) in 1865. Hughes enlarged the house which was sold in 1874 to Robert Barr Smith. It is now (2017) part of Scotch College. [On back of photograph] ''Torrens Park' / Residence of Mr Robert Barr Smith / 1874-86'.
Wallaroo
[General description] View of Wallaroo smelters, their chimneys silhouetted against the sky. Their construction was begun in 1861, soon after James Boor discovered traces of copper at the Wallaroo Mine site. The largest chimneystack is known as the Hughes Chimney, named after Sir Walter Watson Hughes who was the pastoralist on whose property the Moonta lodes were found.
Wallaroo Smelters
Wallaroo Smelters were constructed in 1861 by the owners of the Wallaroo Mine to process the ore from there and from the Moonta Mine. The smelting works were at one time the largest smelter outside Swansea in Wales. The mines and smelters were closed down in 1923.
Wallaroo Smelting Works
Wallaroo Smelting Works began operation in 1861. After the Moonta & Wallaroo mines closed in 1923, the smelters operated at a reduced capacity until 1926. The smelting works is an extensive complex of buildings with numerous chimneys.
Wallaroo Bridge
Wallaroo bridge over railway to Moonta.
Magazine Beach, Wallaroo
Old Powder at Magazine Beach, Wallaroo. The Wallaroo Powder Magazine was built in 1867 for the storage of explosives for the Wallaroo and Moonta Mines. The tender to build it was won by Mr. R. Anderson for 617 pounds, and was built under the supervision of Mr.W. Beattie. Government Clerk of Works. [Information provided by N.Woods.]
Wallaroo Mines
Taylor's shaft and pumping engine house, Wallaroo Mines. "Fire broke out in Taylor's shaft and was first noticed at surface at 3 pm on January 1904. Shaft and workings in the upper levels were sealed off permanently and later a new shaft was sunk from surface to connect with the workings in the lower levels. The worst disaster in the history of the mines. See Supplementary Report from General Manager, Wallaroo & Moonta Mining and Smelting Company Ltd., annual report 1904.
Wallaroo Mines
[Caption on photograph] 'Wallaroo Mines Office Shaft / About 1900 / From left to right: Ore sorting plant, poppethead, weighbridge and winding engine-house / Note: the loco (Dubs & Co.) was one of two engines used on the Brighton- Glenelg railway / It was purchased by the Moonta Mining Company when the railway company became defunct (Oswald Pryor 12-2-52)
Flotation Machine, Wallaroo
Flotation machine; showing rich copper concentrate flowing into launder which conveys it to the storage bin. The first small flotation unit was installed at Devon Plant, Wallaroo Mines in 1911 (vide Annual Report Wallaroo and Moonta Co. 1911) at the Wallaroo Mines.
Advertising Wallaroo Mines
Composite advertisement. According to a researcher, this and other similar images were created by Matthew Mitchell (1860-1942) of Moonta and Kadina, South Australia, who worked on the Wallarroo Mine and became a photographer. In ca 1890, Mitchell was appointed official photographer to the Wallaroo Mining and Smelting Company at Kadina, a position he retained until the closure of the mines in 1923.
Anna Villa, Weetulta
Carting wheat from Anna Villa to Moonta stalks.
Marsland & Dawson families
Two families outside a miner's cottage at Yelta. Back row: Mary Elizabeth Marsland, nee Dawson; Elizabeth Jane Dawson, nee Williams; Albert Royal (Roy) Dawson; George Dawson, Edwin Dawson. Front row: Jack Marsland, Alfred Victor (Vic) Dawson, James Herbert (Herb) Marsland, Jane Marsland.
Mr Thomas B. Bennett
Portrait of Thomas Boutflower Bennett (1808-1894): Writing, English and Bookkeeping Master at the Adelaide Educational Institution for 1864. The Adelaide Educational Institute was a privately run non-sectarian academy for boys founded in 1852 by John L Young. The academy focussed on moral philosophy, physiology, political economy and mechanical drawings. The academy closed in 1880 and Prince Alfred College was a strong alternative for educating Adelaide's young men. He later taught at St Peter's College. His headstone lies in Moonta Cemetery. Mr Bennett is shown in this photograph wearing his academic gown and mortar board.
Caricature of George T. Bill
Caricature of George T. Bill, M.A. Principal of Moonta School Mines and Advanced Day School. (Note on back of original says "yours truly on of his tribe".
Sir James Penn Boucaut
Sir James Penn Boucaut, barrister, free trade politician, Member of Lower House, Premier, race horse breeder, stockman, federationist. He migrated with his parents to South Australia in 1846 and worked as a stockman. In 1851 he turned to the law and was presented to the Bar in 1855. While a Member of the House of Assembly he voted to disallow plural votes for property owners. He resigned from government in 1867 to fight the Moonta Mines case which opposed Sir Walter Hughes being granted a mineral lease ahead of his clients. He was made a QC and Supreme Court Judge in 1978. In his retirement he bred Arab horses on his estate at Mount Barker.
Kate Boadicea Cocks
Kate Boadicea Cocks, South Australia's first police woman was born at Moonta where her father was a miner and her mother was a school teacher. After being home tutored Kate returned to the Yorke Peninsula to teach, later becoming schoolmistress at the Girls Reformatory at Edwardstown. She later became South Australia's first woman police constable in 1915. Her responsbilities included female offences.
Captain Richard Cowling
Captain Richard Cowling, Hamley Mine manager, Moonta.
Captain Tom Cowling
Captain Tom Cowling, first manager of the Yelta Mine, Moonta.