Yaralla Spring Fair
There’s be lots of entertainment, lots of stalls, lots of food. We will have a stall there and will be taking people on short (10 minutes) tours of the estate…
Sydney’s Grandest Markets Open
Queen Victoria Markets Building
On 21 July 1898 Sydney celebrated as Mayor Alderman Mathew Harris officially opened the Queen Victoria Markets Building. The Lady Mayoress, with a commemorative solid gold key, opened the druitt…
When did the First World War End?
War Memorial Burwood Park
Have you ever looked at the date on the War Memorial in Burwood Park? It’s worth looking at carefully because it reveals an interesting fact . . the dates of…
Green Lights on Calm Waters
A favourite pastime of residents is to walk along the waterfront to enjoy the peaceful vista. Not many of us know that between the “green lights” opposite the cove is…
Long Ago a Giant
As we board the 504 or the 438 for the CBD, most of us miss a little street 50 metres on our right hand side, Henry Lawson Avenue. Henry Lawson,…
Our District’s Heritage: Not one, but two.
At the birth of Australia we had not one, but two giants of literature, Lawson and Paterson. Andrew Barton Paterson was born on 17 February 1864 near Orange NSW. He…
Ikey Solomon, another plausible rogue
When Charles Dickens visited Australia, he used characters he met or heard about for characters in his various novels. Miss Haversham, from Great Expectations was in fact Eliza Donnithorne from…