Photographs and slides relating to the business interests of Crompton & Sons

Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/1

'Part of the Stonyfell olive plantation with the Olive Oil Mill at left centre, Penfolds vineyards and cellars behind. Probably taken in the 1920s'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/2

'Part of the Stonyfell Olive Plantation and the Olive Oil Mill about 1935 before the suburbs reached them'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/3

Interior of Olive Oil Mill, with 'Joe Renfrey, Charlie Bradshaw about 1900'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/4

'Entrance to the Stonyfell Olive Company plantation, Burnside', with 'Owen Crompton, Bernard Crompton, Frank Lambden' on the driveway, about 1900

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/5

'The Bunyip Soap Company Head Office, Liverpool Building, 49 Flinders Street, Adelaide, 27 February 1940. Photograph by Colin Ballantyne Adelaide'

Photographs and slides relating to the business interests of Crompton & Sons

Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/6

Company property at 'Beverley'

Photographs and slides relating to the business interests of Crompton & Sons

Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/7

'Sheep- skins at Beverley factory', with a man standing alongside a draught horse and a laden cart of skins

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/8

'Packing rabbit skins about 1948, George Riley standing at press'

Photographs and slides relating to the business interests of Crompton & Sons

Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/9

'Our Head Office, Liverpool Building, 49 Flinders Street, Adelaide. We occupy the ground floor and basement ourselves as offices and small stores. The upper floors are let to tenants, most of which are Government Departments as we are situated close to the Treasury building and other Government offices'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/10

'The street front of our skin sorting sheds and fellmongery at Beverley, a suburb about 4 miles west of the city, half way to the Port, as most of our goods go from there by ship'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/11

'Sorting rabbit skins, showing portion ready for shipment. Note the old JC brand on the bales- a carry over from Grandfather's day'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/12

'A further view of rabbitskin sorting. Note Alan over the top of the bale'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/13

'Loading sheepskins for overseas shipment'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/14

'Sheepskin sorting shed, Beverley'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/15

'Our horse-drawn "wheelbarrow" which is used for carting skins from the long drying sheds where there are something over 30 miles of racks, into sorting and packing sheds'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/16

'Packed sheepskins awaiting shipment', with view of interior of shed and several staff

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/17

'Fellmongery - stripping wool from the pelt', with a number of employees pictured

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/18

'Street frontage of our soap works - The Bunyip Soap Co. Ltd which is about half way between the city and the skin yards', showing a truck laden with boxes of Bunyip soap

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/19

Photograph by Krischock Studios. 'Packing soap powders. At the moment 'OxySuds' our oxygen washer'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/20

A man sealing wooden crates of Crompton's OxySuds

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/21

'The Stonyfell Olive Company plantation, quite close to the Stonyfell house, looking from the hillside over the plains to the City with the crushing mill showing at about the centre of the plantation. This only shows a very small section of the plantation as it slopes a long way to the right and contains in all about 10,000 trees'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/22

'Picking olives. Most of this work is done by Italians as they seem to have an in-bred capacity for it'. Photograph by Krischock Studios

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/23

'First process in the manufacture of olive oil. Crushing the berries to a pulp which looks very much like blackberry jam at the end of the process. This pulp is then packed in flat folded cloths which are stacked in powerful hydraulic presses which press out the oil. The oil is then settled and filtered before bottling'. Douglas Slape at the Chilean Mill

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/24

Interior of the soapworks factory showing men working at the moulding equipment

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/25

Man working at a large vat, 'making tallow for the soap'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/26

view of Crompton & Sons Head Office in Liverpool Building, Flinders Street. Advertisement for Oxy Suds on the side wall

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/27

view of Crompton & Sons Head Office in Liverpool Building, Flinders Street. Advertisement for Oxy Suds on the side wall

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/28

'Staff 1961/62'. Group photograph of staff with over 20 years service, for Centenary booklet, 1962. [Names listed on verso of original photograph do not match names in the booklet], back row, left to right: Ralph Griffin, Arthur Pearce, Bill Letcher, Hector McKinnon, Ken A'Court, George Stokes, Gordon Grunert, Ross Masters, Keith Price. Front row, left to right: Charlie Caller, Harry Smith, Reg Wilson, Jack Pearson, W.J. Isbell, Bill Neiass, Bob Francisco

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/29

'Charles Crompton'

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Crompton & Sons, 1900-1990, Manuscript, BRG 156/6/30

'Alan Crompton, died 2010'

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