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Isa A. Roberts Drapery, Grocery, boots and shoes store with bullock team and wagon
Mrs Isa A Roberts was born Isabella Alice Kirwan, Windsor NSW in 1846. She married Mark Roberts in Queensland 16 Aug 1870. Isa Roberts died 1925 and was buried at St George General Cemetery.
Mark Roberts was born in Sydney around 1848 and died 24 May 1880 at St George, Queensland.
Isa A Roberts was known as a dressmaker in St George and later took over the shop known as Defiance Stores. She left the store in 1918 and it was taken over by Thomas Austin.
Earliest reference for the store is in 1909 but that is the same year that the Belonne Beacon began so the store could have been around for longer
Queen Victoria's Royal visit to Dublin, Ireland, 4th April - 26th April, 1900
Peacock Hotel on right , College Green, Trinity College Dublin, God Bless our Queen banner in background , National Assurance Company building. Statue of William of Orange (William III) on College Green, erected in 1701. It was badly damaged in an explosion in 1928, and removed in 1929
Return of the Light Horse, Custom's House, Brisbane, 1919
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Customs House, Queen Street, Brisbane. Designed by architect Charles McLay of the Colonial Architect's Office in 1886. The building has an imposing appearance with Queen Street and river frontages, flanked by two pedimental gables with a space between filled in by massive colonnades, including a balcony on the first floor. A copper-sheathed dome towards one end sits over an internal staircase.
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Chine Hall and White Lodge Hotel from the Rustic Bridge, Boscombe Chine and Gardens, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset
Chine Hall, 13 Boscombe Spa Road Bournemouth, Englan
Castle and bridge in colour - possibly around Dorset England
Hand coloured lantern slide taken by R.A.H. L'Estrang
Albert Bridge (Railway Bridge), Brisbane: Queensland
Albert Bridge is a heritage-listed railway bridge of steel truss design crossing the Brisbane River between Indooroopilly and Chelmer in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Henry Charles Stanley and built from 1894 to 1895 by John McCormick & Son. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The Albert Bridge links Indooroopilly and Chelmer railway station. The structure consists of two steel spans supported by masonry abutments and a central concrete pier that is encased in an iron caisson. A footway was provided on the upstream side. (Wikipedia
Second permanent Victoria Bridge spanning the Brisbane River, Queensland
This bridge was officially opened on 1st October 1896. The first permanent bridge was washed away in floods in 1893. The roof of Queensland Parliament House in the background. The bridge depicted lasted until 1969 when replaced with the current Victoria Bridge
Royal Victoria Hospital and Officers Mess (Nightingale House), Netley, Hampshire, England
The Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley was not only England's biggest building, but also its "largest palace of pain", according to a 1900 report. Set on the shores of Southampton Water in Hampshire, it was created in response to the Crimean war, and designed to serve an empire. It would end up ministering to apocalypse. During the first world war, this sprawling brick behemoth β a quarter of a mile long β became a microcosm of what was happening across the English Channel.
Royal Victoria Hospital Netley. Built 1856 at the instigation of Queen Victoria whose attention was brought to the suffering of the troops in the Crimea. The hospital was the longest building in the world and demolished in 1966.
To the left of the hospital in the photograph is "Nightingale House" It was an officers' mess hall within the hospital grounds. "The Officer's Mess was completed in 1867 and was built to accommodate the Officers who were visiting or worked in the hospital. It was converted into luxury apartments in 1994 after being saved from demolition. It is now called Nightingale House, Nightingale Mews and Nightingale Walk and is a Grade II listed building.
The Australian Hotel, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Situated on the corner of Queen and Albert Street, Brisbane. The Australian Hotel was where the inaugral meeting was held to form Tattersall's Club on 05 November 1883.
Constructed in 1869 on the corner of Queen Street and Albert Street, Brisbane, the Australian Hotel replaced an earlier building that was destroyed by fire in 1868. Extensively remodelled in 1906 the hotel continued in operation until 20 July 1963 (State Library of Qld description
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