(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 both these locations.
Unfortunately we don’t know how to contact this gentleman to try to get information about the people photographed.
Can anyone help, please?
One of our members, Patricio Parrague, recently donated his small collection of Matchbox toys to our museum to add to our collection. One of Patricio’s hobbies is photography so he offered to photograph the collection and put them on his Flicker Site so that anyone around the world can enjoy them. As well as the…
The Longbottom Stockade was situated at the corner of Loftus Street (formerly Stockade Street) and Parramatta Road, in what was to become the Village of Longbottom (later Concord). “Longbottom” is a traditional English place name which derives from the old word “bottom”, once used in the north of England to describe low-lying, swampy alluvial ground….
Halloween finds its beginning as a Celtic Pagan festival called Samhain about 6000 years ago. The festival marked the end of Summer and the harvest season. It was believed that the veil between the living and the dead was very thin at this time of year. A huge bonfire would be lit to herald the…
To all our wonderful members, volunteers and loyal newsletter subscribers. . . . New is the year, new are the hopes, new is the resolution, new are the spirits, and new are our warm wishes for you and yours. As you pursue your hopes and dreams, may this year bring you much success and may…
Flivver – made by Cyclops, Leichhardt, NSW, 1924-1929. A child’s ride-on toy called a Flivver. It was made in Leichhardt, Australia, by Cyclops between 1924 and 1929. The term ‘flivver’ originated as American slang for a cheap car or aeroplane. It also refers to a railway handcar or trolley car. By the 1920s flivver was…
Here we are past halfway through 2020 and what a year we have had so far with the worst bushfire season on record following a drought (still on going in some areas) and that in some areas was followed by floods when the rains finally came. Add to this the COVIO -19 pandemic which has…
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This is my great grandfather Norman Joseph Aitken. He was injured at Gallipoli and recuperated for a time at Yaralla. This photo, the small photo of WW1 soldiers and numerous other photos he took at Yaralla were on a USB I donated to the museum on behalf of my family.
Its my great grand dad norman aitken i have this photo at home
This man is my grandfather Norman Joseph Aitken. I have further information on him if you wish to contact me. He died many years ago