In May 1919 the aerated water factory once owned by Sydney Gibbings and later Donaldson & Collins in Northam was sold by William Strickland the proprietor of Donaldson & Collins. The new proprietors were a partnership of George Alfred Coxon and Ernest Watson. Little is known of either Coxon or Watson prior to this association and there is no recorded evidence of either…
Gustus Luber, a Jewish draper and storekeeper appears to have arrived in Northam in 1894. He soon acquired a gallon licence and between April and July 1896 purchased four adjoining parcels of land totalling nearly 2 acres. This land is bounded by Fitzgerald Street, Grey Street and the Avon River. Luber established the Eclipse Brewery recorded as the first…
Donaldson & Collins were well established in Perth, Fremantle and Midland Junction having first opened an aerated water factory in Goderich Street, Perth in 1880. They were to become one of the three largest aerated water manufacturing companies in Western Australia and with their trade mark registered in October 1893 showing the hand in cuff, “Red Hand” of Ulster,…
The origins of the Osborn & Cavanagh families begin in the early years of Western Australian history. William John Osborn arrived in Western Australia from England in 1858 as assistant convict warder at Guildford with his wife and 6 young children. Sometime during 1859 they moved to the Victoria Plains – Dongara district where their seventh child Henry was…
This company has not been attributed to any of the existing Midland Junction aerated water companies during the period of 1911 to 1914. There appears to be no record of advertising during this period for Loco Aerated Waters. One likely scenario could be a connection with the Loco Coffee Palace, Midland Junction. Stephen Brown owned the land and a…
James Raymond Martin was born in 1864 being one of at least seven children to parents Thaddeus Constantine Martin (aka Timothy) and Mary Martin. The family resided at times around the Maryborough, Avoca and Albury areas in Victoria. James Martin married Charlotte Byrne, daughter of the Hon. Robert Byrne of “Shellbourne” Toorak Road, South Yarra in 1891 when at…
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