An excerpt from The Jubilee History of the Municipality of Hurstville 1887-1937. Historians can dig in the past and reconstruct the life and conditions of the early days from the materials they excavate, but after all, their story is written from the outside. Pioneers can speak from the inside, that is, they are themselves, part …
James Wildman – Stonemason
The charming stone house which stands at 26 Stoney Creek Road, next to the Bexley RSL, celebrated its centenary in 1993. It was built by English stonemason, James Wildman, who was responsible for quite a number of notable buildings at Gulgong, NSW. Wildman was born in Yorkshire in 1856. After arriving in Australia he married …
The Reminiscences of Obed West
by B. J. Madden Obed West was born in Sydney in 1807, and grew up in Pitt Street and then at Barcom Glen at Darlinghurst, a grant to his father. He lived at Barcom Glen for the rest of his life, dying there in 1891. He proudly boasted in his old age that he had …
The Old Roads of the Wolli Creek Valley, West Arncliffe
by Gifford and Eileen Eardley Darley Road, and its western extension known as Slade Road, are exceptionally busy thoroughfares in this year of grace, 1972, but it was not always thus, there was a time when they were rural tracks of the rutted variety, leading around the northern ramparts of Mount Bardwell, to serve a …
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Musings on Steam Tram Motor No. 103A
by Gifford Eardley Seeing that a visit has been arranged to Parramatta Park on Sunday, June 19th, 1966, to permit the members and friends of the St. George Historical Society to enjoy, amongst other delights, a ride on the last remaining Sydney steam tram motor and its two carriages, it is thought fitting to append …