by Phyllis Stiskin My grandfather built and lived in several of the lovely stone houses in Wollongong Road, Arncliffe. I remember the one opposite Arncliffe Park, another on the corner of Station Street and “Lillyville”, named after his youngest daughter. William Thomas Booth, wife Bessie and son William came from Chester, England on the ship …
Some Old-Time Inns Of The Western Road
by Gifford and Eileen Eardley This is an account of a motor coach journey, made by members and friends of the St George Historical Society to follow the Great Western Highway from its junction with Church Street at Parramatta to the Vale of Clwydd at Little Hartley and onwards to Hartley Vale. Its purpose was …
A Warmer Welcome: Thanks to the Bayside Council 2025 Community Grants Program
We’ve enjoyed hosting thousands of guests at Lydham Hall House Museum since our reopening to the community in February 2024. Some of our memorable moments happened in the garden and on the verandah, with a view to Botany Bay. It’s the ideal space where community groups, including the St George Sutherland Scottish Pipe Band, St …
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The St George’s Day Celebrations At St Paul’s, Kogarah
by Gifford and Eileen Eardley One of the important annual events which was celebrated at Kogarah in the first and second decades of the 1900s was the observance of St George’s Day, a festival which falls on April 23rd. The late Reverend Harry Reginald Arthur Wilson, a fervent English patriot, who was the priest at …
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Charles Bampton and Family
by Phyllis Stiskin After travelling by sailing ship from England to Sydney Town in the year 1849, young Charles Bampton at the age of four found himself at Bathurst 1850, where he grew into manhood learning the trade of saddlery, possibly with Rutherfords, (known first as Cobb & Co., then Rutherford, then back to Cobb …