by Ron Rathbone When I was eleven and in Year 6 at Carlton Public School, my father, a successful businessman, decided it was time “I learned the use of money”. I am not sure whether he attributed his success in business to the fact that when he was growing up he had been a paper …
John Murphy of “Leeholme”, Bexley and the Horse Buses
John Joseph Murphy was born at Concord, New South Wales, in 1869. He was born with a great love of horses, which was to remain with him all his life. As a young man he entered the Meat Trade, in the beginning carting meat, and gradually learning every phase of the business over several years. …
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Cameos Of Development
Extracts from the Citizen Newspapers 1894 Telephone Service – 24th February, 1894 A movement is on foot to try and get a telephone exchange at Rockdale and already eight or nine of the residents have handed in their names as willing to become subscribers. Fifteen subscribers are required for a day service, from 9 a.m. …
Alexander Brodie Spark 1792 – 1856
Merchant – Banker – Shipowner – Pastoralist – Gentleman by R.W. Rathbone Alexander Brodie Spark as born on 9th August, 1792 in Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland, the third child of George Spark, a watchmaker and goldsmith and his wife Mary Gordon. He was educated at the local academy where he showed signs of literary talent and …
Annual Report of the Lydham Hall Local Committee for the Year Ended 28th February, 1981
by Alderman R.W. Rathbone, Hon. Secretary, Lydham Hall Local Committee It is now ten years since Council, as part of its Centenary Celebrations, purchased historic Lydham Hall as a local history museum and handed it over to a Local Committee consisting of representatives of the Council and the St. George historical Society to restore and …