Found in our collection was this stunning outfit. Unfortunately we don’t know anything about it.
The only clue we have is an attached piece of paper saying it was an ‘Italian Judge’s Cloak, WWII’. Can you help?
Special thanks to our wonderful model, Patricio, who also helps out as our brilliant clever handyman.
One of our members, John Byrnes, who is also a member of the newly formed Strathfield Homebush Historical Society, would like to hear from anyone interested in researching any aspect of Homebush Bay. If interested, reply to john.mail@ozemail.com.au to keep in touch. John is about to commence a review of Aboriginal history across the Bay…
Blue Bag Before we had modern laundry detergents with optical brighteners, there was a mysterious little blue bag that was stirred around in the final rinse water on washday. This was laundry blueing or blue. A factory-produced block was the “modern” (mid-19th century onwards), commercial version of older recipes for whitening clothes, with names like…
I remember when the loo was a dunny,And the pan man came at night;It wasn’t the least bit funnyGoing out the back with no light. The interesting items we perusedFrom the newspapers cut into squaresAnd hung from a peg in the outhouse –It took little then to keep us amused. The clothes were boiled in…
The Rocks is really a most extraordinary place! A small district of Sydney, without the distinction of its own postcode, it stands on the high ground west of Sydney Cove, nudging at the edges of the city, its highways and byways running above and below and around the giant turrets and ramparts of Hawkesbury sandstone,…
What a great day we had on 6th July when Lyndon Lockrey, Trickett’s Great, Great Grandson was our guest speaker. His stories of Edward Trickett and the glorious days of world championship sculling on the Parramatta River kept us all enthralled. On 30th June 1877, one year after Trickett won the world championship, he made…
(The following article, found on Trove Newspapers site, was printed in the Sydney Morning Herald, Mon. 29 Jan 1934.) Actor’s Reminiscences Amusing reminiscences of the early days of Australian films were given to members of the Sydney Movie Makers’ Club in a lecture by Mr. Eric Howell, a former actor. Mr. Howell said that as…
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