Glen Osmond. Wootton Lea mansion built in 1861. It has bluestone Dutch gables on the northern western and southern facades. Now owned by Seymour College. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Glen Osmond. Wootton Lea mansion built in 1861. It has bluestone Dutch gables on the northern western and southern facades. Now owned by Seymour College. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Glen Osmond. Wootton Lea formerly Presbyterian Girls College and now Seymour College. Francis Hardey Faulding was an early chemist and pharmaceutical products manufacturer in Adelaide. In 1860 he had a 17 roomed blue stone two storey house built at Glen Osmond which he called Wootton Lea. His family company called Fauldings was already a financial success by this time. Fauldings company was established in 1842 by Francis Faulding who arrived in South Australia from Yorkshire in that year. He was soon importing drugs as a wholesaler and dispensing from a chemist shop near the corner of Rundle Street and King William Street. In 1861 when he was still building Wootton Lea he formed a partnership with Luther Scammell a doctor and practising chemist. When Francis Faulding died in 1868 the company was taken over by Luther Scammell. The company continued to grow and prosper and by the 1890s it had branches in NSW, Western Australia, London, South Africa and India. The company continued to expand in the 20th century and it was only taken over by another company in 2001 but some products still bear the name of Fauldings. Their signature commercial products were perfumes and talcum powders, Solyptol soap and disinfectant, Epsom salts and Saline, eucalyptus oil, extract of malt, baking powder, Camphor Ice, tooth paste, Senna powder etc. After Francis Faulding’s death Wootton Lea was purchased by George Fowler another wealthy Adelaide businessman and manufacturer. Brothers David and James Fowler arrived in South Australia in 1854 and promptly opened a grocery store. They expanded their business and bought new premises in King William Street in 1857. When James died in 1859 brother George emigrated from Scotland and joined the business in 1860. David returned to England to live in 1873 and brother George took control of Fowlers Grocers in Adelaide but both brothers ran the company. By then the Fowler company had stores in Perth, London, Darwin (then part of South Australia) and along the River Murray and in the mining centres of Kalgoorlie and Broken Hill. The Fowler factory on North Terrace adorned with their logo – a lion-was erected in 1906. Fowlers were especially known for Lion brand flour, health salts, custard powder, honey, coffee and chicory essence, Amgoorie tea, baking powder, herbs and spices. George Fowler entered state parliament in 1878 and was also the President of the Baptist Union church. At Wootton Lea in 1873 when he first purchased the mansion he added the bay windows on the western façade. In 1883 he added balconies, stables, coach house etc. George Fowler died in 1896 and the Wootton Lea property was sold out of his family in 1913. Presbyterian Girls College purchased Wootton Lea in 1921. Wootton Lea’s name was changed to Barr Smith house by the College perhaps because Ursula Barr Smith, who married Bill (Edward) Hayward, was educated there. Haywards who had Carrick Hill built were generous donors and probably supported fund raising at Presbyterian Girls College. |
| 撮影日 | 2017-09-23 11:18:23 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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