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prefabrication in Australasia

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Smith & Baber tent,,

labelled 'Smith Baber,
London', formerly in
the
h garden
d at M
Montagu
House, Whitehall, now
at Boughton House
House,
Northamptonshire, UK,
late C18th

Country Life, CXLIX (4 March 1971), p

429
George Mott & S S Aall, Follies and
Pleasure Pavilions (London 1989), p 38

'A View of Governor Philips [sic] House, Sydney Cove Port Jackson taken from
the NNW
watercolour, British Museum (Natural History) Watling Collection, 19

detail from View of Governor Philips House

local timber prefabrication

1804
Sydney to Newcastle & Van Diemens Land
1806
Sydney house for Te Pahi in New Zealand
1824
Sydney to Moreton Bay [Brisbane]
1832
Sydney to New Zealand for James Busby
1836
Sydney
Syd
ey to Melbourne
e bou e Lonsdales
o sda e s Cottage
1838-40
Sydney to Port Essington
1838
Adelaide, various
1841
Van Diemens Land to Portland 1841 Steam Packet Inn

Lonsdale
Lonsdales
s cottage

drawing by
the Royal
y
Engineers,
Sydney, for
Lonsdales
Cottage,
1836

Archives
Office of New
South Wales

section of
Lonsdales
Cottage,
1836

Archives
Office of New
South Wales

Lonsdales Cottage, attributed to George OBrien, 1839 or 1850

State Library of Victoria H3487

disparate roof
dimensions

Lonsdales Cottage, attributed to George OBrien, 1839 or 1850

State Library of Victoria H3487

Lonsdales Cottage: reconstruction of the roof frame

Miles Lewis

Lonsdales cottage at the time of demolition, April 1891, by Charles S Bennetts

State Library of Victoria H3846

as supplied, with the

roof too small

as built, with a skew

roof

Lonsdales
Cottage
stages of
development

as extended during
Lonsdales occupation

additions
1853 1891
1853-1891

Miles Lewis

Lonsdales Cottage prepared for removal from Jolimont, 1891

Royal Historical Society of Victoria

the rise and fall of Lonsdale's Cottage part A

1836 made by the Royal Engineers in Sydney, roof size incorrect
1837 shipped on the Isabella,
Isabella some timbers jettisoned in foul weather
1837 carcase erected with some replacement timber
1837 roof erected with the rear adjusted to fit
1837-91 various additions
1891 moved to Carrum

Lonsdales Cottage at Carrum, 1950s

Royal Historical Society of Victoria

the rise and fall of Lonsdale's Cottage part B

1959 removed from Carrum, some timbers fell off the trailer
19 9 re-erected
1959
d in
i John
J h Holland's
H ll d' builder's
b ild ' yard
d with
i h some
replacement timber
1962 dismantled and stored under iron sheets at Como
1973: elements found to have been used in the Moomba float and as
doors on the Como lavatories
1973: an inventory taken: parts of McCrae's
McCrae s Cottage &c now mixed in
placed in commercial storage
removed to storage at 'Glenfern'
Glenfern
1985 another inventory taken at 'Glenfern': only one window head and
t
two
sills
ill could
ld b
be confidently
fid tl id
identified
tifi d

Lonsdales Cottage
detail from the inventory taken at 'Glenfern in 1985
Miles Lewis

the remaining
window
i d
h
head
d and
d
sills from
Lonsdales
Lonsdale
s Cottage
Cottage,
1985

Miles Lewis

Steam Packet Inn, Portland, Victoria, c 1840

Miles Lewis

detail of the
construction of the
Steam Packet Inn,
Portland, Victoria,
c 1840

Christopher How, 'Translated

Tradition in the Portland Bay
Settlement Traditional Timber
Settlement.
Framing Techniques in a Cultural
Development - Some Features
Revealed in the Steam Packet
Inn Portland
Inn,
Portland, Victoria
Victoria, Australia'
Australia ,
in Malcolm Dunkeld et al [eds],
Proceedings of the Second
International Congress on
Construction History (3 vols,
vols
Cambridge 2006), II, p 1603

major British prefabricators in timber

Peter Thompson
((exported
p
to Adelaide,, Melbourne & New Zealand))
Henry Manning
(exported to St Helena, New Zealand, Perth, Adelaide,
Melbourne)

P
Peter
t Th
Thompson

Peter Thompson
Thompson's
s Emigrant's
Emigrant s house [for South Australia] & pair of
semi-detached cottages
[John Stephens], The Land of Promise (London 1839), advertisements
Builder, I, 6 (18 March 1843), p 70

'Adelaide Church' by Peter

Thompson from an advertisement
Thompson,
of 1838
Elfrida & Rolf Jensen, Colonial Architecture
in South Australia ((Adelaide 1980),
), p 6

Judge Chapman's letter, New Zealand, December 1843

John Stacpoole, Colonial Architecture in New Zealand (Wellington 1976) p 26

Chief Justice Martin's house at Judges Bay,

Auckland, by Peter Thompson, before 1843], and
the plan from Chapmans
Chapman s letter
Stacpoole, Colonial Architecture in New Zealand, p 26

'Woodlands', Oaklands Junction, by Peter Thompson, 1842, erected 1843

Miles Lewis

'Woodlands', models before and after alterations

'Woodlands', Oaklands Junction, by Thompson, 1842, erected 1843

C t iiron window
Cast
i d
sashes;
h
panelled
ll d ceilings
ili
Miles Lewis

Henry Manning

First Government House, Auckland, by Henry

Manning, erected by William Mason, 1841
John Stacpoole,
S
William Mason, the First New Zealand
Architect (Auckland 1971), p 3
Stacpoole, Colonial Architecture in New Zealand, pp 24-5

PORTABLE COLONIAL COTTAGES

H. MANNING
H
MANNING, 251
251, HIGH-HOLBORN
HIGH HOLBORN, London
London, manufacturer
on the most simple and approved principles, pack in a small
compass, may be erected with windows, doors, and locks,
painted inside and outside, floors, &c. complete for
habitations in a few hours after landing. price 15. and
upwards.
d Th
They may b
be ttaken
k tto pieces
i
and
d removed
d as
often as the convenience of the settler may require.
H M made those now occupied in the colony
H.M.
colony, by the Rev
Rev.
C.B. Howard, J.B. Hack, esq. and others from whom
testimonials have recently been received of the superiority of
those over all others. ...
South Australian Record, 3, 27 November 1837, p 1

Henry Mannings panelised prefabrication system

J C Loudon, An Encyclopdia of Cottage Farm and Villa Architecture (London 1846 [1833]), p 256

Manning cottage at Ringmer Rd, Burnside, South Australia

Miles Lewis

Manning cottage at Burnside, South Australia

Miles Lewis

Journal of Samuel Bradford Vaughan

Particulars
Particulars of Packages of wooden house as they are marked + numbered
numbered
courtesy of Mrs W J Kendall, now in the State Library of Victoria

12
13
1.4
14
15
16
1.4

Panelled House
1 do.
2 Bead + Butt Framings
8 Square Panell'd do.
1d
do.
8S
Square d
do. 2 B
Bead
d+B
Butt
tt do.
d
1 do.
10 Bead + Butt do.
7.8
1 do.
6 do. do. do.
7.8
4 Sash Framings.
1 Package
6 Bead + Butt Framings

7.8

3.3.-

3.-

1.4

78
7.8

3
3.-

1.4
1.4
7.8

4S
Square P
Panell d
do.
17
1 Package
8 Doors + Grounds
7.8
3.2 Square Panelled framings
18
1 do.
4 Corner Posts
8.7
1.4
-.9
5.3 Grooved Posts 6.2 Grooved Posts with Iron ties.
19
1 do.
12 2 Grooved Posts
8.7
1.-.9
20
1 do.
2 Top + 2 Bottom long Plates
20.11
1.21
1 do
do.
2 Top + 2 Bottom Plates to
connect with Plates no. 20
15.-.9
22
1 do.
9 Joists
21.7
-.9
-.9
23
1 do.
9 do.
21.7
-.9
-.9
24
1 do.
9.2 Grooved Posts
7.11
-.9
-.9
25
1 Case Floor Cloth for Roofing
26 [deleted]
Not Sent
27
1 Package 18 2 Grooved Posts
18.2
7 10
7.10
12
1.2
2.3 groove posts for Partitions
28
1 do.
2 Gable Posts 24 Gable Muntins
7.8

3.-

1.4

-.6
-.6

1
1.1.-

31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46

1 do.
4 Top Plates
20.11
-.9
-.6
1 do.
4 Bottom do.
20.11
-.9
-.6
1 do.
14 Rafters
13.1
-.11
-.11
1d
do.
14 d
do.
13 1
13.1
-.11
11
-.11
11
1 do.
12 do.
13.1
-.11
-.9
1 do.
12 do.
13.1
-.11
-.9
1 do.
17 Roof Boards
23.-.11
-.10
1 do.
17 do. do.
23.-.11
-.10
1 do.
17 Floor do.
15.4
1.4
-.11
1 Package
17 Floor do.
15.4
1.4
-.11
1d
do.
17 d
do. d
do.
15 4
15.4
14
1.4
-.11
11
1 do.
25 do. do.
3.1
1.10
-.11
1 do.
20 Roof Boards
10.6
1.-.11
1 do.
20 do. do.
10.6
1.-.11
1 do.
4 Rafters for Gable Ends
13.-.6
-.5
1 Case - 6 Locks for doors of the Pannel'd House - 6 Iron braces to
connect bottom and Top Plates - 3 Locks for Rough House - 1
Doz Brass Bolts + Screws - 6 Brass Nobs - 6 Brass Buttons - 6
Iron Ties - 6 Iron Bolts.
47
1 Package
1 Cottage Window
4.6
3.7
-.4
*22
1 Do.
2 Framings
g
6.8
4.-.6
Seat - Riser + Roof For
*23
1 Do
1 Door + Frame + 1 W.C.
7.2
3.-.5
Framing for do.
Total measurement
in.
Tons. feet
Feet - 592.3 - or
14. 32

Directions for erecting my Wooden House. (Portable Panell'd made by Mr

Manning of Holborn)
_____________________
First look out the ground plates or cills and knock them together, take care to
bring the corners together as they are marked - next place the corner posts
according to their respective marks into the bottom plates + put the nuts on
screws from the underside + screw them tightly up - next put in the middle posts
those that are fastened with screws + screw them from the underside very firmly;
nextt kknock
k th
the ttop plates
l t ttogether
th according
di as th
they are marked
k d (th
(these plates
l t
are grooved the bottom are not) + lift them up bodily + place the same upon the
top of posts already screwed in. then screw the top plates down to the posts but
not close down at first until you get all the panelled framings + posts in all round
which you must do by first placing in a framing then a post and the last (when you
come to close the last two) must be sprung in thus [sketch]. You must take care
to place the doors and windows in the places where you want them to be before
you screw down the top plates firmly + put in the cross partitions - i.e. in a similar
way to the external enclosures. The cross plates are marked at each end which
you must be particular in looking to.
to having got all properly down screw up all the
nuts very firmly - next put in the Rafters + nail two or three braces across the
underside of the Rafters to keep them in their places - then nail on Board
g for the Roof - and last of all p
put down the Floor Boards.
covering
The gable Enclosures are put in similarly to the panell'd framing. Note. the
Bottom plates are painted Black.

'Jolimont' by Henry Manning, 1839: pastel, by G A Gilbert

State Library of Victoria no H5278

Jolimont, reconstruction
MUAS 6993

78
8 Mercer
e ce S
Street,
ee ,
Queenscliff, by Henry
Manning, 1853: built in
Mona Place,
Place South
Yarra, moved c 1859-63

Miles Lewis

TIMBER BUILDINGS OF THE GOLD RUSHES

view across the Fitzroy Gardens, by Charles Nettleton, 1860s

(Henry Cookes house indicated}
State Library of Victoria 793524 / H88.22/7

house of the Rev John Ham in Grey Street, East Melbourne (one of the 'sailship
houses', imported from New Zealand by Henry Cooke)
A J Petrie

Lyndhurst Hall, 46 Walhalla Street, Pascoe Vale, erected in Brunswick c 1856,

moved to the present site in the late 1860s: old photo & modern view
State Library of Victoria no H654
Miles Lewis

Lyndhurst Hall: details of cladding, and baseboard with iron spline

Miles Lewis

Lyndhurst
y
Hall

grooved
cladding
g board

broad splines for

cladding
narrow splines
for flooring

Miles Lewis

Sketch on Sandridge Pier, by George Thomson, undated but c 1855,

showing George Train's warehouse
State Library of Victoria no H90.61/1

Osborne House, 456 Victoria Street, North Melbourne

Miles Lewis

detail of the flyer advertising the Misses Hayness seminary

Osborne House: rear view & detail of boarding

Miles Lewis

Osborne House
l di numbers
lading
b
on lilining
i b
boards
d
Miles Lewis

Osborne House
numerals
l cutt ffrom studs
t d
Miles Lewis

Central Melbourne
plan showing wards
MUAS 1,505

Harkins house, built in East Melbourne, 1850s, moved to 37 Warrigal

Road Mentone in 1900: view at Mentone
Road,
Mentone, from north
north, ?c 1910
from a photograph supplied to the National Trust by Mrs Renouf, 1983

Harkins house at
Mentone, from north
c 1910 & c 1930

photos supplied to the National

Trust by Mrs Renouf, 1983

H ki h
Harkins
house att M
Mentone
t
d
during
i d
demolition,
liti
1983
Miles Lewis

Harkins House
quirked board cladding
north east room
north-east
Miles Lewis

Harkins house
stencil on floorboard
Miles Lewis

Harkins house frame as reassembled in Collingwood by Andrew Muir

Miles Lewis

Harkins
a
s house
ouse frame
a e
roof structure showing mortised king posts
Miles Lewis

Harkins house frame

roof structure showing
g
mortised king posts
Miles Lewis

Malay roof structure

Showing alang muda
connecting mortised runjuk
langgit posts
Miles Lewis

Harkins House
roof p
post with Chinese character
bottom plate & scarf joint

Miles Lewis

2 Henry Street, Prahran, c 1853, remodelled c 1930

Miles Lewis

2 Henry St
St,
Prahran
crossed base plate at
north-east corner
access through iron and
shingle roofs, with Andrew
Muir

Miles Lewis

2 Henry St,
P h
Prahran
roof space,
space posts
with mortice holes,
Willys
y Keeble &
Andrew Muir

Miles Lewis

papier mch
the buildings of C F Bielefeld

papier mch church

C F Bielefeld, Portable Buildings
(London 1853), pl 5

papier
i mch
h church
h h
sectional perspective &
plan
l

C F Bielefeld, Portable Buildings

(London 1853), pl 6

papier mch villa

C F Bielefeld, Portable Buildings (London 1853), pl 1

papier mch villa, interior view & plan

C F Bielefeld, Portable Buildings (London 1853), pl 2

papier mch cottage

C F Bielefeld, Portable Buildings (London 1853), pl 8

Edward Taylor
y Bellhouse

Manchester
San Francisco
Balmoral
Melbourne
Numbaa

iron warehouse with living quarters over, for San Francisco,

by E T Bellhouse,
Bellhouse 1850
Allgemeine Bauzeitung, 1850

ballroom for Balmoral

Balmoral, by Bellhouse
Bellhouse, 1851
Illustrated London News, 22 November 1851

detail of stanchion from E T Bellhouses British patent, 609 of 1853

warehouse, Latrobe Terrace, Geelong

Michael Read, 'Prefabricated Buildings and Structures' (BArch, Melbourne University, 1963), pl 51

warehouse, Latrobe Terrace, Geelong, details

Michael Read, 'Prefabricated Buildings and Structures', pls 51, 56

40 Moor Street, Fitzroy, prior to

removal to South Melbourne,,
views, elevation and plan
Clare Lewis & Maryy Lloyd,
y 'Portable
Buildings' (BArch, University of
Melbourne, 1959)

40 Moor Street, as re-erected behind 399 Coventry St, South Melbourne

Miles Lewis

Coppin's Royal Olympic Theatre, cnr Lonsdale & Stephen [Exhibition] Sts,
Melbourne, 1855, manufactured by Bellhouse of Manchester
engraving by Samuel Calvert: SLV, reproduced in E G Robertson, Victorian Heritage: Ornamental
Cast Iron in Architecture (Sydney 1974), p 50

th local
the
l
l solution
l ti
British iron builders
John Walker & A T Walmsley
Henry Ginn,
Ginn, Colonial Architect

iron house at The Weatherboard, Inverleigh, one of a batch designed

by Henry Ginn, Colonial Architect, c 1852-3, fabricated by John Walker,
erected from 1854 onwards
Miles Lewis

house at the
Weatherboard
junction of panels at
the window line
makers plate

Miles Lewis

house at the
Weatherboard
corner detail
d il showing
h i
the painted number
60/A

Miles Lewis

prefabricated house design by Henry Ginn,

Ginn Colonial Architect
Architect, c 1852
1852-3
3:
Public Works Department contract drawing for erection, 18 May 1854: detail
PRO Vi
Victoria,
t i police
li fil
file, series
i 937 (1852
(1852-),
) 'The
'Th D
Depot',
t' b
box 141 no 3

the Rangers house,

Parkville, Melbourne, by
Henry Ginn, Colonial
Architect; fabricated by
Walmsley of London
London, c
1854
details of gusset &
makers plate

Miles Lewis

Ed i Maw
Edwin
M

iron house and shed, former hotel, at Numbaa, NSW, by Edwin Maw, c 1854
Bob Irving

former Presbyterian Church

Church, Numbaa
Numbaa, NSW
NSW, by Edwin Maw
Maw, 1854
Miles Lewis

former Presbyterian Church, Numbaa, NSW, by Edwin Maw, 1854: interior

Miles Lewis

former Presbyterian
y
Church,, Numbaa,, NSW,, byy Edwin Maw,, 1854
connection of girt & stanchion
Miles Lewis

iron building, Longford House, Longford, by Edwin Maw, 1850s

Miles Lewis

Edwin Maw building

detail of girt with spacer and cladding fixing
Miles Lewis

Edwin Maw building

connection of girts to column
Miles Lewis

Edwin Maw building

column base and floor tie
Miles Lewis

structural system of the Edwin Maw building, Longford

Miles Lewis

prefabricated iron building

p
g at Keilor
Miles Lewis

Robertson & Lister

&
C D Young & Co
Glasgow

F
Free
P
Presbyterian
b t i churches
h h b
by R
Robertson
b t
& Li
Lister,
t 1854
1854, ffor M
Melbourne
lb
&S
Sydney
d
llater
t St
Stephen's church, Macquarie Street, catalogue illustration & photo of 1910
Charles D Young & Co, Illustrations of Iron Structures for Home and Abroad, pl 19

Free Presbyterian Church, Macquarie St,

Sydney, by Robertson & Lister
Photographs of Public and other Buildings (Sydney
1872) p 92 (no 256),
1872),
256) details

Charles D Young & Co, Illustrations of Iron Structures for Home and Abroad, consisting of
Dwelling-houses, Markets, Arcades. Railway Stations, and Roofing, &c. &c., constructed of
Wrought and Cast Iron and Corrugated Sheets. Manufactured by Charles D. Young & Co.
(Edinburgh, no date [c 1856]), pl 8

Legislative Council
Chamber, Macquarie
St t Sydney,
Street,
S d
by
b
Robertson & Lister
Miles Lewis

iron house made for Land Commissioner W N Gray, designed

b B
by
Bellll & Miller,
Mill made
d b
by R
Robertson
b t
& Li
Lister
t
Young, Illustrations of Iron Structures, pl 9, design 14

Corio Villa, 56 Eastern Beach, Geelong, manufactured c 1854-5, erected c 1855-6

La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria

Corio Villa
Miles Lewis

Corio
C
i Vill
Villa
details

Miles Lewis

Corio Villa
rear room & detail of wall construction
Miles Lewis

Corio Villa: detail of cast iron

stanchion, rear wall
Miles Lewis

IIron store,
t
M
McKillop
Kill St
St, G
Geelong:
l
detail of stanchion from inside
Miles Lewis

cast iron stanchion from Corio Villa

Miles Lewis

Robertson & Lister horizontal corrugated cladding system

Miles Lewis

iron store,, McKillop

p Street: from the north-west
Miles Lewis

cast iron corner

stanchions
Iron store,
McKillop St,
Geelong
Brown Brothers
store Ginn &
store,
Mercer St,
Gee o g
Geelong

Miles Lewis

Brown Brothers Store, Ginn and Mercer Streets,

Geelong, 1853: view from an old bill-head
Mornement & Holloway, Corrugated Iron, p 68

Brown Brothers Store, Ginn and Mercer Streets, Geelong, 1853

Miles Lewis

Brown Brothers Store, old view of the side flank

Adam Mornement & Simon Holloway, Corrugated Iron: Building on the
Frontier (Frances Lincoln, London 2007), p 55

Brown Brothers Store

Store, Ginn and
Mercer Streets, Geelong, 1853
faade details

Miles Lewis

Brown Brothers Store

Store,
Ginn and Mercer
g, 1853
Streets,, Geelong,
imitation granite
wallpaper

Miles Lewis

Brown Brothers Store,,

Ginn and Mercer Streets,
Geelong, 1853
rear view
cast iron corner stanchion
wrought iron T-sections
cast iron sashes

Miles Lewis

Iron cottage, Patterson Place,

South Melbourne
cast iron corner stanchion
wrought iron T-sections
cast iron sashes
Brian or Hilary Lewis

399 Coventry Street,

South Melbourne
ffour rooms plus
l attic
tti
compared with Patterson
Place cottage of two
rooms plus attic
Miles Lewis

iron store at Bridgewater, Victoria

Miles Lewis

Samuel Hemming

view of Samuel Hemming's works, Bristol, August 1853

Illustrated London News, 18 February 1854, from a view in August 1853

A Portable Town for Australia, Erected at Samuel Hemmings Portable House

y, Clift House,, Bristol. Showing
g the Church and Parsonage
g House as
Manufactory,
ordered to be sent out to the Bishop of Melbourne.
National Library of Australia, pican84413223

the second of Hemmings iron churches

a view of Hemming's yard in August 1853
National Library of Australia nla.pic-an8713118

'I'Interior
t i view
i
off the
th Second
S
d Church
Ch h erected
t d for
f the
th Diocese
Di
off Melbourne
M lb
att H
Hemming's
i '
Patent Improved Portable Buildings Manufactory, Clift House, Bristol, 1,000 sittings.
State Library of Victoria

H l T
Holy
Trinity
i it Ch
Church
h off E
England,
l d B
Bay St
St, P
Portt Melbourne,
M lb
b S
by
Samuell H
Hemming,
i
1853, erected under the supervision of Knight, Kemp & Kerr, 1855
Royal Historical Society of Victoria A-52-C

St Paul's Church of England, Fisher & Brantome Sts, Gisborne, remaining side flank
Miles Lewis

Congregational Church, Bourke

Street, Sydney
Photographs of Public and other
Buildings, p 89 (no 267)

Cottage for the Archdiocese of Sydney, by Hemming

Mitchell Library

house by Samuel Hemming

State Library of Victoria H30150

'Wingecaribbee',
Bowral, NSW
Hilary Lewis

house by
Samuel
Hemming
State Library of
Vctoria H30150

'Wingecaribbee',
'Wi
ibb '
corner detail

Clive Lucas, Australian

Country Houses:
Homesteads,
Farmsteads and Rural
Retreats (Lansdowne,
Sydney 1987), p 58

zinc
i
Henry Hewetson, London
Willi
William
Ki
Kirkwood,
k
d Edi
Edinburgh
b h
James Middlemass, Edinburgh
Boydell & Glasier, Birmingham & London

William
Kirkwood's
Portable
Metallic Houses
f Australia
for
A t li
zinc house by
James
Middlemass of
Edinburgh

McPhun's Australian
News, no 4 (April 1853),
p 4 ; no 8 (August
1853), p 12

zinc house formerly at Guildford, now next to the Diggers

Hotel south of Castlemaine
Miles Lewis

Francis Morton
of Liverpool, London & Glasgow

ornamental shooting lodge by Francis Morton & Co of

Liverpool London & Glasgow
Liverpool,
Glasgow, 1869
J Steinhardt, The Illustrated Guide to the Manufacturers, Engineers, and
Merchants of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales (London 1869), p 145

advertisement by Francis Morton

International Exhibition, 1862, Catalogue of the Industrial
Department, p 31

rubbish bin outside

the Ravenswood
h ll Q
hall,
Queensland
l d
Miles Lewis

detail of rubbish bin

post Ravenswood,
p
Queensland
Miles Lewis

cemetery
gates,
Ravenswood
Queensland

Miles Lewis

F d i k Braby
Frederick
B b

Court House, Broome, Western Australia, by Frederick Braby of Glasgow, 1889

Brian Kidd

Court House, Broome: entrance and detail of the steps.

Court House, Broome

column
l
b
base & d
detail
t il off th
the b
brand
d

Court House, Broome, detail of the roof framing

wrought
iron
(or just
possibly
ibl
steel)

hook bolts

cast iron

Court House, Broome, detail of the roof framing

Court House, Broome,

louvred door & detail of iron louvred shutter

the Improved Timber and Iron

Buildings of Frederick Braby & Co
Braby's
y Handbook for Engineers
g
and Architects
(2nd ed, Fredk. Braby & Co. Ltd, London, no date
[?c1913]), pp 95, 94

assay o
office
ce o
of the
e London
o do a
and
d Hamburg
a bu g Go
Gold
d
Company, c 1897, now in Maritana St, Kalgoorlie
Miles Lewis

London and Hamburg building

building,
relocated lining boards
Miles Lewis

London and
Hamburg building:
post and ant cup

Miles Lewis

London and Hamburg building

steel base beam branded REINER WALZWERK NP18 1897
Miles Lewis

THE DARWIN CHURCH

Knuckey St church, view at Simpsons' yard in Wakefield Street, Adelaide

photo in the possession of the Rev Stafford

Knuckey St
church, Darwin
views in 1986 &
c 2005

Miles Lewis; Janet Beeston

Wesleyan Church
Church, Knuckey Street
Street, Darwin
Darwin, 1897: detail of
imitation weatherboard cladding, seen from inside
Miles Lewis

Knuckey Street church, Darwin

details of composite
p
hip
p rafter and angle
g p
purlins with hook bolts
Miles Lewis

Knuckey Street church

cladding system with and without the cover strip
Miles Lewis

K
Knuckey
k Street
St t church:
h h composite
it stud
t d and
d cladding
l ddi fixing
fi i system
t
Miles Lewis

Knuckeyy Street church: views of ridge

g construction
Miles Lewis

Knuckey Street church: roof framing at the ridge

Miles Lewis

the twentieth century

a Beaufort steel house in Canberra, 1947

Peter Cuffley, Australian Houses of the Forties and Fifties (Knoxfield [Victoria] 1993), p 67

surviving Beaufort houses in Coburg

Miles Lewis

interior detail of a Beaufort house

at 21 Somali Street, Coburg
David Beauchamp

the Riley Newsum house

Wood, July 1951, p 252

Riley Newsum houses being put up

on the Canberra plains by the A V Jennings
Construction Co, early 1950s
panel junction in the Riley Newsum house

Peter Cuffley,
y, Australian Houses of the Forties and Fifties ((Knoxfield [[Victoria]] 1993),
), p 62
Wood, July 1951, p 252

an 'Operation Snail' house at Kyneton

Miles Lewis