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John England [B 6998] • Photograph

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Summary

John England, an M.I.C.E. (Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers) Hydraulic Engineer. He was a British Engineer in the Colony of South Australia. He arrived in SA in 1851 and started a contracting business in Adelaide, constructed a number of wooden bridges, submitted plans for steel bridge over the Torrens. He helped erect the Glenelg Jetty which was the first screw-pile structure in Australia. He headed the Adelaide Waterworks, Resident Engineer of the SA Railways, erected Port Adelaide Lighthouse, Troubridge Lighthouse, Thorndon Park Reservoir, railway line north from Port Augusta. He died in Japan in 1877.

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Physical description

Photograph; 13.7 cm x 8.6 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1870

Photographer

Duryea, Townsend

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

England, John, 1822-1877

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Digitisation information

Date

04/10/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,041 x 3,276 pixels (6.7 MP)

Size

6.71 MB

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