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Whoopee! I have been wondering what this place might have looked like . . . It is the old Benevolent Asylum at the corner of Pitt and Devonshire Streets at Railway Square, in what was then referred to as Redfern. Next to the OLD Redfern railway terminus. We are looking east with the old cemeteries behind and the Standard Brewery on Elizabeth Street. This fine building was demolished in 1901 to make way for the new Central Station. 1895 interactive map - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-rm3443-sd&rgn=0... View to the right of the station - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/2654873676/

The Benevolent Asylum in the 1840s - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/ItemViewer.aspx?itemid=824088&am... (from acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?acmsID=423662&... )

Well done beachcomber! I am sure many family historians would love seeing what this building look like.

1821 it was built - Imagine somebody trying to knock that down nowadays! Governor Macquarie was closely involved in this building - www.bensoc.org.au/director/aboutus/benevolentsocietyhisto... . The Benevolent Society has been involved in magnificent work over nearly 200 years - www.bensoc.org.au/director/aboutus/benevolentsocietyhisto...

beachcomber australia So true. We have some info on the Benevolent Society in our collection - recently highlighted in the Lachalan Macquarie Gallery. Now we can add this image too :-D

In a time when almost every town had a cordial and soft drink manufacturer, J. J. Burke was a cordial manufacturer in Wondai, a town in the South Burnett region 241 km northwest of Brisbane. The business changed hands subsequently and under the ownership of one L. C. Sawtell became known as the South Burnett Aerated Water Works. The Sawtell family had soft drink factories in Wondai, Kingaroy, Murgon, and Goomeri. A newspaper article in 1927 records the sale of the Wondai lease to a Mr. Geo. Stewart. However, according to Queensland State Library records, Geo. was actually Gordon Stewart, who sold the business to his brother-in-law Sam Eupene in 1947. The company eventually became known as Eugene's. It was taken over by Errol Young in October 1971. In the 1920s Sawtell’s opened a branch in Maryborough. Both the Sawtell and the South Burnett operations continued at least into the late 1990s. Sawtell’s was a significant brand in Queensland and also produced fruit juices for a time. Some of their soft drinks had unusual names: orange was SOS and lemon was Monsa. Source: australianfoodtimeline.com.au/cordial-manufacturers-at-wo...

"While trying to assemble a list of names & dates of Cordial Manufacturers in Maryborough, we seem to have uncovered yet another "Maryborough Myth". The History of Maryborough, editions 1976 & 1996, state that J.R.Mansfield established the first Cordial Factory in Maryborough in 1859. However, Mansfield's name was Samuel, born about 1841 in Essex, arrived in Melbourne in 1862 & worked in the gold fields in Victoria, before coming to Gympie in 1867 for the gold rush there. The "Chronicle" reported on 2 Sept 1869 that he had taken over the factory of his brother-in-law George Sutton. The Mansfield family remained in business for 3 generations, & were still operating in the 1970s. Can anyone tell us the exact date they closed? Any information & photos on any of the Cordial makers would be appreciated. So far we have 20 different firms, & there could be more." Source: www.facebook.com/maryboroughfamilyhistory/posts/while-try...