James Henry Aldridge, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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horse breeder and hotelier in South Australia
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About James Henry Aldridge
- James Henry "Jim" Aldridge (4 July 1849 – 11 November 1929) was a horse breeder and hotelier in South Australia.
- He founded the Richmond Park Stud in the Adelaide suburb of Richmond. J.
- H.
- Aldridge, as he was generally known, or "Jim" to his friends, was born at Kensington, South Australia, the son of George Aldridge (c.
- 1817 – 12 December 1879), who emigrated to South Australia in 1847.
- Before the advent of the Adelaide Town Hall there were three city venues for public functions: Neale's Rooms, White's Rooms and Aldridge's Rooms, all on King William Street.
- Aldridge's Rooms, which appears in newspaper advertisements between 1860 and 1863, was mentioned as a strong argument against the building of a Town Hall.
- It is probable that this venue became the Prince Alfred Hotel (alongside the Town Hall), which George Aldridge opened in 1869, and remained its proprietor.Jim was educated at St.
- Peter's College, and immediately after leaving school joined G.
- W.
- Goyder's party surveying the Northern Territory.
- On his return to the city, he joined the telegraph party working in the Roper River area.
- He then drove a herd of bullocks to the Northern Territory diggings, and sold them for a good profit.
- In 1879 he purchased from William Blackler the publican's licence to the Globe Hotel (the popular resort of sportsmen, and home of the Tattersalls Club, of which he remained a member) in Rundle Street and managed it for nine years.
- He left the "Globe" to become first licensee of the Grand Hotel, Broken Hill 1888–1893 in the midst of a mining boom.
- To escape the smelter's fumes he built a home and farm between Thorndale and the aerodrome.
- Then from 1898 to around 1907 he was the lessee of the newly rebuilt Gresham Hotel 1–9 King William Street, Adelaide.
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