Collected Links 9 https://britthub.co.uk/collected-links-9/
Good links I have collected recently. Metro Pretzel M is for… Metro (Calvert typeface and the Nexus Tyne and Wear public transport visual identity), this blog is a lovely treasure trove of transport facts. This particular post focuses on Margaret Calvert’s type design for the Metro and how concepts from it were later extended to […]
Alton: guest house and tea rooms at Port Willunga
Mildred Constance Dunstan's clifftop guest house at Port Willunga ran for nearly fifty years from 1907, drawing Adelaide families to the dunes above the Gulf.
https://www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/alton-guest-house-port-willunga/
#AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #History #Aldinga #Hotels #PortWillunga
Samuel White's Flour Mill
From a tower beside his flour mill, Samuel White could signal passing ships by semaphore and receive back the current price of flour in Melbourne before anyone else in the district knew it; by 1867 he was insolvent and bound for New Zealand, and the mill closed a decade later.
https://www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/samuel-whites-flour-mill/
#AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Aldinga #Mills #Pioneers
The Doctor's House, Hackham
Built in 1866 and large enough to earn the nickname Folly Hall, the stone house at the corner of Main South Road and Doctor's Road at Hackham became home to a succession of district doctors — including one who never made it back to it.
https://www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/doctors-house-hackham/
#AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Pioneers #Hackham
The Old Cave — Cellar No. 1, Reynella
The oldest surviving wine cellar in Australia is a grass-covered mound at Reynella, dug by hand into limestone in 1845. John Reynell built it the year after his first vintage; it outlasted his family, several corporate owners, and nearly 180 years of South Australian summers.
https://www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/old-cave-cellar-reynella/
#AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Reynella #Wine #Pioneers
Calverton story box
Local stories collected in a phonebox art installation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2e2ljz2r3yo
#artInstallation #stories #localHistory
#redPhoneBox #Calverton #Nottinghamshire
The Crown Inn, Reynella
Built in 1854 on land sold by John Reynell to his first publican, the Crown Inn was the only hotel in Reynella for most of the colonial period — a two-storey stone building that served as polling place, inquest room, coaching stop, and social centre for the district. It is still standing on Old South Road.
https://www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/crown-inn-reynella/
#AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Reynella #Hotels
The Three Rifles Monument
The Three Rifles Monument at O'Halloran Hill — now part of Keane War Memorial Gardens — was built on land donated by a family that had already given a son to the war, and spent twenty-six years without its defining feature after the replacement rifles were stolen.
https://www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/three-rifles-monument/
#AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #O'halloranHill #Military #Memorials #Pioneers
The Easter Camp at Happy Valley, 1911
In April 1911, fifteen hundred infantry and Light Horse assembled at Happy Valley for the annual Easter training camp — marching south past the Victoria Hotel at Tapley's Hill before a week of manoeuvres, sham fights, and heliograph practice in the hills.
https://www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/easter-camp-happy-valley-1911/
#AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #HappyValley #Military
The Tally-Ho Hotel, Clarendon
Clarendon's first hotel stood on the bank of the Onkaparinga, its back door a few paces from the only ford in the valley. When the river flooded, travellers sheltered under its thatched roof and waited.
https://www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/tally-ho-hotel-clarendon/
#AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Clarendon #Hotels
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