The Advertiser – Adelaide, SA: Tuesday 1st October 1918, page 7.
Mr John Hunt, whose death occurred at Pooginagoric, at the age of 86, had been 71 years in South Australia. Born in Gillingham, Dorsetshire, in 1832, he arrived in Australia when 15 years of age with his parents and three brothers. The family lived for [...]
Serviceton Railway Station 2008
Serviceton was named after James Service, the then Premier of Victoria and the 12th Premier of that State, serving from 1883-1886. His three years as premier and treasurer were a triumph. His immediate aim was to reform the civil service and railways and to eliminate patronage: the Public Service Board [...]
This could be the sign on the door of Richards Quality Meats in Bordertown, if it were not for the fact that on his retirement earlier this year, Don Richards has left the business in the capable hands of the next generation of butchers in the Richards family. Don’s son Steve and his brother Ron’s [...]
Stephens, Edward James (1846 – 1931), newspaper editor and publisher, was born on 17 October 1846 in London, son of George Stephens, coachsmith, and his wife Amelia, née Ford. The family reached Melbourne in the Result in October 1853, revisited England in 1860, and then returned to Victoria. After a [...]
North Terrace Adelaide 1922-29
O’Brien, Louisa (1880 – 1957), hotelier, was born on 1 September 1880 at Naracoorte, South Australia, third child of George Henry Read, racehorse-trainer, and his wife Mary Hannah, née Chaston. In the mid-1880s the family moved to Melbourne where George became publican of Waldock’s Hotel, Ascot [...]
Stonehouse, Ethel Nhill Victoria (1883 – 1964), writer, was born on 1 August 1883 at Nhill, Victoria, fourth of twelve children of Robert Stonehouse, blacksmith, and his wife Jane, née Hardingham. Educated until she was 14 at Charlton State School, she claimed to have considered entering a convent. From 1894 Ethel [...]
Peter Raymond Sleep, born 4 May 1957, Penola, South Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played 14 Tests for Australia between 1979 and 1990. He was a leg spinner who was in and out of the team, rarely playing more than one game in succession, though after taking ten wickets [...]
McLachlan, Alexander John (1872 – 1956), lawyer, businessman and politician, was born on 2 November 1872 at Naracoorte, South Australia, son of Alexander McLachlan, grazier, and his wife Mary, née Patterson. He was raised in the atmosphere of a Gaelic-speaking family and workforce, and educated privately at Hamilton Academy, Victoria, and [...]
John Riddoch Rymill (1905 – 1968), by Broothorn Studios, 1939, courtesy of State Library of South Australia. SLSA: B 9115. .
Rymill, John Riddoch (1905 – 1968), polar explorer and farmer, was born on 13 March 1905 at Penola, South Australia, younger son of Robert Rymill, farmer, and his wife Mary Edith, daughter [...]
Born in Nhill, Victoria, Ben Snow is one of Australia’s most successful visual effects supervisors and has worked on a number of Hollywood films including The Mummy (1999), Pearl Harbour (2001) and the gothic action-horror Van Helsing (2004).
Ben wanted to study movies but his parents said, ‘get a solid career! Computing [...]
