peterborough

Memorial gates at Peterborough

1964, Photograph, B 68621

Memorial entrance gates to the Peterborough park.

Catholic church procession at Peterborough

c. 1920, Photograph, PRG 280/1/24/232

Altar boys and clergy walking in a procession outside the Roman Catholic Church at Peterborough, South Australia. The bishop is John Henry Norton, who died in Peterborough in March 1923.

Tennis match at Peterborough

c. 1913, Photograph, PRG 559/3/6

A tennis match taking place on the court in front of the Peterborough Methodist manse, with a number of people watching the game.

Police Station, Peterborough

Piper, Andrew, 2016, Photograph, B 77001

View of the Police Station on Jervois Street, Peterborough, South Australia.

Police Station, Peterborough

Piper, Andrew, 2016, Photograph, B 76999

View of the Peterborough Police Station.

Rail line past the roundhouse, Peterborough

Piper, Andrew, 2016, Photograph, B 77045

View of the railway line past the roundhouse, heading east out of Peterborough, South Australia.

Rail line past the roundhouse, Peterborough

Piper, Andrew, 2016, Photograph, B 77044

View of the railway line past the roundhouse, heading east out of Peterborough, South Australia.

Rail line past the roundhouse, Peterborough

Piper, Andrew, 2016, Photograph, B 77043

View of the railway line past the roundhouse, heading east out of Peterborough, South Australia.

Peterborough Football Club

Evans, Jim, 2016, Photograph, B 78644/32

Peterborough Football Club.

Peterborough main street showing the Town Hall which was built in 1884 originally as the Institute, then privately owned by Elder Smith and Co. Ltd., then the Corporation of Petersburg took over the building and used it as the Town Hall.

Railway Yard, Peterborough

c. 1926, Photograph, B 15763

Peterborough railway yard, showing the roundhouse in course of construction. The building is a large timber-framed structure built in a semicircle. It originally comprised 22 bays. A feature of each bay is the concrete pit used for inspecting and repairing rolling stock. The Roundhouse was built in 1925 as part of the Webb initiative to upgrade the South Australian Railways. It is one of the few surviving roundhouses in the state and certainly the largest. The building has a saw-tooth roof profile and is remarkable for its semi-circular design and construction. The nearby turnatable enabled several rails to cope with three gauges

Pump House, Peterborough

c. 1910, Photograph, B 16432

Pump house, Peterborough.

Jervois Street, Peterborough

1905, Photograph, B 18545

People making snowballs in Jervois Street, Peterborough after a snowstorm on 29 August 1905.

Railway Lines, Peterborough

c. 1907, Photograph, B 19374

Peterborough railway lines under snow.

1894, Photograph, B 24504/5

Looking east along Main Street, Peterborough.

Peterborough

1894, Photograph, B 24504/7

Looking west along Main Street, Peterborough.

Peterborough

c. 1900, Photograph, B 24505

Floods at Peterborough.

Peterborough

c. 1895, Photograph, B 27182

Picnic near Peterborough.

Snow Storm, Peterborough

1908, Photograph, B 27183

Snow storm at Peterborough on 23rd June 1908.

Cadets, Peterborough

1913, Photograph, B 27184

Team of cadets from Petersburg (Peterborough) led by Lieutenant Eric Chinner. The team competed in the military Competitions at Broken Hill in March 1913. The Quorn and Port Augusta Company came first with 653 points and the Petersburg Company second with 639 points.