A History of the Kapunda Congregational Church

 A History of the Kapunda Congregational Church: The First 100 Years.

The Kapunda Congregational Church, located on Chapel Street, Kapunda served the local community for more than 100 years. Many of Kapunda’s well-known citizens including William Oldham, James and William Shannon, the Hawke family, and Sir Sidney and Lady Isabel Kidman attended the church.
A Welsh Congregational Church, located on Stow Street, Kapunda also existed in the town, sharing many of the same Reverends’, but preaching almost exclusively in the Welsh language.
This publication documents the first 100 years of the Kapunda Congregational Church, its Ministers, some of its Deacons, parishioners and their lives, giving some insight into the church's influence on the town of Kapunda, its politics and the lives of the Congregational Church community.

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A History of the North Kapunda Hotel:

 A History of the North Kapunda Hotel:

 The First 100 Years

– by Allen Tiller

  Built in 1848 by the North Kapunda Mining Company, the North Kapunda Arms Hotel opened to the public in 1849. The original building was a single-story hotel with a double-storey accommodation wing for miners and travellers on Franklin Street (now Crase Street). The accommodation building still stands today and is the oldest original structure of the building.

  John Bickford was the first publican of the North Kapunda Arms Hotel, the first licensed hotel in Kapunda. It narrowly beat out James Whittaker at the Sir John Franklin Hotel on Main Street by one week.

  The North Kapunda Hotel, as it is known today, is an icon in the town and has featured in many of its notable historic occasions, including the reading of the Riot Act in 1893 by Corporeal Hugh Gray Queale during local political upheaval.

  This book investigates the building's first 100 years of history, including the many publicans who worked and lived in it and their families, the 1866 reconstruction, the Bachelor’s Hall, Crase’s Assembly Rooms, and the many clubs, foundations, societies, and religious groups that used the hotel as their base of operations.

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 Dumb Criminals - Car Theft.

In July 2019, a 34-year-old man, and a 23-year-old woman, stole a blue Holden Commodore from Blakeview, in the northern suburbs. The criminal duo drove to the Christies Beach courthouse, parking at McDonalds across the road. The man was due to face charges that morning for stealing a car. A police officer noticed the car and recalled that one of a similar description had been reported stolen, so they ran the plates.[1]

The man, from Whyalla Norrie and the woman from Whyalla Stuart, were both arrested and charged for stealing the car after facing the courts for the original charge, of stealing a car! The man was also charged for driving while disqualified.

Senior Constable Rebecca Stokes told the ABC, ‘He'd actually stolen a car and turned up to court to face charges of car theft. We're hoping that when his partner attends court next month she catches the bus, and we just break this vicious cycle!”[2]

Researched and written by Allen Tiller © 2024

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[1] Brendan Cole, ‘Man Facing Car Theft Charges Turns up at Court in Another Stolen Car, Gets Arrested,’ Newsweek, (2019), https://www.newsweek.com/adelaide-car-theft-australia-1452130.

[2] ‘Man facing car theft charges arrested after allegedly arriving at court in another stolen vehicle,’ ABC NEWS, (2019), https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-31/man-arrested-for-allegedly-turning-up-to-court-in-stolen-car/11370986.