WOOL BAY LIME. NEW KILN ESTABLISHED.

13 August 1910, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), page 18

…that gave the town its current name. The jetty, while built for limestone transportation, is apparently wide enough to roll a bale of wool down and therefore became known as the Wool Bay Jetty. Of course whether anyone ever indulged in the (tragically) lost art of jetty-wool-bale-rolling is unknown AND irrelevant – because the fact of being able to was enough to change the town's name from Pickering to Wool Bay. Wool Bay Limestone Kiln from Loos, Wool Bay, Yorke Peninsula Just as well it wasn't re-named 'Limestone Bay'. Despite the fanfare and great expectations of the opening ceremony on 11 August 1910 , the variable wind conditions meant that although Miller's Lime Kiln Co became the main supplier of lime for the Adelaide building industry, the three clifftop kilns were not successful.   Wool Bay's Limestone Landslide Legacy, the Temporary Toilets! South Australia So what's a nice temporary toilet doing in a place like this?  Clifftop sign, Wool Bay Previous Loo site, Wool Bay A couple of years ago, an uncharacteristically heavy storm dumped so much rain in the area that the fragile limestone cliff above the previous 'permanent' public amenities collapsed and took out the loo.  BUT … every cloud…