The foundation stone of St Philip & St James Anglican Church, Noarlunga, was laid by Bishop Short on 26 July 1850. The Rev. E.K. Miller served the Aldinga–Noarlunga–Willunga parish for 29 years without missing a service — his parishioners gifted him a buggy for the trouble. The church closed in 2019 and is now privately owned.
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Built in 1841 by William Holly, the Golden Pheasant Inn stood on Gates Road in Hackham's original township — opposite Holly's own cottage.By 1873 it had lost its licence. William eventually sold up and returned to England, passing the property to his son Charles. The old inn fell into ruin and was later demolished.
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Noarlunga's steam flour mill opened in 1843, cost £2,200, and ran day and night. It survived insolvency & an 1883 fire before closing in 1885. Later a brickworks, then workers' flats — now a private home.
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In 1895, Lambert & Rosa Christie established a farm across what is now Christies Beach. The area remained farming land until 1923, when Rosa Christie created the first subdivision .
Better road and rail links south of Adelaide soon brought tourists flocking to the coast. Before long, holiday cottages and shacks were springing up on Witton Bluff and down onto the beach itself.
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Joburg is a city that demands a lot, but gives back in ways that are hard to quantify. 🇿🇦
A quick trip into the inner city turned into an unexpected adventure through the newly reopened Johannesburg City Library, complete with a tour of the magical underground archival stacks (40km of shelving!). 📚
From art galleries to local history and coffee at Bridge Books, it's a perfect reminder of why this city is so wonderful to call home.
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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