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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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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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 …
Christina Stead (1902 – 1983), childhood resident of Lydham Hall, was one of Australia’s most significant novelists, and her Sydney upbringing informed her internationally acclaimed fiction. Novels such as The Man Who Loved Children (1940) and For Love Alone (1944) combined bold narrative experimentation with unflinching social commentary in works that were defining for Australian …
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Summary of a presentation by Mark Sabolch at our 16 May 2026 meeting. Popular books on the “Federation” house tend to leave an impression that this is a uniquely Australian house style which had its origins in the invigorated national spirit that was associated with the Federation event of 1901. To dispel this myth, Mark …
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