Gawler Flour Mills
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Click here to read a feature article on "Gawler's Flour Mills", from the "Gawler Machinery Restorers Club Newsletter, No 34, March 1997" (thanks to Don Beaty for allowing the newsletter to be shared).
Click here to see photos of Gawler's Flour Mills.
John Harvey, founder of Salisbury's biography states "By 1844, the industrial development of the colony was making rapid progress. There were two main foundries, one in Grenfell Street owned by Mr. Wyatt.....Mr. Wyatt's foundry constructed a four horse-power marine engine for Mr. Stephen King, whose Flour Mill at Gawler stood opposite Miss Calton's Old Spot Inn."[1]
Gawler's flour mills included:
References
- ↑ Harvey A P (Aileen Patricia)(1990) "I Called It Salisbury: a Biography of John Harvey the Founder of Salisbury", Salisbury and District Historical Society, Salisbury, South Australia, pg 43. [ISBN 0 9588286 1 X]
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