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Irrigating potato crop, Frost farm, Wistow [PRG 1696/8/31] • Photograph

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Summary

Digital copy of a black and white photograph of a view looking West down rows of potatoes towards the pasture paddock on the Frost farm, Fidler Lane. Seen here the crop is being irrigated with rows of sprinklers, with the house yard in view to the right.

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Physical description

1 photograph (digital copy) : black and white

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1954

Collections

Part of Mount Barker Collection
Part of Wistow Collection

Subject

Potatoes -- South Australia -- Wistow
Potatoes -- Irrigation -- South Australia -- Wistow
Crops -- South Australia -- Wistow
Farms -- South Australia -- Wistow

Catalogue record

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General notes

Part of a collection comprising digital copies of artefacts, diary and photographs relating to Ernest Arthur Frost's WWI service with the Third Australian Light Horse, and Frost family photographs.

Original not held.

Size of original 6.4 x 9 cm.

Historical information

Arthur Stanley Frost, first son of Ernest Arthur Frost and Violet Annie Frost (nee Field), married Violet Edith Murray in 1954 at the Oakbank Methodist Church. After their wedding, Arthur and Violet purchased a stone cottage on twenty acres of land on the South side of Fidler Lane, between Wistow and Mount Barker, where they ran a dairy and grew potatoes. In the mid 1960s, the couple expanded their farm by buying the forty acres on the North side of Fidler Lane. In 1968, they initiated plans to build a new house on the additional section of land, engaging Adelaide architect, John S. Chappel to draw design plans, and the house was completed in 1970. The new property was named 'Kalinya'. The original twenty acres, along with the cottage and dairy was sold in 1979-1980, and potatoes and Aberdeen Angus beef cattle became the farming focus on the remaining forty acres, with addtional land leased as the need arose. Arthur and Violet had three children; Kelvin, Julianne [Julie], and Sharon.

Digitisation information

Date

07/11/2016

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

6,553 x 4,771 pixels (31.3 MP)

Size

93.81 MB

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