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ENGLAND 2023 – IV

Lunch at the wonderfully historic Waggon & Horses Pub in Marlborough then a visit to the Avebury Henge and Stone Circles (See previous post)

Waggon and Horses, Beckhampton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK

Originally a 17th-century house, two storeys in stone with a thatched roof, is now the Waggon and Horses pub; additions in the late 19th century and early 20th are described as picturesque by Historic England.

Inside the Waggon and Horses

Field Gates on Pathway to Avebury Henge & Stone Circles, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK

Pathway to Avebury Henge & Stone Circles, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK

Old Shed, Pathway to Avebury Henge & Stone Circles, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK

Raindrops, Avebury Henge & Stone Circles, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK

Yard Gate, Pathway to Avebury Henge & Stone Circles, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England UK

SPAIN 2023 – XII

We have now reached Granada in Andalusia, the location of the famous Alhambra.

Diputación Provincial De Ciudad Real, Plaza De La Constitución, Cuidad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Diputación Provincial De Ciudad Real – Provincial Government of Cuidad Real

Built between 1889-1893.

Mail Boxes, Oficina de Correos, Calle Elisa Cendreros, Cuidad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Oficina de Correos – Post Office

The Alhambra, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Viewed from the balcony of our accommodation

Door, Posada De Maria La Chola, Calle Valenzuela, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Calle Valenzuela, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

This laneway which is inaccessible by vehicles is the access to where we stayed in Granada.

Calle San Juan de los Reyes, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Hotel Casa Morisca, Cuesta de la Victoria, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

The hotel is set in a 15th century Moorish house.

Door,7 Cuesta de la Victoria, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Calle Gumiel de San Pedro, Granada, Andulusia, Spain

Doorway to Residential Block, 4 Paseo del Padre Manjón, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Street Sign, Paseo del Padre Manjón, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Father Manjón 1846-1923 was the founder of the Ave Maria Schools. This walk was built in 1609 and was called Paseo de la Puerta de Guadix, referring to the same door located at the end of the walk, which led to this town. The fountain that occupies the center of this open space was also built in the same year.

Although its official name is currently Paseo del Father Manjón,for the aforementioned reason, from the 19th century it began to be called Walk of the Sad,so nicknamed for being the place traveled by funeral courtships in the direction of the San José cemetery, located behind La Alhambra, on the hill called Sabika.

Ruins Along Rio Darro, Paseo del Padre Manjón, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Doorway, Oro del Darro Suites, Calle Carrera del Darro, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Stone Staircase, Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Granada, Casa de Castril, Carrera del Darro, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Bell Tower of Iglesia de San Pedro y San Pabl & Alhambra Tower from Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Granada, Casa de Castril, Carrera del Darro, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Shuttered Window, Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Granada, Casa de Castril, Carrera del Darro, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Ruins of Puente del Cadí, Calle Carrera del Darro, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

The Albaicin (a district of Granada) was directly connected to the Alhambra by a fortified bridge called Puente del Cadí – the “bridge of the judge”. All that is left of it today is the stump of a tower on the left bank and part of its single arch. It was built by the Moors in 1055.

Restaurant Sign, MinoTauro, Calle Carrera del Darro, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

View To The Alhambra, Calle Carrera del Darrow, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

The Alhambra at Night, Calle Valenzuela, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Arco de San Juan de los Reyes, Calle de San Juan de los Reyes, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Arco de San Juan de los Reyes – Arch of Saint John of the Kings

Statue, “Chorrojumo” (King of the Gypsies- Mariano Fernandez), Camino del Sacromonte, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Mariano Fernández Santiago, was born in 1824, known as “Chorrojumo”, he was one of the most significant characters in Granada in the 19th century

The nickname, the result of the contraction of “smoke jet”, came from his trade as a blacksmith.

An interesting story of this character can be found here.

Carmen De Bellavista, Paseo del Generalife, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Waterfall, Paseo del Generalife, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

This is along the path leading to the entrance gate to The Alhambra

Sign, Alhambra, Torre de los Carros, Paseo del Generalife, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Cañones Franceses, Calle Real de la Alhambra, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Part of the armaments installed by the French when occupying the site in 1811 – they departed soon after in 1812

Puerta de la Justicia, Calle Real de la Alhambra, Alhambra, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Built in 1348

Courtyard, The Alhambra, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Ossobuco Ristorante, Calle Carrera del Darro, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Images of Mining & Life from the Past – VII

The final contribution of the collection of old images of the early mining days in the northern goldfields of Western Australia, mainly the old Sons of Gwalia Mine at Leonora but also many of other surrounding places.

See this link for a map showing Leonora and Gwalia

Sonsa Dean Din Ras 1909

An Afghan who lived along Nambi Road and had his own personal mosque

Oroya Black Range Gold Mine, Sandstone 1908

Smoke Stack

(The State Hotel in Gwalia is visible to the left)

Machinery Shed, Sons of Gwalia Mine

Sons of Gwalia 1977

The mine was liquidated in 1963 and did not reopen again until 1982. The new entity operated the mine until its being placed into administration in 2004

Images Circa 1963

Maintenance near Headframe 1941

Mine View 1941

1907

Working Underground

Tool Sharpeners

Train Station, Gwalia

Mine 1926

Underground Shift

Atop the Gas Producers, Looking Towards the State Hotel

Tower Street 1905

The building to the right is the National Bank of Australasia – Now the Tourist & Information Bureau (See Here for today image)

“Ken”

Woodline locomotive in what today is the rear car park of the mine offices.

Ken’s Parking Spot During a Rainstorm in 2012

Images Associated with the Woodlines

Woodlines

Large quantities of timber are required for the development and running of the gold mines. This timber was not available locally and so a transport problem arose. The material required had to be shipped from its source to the lease and the best way considered to do this was by a small railway. An application was made for the constructing of the tramway and this was later granted to the Company.

The total area covered by the woodline was approximately 800 square miles. 4000 miles of 20″ gauge track. Only sufficient track was maintained to operate a few spur lines at one time. As an area became exhausted, the track was lifted (in sections complete with mulga log sleepers) and relaid in another area. The spur lines were laid 2 miles apart so that woodcutters were always within 1 mile of the track. The mulga cut was the fuel source for Sons of Gwalia Mine. About 30,000 tons of mulga of wood per year. The wood was used as fuel for boilers producing steam for the winder and to make producer gas for the engines in the power house. These engines drove the alternators generating the mines electricity and compressors producing the compressed air required. Woodline camps were very spartan. Each woodcutter had a small canvas hut with iron roof, which could be lifted onto a railway timber wagon and moved to the next campsite. Bough sheds were erected around the huts for additional shade and pens for chickens and goats were re-erected at each new campsite. Now, remains of bough sheds indicate the location of a campsite. Although a predominantly male occupation, some woodcutters had their families with them.

Washout of the Line at Lake Raeside

Railing Water 1941

Aerial – State Hotel in the background

The current mine offices are today located in the vacant plot in the centre of this image

Winder Wheels

Gold Pouring 1906

The Winder

Before the Fire in 1921

Leonora

Sons of Gwalia Mine 1949

Wooden Head Frame

Tram Car and Barn 1905

Tram 1903

Station Creek Homestead 1904

Trucks in Tower Street, Leonora

Todd Bros Coach Factory

The Mail Car

The Workers Club 1920

The Old Hotel Murrin Murrin 1905

The Smelter, Annaconda Copper Mine, Eulaminna 1900

Tatterstalls Hotel Mt Morgans

Sandalwood Cutters, Wilsons Patch

Unknown

Images of Mining & Life from the Past – VI

Part 6 of the continuing collection of old images of the early mining days in the northern goldfields of Western Australia, mainly the old Sons of Gwalia Mine at Leonora but also many of other surrounding places.

See this link for a map showing Leonora and Gwalia

Work Shed, Sons of Gwalia Mine

Stripping Timber for Transportation to the Mine

Underground Ore Cars

Timber for Boilers on Rail Cars

Workers Taking a Break

Woodline Steam Engines

Timber Stockpile

Woodline Trains Used for Staff Picnic

Sleeping Outdoors?

Parade Outside the White House Hotel, Tower Street, Leonora

Car Outside the White House Hotel

Mine Sites

Unknown Goldfields Hotel

Sons of Gwalia Mine 1963

Battery Fire 1921

Railway Hotel, Murrin Murrin

Gathered for a Race Meeting at Darlot

Gwalia Mine Manager’s House late 1920s

Police Party

P Hill’s Central Hotel, Tower Street, Leonora

Ore Carriages at the Decline

Parade Tower Street, Leonora 1903

Full Load on the Leonora Tram 1908

Gwalia Open Cut

Similar View in 2015

Mine Manager’s House Behind Open Cut

Similar View in 2012

Headframe on the Edge of the Open Cut

“Zion City”, The Miners Camp, Mertondale, Western Australia, 1905

Yundaminderra Battery 1937

Arrival of Morgan’s Minstrels, Yundaminderra

Images of Mining & Life from the Past – V

Another installment of the collection of old images of the early mining days in the northern goldfields of Western Australia, mainly the old Sons of Gwalia Mine at Leonora but also many of other surrounding places.

See this link for a map showing Leonora and Gwalia

Views of Sons of Gwalia Mine over Many Years

Gwalia Landscape from Mt Leonora

Bulldozer Clearing Land

Car Outside the White House Hotel

Outing on New Year’s Day 1914

Gold Display, National Bank of Australia, Malcolm (Pistols on table!)

“Painless” Haircuts at Murrin Murrin

Donkey Cart Murrin Murrin 1905

Headframe at Mt Morgans Mine 1896

Mt Morgans Volunteer Fire Brigade

Mt Morgans Mine 1930

Magazine (Explosives Store) Mt Morgans 1896

Mt Morgans Cricket Club

Camel Train Hauling Firewood, Mt Morgans (not a tree in sight)

Hill’s Malcolm Hotel

Moving Town, Malcolm (Always take the pub with you)

Donkey Team Transporting Firewood

Mine Workers

Wood Train

Mine Workers at Mt Morgans

Mine at Lawlers

Gwalia Aerials 1956

Mine Workers 1930

Retail Centre

“Midland”

Convent of Mercy School 1932

Bank of New South Wales

Built 1939 – closed 1943 and then occupied by National Bank of Australia until 1966

Leinster Mine

Images of Mining & Life from the Past – IV

More of the collection of old images of the early mining days in the northern goldfields of Western Australia, mainly the old Sons of Gwalia Mine at Leonora but also many of other surrounding places.

See this link for a map showing Leonora and Gwalia

Leonora 1910

Aerial of Hoover House

Earlier History of the Sons of Gwalia Mine

The Gwalia mine was originally established in 1897 by Herbert Hoover, who later became the 31st President of the United States.
St Barbara restarted mining at Gwalia in 2008 and has produced more than two million ounces of gold
Mining at Gwalia is planned to reach a depth of 2,300 metres below the surface by 2031