Historical information
This photograph was taken in 1999 at 'The Harvest' exhibition at the Burke Museum for members of Baking Industry Victoria. The grain mill, manufactured by B.M. Purshouse in Wolverhampton, England, was of special interest.
Significance
This photograph is of primary social significance to the Beechworth community because it depicts a 19th-century grain mill, manufactured by B.M. Purshouse in Wolverhampton, England, which was probably used at flour mills in the Ovens District, such as that at Tarrawingee, which opened in 1866. The purchase of agricultural machinery such as the grain mill accompanied the expansion of agriculture, including grain growing, in the Ovens District following the gold mining prosperity of the 1850s.
This photograph may be of interest to researchers who wish to observe an image of the Purshouse grain mill.
Physical description
Colour rectangular photograph printed on matte AGFA photographic paper.
Inscriptions & markings
Obverse:
THE HARVEST /
THE HARVEST
Reverse:
2854
Subjects
- beechworth,
- burke museum,
- promoting settlement,
- living in country towns,
- making regional centres,
- preserving traditions and commemorating,
- farming and agriculture,
- exhibitions,
- burke museum exhibitions,
- building local economies,
- transforming land,
- victorian agricultural history,
- marketing and promoting agricultural products,
- the harvest exhibition,
- harvests,
- victorian gold rush towns,
- grain mill,
- bm purshouse,
- crops and grain,
- baking industry victoria
References
- Carole Woods, Beechworth: A Titan's Field, Hargreen Publishing Company, Melbourne, pp.114-6. ISBN/ISSN: 0949905259 A local history of Beechworth from the 1840s, focusing mainly on the 19th century.
