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Port Adelaide. In the National Rail Museum. The old station platform sign from the SAR days from Callington railway station.
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Normanville. The old Wesleyan Methodist pioneer cemetery from the 1840s. It has fine Willunga slate headstones. Nelson Leak built the church in 1854. This is the Willunga slate headstone of Alfred Hewett who died 1862. .
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Wallaroo. The grand old primary school. First town school opened in 1861. This government school was built in 1877 for 4455 pounds. Interior burnt in fire 2006 and restored.
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The wharf in Port Pirie with the smelters and smelter chimney stack.
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World War One Memorial Gates in Port Pirie. Erected 1923.
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Wallaroo. Information board and photograph of the Wallaroo copper smelting works.
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Mt Gambier Anglican Church with fine stone tower and wooden lych gate. Christ Church opened 1866.
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Normanville. The Wesleyan Methodist cemetery beside Bungala River. Has beautiful Willunga slate headstones from the 1850s.
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Snowtown. The former Eudunda Farmers general store. It was branch 43 opened in 1939 in an old general store built in 1902. Note the clerestorey windows in the roof.
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Mt Gambier. Mount Gambier. Wesleyan Methodist Church in Mt Gambier built in 1862. Now used by the Liberty Christian group.
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Queens Wharf at Port Pirie and the smelters and smelter chimney stack.
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Moonta Mines historic copper mining site. The three Hughes tanks were built in stone in 1865 to hold water pumped from the Hughes Shaft by the Hughes Enginehouse.
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Moonta copper mine site. Copper rich stones used in 1865 to build the three Hughes Enginehouse water tanks.
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Old Customs House in Port Pirie 1875. Now a National Trust Museum.
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Moonta. Old copper mining town. This grand banking facade in the classical style was built in 1865 for the Bank of SA. Became the Union Bank as shown on parapet in 1892. Closed as a bank in 1943.
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Moonta copper Mine. Stone monuments by Walter Watson Hughes. The Hughes Boilerhuose and chimney, the Hughes Enginehouse and in the foreground the Hughes three water tanks. All built 1865.Copper rich stones used.
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AMP building Port Pirie with Amicus Certus logo statue on roof line. Opened in 1916. Now entrance to Woolworths Shopping Centre
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Carved wooden doors on Truscott House erected in 1922 in Kadina on the Yorke Peninsula South Australia.Note the heads carved into the doors.
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Blue Lake Mt Gambier South Australia. It is in an old volcanic cone. It changes to vivid blue in November because of the salts in the water and reverts to dull grey again in April.
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Hamley Bridge railway yards. The crane and silos. The broad gauge railway reached here in 1870. In 1880 the narrow gauge railway from Wallaroo reached here hence three platforms. No change of gauge after 1927.
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Tiparra on Yorke Pemimsula. Canola crop in the last week of August near Tiparra Lutheran Church.
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Kadina. On the left is the side of the 1920 Church of Christ. Behind that is a small church hall built in 1917. It had a biggegr room added to it later which is on the right of the photograph.
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Catholic Cathedral in Port Pirie. Consecrated 1953. The original Catholic Church of 1875 burnt down in 1947.
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Yacka. St James Anglican Church. Architect William Mallyon. Opened 1900 and still in use.
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Port Pirie West Primary School
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Mallyon Anglican Cathedral Port Pirie. Opened in 1899. Consecrated as Cthedral of St Peter and St Paul in 1999.
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Wallaroo. Yorke Peninsula. The administration offices of the Wallaroo copper smelting company. Built in 1861. The Moonta and Wallaroo mines closed in 1923. The smelters continued producnig fertiliser for some decades.
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Port Wakefield. The former railway station refreshment rooms built around 1880. A rail line wenn from Port Wakefield to Hoyleton in 1871. In 1878 a line connected it to Kadina.
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Beetaloo Reservoir. Built 1886 to 1890 to provide water for Moonta Kadina and Wallaroo.
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Point Pearce Aboriginal Community on Yorke Peninsula near Port Victoria. The ruins of the old state school built around 1880.
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Beetaloo. The pretty creek in a very pretty valley. Just below Beetaloo Reservoir.
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Sutherlands. The first Eudunda Farmers Cooperative Store. It closed in 1958.
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Yacka. Joshua Tilbrook's stone blacksmith's shop built early 1880s. Employed 17 men once. Closed 1944. Nice central keystone over the arched entrance door.
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Callington. Established 1849. Copper mining 1850 to 1875. Railway reached here around 1884. Station now demolished. All that remains is the station masters house and water tower. It is on the Adelaide to Melbourne railway.
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Harvey Engine House or pump house at Wallaroo copper mine. Built 1876. Mine closed 1922.
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Mt Gambier Post office built 1865 as Telegraph Station.
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Mt. Gambier. Former Savings Bank of South Australia Gothic building in Mt Gambier 1906.
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Wallaroo. The grand old primary school. This government school was built in 1877 for 4455 pounds. Interior burnt in fire 2006 and restored.
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1960 Greek Orthodox Church in Port Pirie. Foundation stone 1957
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Snowtown. The Savings Bank of South Australia 1956. Built in ultra-modern style. Used for storing bodies in the horrendous bodies in the barrels murders.
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Callington. The town was established in 1849 when copper was found here. A deserted cottage from the 1850s in the main street.
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Point Pearce on Yorke Peninsula.Aboriginal boy jumping off the Narungga War Memorial.
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Kadina. In the Farmshed Museum. A 1940s petrol motor Simpsons Washing machine. Made in Adelaide in the Simpsons Factory at Dudley Park.
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Yankalilla. Old 1870s cottage with gable and romanesque rounded windows.
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Kadina. In the Farmshed Museum an ornate certificate awarded in the 1895 ploughing competition to Mr Sharman.
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Moonta School. Opened in 1877 for 800 students. Identical to Moonta Mines and Wallaroo Mines and Wallaroo Schools which opened at the same time. It is now Moonta Area School.
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Watervale. Clare Valley.Hughes Park house. The library of the two storey 1900 additons to the original 1850s mansion. Australian red cedar joinery.
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Bank of South Australia in Kadina on Yorke Peninsula. 1908 with classical pediment and balustrade, Art Nouveau windows. Art Deco windows . The copper mine was at peak production in 1908
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Hamley Bridge. The former Savings Bank of South Australia built for the centenary of the colonisation of South Australia in 1936. Later it became a National Bank. Now it is a cafe.
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Laura South Australia. The Emmanuel Wesleyan Methodist church built in 1887. Became Methodist and then Uniting before closing in 1999. Sold to Lutherans and became Redeemer Lutheran.
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Snowtown. This old general store with clerestrey windows in the roof was built in 1902. It became Eudunda Farmers in 1939. Now it is an IGA supermarket.
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Moonta. Yorke Peninsula. Information board about the history of Elders Enginehouse in the Moonta Mines copper mining district. Not much remains other than this stone wall built in 1863.
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Snowtown. This butcher and bakery business began in 1889. This corner shop was added to the original shop in 1910. The original shop in the Victorian style shop next door just visible.
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Snowtown. The sign says it all. The railway station was built in 1945. The original railway station was built in 1880.
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Truscott House in Kadina built for the AMP in 1922 in stripped classical syle. Classical pillars with Art Deco forms. Note the huge wooden doors with carved heads on them.
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Mt Gambier.The oatmill cinema in the old Commerical flour mill complex of 1901 in Mt Gambier.
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Fine example of an Australian hotel with verandas and wrought iron lace work. Mount Gambier Hotel South Australia.
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Kadina Had a Longer War Than Everyone Else ....
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Kadina. Old railway engine in the town park - the Queen Victoria Park. Most of these engines were made at the James Martin Foundry in Gawler or the Islington Railway Workshops.
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Train in a Cage
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