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Gryphon
1. Australia(look like gums with gum-nuts)
2.Around 1910 but could be earlier/later
3foxes,hares and a rabbit or two (bugles for hounds?)

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The country is Australia. In the Barossa Valley and the building behind is the Stockwell Hotel. The group was called the Stockwell Hunt Club.

The year is 1919, and the picture was taken as part of the 25th Anniversary of the establishment of the Club in 1894. The Club continued until the 1950's or 60's.

Game hunted was foxes and hares with points being awarded for them. Rabbits were also shot but being extremely common no points were awarded for bunnies. The winner of the shoot is the one wearing the "?" and he was given a certain title.

A historical article will shortly be printed in the Ezine on the Stockwell Hunt Club.

A new competition will be on the next message.

(Gryphon I will send you an email)


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A new competition

Since guessing is allowed (and my only hope) -

1. Guess what the winner of the shoot is wearing (the eleventh man from the left - seventh standing from the left)?


A garland of flowers


2. What is his awarded title for winning the shoot by shooting the most hares and foxes?


King for the day


3. Which man in the picture is my Grandfather ???
(please say whether he is standing or sitting and the number of persons from the left or right). A hint - his nickname was the "Little Major".


Third standing from the right (the little guy!)

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so long ago JH..a tad of info gleaned from the net

Stockwell is about 80km north east of Adelaide at the base of the Barossa Range east of Nuriootpa. It was founded by English migrant Samuel Stockwell on land bought from George Fife Angas in 1853 (just 2 years before the Nerlich’s arrival). This confirms the fact that the area was at the frontier of settlement in the mid 1850s. Samuel Stockwell sub-divided part of the land he bought into town blocks and offered them for sale on 4 April 1854, just a year before the Nerlichs arrived in SA.

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Interesting from this old post, Stockwell was named after an actual person. I thought it was named after the boring English habit of naming everything after places in the "home country", as there is a Stockwell in the South of London. So it is good it was named after a real person as a "unique" name.

Actually the Barossa is full of unique names, Angaston, named after George Fife Angas, first Chairman of the South Australia Company, and also the gentlemen who loaned funds to many of the German emigrants helping them to transport themselves and buy land in South Australia. All paid back with interest to the Scotsman by the way, so not charity!

Also Nuriootpa and Tanunda, two Aboriginal names. Eden Valley after the Garden of Eden. Lyndoch after Lord Lynedoch. Even Adelaide was named after Queen Adelaide.

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John aka NitroX

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A new competition

Since guessing is allowed (and my only hope) -

1. Guess what the winner of the shoot is wearing (the eleventh man from the left - seventh standing from the left)?


A garland of flowers


2. What is his awarded title for winning the shoot by shooting the most hares and foxes?


King for the day


3. Which man in the picture is my Grandfather ???
(please say whether he is standing or sitting and the number of persons from the left or right). A hint - his nickname was the "Little Major".


Third standing from the right (the little guy!)

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Well done in finding this competition. I had completely forgotten about it. Have I still got that book? Somewhere probably!

The man is wearing a wreath made from vine leaves. The "King of the Hunt" would be garlanded with a large wreath of vine leaf rods.

No.2 - close - King of the Hunt. The hunt was held on the King's Birthday holiday weekend.

No.3 - He is the fifth standing guy from the left, I think!? It looks like him from other photos. He is standing looking to the left, with a bit of a thousand yard stare, or perhaps showing his profile . Wearing a suit and tie and a hat.

He was nicknamed "the Little Major" because he was small, but not a military man. However he liked to order people around per reports so he got the nickname, probably behind his back.

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Govt get out of our lives NOW!
"I love the smell of cordite in the morning."
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Edited by NitroX (24/12/11 01:17 PM)

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