Glossop Centenary 2021

26/11/2024

For all those who like travelling down memory lane there is a fabulous new page sharing Riverland history. Do yourself a favour and take a look. Riverland South Australia Observations, History and Nature

11/07/2024

24/10/2023

How Fortunate the Glossop community is to have such dedicated people giving their time to make us a safer place to live.
THANK YOU.

Let's hear it for a Loveday resident who has been nominated for the 2024 Local Hero for South Australia. 👏❤

State Emergency Services volunteer Jack Nixon has served across the region, and is the brigade captain at the Glossop Country Fire Service. 👨‍🚒🔥

"Shout out to the Glossop CFS, they've got a really good bunch of guys and girls down there," he said. 💬

📻 Keep up to date with your local radio news: https://ab.co/3ujO2VE

25/08/2023

20/07/2023

One of the stalwarts of our community Mrs Letitia Gorey, during Word war two ran a collection depot for the SPF in her backyard. With the main salvageable items of tins, paper and bones among other things being brought to her.
Children participating in this program received a SPF badge like the one we have a picture of. It is quite amazing to think of the amount of money and help that was raised by school children back in the 40’s
Below is a brief description of the history of the SPF.

Following the outbreak of the First World War, people on the home front sought to aid the war effort in any way they could. This determination led to the creation of the South Australian Children’s Patriotic Fund, in 1915, designed to mobilise children at schools around the state, in support of the war effort through a variety of fundraising efforts. One of the major fundraising efforts undertaken during the First World War raised £5,350 for the South Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Fund.. At the end of the war the Children’s Patriotic Fund ceased operations.
In March 1940, the South Australian government decided to prepare for the war effort and reinstated the Children’s Patriotic Fund under a different name, the Schools’ Patriotic Fund. The organisation sought once again to contribute to the war effort by combining the fundraising efforts of schools and students across the state.
The main aim of the Children’s Patriotic Fund (CPF) was to collectively raise funds and provide it to those that have the ‘most urgent need at the moment’. This fundraising ranged from selling badges and sweets, to collecting old tins and paper and also included producing 'homely goods' for soldiers by knitting socks and constructing Christmas Boxes
Just as during the First World War schools across the state helped in any way they could no matter their location. By 1946 the SPF had raised over £400,000 for the war effort.
One of the more important fundraising efforts undertaken by the SPF during the Second World War was the collection of bones after Australia’s major phosphate supply was cut off when the Japanese captured the islands North of Australia. Phosphate is a very important ingredient in organic manure used to grow vegetables, with the resulting food helping to support service men and their allies. An Australian fertilizer company put out an appeal for bones, which wasn’t enthusiastically received by the general public, but the children had 'neither squeams nor qualms as to bones'. A drought across the state had taken its toll and left bones scattered across the country, which gave country schools an opportunity to outperform city schools. By the time the appeal came to a close the SPF had collected 2,433 tonnes of bones and added over £10,000 to the fund.

15/06/2023

Glossop Store. I have many fond memories of the store and post office, and some of the characters who worked there. What are your memories? Do you have any photos of the Store that you can share with us?

21/05/2023

A good little listen.

Is there a street named after your family? 👪

As a part of History Month, Julie Kimberley is chatting to the people behind the street names in the Riverland.

Ian Campbell said Campbell Street was named after his grandfather W.D. Campbell, who was a soldier settler and moved to the region in the 1920’s. 🎖️

📻 Listen back here: https://ab.co/3zPCFGf

05/05/2023

Laying of the foundations of the Glossop club in the 1970's.
The club is now the Sikh Indian temple.
Does anyone have any photos of the club from the past?

24/04/2023

Who remembers school sports day?

02/04/2023

Rosalind Edwards (nee Beare) & husband Milton Edwards. Rosalind is the youngest daughter of Mr F Beare the 1st teacher at Glossop Primary school 1920 - 1936. The wooden bowl was a gift from The Residents of Glossop on the occasion of Mr Beare's wedding in 1924. We were thrilled to meet Rosalind recently and see the much treasured bowl. In the family photo Rosalind is sitting on her Fathers knee.