By Cathy Jones ‘Viwa’ Burlington Road was known as the Doctor’s House. It was originally the home of Dr George Hurst and built c1883. The property was a home and surgery for more than 100 years. The map below is undated but probably mid-1880s, as it predates the school on Rochester Street. The land owned […]
By Cathy Jones In response to an enquiry regarding the Rossiter family and ‘Dene Place’. 73 and 75 Burlington Road was formerly occupied by a two storey Victorian style house called ‘Dene Place’, later ‘Garthowen’. ‘Dene Place’ was built c.1891 for the Rossiter family and was one of a number of large two storey Victorian […]
By Cathy Jones This is in response to an enquiry about the history of the house ‘Tremans’ which once stood at 52 Albyn Road, which has since been demolished. If there are any photos of this house, please send me a copy. ‘Tremans’ 26 Albyn Road Strathfield (renumbered 52 Albyn Rod in August 1952) was […]
By Cathy Jones The above photograph is of 77 Newton Road was taken in 1939. The house was built on an extension of the Josephson Estate and land marketed as ‘Super Land’. An application to build this house was approved in 1937 at the estimated cost of £1100 for its owner Alfred Henry Whaling, a […]
By Cathy Jones 44 Llandilo Avenue was built in 1936 to a design by prominent architectural firm of Waterhouse and Lake. Though Waterhouse is primarily associated with architecture on Sydney’s North Shore, Waterhouse and Lake also designed ‘Somerset’, now part of Trinity Grammar Preparatory School (cnr Llandilo Avenue and The Boulevarde Strathfield) in 1924. The […]
