Wheal Watkins is an old lead and silver mine in the Adelaide Hills of South Australian near Glen Osmond. I went to an open day on Sunday held by the Burnside Historical Society. Dave Monceaux was the knowledgeable guide who gave us a surface tour. You can go in a couple of metres to … [Read more…]
I was browsing through Facebook today and came across this picture in a genealogy group I’m part of. Thanks to Karen for posting the photo. This piqued my interest as a number of my ancestors moved from South Australia to Victoria, Australia and sure enough my 3x great grandfather James Heeps is in the picture. … [Read more…]
I have been enjoying others’ birthplace charts today and here is mine. It is a pedigree chart which starts with me and each spot shows where the person was born. All my direct ancestors came to South Australia, some settled here and others went to Victoria during the gold rush. 11 South Australians 7 Victorians … [Read more…]
Last Thursday my daughter and I took the grandkids to the zoo. I hadn’t been for about fifteen years so I was very pleasantly surprised by the changes and happy to see some familiar buildings and enclosures too. The Adelaide Zoological Gardens was opened on 23 May 1883 by Sir William Robinson. Just lately … [Read more…]
We moved to Flaxley in 1973. The front room of our house was the Flaxley Post Office and Mum was the Post Mistress. I had a look on Trove to see when the earliest mention of the Post Office was. These two occurrences are quite familiar to me. I remember the cars being packed and … [Read more…]
I went to the South Australian Museum with my Mum today. One of our favourite parts is the Egyptian Room. Mum remembers the room and the wall paintings from when she was little and we wondered when they were done. Huge colored wall drawings tell the history and mythology of ancient Egypt. The sky … [Read more…]