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Port Pirie (other)
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Port Pirie is a city in South Australia. Port Pirie may also refer to: *City of Port Pirie, a former local government area in South Australia *Electoral district of Port Pirie, a former state electoral district *Port Pirie Regional Council, a local government area in South Australia *Port Pirie Post Office, a post office in South Australia *Port Pirie Airport, airport in South Australia *Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie, a diocese in South Australia See also * * * Port Pirie railway station (other) *Pirie (other) *Port Pirie South, South Australia * St Mark's Cathedral, Port Pirie *Sir John Pirie, 1st Baronet Sir John Pirie, 1st Baronet (1781 – 26 February 1851), was a British shipbroker and Lord Mayor of London. He was the largest shipbroker in London. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Pirie
Port Pirie is a small city on the east coast of the Spencer Gulf in South Australia, north of the state capital, Adelaide. The city has an expansive history which dates back to 1845. Port Pirie was the first proclaimed regional city in South Australia and is currently the second most important and second busiest port in the state. The city was founded in 1845, and at the 2016 Census had a population of 15,343. Port Pirie is the eighth most populous city in South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier, Gawler, Mount Barker, Whyalla, Murray Bridge and Port Lincoln. The city's economy is dominated by one of the world's largest lead smelters,Port Pirie's lead smelter at risk of breaching licence to ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Port Pirie
The City of Port Pirie was a local government area in South Australia from 1876 to 1997, centred on the city of Port Pirie. It was proclaimed on 28 September 1876 as the Corporate Town of Port Pirie, nearly four years after the town was surveyed. It consisted of two wards (North and South) at its creation, each electing two councillors. It subsequently expanded to four wards: North, South, West and Solomontown. It occupied a room in the Institute building in its early decades as a combined office and council chamber. The council purchased the buildings of the Institute Committee in 1932, and after substantial renovations, reopened the former institute as the new Port Pirie Town Hall and Municipal Offices. A new building next door was built for the Institute Library next door. Both developments had been funded from the profits of the council's electric works. It also owned a camping ground at Mount Ferguson, following the gift of a former Broken Hill Associated Smelters Camp wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Port Pirie
Port Pirie was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1915 to 1970. Port Pirie was abolished after a boundary redistribution in 1970 when the Electoral district of Pirie was created. The last member for Port Pirie, David McKee transferred to Pirie. The town of Port Pirie is currently located in the seat of Frome Frome ( ) is a town and civil parish in eastern Somerset, England. The town is built on uneven high ground at the eastern end of the Mendip Hills, and centres on the River Frome. The town, about south of Bath, is the largest in the Mendip d .... Members References {{DEFAULTSORT:Port Pirie Former electoral districts of South Australia 1915 establishments in Australia 1970 disestablishments in Australia Port Pirie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Pirie Regional Council
The Port Pirie Regional Council (PPRC) is a local government area in South Australia, focused on the city of Port Pirie. It has a population of about 18,000 people. The council's main administrative facilities and works depot can be found in Port Pirie; it also have a rural office in Crystal Brook. In addition to Port Pirie, the municipality also includes the surrounding towns and localities of Bungama, Collinsfield, Coonamia, Crystal Brook, Koolunga, Lower Broughton, Merriton, Napperby, Nelshaby, Pirie East, Port Davis, Port Pirie South, Port Pirie West, Redhill, Risdon Park, Risdon Park South, Solomontown, Wandearah East, Wandearah West and Warnertown, and part of Clements Gap, and Mundoora. The Port Pirie Regional Council was created in 1997, and resulted from two council mergers in short succession: the amalgamation of the District Council of Pirie into the City of Port Pirie in July 1996, and that council's subsequent amalgamation with the District Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Pirie Post Office
The Port Pirie Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at 79-83 Ellen Street, Port Pirie, South Australia. It was designed by Edward Woods and built in 1880, with extensions designed by Charles Owen-Smyth built in 1905–1907. It was added to the South Australian Heritage Register on 12 October 1995 and added to the Commonwealth Heritage List on 8 November 2011. Significance The Port Pirie Post Office, constructed in 1880 and expanded in 1905, reflects the prosperity and consolidation of the town in this period, as it evolved into an important port serving an agricultural region in South Australia. The post office also retained an important role in the town after it experienced further expansion in the twentieth century, in line with the town's association with the BHP lead smelter, established in 1889 and by the mid-1930s the largest single-unit lead-smelting works in the world. By the 1950s, Port Pirie Port Pirie is a small city on the east coast of the Spencer Gulf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Pirie Airport
Port Pirie Airport is an airport that is located south of Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia. The airport is owned by the Port Pirie Regional Council. History The airfield was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) station and home to ''No. 2 Bombing and Gunnery School'' (No. 2 BAGS) during World War II. No. 2 BAGS provided bombing and gunnery training for pilots, air observers and air gunners. ''No. 2 Operational Training Unit'' was formed at Port Pirie on 6 April 1942, and operated initially with Wirraways and Fairey Battles at the aerodrome until it moved to Mildura, Victoria in May 1942. No. 2 BAGS was renamed ''No. 3 Air Observers School'' in December 1943. After World War II, the station housed ''No. 5 Central Recovery Depot'' where aircraft and parts were stored until disposal. The station closed in early 1947, with the aerodrome reverting to civilian use thereafter. A Bellman hangar is still standing at the airport and is in good condition, it remains in use by ligh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Port Pirie
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Adelaide, erected in 1887 covering the Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas, Flinders Ranges, Nullarbor Plain, and Mid and Far North regions of South Australia, Australia. History The Diocese of Port Augusta was canonically erected by Pope Leo XIII on 10 May 1887, the same day the pope elevated the See of Adelaide to a metropolitan archdiocese and placed the new diocese in its province. On 5 August 1951 the seat of the diocese was moved from Port Augusta to Port Pirie, with the name of the diocese being also changed. Boundaries In terms of geographic size the Diocese of Port Pirie is Australia's second largest diocese (after Darwin) and one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. The diocese measures 978,823 km2, which is made up of the largest portion of South Australia and the southern parts of the Northern Territory. Cathedral St Mark's Cathedral, Port Pirie, is the seat of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Pirie Railway Station (other)
Port Pirie railway station may refer to one of the following railway stations in Port Pirie, South Australia: *the inaugural railway station, at first named "Port Pirie railway station" and later " Port Pirie South railway station" – from 1876 to 1911 *Port Pirie railway station (Ellen Street) in central Port Pirie – from 1885 to 1967 (the 1902 rebuild continued as a heritage-listed museum building) * Solomontown railway station, in the Port Pirie suburb of Solomontown – from 1911 to 1969 *Port Pirie Junction railway station, collocated with Solomontown station – from 1937 to 1967 * Port Pirie railway station (Mary Elie Street), in Port Pirie South – from 1967 to 1989 *Coonamia railway station, a "provisional stopping place" on the outskirts of Port Pirie – from 1929 (closed by 1970) and re-established from 1989 to the 2010s. An overview is in the article about Port Pirie. See also *Port Pirie (other) Port Pirie is a city in South Australia. Port Pirie may als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirie (other)
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Pirie is a surname. Pirie may also refer to: * Pirie Peninsula, Laurie Island, British Antarctic Territory * Pirie Street, Adelaide, South Australia * HMAS ''Pirie'' (J189), a Royal Australian Navy Second World War corvette * HMAS ''Pirie'' (ACPB 87), a patrol boat * Karen Pirie, a fictional Scottish detective created by Val McDermid See also * Port Pirie (other), articles associated with the city in South Australia * Piri (other) The ''piri'' is a Korean double reed instrument, used in both the folk and classical (court) music of Korea. Originating in Central Asia, it was introduced to the Korean peninsula from China, and has been used there as early as the Three Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Pirie South, South Australia
Port Pirie South is a settlement in South Australia. It is a predominantly residential suburb of industrial city of Port Pirie. The suburb began as a private subdivision of Sections 141, 142, 167 and 169 of the Hundred of Pirie The Hundred of Pirie is a Cadastral divisions of South Australia, cadastral unit of Hundred (country subdivision), hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia in the approach to the lower Flinders Ranges. It is one of the hundreds of the Co .... Its boundaries were established pursuant to the Geographical Names Act, 1969 in 1978. Since then, it has given up land to Coonamia in 1995 and absorbed land from Solomontown in 2013. References Towns in South Australia Port Pirie {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mark's Cathedral, Port Pirie
St Mark's Cathedral is the main place of Roman Catholic worship in the city of Port Pirie, Australia and is the seat of the bishop of the Diocese of Port Pirie (''Dioecesis Portus Piriensis''). The church was inaugurated on 9 July 1882, with the design of architect C. Polain, of Napperby, and was elevated to the dignity of a cathedral in 1887. The church was destroyed by fire on 21 October 1947. The newly restored cathedral was reopened in 1953. See also *Catholic Church in Australia The Catholic Church in Australia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual and administrative leadership of the Holy See. From origins as a suppressed, mainly Irish minority in early colonial times, the church has grown ... References Roman Catholic cathedrals in South Australia Buildings and structures in Port Pirie Roman Catholic churches completed in 1882 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Australia {{Australia-church-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
