Mt Horrocks Historical Society | Community organisation

Mt Horrocks Historical Society

Phone: +6188434123

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Community organisation

25.01.2022 John Horrocks Cottage open the first Sunday of the month 2-4 pm 7884 Horrocks Highway Penwortham. Come on down we would love to see you.

23.01.2022 Thank you #rememberingthepastaustralia

18.01.2022 On this day, 16th November 1920, Colin Thiele, Australian writer and author of 'Storm Boy', is born. Colin Thiele was born on 16 November 1920, in Eudunda, a sm...all town north of the Barossa Valley in South Australia. After graduating from the University of Adelaide, he served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. He then became a high school teacher, college lecturer, and principal. Thiele's novels for both children and adults were heavily influenced by his own German-Australian upbringing. A number of his stories won literary awards, and several were made into films or TV series. Among his better-known children's works are "Storm Boy", "Blue Fin", "Sun on the Stubble" and "Magpie Island". In 1977 Thiele was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the highest level of the award, for his services to literature and education. After retiring from teaching and writing, Colin Thiele lived in Dayboro, Queensland, until his death on 4 September 2006. The Thiele Library at the Magill campus of the University of South Australia is named after him, an honour which predated his death by many years. A life-size detailed statue of Colin Thiele and Mr Percival, the pelican from "Storm Boy", was constructed by sculptor Chris Radford and located in the Eudunda Centennial Gardens. Due to deterioration, the statue required repair, so the decision was made to have it recast in bronze, a process completed the year before Thiele died. Pictured: A portrait of Colin Thiele in 1964. Wikimedia Commons.

17.01.2022 Mt Horrocks Historical Society representatives Malcolm Paterson and Meredith McInnis attended the first ever Remembrance Day Service at Watervale. The service was conducted entirely by students from the Watervale Primary School. Community member Leonie Moore played the Last Post on the clarinet. Students and other community members laid wreaths at the memorial.

16.01.2022 Our President and Treasurer Wendy and David Spackman ‘modelling’ https://shop.clarevalley.com.au/

10.01.2022 Is this the 1850 Mona Lisa of South Australia ? Here she sits amongst the gum trees. Frances Amelia Skipper artist, painted by her husband and artist John Skip...per, on mattress ticking. (Materials were scarce.) Damaged but restored by clever conservators at Artlab. She died in 1855. After arriving in 1836, her father Robert Thomas started the first newspaper, the Register. Her mother Mary was an excellent SA diarist. Frances was also a gifted linguist and translator. Both she and her husband are represented in State collections. Ref :State Library of South Australia B 47780 See more

10.01.2022 Well worth a visit. #scholzparkmuseum

07.01.2022 Thank you for highlighting St Marks Church in Penwortham. It was the dream of John Ainsworth Horrocks for this church to be built, sadly though he died before its completion. He is buried in the nearby cemetery. #mthorrockshistoricalsociety

07.01.2022 Lovely lunch out with Mt Horrocks Historical Society. Wishing Jim and Janet Morran all the best for their sea change.

07.01.2022 Today is a special day for Burra, it is 175 years since the opening of the Burra Mine On 29 September 1845, the first charge of gunpowder was fired in the Monst...er Lode, blasting away large masses of rich red oxide of copper ore. In the course of a few hours after the arrival of the first miners at the Burra Creek, about ten tons of the most splendid copper ore was actually placed in the days, and the train [of drays] departed for Adelaide the following morning. Text from page 63 The Story of the Monster Mine The Burra Burra Mine and its townships 1845-1877 by Ian Auhl.

05.01.2022 St. Mary's Church, Penwortham UK. Service of Remembrance.

02.01.2022 On this day, 16th October 1837, the first group of German migrants arrives in the new colony of South Australia. In the 1800s, under King Friedrich Wilhelm III,... German/Prussian Lutherans suffered religious persecution. Friedrich Wilhelm was an autocratic king who believed he had the right to create his own state church from the two main Protestant churches - the Lutheran church and the smaller Reformed church - in a united Prussian state church. This would effectively remove the right of Lutherans to worship in a way of their choosing. Penalties for non-adherance to the state religion were severe. Many Lutherans immigrated to Australia to escape the persecution. Later groups of German immigrants were fortunate to be sponsored by wealthy Scottish businessman and chairman of the South Australian Company, George Fife Angas. However, the very first group of German immigrants sailed under difficult conditions aboard a ship that was infested with cockroaches. The 'Solway' was a wooden ship built at Monkwearmouth Shore, Sunderland in 1829. It departed from Hamburg, Germany in June 1837 under the command of Captain R Pearson. The journey was particularly rough and at one point, after a bad storm, the passengers retreated below decks for a prayer meeting. It is said that, as the boat rocked violently to and fro, and with the passengers and crew expecting the ship to break apart and sink at any moment, the prayer leader told them to have faith and all would be well. At that point, the storm abated. The Solway arrived at Kangaroo Island on 16 October 1837. Just two days earlier, one of the passengers, Mrs Kleemann, had died from pneumonia. Her distraught husband begged Captain Pearson to delay burial at sea and to wait two days to see if land could be sighted, with the proviso that if no land was sighted, the burial would proceed. When the ship berthed at Kingscote on October 16, Mr Kleemann brought ashore his deceased wife for burial on land. Pictured: The German Club in Pirie Street, approximately 1880. State Library of South Australia.

01.01.2022 Historic Sevenhill Hotel just a few kms north of Penwortham, opened in 1863 by Anton Kranewitter. A fantastic place to have a drink and a meal