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Brinkley, Hundred of - Broughton
- Brinkley, Hundred of
- Brinkworth
- Britten-Jones Creek
- Broadmeadows
- Broadview
- Brockman Reef
- Brodrick
- Brompton
- Brooker, Hundred of
- Brooklyn Park
- Brookesville
- Brothers Islands
- Broughton
Brinkley, Hundred of
Nomenclature
Captain M. Brinkley, clerk of the Executive Council.
General Notes
A school of this name was opened in 1911 and closed in 1947.
An obituary of A.R. Martin is in the Register,
26 July 1928, page 11h.
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Place Names
Brinkworth
Nomenclature
Section 392, on which the town stands in the Hundred of Hart was first granted to James White in 1866. By 1892 part of this section was owned by Frederick Belling and Peter Brinkworth (1842-1907) as executors of George Brinkworth, and they subdivided it in 1892.
An article in the Chronicle of 20 October 1932 says: 'It consists of one main street about half a mile long, set in the centre of a vast wheat plain. I am certain it will be a big place one day.'
General Notes
An obituary of Thomas Brinkworth is in the Register, 5 March 1892, page 5a:
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Thomas Brinkworth died at Gulnare in 1892 at the age of 81. He settled first at Nailsworth and was lucky at the Victorian gold diggings in the 1850s. In 1855 he made application to the Lands Office for a survey of land on the Lower Light. Later, he sold out and removed to Chinkford...
The school opened in 1895.
A photograph is in the Chronicle,
28 March 1914, page 31.
The laying of the foundation stone of a public hall is reported in the Observer,
1 September 1900, page 14a.
A coursing event is reported in the Observer,
25 July 1896, page 20a,
Chronicle,
1 July 1905, page 24a;
a photograph is in the Observer,
28 July 1906, page 30.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Coursing.
A photograph of residents of the town is in the Observer,
24 August 1907, page 32,
of wheat stacks in the Chronicle,
21 January 1905, page 28,
of bringing in the hay on
29 December 1923, page 23,
of a football team on
12 September 1935, page 37,
21 November 1935, page 32,
of a tennis team on
16 April 1936, page 33.
A history of the town and photographs are in the Chronicle,
20 October 1932, page 33.
The town is described in the Observer,
15 December 1894, page 15d,
Register,
13 August 1904, page 8c,
4 and 7 August 1909, pages 9e-g and 12b,
1 February 1910, page 9b,
2 September 1911, page 15a,
24 March 1921, page 9f.
"A Prosperous Northern Town" is in the Advertiser, 5 August 1909, page 7b:
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The only drawback [it] possesses is its muddy roads. The place has the reputation of being the boggiest town in the world. The mud is deep, rich and adhesive... For a considerable distance the street is innocent of the slightest vestige of a footpath.
7 August 1909, page 44a-d for "Facts That Show Progress" of the town.
Photographs of the town are in the same paper on
14 August 1909, page 30.
"Brinkworth Railway Station" is in the Register,
19 and 21 November 1907, pages 6c and 7a.
Also see South Australia Transport - Railways - Miscellany.
A photograph of a new post office is in the Chronicle,
14 August 1909, page 29; also see
Register,
9 March 1927, page 12c,
of the Catholic Church in the Observer,
6 August 1910, page 29,
of entraining wheat on
25 January 1913, page 32.
The laying of the foundation stone of a Lutheran church is reported in the Register,
17 April 1909, page 11e and
its opening in the Observer,
23 October 1909, page 18b.
Biographical details of A.L. McEwin are in the Observer,
25 April 1925, page 10e.
The golden wedding of Mr & Mrs Heinrich F.R. Hoepner is reported in the Register,
5 September 1927, page 8g.
A photograph of a football team is in the Chronicle,
28 October 1937, page 35.
Brinkworth - Obituaries
An obituary of Herbert Cornish is in the Observer,
22 September 1917, page 43c,
of Benjamin Horne on 26 April 1919, page 38a,
of T.H. Coombe on 3 March 1928, page 43b.
An obituary of John F. Everett is in the Register,
20 March 1925, page 11h,
of John H. Wright on 19 August 1925, page 11h, 2 September 1925, page 8i,
of Mrs S.A. Graham on 26 September 1925, page 8h,
of Thomas H. Coombe on 1 March 1928, page 8h.
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Place Names
Britten-Jones Creek
Nomenclature
Enters South Australia from the Northern Territory, near Cave Hill. Edward Britten-Jones, who carried out triangulation surveys in the area about 1888. Born at Glenelg in 1858 he died in 1933.
General Notes
The reminiscences of E. Britten-Jones are in the Register,
9 February 1914, page 8g.
- For 41 years he has stepped upwards through the grades of the State land and survey service and, today, when almost the highest honours await him, he holds that unique record set forth in my opening line - This is a tale of the one man who knows South Australia better than any other in the world; the tale of one who has been in every town and hamlet from the Territory border to our southernmost corners, east and west...
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Place Names
Broadmeadows
Nomenclature
A railway station in the Elizabeth District. Prior to 1960 it was 'Elizabeth North'.
General Notes
The school opened in 1960.
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Place Names
Broadview
Nomenclature
The Adelaide suburb was laid out by C.H. Angas and K.D. Bowman in 1915 on six sections in the Hundred of Yatala. Later housing development has all but obliterated the once panoramic views.
General Notes
This school on Eyre Peninsula opened in 1928 and closed in 1941.
"The Broadview Sale [in Adelaide]" is in the Register,
27 May 1918, page 4e.
A photograph of the Adelaide suburb's basketball team is in the Chronicle,
19 September 1935, page 40.
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Brockman Reef
In Kangaroo Island waters. It was discovered by Captain John Brockman in 1834. See Register, 4 September 1920, page 3e:
Another source says - "John Brockman, voyaging from Van Diemen's Land to Swan River, found and named Brockman Reef in 1831 (sic). "
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Brodrick
This town (now "Newland") was named by Gov Jervois and proclaimed on 11 December 1879.He probably had in mind John Brodrick (1765-1842) who was an army general and governor of the island of Martinique from 10 June 1809.
(See Burke's Peerage 1970 (London) and London Times, 12 June 1809, page 2d.)
Coicidentally, or otherwise, the town was proclaimed one week before that of "Chapmanton";
Sir Stephen Remnant Chapman was governor of Bermuda from 23 April 1831.
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Place Names
Brooker, Hundred of
Nomenclature
T.H. Brooker, MP (1890-1905). Born in London in 1850 he came to Adelaide with his parents in the Caroline in 1855. He spent the greater part of his life in the West Torrens District and for fifteen years worked for Thomas Hardy, vigneron at Bankside, subsequently conducting his own wood merchant business at Ridleyton. In 1891 he was Mayor of Hindmarsh and in parliament was Liberal Government Whip and Minister of Education and Industry. He died in 1927 and is buried at Hindmarsh.
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Politics.
This school opened in 1912 and closed in 1947;
the Brooker School existed from 1958 until 1966.
Thomas H. Brooker's obituary is in the Register, 12 July 1927, pages 8e-10h:
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Elected to the House of Assembly on 9 April 1890 as a member for West Torrens he was a warm supporter of what were then regarded as radical reforms and until his retirement from the House in 1895, he was a consistent and earnest advocate of the wage earners' and small producers' interests. There was no more ardent champion of the scheme for settling working men on small blocks, which was fathered in a session in the Legislative Council by the Hon. George W. Cotton. His concern for the welfare of the State school system was rewarded by his appointment to the portfolio of Education. He could probably have remained in parliament as a member for Port Adelaide if he had been willing to subscribe to the Caucus platform, but he relinquished active politics rather than sacrifice his independence of mind and action.
He died at North Norwood at the age of 76 years in July 1927. He came to South Australia in 1855 and for 15 years was with Thomas Hardy at Bankside.
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Brookesville
The City of Port Adelaide's Mayor's Report of 1944/45 shows it as a subdivision of sections 1157 and 1158, Hundred of Port Adelaide; now included in Ottoway, while Deposited Plan 1778 (unnamed) and certificate of title volume 826 folio 125 in the Department of Lands show it being laid out by George Howell, Robert Sellar and Henry Peel in 1910.
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Place Names
Brooklyn Park
Nomenclature
The first subdivision to bear this name was created by Oscar Gorger and Edward Lipsett on part sections 99, 161-2 and 2062 in 1881.
See Place Names - Bismar(c)k
The suburb is now bordered by Henley Beach Road, May Tce, Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Clifford St, Keswick Creek Drain (Lyons St) and Marion Rd. Incorporated within this area were several former suburbs. (See Brooklyn Park Extension, Meldreth Park, Bismarck, Bullington, Welwyn, Weeroopa and Garfield.). It has been suggested that the name may have related to Brooklyn in USA., where it is the English form of the Dutch word breukelyn meaning 'broken ground' or 'a marsh' and, coincidentally or otherwise, the 'Adelaide' Brooklyn Park at the time of its subdivision would have aptly fitted this description.
However, recent research has revealed that one of Lipsett's sons was named 'Beecher Brooklyn', while Lipsett used other family names (Clifford, Gertrude and Lipsett) as street names in the subdivision. Oscar and Gorger were also street names, Gorger later being renamed Lewis.
General Notes
Information on a reformatory is in the Express,
5 September 1898, page 2c,
Register,
6 September 1898, page 7d,
20 May 1909, page 7c:
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The operations of the Home of Catholic Boys was extended through the transference there of boys from the Magill reformatory, towards the maintenance of whom the government pays a subsidy. Father Healy was in charge of the home and he said the boys had no chance on the streets and in vicious homes, and the institution endeavoured to teach them how to earn honest livelihoods and how to behave like honourable men...
An obituary of Nathaniel Prettejohn is in the Register,
24 March 1905, page 5a.
Information on Barker Brothers' saleyards is in the Register,
23 August 1911, page 8d.
A photograph of the erection of a broadcasting tower is in the Chronicle,
15 August 1925, page 40.
Also see South Australia - Communications - Wireless and Radio.
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Brothers Islands
In Coffin Bay "about half a mile from Horse Peninsula" - "This place has every appearance of having been at one time a cave... fossil bones are in a good state of preservation... bones of the giant kangaroo have been obtained" - see Record of the Mines of South Australia (fourth edition) page 343.Information on phosphate deposits is in the Register, 25 April 1902, page 3c:
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They consist of two small islands. The lowest visible rock is a yellow coloured granular limestone and the surface rock consists of marine limestone in which numerous holes, cavities and crevices occur. On the western end of the larger island a small deposit of fossil bones is showing....
Also see South Australia - Mining - Miscellany.
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Place Names
Broughton
Nomenclature
The River Broughton was named after Rev William G. Broughton by Edward J. Eyre in 1839. Eyre spent some time in New South Wales in the 1830s and was associated with Broughton who, from 1836 to 1847, was Bishop of Australia, the only man to hold that office and title.
General Notes
"The Broughton Area" is in the Express,
11 August 1871, page 3a.
The laying of the foundation stone of a Primitive Methodist Chapel is reported in the Chronicle,
24 October 1874, page 1a (supp.).
A race meeting is reported in the Chronicle,
14 November 1874, page 7b.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
The names of those who purchased town allotments are in the Observer,
9 August 1879, page 5e.
The reminiscences of Nat Stephens are in the Observer,
7 July 1928, page 57c.
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