Author: FIELDING, JEAN P.
Title: The Golden Grain. A history of Edwin Davey & Sons Pioneer Flourmillers and Grain Merchants of South Australia at Penrice, Angaston, Eudunda, Salisbury, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney 1865-1985.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xix, 147; family tree endpapers, numerous b/w illustrations, references, index, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, a fine copy. Melbourne: Hyland House: 1985. The history follows the activites of an old family flourmilling firm. In November 1865 Edwin Davey and his brother, James, established their flourmilling business at Penrice, South Australia. The successes and difficulties which faced Edwin Davey & sons also reflects the economic changes and hardships that affected flourmilling in South Australia as a whole and the handicaps their state suffered in comparison with the eastern states.

Keywords: Australian Local History South Australia Edwin Davey & Sons Flour Mill Biography