Description
Rare set of three maps of the proposed improvements of Adelaide’s railways, all lithographed by Penman and Galbraith.
Rowland Rees (25 September 1840 – 13 October 1904) was an architect, civil engineer and politician in South Australia. He was a director of the Holdfast Railway Company, for which he also acted as engineer. Rees had begun his architectural practice immediately upon arriving in the colony, initially in partnership with Thomas English.
Thomas Hopkins Bowen (1850 – 28 April 1896) was a surveyor, architect and land agent in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. He married Mary Ann Bowen (c. 1827 – 11 August 1888) and had a son, Robert George Bowen ( – 17 November 1869), emigrated to South Australia from England with their small family aboard the ship Hooghly, arriving in June 1839. He was a builder and contractor in the early days of Adelaide, responsible for the South Australia Company’s flour mill at Hackney, the Bank of South Australia on North Terrace and the Supreme Courthouse on Victoria Square. His business was taken over by English & Brown. He then founded a grain store in Waymouth Street, which in 1867 was taken over by John Darling, the foundation of the great J. Darling & Son grain and flour business. Robert Bowen was born in Adelaide and educated at J. L. Young’s Adelaide Educational Institution. On leaving school he found employment as a draughtsman in the Survey Office, where he worked for several years, a demanding job which entailed much surveying work in isolated pastoral areas and finally affected his health, and he resigned from the public service. He spent some time in Britain before returning, and in 1880 joined the partnership of Beresford, Bowen & Black, architects, surveyors, and land agents, with offices in the New Exchange. The partnership was dissolved in 1884
