Penfield. The old government school built around 1876. In a ruined state in 1976 on its centenary. Situated on Edinburgh airfield Base. School where my ancestors studied. Demolished 1985. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Penfield. The old government school built around 1876. In a ruined state in 1976 on its centenary. Situated on Edinburgh airfield Base. School where my ancestors studied. Demolished 1985. / denisbin
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| 説明 | This area of the Adelaide Plains was covered with native peach trees (Quandongs) hence the name of Peachey Belt. But others say the surveyor was Peter Peachey and the name came from him. The district was surveyed in 1849 as part of the Hundred of Munno Para and one of the first to buy land was William Friend Penfold (1806-1884). In 1853 Penfold opened the Plough and Harrow hotel and in 1856 Penfold subdivided part of his land to create the village of Penfield, not Penfold. Sadly for Penfold two of his children were poisoned in 1864 after they had eaten a quantity of ant poison from a broken bottle left in a yard by a neighbour. Other early settlers were the Argents who were my great great grandparents. Most of the settlers were converted over to the Bible Christians by Reverend Keen of Angel Vale. In 1855 one of my ancestors, John Argent, was behind the erection of the Zoar Bible Christian Church of 1855 but the main driving force was Thomas Long. John Argent married Fanny Laxton in 1849 and Fanny’s sister Mary Ann married William Fatchen (ancestor of Max Fatchen the journalist and writer) soon after in 1851. Thus in the cemetery you will see Argent and Fatchen burials along with Cawrse, Brosters, Smithams, Taylors, Wordens etc. The cemetery also contains the graves of some members of the Penfold family who gave their name, slightly varied, to Penfield. Elenor Penfold was buried in this cemetery in 1860 and her headstone is probably the oldest still existing. Note the many graves are surrounded by cast iron fences. The original Zoar Church was soon too small for the growing district and Daniel Garlick a Baptist architect of Gawler was commissioned in February 1865 to build a new grander Zoar Church in Argent Road. The Register newspaper reported that the new church was “the most handsome of its class and size to be found out of Adelaide.” The new church cost £800 to build. Upon Methodist union in 1900 Zoar became a Methodist Church and remained so until its closure in 1941. In the centenary year of the second Zoar church (1965) the trustees decide to demolish the church because of vandalism and insurance costs. In the early years Zoar was a bustling place as many bullock drays going to the copper mines of Burra and Kapunda chose to avoid the hills of the road to Gawler and travel across the very flat Adelaide plains from Salisbury to Penfield, Smithfield and then Gawler. In the 1850s Penfield had two general stores, the Plough and Harrow Hotel, a police station and trooper and the church. From 1874 the town had a government school. A fine stone school room was built around 1880 for the government and this school remained open until 1940. In that year the federal government compulsorily acquired much of the land in the district for a munitions factory for World War Two production. Farm houses and the Plough and Harrow Hotel and the general store were all demolished but the school room remained. Early in World War Two four munition facilities were constructed in South Australia: a small arms ammunition factory at Hendon; a foundry and rolling mill at Finsbury; an explosives and filling factory at Penfield and an adjoining magazine storage area also at Penfield. After the war these facilities became the Long Range Weapons Establishment which was part of an Australian and British defence establishment. To support their activities Woomera Rocket Range was established and the war time airport of Mallala was closed and a new Commonwealth Airforce base and airfield was established at Penfield in 1955 which they renamed Edinburgh. The RAAF took over this facility and still operates it. During World War Two the filling and explosives works at Penfield employed 6,500 people working a six day week with three shifts around the clock. Although Penfield had acquired a railway siding named Direk in 1917 it suddenly had more railway sidings for the Penfield works. Trains carried workers to the ammunition works from Angaston and the Barossa, Kapunda, Hamley Bridge and from Adelaide and Port Adelaide. Penfield was a major force in Australia’s war effort. |
| 撮影日 | 2018-01-14 18:28:18 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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