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H. B. Hawke
Henry Binney Hawke (October 1827 – 17 March 1904), usually referred to as H. B. Hawke, was an industrialist in Kapunda, South Australia, founder of the manufacturing business which became H. B. Hawke & Co. History Hawke was born in Cornwall, orphaned and reputedly raised by a family of smugglers. He migrated to South Australia, arriving in South Australia in January 1849 aboard the ''William Money'' at a time of tremendous migration (11,000 in two years 1848–1849) from Britain. He found work with William Pybus's Victoria Foundry on Hindley Street, and within two years was able to purchase a property at the corner of Cambridge and Tynte streets, North Adelaide. :William Pybus, sen. (c. 1799–1854) and his son William Pybus, jun. (1820–1885) established the Victoria Foundry on Hindley Street, Adelaide, best known for casting bells, but also worked with cast iron from 1843. A grandson, W. R. Pybus (1848–1917), was a noted musician. He is reported as joining the rush to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapunda, South Australia
Kapunda is a town on the Light River and near the Barossa Valley in South Australia. It was established after a discovery in 1842 of significant copper deposits. The population was 2,917 at the 2016 Australian census. The southern entrance to the town has been dominated since 1988 by the statue of Map Kernow ("the son of Cornwall"), a traditional Cornish miner. The statue was destroyed by a fire in June 2006 but was rebuilt. History Francis Dutton and Charles Bagot, who both ran sheep in the area, discovered copper ore outcrops in 1842. They purchased around the outcrop, beginning mining early in 1844 after good assay results. Mining began with the removal of surface ore and had progressed to underground mining by the end of the year. Copper was mined until 1879. There are also quarries near the town which provide fine marble ranging from dark blue to white. Marble from the Kapunda quarries was used to face Parliament House in Adelaide, and the pedestal of the statue of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Lincoln
Port Lincoln is a town on the Lower Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. It is situated on the shore of Boston Bay, which opens eastward into Spencer Gulf. It is the largest city in the West Coast region, and is located approximately 280 km as the crow flies from the State's capital city of Adelaide (646 km by road). In June 2019 Port Lincoln had an estimated population of 16,418, having grown at an average annual rate of 0.55% year-on-year over the preceding five years. The city is reputed to have the most millionaires per capita in Australia, as well as claiming to be Australia's "Seafood Capital". History and name The Eyre Peninsula has been home to Aboriginal people for over 40 thousand years, with the Barngarla (eastern Eyre, including Port Lincoln), Nauo (south western Eyre), Wirangu (north western Eyre) and Mirning (far western Eyre) being the predominant original cultural groups present at the time of the arrival of Europeans. The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenock, South Australia
Greenock is a small town on the north-west edge of the Barossa Valley. Located 66 km from Adelaide on the Sturt Highway (A20), Greenock is characterised by tree-lined streets with shady peppercorn trees which offer welcome relief from the hot summers which are characteristic of the area. The town was named by James Smith, the secretary of George Fife Angas, after Greenock on the River Clyde in Scotland and is sometimes called ''Little Scotland in the Barossa Valley''. - Kapunda & Light Tourism (18 July 2008) The town is also located on the famous . Residents According to the 2016 Census the population of the Greenock census area was 1087 people. Of these 51.8% were male and Aboriginal and/o ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David James (Australian Politician)
David James (1854 – 21 July 1926) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Wooroora from 1902 to 1918 for the Australasian National League and the Liberal Union. History James was born in Nantyglo, Monmouthshire, Wales, son of Rees James and his wife Mary, and worked in the coal-mines as a youth. In 1877, after the death of his father, he emigrated to South Australia with his mother, sister, and brothers Edward and Evan aboard ''Lochee'', arriving in February 1877, and they settled in Kapunda. He worked in various areas of the country as a contractor, and while sinking dams on Mount Gipps sheep-station, he and his mate Jim Poole were persuaded to join Charles Rasp in pegging mineral claims on what would become Broken Hill, the world's largest silver-lead-zinc mine. Led by George McCulloch, the " Syndicate of Seven" pegged further claims in the area and formed the Broken Hill Mining Company, later to become Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Evening Journal (Adelaide)
''The News'' was an afternoon daily tabloid newspaper in the city of Adelaide, South Australia, that had its origins in 1869, and finally ceased circulation in 1992. Through much of the 20th century, '' The Advertiser'' was Adelaide's morning broadsheet, ''The News'' the afternoon tabloid, with '' The Sunday Mail'' covering weekend sport, and ''Messenger Newspapers'' community news. Its former names were ''The Evening Journal'' (1869–1912) and ''The Journal'' (1912–1923), with the Saturday edition called ''The Saturday Journal'' until 1929. History ''The Evening Journal'' ''The News'' began as ''The Evening Journal'', witVol. I No. Iissued on 2 January 1869. From 11 September 1912Vol. XLVI No. 12,906 it was renamed ''The Journal.'' News Limited News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp. One of Australia's largest media conglomerates, News Corp Australia employs more than 8,000 staff nationwide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rees Rees
Rees may refer to: Places * Rees, Germany, a city on the lower Rhine * Rees, Illinois, United States, a Jacksonville, Illinois micropolitan area#Communities, community in the Jacksonville, Illinois micropolitan area * Rees River, a river in New Zealand * 4587 Rees, an Amor asteroid Other uses * Rees (surname), a Welsh surname * Rees algebra, named after the mathematician David Rees * ''Rees's Cyclopædia'', a nineteenth-century encyclopedia, particularly rich in coverage of science and technology See also * Justice Rees (other) * * Ree (other) * Reece (other) * Reese (other) * Reis (other) * Rhees (other) * Rhys, a surname {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Brothers And Company
May Brothers and Company was an engineering and manufacturing firm founded in Gawler, South Australia in 1885 by Frederick and Alfred May. History (John) Frederick May (1840 – 15 December 1897) and Alfred May (6 December 1851 – 22 September 1920) were two children in a family of nine of Perranzabuloe, Cornwall who emigrated to Adelaide, arriving in December 1858. Upon arrival, the family travelled north to the mining town of Burra, where Frederick, (then aged 18), gained employment in a copper mine with his father Henry (1818 – 16 March 1872) and two brothers, William (1838 – 8 August 1914) and Joseph (1844 – 2 November 1922). Alfred, who was only seven at the time, attended school until the age of 15 when he then began work as a "picky-boy" – a menial job involving sorting ore on the surface of the mine. Although not formally qualified in engineering, Frederick's keen interest and skill in machinery meant that he was soon promoted to the position of mine engineer, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cameron (ironmaster)
Robert, Bob Cameron or Rob Cameron may refer to: * Robert Cameron (British politician) (1825–1913), Liberal Member of Parliament for Houghton-le-Spring, 1895–1913 * Robert Cameron (cricketer) (born 1938), Australian cricketer * Robert Cameron (New South Wales politician) (1890–1970), New South Wales politician * Robert Cameron (photographer) (1911–2009), American photographer * Robert Cameron (Queen's Park footballer) (fl. 1909–1911), Scottish footballer * Robert Cameron (Lincoln City footballer) (fl. 1892–1893), Scottish footballer * Robert Alexander Cameron (1828–1894), American soldier during the American Civil War * Robert Curry Cameron (1925–1972), American astronomer * Robert Horton Cameron (1908–1989), American mathematician * Robert Macfarlane Cameron (1860–1920), Scottish architect * Robert Parke Cameron (1920–2012), former Canadian ambassador to Romania * Robert Shaw Cameron (born 1976), British actor and director * Bob Cameron (Australian footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Martin (South Australian Politician)
James Martin (1821 – 27 December 1899) was an industrialist and politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. History James Martin was born in the hamlet of Foundry, in the parish of Stithians, Cornwall, in straitened circumstances, the seventh child of a woman whose husband had died a few months previously. He had little schooling, and after starting to earn his own money, he enrolled in night classes. He worked at the local factory making steel shovels, as a millwright in Truro's flour mills, and as a fitter in the Tresavean copper mine, where he was involved in the installation of a large mine pump and a prototype of Michael Loam's "man engine", all the time gaining practical engineering knowledge. He served as a maintenance worker at a woollens factory at Ponsanooth, where an older brother was manager. He suffered from asthma, which was exacerbated by Cornwall's climate and the atmosphere of these workplaces, and decided for his health's sake to try his l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Thompson (who?)
David or Dave Thompson may refer to: Business * David Thompson (American businessman, born 1798) (1798–1871), president of New York Life Insurance & Trust Company * David Thompson (British businessman) (1936–2021), co-founder of Hillsdown Holdings * G. David Thompson (1899–1965), American investment banker, industrialist, and modern art collector Entertainment * Dave Thompson (author) (born 1960), British author, largely dealing with rock and pop music * Dave Thompson (comedian) (born 1959), British actor and comedian * David M. Thompson (born 1950), founder of BBC Films * David Thompson (singer) (1950–2010), lead singer of the Canadian country band Thunder Road * David Thompson (writer), American writer and playwright * David W. Thompson (born 1994), American actor * Lil' Dave Thompson (1969–2010), American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter * A pen name for David L. Robbins (born 1950) Law * David R. Thompson (1930–2011), U.S. federal judge * David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David B
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft had a significant impact on popular music. Bowie developed an interest in music from an early age. He studied art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. "Space Oddity", released in 1969, was his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart. After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust (character), Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of Bowie's single "Starman (song), Starma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stokes Bagshaw
John Stokes Bagshaw (15 August 1808 – 1 January 1888) was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery in South Australia. Career He was born in Chetwynd, Shropshire, the son of Edward (19 May 1776 – 4 February 1889) and Margaret Bagshaw. He trained as a millwright, engineer and patternmaker and migrated to South Australia in 1838, arriving in the ''Eden'' at Port Adelaide in June 1837. He was involved in setting up flour mills at Noarlunga, Port Noarlunga and Encounter Bay. He set up a workshop in Elizabeth Street, Adelaide, making windmills. He invented a winnowing machine which met with some success. His first two sons, John Augustus and Thomas Henry joined the business. The business expanded into Crowther Street. In 1843 John Ridley commissioned him to build the prototype of his famous "stripper" reaping machine. His winnowing machines, corn crushers, chaff cutters and churns won prizes at the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Show in 1867. He also built baggers, ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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