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Images with stories from the City of Canterbury Library
community memories and histories
Adventures in Grandma's Buick named 'Hearse' Campsie Orion - theatre of the stars Canterbury Bicentennial Tapestry
Adventures in Grandma's Buick named 'Hearse'
Story by Nancy Peisley		 Campsie Orion - theatre of the stars
History by Barry Sharp		 Canterbury Bicentennial Tapestry
 
Canterbury Town Hall Earlwood's Mayfair Theatre Earlwood Terminus - end of the line
Canterbury Town Hall Earlwood's Mayfair Theatre
Story by John Sullivan		 Earlwood Terminus, end of the line
Story by John Sullivan
 
McPherson's Shoe Store Mighty Wurlitzer moves to Campsie Orion Centre "Katinka" at Canterbury Town Hall
McPherson's Shoe Store
Story by Noel Duncan		 Mighty Wurlitzer moves to Campsie Orion Centre 'Katinka' at Canterbury Town Hall
Stories by Nancy Peisley
and Rae Fortier
 
Sugar Mill to Bacon Factory
to private residence - 160 years		 "The Towers" - built to view the stars Thompson's Tannery, Lakemba
Sugar Mill to Bacon Factory to private residence - 160 years 'The Towers' - built to view the stars Thompson's Tannery, Lakemba
Story by Val Clague
 
"Willy willy" sweeps Earlwood Coney Road, Earlwood Howletts Dairy
'Willy Willy' sweeps Earlwood
Story by Jean Nolan		 Heron family on the front verandah of their home at 16 Coney Road, Earlwood.
Story by June Backhouse		 Howletts family home at 613 Homer Street Kingsgrove, viewed from Homer Street.
Story by Pearl Mavis Hoey and Eric Mole
 
Living Near Walkers Dairy Walker's Dairy Mackinders Market Garden to Sunbeam Factory
'The home of Phyllis and Allan Smith at 9 Modern Avenue, Canterbury.
Story by Miriam Lawrence		 William Arthur Walker at Walkers Dairy ready to deliver milk, ca 1940.
Story by Arthur Walker and Nellie Ball		 Walter Mackinder spraying lettuce on Mackinders Market Garden ca 1920.
Information courtesy Jan and Phil Gregory
 
Growing up in Earlwood Childhood Days in Earlwood Dunlop Family of Croydon Park
Looking across Wolli Creek Valley from the cliff top at the end of Wavell Parade, Earlwood. Susan Fotheringhame (nee Buchanan) is standing above the cave were she and her childhood friends played.
Story by Susan Fotheringhame		 Susan Buchanan at a Debutante Ball, ca 1958. Image number 100201. Courtesy Susan Fotheringhame (nee Buchanan).
Story by Susan Fotheringhame		 Hugh Dunlop with five of his children on the verandah of his home at 168 Croydon Avenue, Croydon Park.
Story by Heather Andrews
 
Donald Bray - Girraween Park and Wolli Creek
Alderman Don William Bray, 1940 .
Story by J. A. (Tony) Bray
 

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