Millions of people have had their tastebuds tickled by the taste of Arnott’s Biscuits, but how did those famous bickies get to the shops? The answer, for many years, was by rail. ABV (Arnott’s Biscuits’ Van) 7604 is in The New South Wales Rail Transport Museum’s display hall at Thirlmere. Arnott’s was a valued customer…
Doyle’s adventures in the Antipodes Arthur Conan Doyle had trained and practised as a doctor until the success of his Sherlock Holmes stories allowed him to give up medicine and become a full-time writer. His autobiography, Memories and Adventures, reveals a more than passing interest in the supernatural as early as the 1880s. In his account of…
In the 1840’s the most select residences in Sydney were a row of five houses in Liverpool Street called Lyons Terrace, facing the south end of Hyde Park. Elegantly attractive, they cost builder Samuel Lyons £5,000 each. Their early tenants included the Chief Justice, Sir Alfred Stephen, and the family of Major-General Edward Wynyard, commander…
(Dame) Eadith Walker set up “The Camp” on her Concord estate, Yaralla, to care for WWI soldiers who were suffering from tuberculosis. She also loaned her home, “Shuna”, at Leura to the Red Cross for the same purposes. We recently received a wonderful collection of family photographs from a Norman J. Aitken showing people at…
The armistice of 11 November 1918 was celebrated in Concord with fervour. Citizens immediately formed tin-can bands and took to the street and within twelve hours of the news of armistice the Western Suburbs Master Carriers’ Association had organised what was then the largest procession in the history of the Western Suburbs. Beginning at Concord…
Many of us have heard of this bay, and seen it as we pass over the Harbour Bridge. The name Lavender Bay conjures up mental visions of a sweet-smelling flower; however, the naming of this bay was far from sweetness. In the later part of the 1780s a Royal Navy ship, the HM Bufallo, made…
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