Submarine Museum Simon's Town: The old Daphne Class submarine Assegaai. #navy #SAHistory #heritage

Reynella's Crown Inn opened in 1855, established by Robert Hay opposite the old horse changing station. A natural stop for southbound coaches and locals alike.

#History #Reynella #SAHistory #FieldsToBarrels

In 1858 a young woman smashed a champagne bottle against Clarendon's new timber bridge. The ford it replaced had tested every cart bound south for twenty years. Sixty years later the timber rotted and the ford was pressed back into service before a concrete arch replaced it. #Clarendon #SAHistory

Reflecting on Sharpeville for Human Rights Day
youtu.be/DA0xNUa2QFQ

Better late than never, just like the South African Postal Service

#youtube #history #humanrightsday #sharpeville #SAhistory #postapartheid

Ten sailors deserted the immigrant ship Coromandel in January 1837 and hid six weeks in the hills above Adelaide; the valley still carries the ship's name.

www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/coroma...

#fieldstobarrels #sahistory #history #localhistory #ships

Mildred Constance Dunstan's clifftop guest house at Port Willunga ran for nearly fifty years from 1907, drawing Adelaide families to the dunes above the Gulf.

#PortWillunga #SouthAustralia #FleurieuPeninsula #McLarenVale #LocalHistory #SAHistory #HistoricPhotography #OnkaparingaHistory

For two decades a flying fox carried buckets of clean white sand over the dunes behind Maslin Beach to a railway siding on the Willunga line, and the Noarlunga Sand Company fed the concrete of a growing Adelaide.

#SouthAustralia #Adelaide #LocalHistory #SAHistory

In 1895, Lambert & Rosa Christie established a farm across what is now Christies Beach. By 1923, Rosa had created the area's first subdivision — and holiday cottages were soon springing up on Witton Bluff.

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