21 October, 2014
The Queen's Arms on Cameron's Hill
He was a man of influence in Hamilton – James Cameron. So
influential was he that the locality boasting his hotel, the Queen’s Arms,
became known as Cameron’s Hill. Cameron’s Hilll supplanted Winship’s Hill, which
had been named for James Barron Winship, a mine manager for the Australian
Agricultural Company from 1860.
30 September, 2014
Deitz Hardware - a Hamilton fixture
Guest blogger Sandra Hargreaves
Sandra Hargreaves is a Novocastrian
who lives and works in London. She is the granddaughter of Charlie Reilly Deitz,
who began working in the hardware store at 88 Beaumont Street, Hamilton [1] after
World War 1. Reilly (as he was known) purchased the business in 1932 and after
World War II, his son Charles Douglas Reilly (Doug, Sandra’s father) joined
him.
18 September, 2014
The American's wife
It was a house everyone admired – an elegant, two story
residence at the west end of Hamilton – belonging to the Americans. A medical doctor,
Silas Rand, and his brother Thomas Rand, a dentist, had their practices there,
and their homes. They’d grown up in Minnesota. Their house had once been a
Turkish bath house. Visitors reported pipe works still visible on interior
walls.
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