I Remember – Do You?
I remember - Do you?
I remember when the loo was a dunny, And the pan man came at night; It wasn’t the least bit funny Going out the back with no light. The interesting…
I Remember …
Starched circular petticoats which stood up by themselves after being ironed Listening to the "Argonauts" and "Yes What" on the wireless Taking the billy can out to meet the milkman…
Bill Green – The War Years at Mortlake Public School
For me, school life began at the start of 1941 – I can still remember my first day at Mortlake School. Even though I only lived three doors down in…
Bert Stirrat – Some facts about Concord
Early Post Office
My mother and father and their three sons arrived from Scotland in 1885 and came by ferry to Bayview Wharf Road, now (Burwood Road, Hen & Chicken Bay). Three more sons…
Memories of Old Concord
The Concord Recorder, Thursday, July 6, 1961. I was very interested in Mr. Stanton’s article on old Concord. I would like to add to it. I have been waiting for…
Kit Johnston – Memories
Kit Johnston (c1978) I came to Concord 63 years ago and have seen many changes. Our road, Alexandra Street, was not made and we had no kerb and guttering and…
John and Mary Bray
Alfred Llewellyn Bray
Private John Bray and his wife Mary reached Sydney in June 1790 on board the Neptune with the first detachment of the New South Wales Corps. Within three years John…
Frances Jarvis (nee Ashton)
Ashtons baths
My father, Samuel Ashton, owned the Public Baths at Mortlake. As a matter of fact, he built the baths himself, all cut out from solid rock. I was born in…
Flashback on Concord – 60 year Review
Steam tram boiler explosion
A recollection of old Concord by the late Mr. H. Stanton (Mayor of Concord 1951-52) as published in the “Concord Recorder” on 16th March, 1961.
1901 Scandal
Ashtons baths
“Now I Confess”, says Frances, 90. It took a tomboy to talk the young ladies of Enfield, Mortlake and Concord into taking swimming lessons back in 1901. The schoolmarms of…
