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Willoughby History Chatters VOLUME 42, NUMBER 6 WILLOUGHBY HISTORY CHATTERS DECEMBER 2015 WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC. WILLOUGHBY DHS: SHAP ING OUR FUTURE INSIDE THIS ISSUE: The Willoughby District Histor- M U S E U M 2 ical Society as with most oth- REPORT er voluntary community- based organisations, has ex- BOOK REVIEW 3 perienced declining member- P I C T O R I A L ship and a lack of volunteers WILLOUGHBY to maintain our activities. A F R E N C H 4 We looked at these issues in CONNECTION 2010 when our strategic plan and collection policy for the 4 museum were prepared. Five years down the track, we need to revisit an assessment 5 of where we are at and how we need to address the chal- lenges ahead. As listed on page 6, the man- F R O M T H E 6 agement committee will meet ARCHIVES at the Museum on Thursday 6 January to assess our chal- lenges and plan our activities CONTACT 6 for 2016. Members and DETAILS friends who would like to make contributions at this C O M I N G 6 session are welcome. EVENTS The issue we need to address include updating our constitu- tion in line with legislative changes and the evolving COMING EVENTS challenges we face; updating our strategic plan; and plan- Saturday 6 December: ning our next exhibition at the Members’ Christmas Museum. Party at the Museum (See page 6 for details) In the meanwhile, we look forward to catching up with The Home Front: How members and friends at our Willoughby families annual Christmas Party at the copes 1913–1920 at the Willoughby Museum on Sun- Willoughby Museum (see day 6 December. Please RSVP TOP: The ‘Dog House’ that was presented to Mayor Noel Reidy in page 6). to us by phone or email as 1978 (following a ‘captain;s call’ at a cricket match and which was peer the contacts on page 6. subsequently brought into council meetings, as aldermen who misbe- haved were symbolically sent to the ‘Dog House’. BOTTOM: The precision bowls measure formerly owned Northbridge Bowling Club that was donated to the Museum by Paul Storm. See page 2 for additional information. WILLOUGHBY HISTORY C HATTERS Page 2 UPDATE ON THE MUSEUM Our small band of volunteers have continued work on collection man- agement tasks over the past two months. Following the Place Marking exhibi- tion, attention has been focused on identifying, assessing and document- ing the large lace collection we have at the museum. Mary Thom and Margaret McNaught have been undertaking this task with assistance from Mary Green of the Cavalcade of Fashion. Most of the significant items have been as- sessed and documented in an Excel file, which will be added to our MOSA- iC database. Bob McKillop has scanned and en- tered a number of early postcards and A drawer with items from our lace collection at the Willoughby Museum similar memorabilia into MOSAiC, to- gether with some interesting objects that have recently been donated. These include: Three items donated by former Willoughby Mayor Noel Reidy; namely a large paining of Innisfall- en Castle by Joan Dent, which was commissioned by Council as a raf- fle prize, but was not required for this purpose; a commemorative plate depicting a scenes inside the Hallstrom refrigerator factory creat- ed by Sir Edward’s daughter, Jean Hill; and the miniature dog kennel that featured in Willoughby Council chambers from 1976 when alder- men wee ‘sent to the dog house’; The sign from Legacy House dating from 1972, donated by Bill Whyte, The Hallstrom commemorative plate No. 6 by Jean Hill depicting the enamelling furnace a resident at Windsor Gardens; and A 1966 precision bowls measure from Northbridge Bowling Club donated by Paul Storm. VOLUME 42, NUMBER 6 Page 3 PICTORIAL HISTORY WILLOUGHBY REVIEW: BY ROB WILSON ommissioned by Willoughby City Library, the Kingsclear C publication of a Pictorial Histo- ry Willoughby is timely in the Willoughby City LGA's 150th year. Written by the Willoughby District Historical Society's Bob McKillop, in conjunction with material supplied by the Library's Local History Section and other contributors, it is an im- portant work in recording our region's distinct development from the days of the First Fleet Settlement to the busy, diverse and vibrant residential and business area we are today. While parts of Willoughby LGA fea- tured in an earlier Kingsclear publica- tion on the Lower North Shore by Catherine Warne, this book concen- trates within our defined Willoughby City boundaries. Many of the wonderful photographs are from the Library Local History The development of Willoughby's this book will be an invaluable re- Section, viewable on the web at various suburbs and their specific source for understanding the place ‘Picture Willoughby’ and also from characteristics, such as market gar- we call home. the Willoughby District Historical So- dens, dairying, tanneries, industries, ciety's collection. education and cultural forms Let us hope that the current "Policy" of the state government towards The book begins by describing are then detailed including the built Willoughby’s landforms, the original form of Willoughby that today form council amalgamations does not many of our Heritage and Conserva- Cammeraygal inhabitants, the begin- make this fine book a memorial to tion Areas. ning of the land grants, the early tim- what we know today as the City of ber-getter settlers and Eliza Davies’ For many, those who were born here Willoughby. first public school. to those who have come to live here, PICTORIAL HISTORY WILLOUGHBY at the Museum As now listed on the WDHS website, we now have copies of Pictorial Histo- ry Willoughby available for sale at our Museum Shop and copies will be available for purchase at the Mem- bers’ Christmas function on 6 Decem- ber. The cost is $25, plus xx for packaging and postage if you require us to send the book. WILLOUGHBY HISTORY C HATTERS Page 4 A FRENCH CONNECTION by Catherine [Herring] Williams ames Harris French was a The election for aldermen was held on 16 provided £100 [$16,000 in 2014 prominent citizen in the found- December 1865 and the first council terms] each to James’ sister-in-law El- J ing of the Municipality of North meeting was on 1 January 1866 in a len French, niece Mary French and Willoughby on 23 October 1865. He ‘barely furnished slab hut’ located behind nephews Michael and Henry French. was born in Dorset, England, to James a cottage on the corner of today’s Pens- Mary French married Robert William and Mary French in 1817. hurst and Penkivil Streets. The prominent Carr and they built a brick house with their inheritance at 54 High Street land holder J W Bligh was elected as the James junior arrived in Sydney on the (later renumbered 48) around 1895. As first chairman, with his fellow aldermen Alfred in January 1841 as the age of Mary suffered bad varicose veins in her 23 and he married Mary Tiffin, the being John Bryson, James Harris French, legs, there were no steps in the new daughter of the prominent Jamaican Thomas McClelland, James Reid and house. It had a large backyard garden Billy Blue on 10 August 1842. By 1844 George Trickett. with numerous fruit trees. he was a trustee of the Presbyterian The French family Robert Carr worked at Willoughby Coun- Schoolhouse at St Leonards and in cil, initially as a labourer and then as James’ younger brother, Henry (born in overseer. And his projects included June 1851 he was sworn in as a Spe- 1919), followed his brother to Australia a strengthening Flat Rock Bridge for cial Constable and Ranger of Crown few years after James, settling at Spring trams in the 1890s. Robert (or Bob) Lands under Simon Pearce, the Crown Creek in South Australia. He married Ellen subsequently built the boatshed at Cas- Lands Bailiff. Riordan in February 1851 and they had tlecrag which is still in use today. James and his family lived in the fine five children: Catherine (1851), Michael Ellen French died at Coolonglonk in home Paradise, situated in 40 acres of (1853), Mary (1854) Caroline (1855) and 1915 and her son Henry French died land adjoining Alpha Road in Willough- Henry (1859). Tragically Henry died in there in December 1915. Her son Mi- chael died at the Royal North Shore by and the road which led up to his May 1859 when he was thrown from his Hospital in April 1922, and her daugh- home was subsequently named horse on the way home from work. When ter Mary Carr died at Willoughby in Sep- Frenchs Road. Together with land on he didn’t return home, Ellen went looking tember 1939. Mary and Michael are Tenilba Road in today’s Northbridge, for him, but she had poor eyesight and buried at Roockwood Cemetery. he owned 100 acres in Willoughby. did not see him lying injured near a fence. Robert William Carrr died at Willoughby Willoughby Council He caught a chill and died a few days in January 1942. He is buried at North- later. ern Suburbs Cemetery with his youngest During 1865, the residents of daughter, Rosemary O’Toole, who died Willoughby organised a petition to be Ellen stayed on in South Australia for sev- in 1941. His second youngest , Caro- eral years, but her failing sight caused her sent to Sir John Young, the Governor of line Myrtle Carr died at the Castlecrag to contact her brother-in-law in Sydney. New South Wales, requesting him to Private Hospital in July 1977.
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