Ashfield & District Historical Society

Contents of Journals and other Publications

Ashfield History No. 17

Journeys

2008

Introduction
Edith May Glanville: Champion of the Armenian Relief Fund   –   Vicken Babkenian   1
The Planning, Properties and Patriarchy of Surveyor-General Augustus Alt   –   Paul-Alan Johnson   25
Herman Finckh – German Emigrant: Artisan Jeweller and Horticulturist   –   Ann O’Connell   63
Killed in Action: On the trail of Elvard Jorgen Martin Andersen   –   Kim Mikklesen   99
Some Ashfield Town Centre Street Histories   –   Robert Irving and Noel Irving   121
Arthur Jeffreys and Family in Australia   –   Ken Kershaw   135
Index   167

Ashfield History No. 16

Ashfield's Men of Mark

2007

Introduction    v
Milton Kent, Aerial & Commercial Photographer, 1888-1965   –   Graham Hunt   1
Henry Alfred James (1850-1936)   –   Ken Kershaw   25
A Man and His Album (Leslie Puckle)   –   Ann O’Connell   51
Memories of McKimm’s   –   Peter Maguire   75
More Recollections of McKimm’s   –    Donald Hunter Dougan   87
Max Wurcker – Sydney Trader   –   Chris Neave    89
The Young Men of the Ashfield District Camera Club   –   Ann O’Connell   108
Index   149

Hawthorne Canal: The History of Long Cove Creek

by Mark Sabolch

published by Ashfield & District Historical Society Inc.
in association with the Inner West Environment Group.

2006

Introduction
Chapters:
1.   Long Cove Creek – The Natural Landscape   9
2.   Grants at Petersham Hill   14
3.   Parramatta Road Creek Crossing   21
4.   Great Railway Crossing   26
5.   Rural and Urban Subdivision   37
6.   Sydney’s Water Supply Schemes   44
7.   Suburbanisation, Sanitation and Sewerage   51
8.   A Canal   63
9.   The Ferry and the Tram   72
10.  The Goods Railway   75
11.  Hawthorne Canal Improvements   83
12.  Water Quality   93
13.  Community Revegetation   100
14.  The Vision   107
Appendix 1.   Recipients of Land Grants   111
Appendix 2.   Extracts of 1889 Interviews   119
Notes and References   123

Ashfield History No. 15

Along Parramatta Road

2004

Introduction   –   Julian Holland  iv
Battle Bridge   –   Felicity Barry  1
Dales Garage, from Motorists’ Refuge to Commemorative Site   –   Ann O’Connell  7
Ella: A Legacy to a Community   –   Vince Crow  21
James Montague Sandy J.P., Plate Glass, Oil and Colour Man   –   Ann O’Connell  27
A Public Park at Ashfield   –   Vicki Eldridge  45
St David’s Uniting Church, Haberfield   –   Ian Jack  67
Ernest Moroney: Early Entrepreneur of Parramatta Road   –   Paul Ernest Moroney  85
The Dupain Institute of Physical Education   –   Ann O’Connell  97
Peek Frean: The Building   –   Robert Irving  121
Peek Frean: Biscuit Business   –   Ann O’Connell  125
AWA in Ashfield   –   Matti Keentok  141
Index   171-73

Ashfield History No. 14

2003

Norman Selfe, Engineer Extraordinary  –  Ian Arthur   1
Dr Carter   –   Chris Pratten   13
Werners’ Milk Bar   –   Margaret Swift   26
Mervyn Allum: Ashfield’s Shark Attack Victim   –   Ann O'Connell   27
Glanworth, Chandos Street   38
Recollections of Ashfield School   –   Geoff Grace   41
Frederic King   –   Chris Pratten   45
Our Boys’ & Girls’ Own Newspaper   –   Ann O’Connell   59
Ashfield Boys’ College   –   Chris Pratten   73
Kellross, Dover Street,   –   Chris Pratten   81
Dr Barnardo’s in Ashfield   –   Chris Pratten   86
Early Days in Haberfield   –   Ann O’Connell   91
H.C. Brierley   –   Margaret Hodgeman   101
Northridge, Victoria Street   –   Chris Pratten   113

Ashfield at Federation

2001

Preface
Ashfield at the time of Federation  –  Chris Pratten   1
Moving Ashfield citizens to the celebrations  –  the story of Ashfield Station to 1901
 –   Don Hagarty   45
George Watson of The Advertiser   –   Chris Pratten   69
John Mills, cotton farmer and the sixteenth Mayor of Ashfield   –   Chris Pratten   76
The Ashfield Fire Station   86
R T Baker   –   Bill O’Reilly   89
Ashfield’s women seeking a voice: Women’s Franchise  –   Ann O’Connell   103
Katherine Gent: an unsung hero of Sydney’s Past   –   Ann O’Connell   125
The ‘New Women’ of the 1890s   –   Ann O’Connell   135
Ashfield’s Mandarin: Quong Tart   –   Chris Pratten   143
Mr Surveyor Lloyd   –  Chris Pratten   167
The Dobroyde Golf Club   –   Nora Peek   179
The Mayors of Ashfield, 1872-1922   –   Chris Pratten   189
Haberfield: more than just a garden suburb   –   Robyn Conroy   249
The Dobroyde Pottery   275
The Ashfield Town Hall   –   Chris Pratten   276
The Man Behind the Clock Dials:  A L Franklin’s Ashfield Town Hall Clock
  –   Julian Holland   319
Our Contributors   351
Metric Conversions   352
Index   353

Comment   ii
Ashfield’s Australian Six: Made in Australia, by Australians, for Australia – Ann O’Connell   1
Ashfield Vale House – Nora Peek   29
The Salvation Army Prison Gate Brigade Home, Ashfield – Chris Pratten   37
Demolished Buildings of Ashfield   48
The Mysterious Death of A Rustic Chairmaker, The Saga of William Bollingmore
  – Chris Pratten & Nora Peek   51
James Cunningham, Woodcarver – Robyn Conroy   57
The Lawsons in Ashfield – Chris Pratten   79
Searl and Sons’ Ashfield Rose Ground – Ann O’Connell   93
Coniston, 153 Victoria Street, Ashfield – Nora Peek & Chris Pratten   105
William Hallstrom, Bootmaker, of Summer Hill – Betty Nicholson   111
Family Matters, The Rogers of Robert Street – Christopher Rogers   117
Paton Electrical Pty Ltd – Chris Pratten & Nora Peek   135
Memories of Milton House – Norma Oong   141
‘We had a Lovely Life’, Ashfield in the Late 1930s – Cathy Moran   159
The Milleewa Boys Home in the 1940s – Chris Pratten   173
Demolished Buildings of Ashfield   178
Metric/Imperial Currency and Measurements   179
Our Contributors & Sponsors   180

Summer Hill

1999

An Introduction to Summer Hill –  Chris Pratten   1
The railway at Summer Hill  –  Don Hagarty   39
John Lackey and Summer Hill –  Lesley Muir   53
Thomas Lovedale Nicholson  –  Chris Pratten   59
Cover story   –   68
Ninian Melville   –   Chris Pratten   69
T F Wiesener   –   Julian Holland   83
The Summer Hill Post Office   –   Chris Pratten   91
Ormiston   –   Chris Pratten   109
Some houses of Summer Hill:  Eltham, Lily Cottage, Urangara, Kyamba, Kelvin Grove
 –   Chris Pratten & Nora Peek   127
Branxton: still hedging along    –   Ann O’Connell   145
Henry Sweeny: Carriage builder   –   Ann O’Connell   151
Ernest Agate: carriage builder    –    Nora Peek   165
Samuel Lownds: carriage builder   –   Nora Peek   173
Sunlight Laundries   176
The cinemas of Summer Hill   –   Kevin Cork   177
The Summer Hill tram   –   David Keenan   185
Observations on architecture   –   Bob Irving   191
Living with history   –   Chris Pratten   211
Growing up in Summer Hill   –   Jacqueline Kensett-Smith   221
Lost treasures of Summer Hill   –   A photographic record   190, 210, 233, 234, 238
Burilda Private Hospital   234
A bibliography of other publications relating to Summer Hill   239
Our contributors   240
Index      241

Comment   ii
The Maori Wars: The Sudan Contingent: The Boxer Rebellion – Nora Peek   1
John Paton, V.C. – Roy Helm   7
Colonel Holborow – Nora Peek & Chris Pratten   15
Colonel Goodlet – Nora Peek & Chris Pratten   21
The Ashfield Corps, 2^nd Regiment Volunteer Infantry – Nora Peek & Chris Pratten   27
Early Colonial Volunteering – Lieut-Colonel W.A. Longfield   38
The Boer War – Nora Peek & Chris Pratten   42
Brigadier-General Ramaciotti – Nora Peek   51
From Ashfield to Armentieres with Bertie – Chris Pratten   53
Penlee and the Ashfield VAD – Nora Peek   88
The Ashfield and Haberfield Drill Halls – Nora Peek   97
24 Squadron, Air Training Corps – Chris Pratten   114
St David’s Church Honour Roll   122
Ashfield’s War Trophies and Memorials – Nora Peek   123
Ashfield Presbyterian Fellowship Association 1916 Christmas Honour Roll   138

Working the Clays

THE BRICKMAKERS OF THE ASHFIELD DISTRICT

1996

Preface

1.  Introduction
The Colony’s first brickmakers   1
Early brickmakers in Ashfield   2
The distribution of Ashfield brickpits   2
Nineteenth century brickmaking technology   4

2.   Ashfield’s brickmakers and brickyards
William Randle   11
Fyle’s Brickyard   15
William Keen   18
Excelsior Brickworks   23
19^th century brickmaking equipment   32
The Excelsior Co – Mark II   34
Thomas West    36
Henry Boehme and Benjamin Hopping   44
The Boy Brickmakers    46
The Long Cove Creek bricklands   51
The Underwood Estate – Samuel Lucas; Charles & Joseph Mead   51
Brick and pottery making on the Dobroyd Estate   55
William Mainer   55
Thomas McGill and John Riley   57
The Tenandra Street bricklands, the Cumberland Brickworks and Algie Park   59
Chidgey and Tanner   63
The Dobroyd Pottery  63

3.   Some other Inner-Western brickyards
The Steam Plastic Brick Company Ashfield (Ltd)   69
The Burwood Brickworks   74
Robert Brand   82
The Croydon Steam Brickworks   84
Anthony Hordern III   85
The Centennial patent kiln   90
Norman Selfe   92
The Ashfield Brick Co Ltd   95
The South Ashfield Brickworks   104
A visit to Hart & Gallagher’s Brick Yard   111
Rupert Cook’s Burwood Road Brick Works   112