Member’s Library

By Cathy Jones Eton College is the subject of the Strathfield-Homebush District Historical Society Newsletter this month. ‘Eton College’ was located at the top of Redmyre Road Strathfield and purpose built as a school. The headmaster Dr Joseph David Sly, brother of Dr George Sly of ‘Glen Luna’ Carrington Ave Strathfield, opened the school in 1888. […]

Strathfield Plaza 1981

By Cathy Jones A sketch of Strathfield Plaza from advertisements of the centre’s opening in 1981. Amazingly, the centre and the office and residential towers are still fairly similar to this sketch. Though don’t know about the background trees and hills or the four lane Churchill Avenue heading east not west.

Homebush Hotel

by Cathy Jones The Homebush Hotel was located on the corner of Parramatta Road and Underwood Road Homebush and was built in 1927. In 1934, Tooth & Co acquired the hotel. The hotel was one of three hotels on Parramatta Road including the Wentworth Hotel and Horse and Jockey. The hotel was demolished in the early […]

Nicholls Buildings, Liverpool Rd Strathfield South

On the top of the facade of these shops on Liverpool Road Strathfield South, next to the Crossways Hotel, is the sign Nicholls Buildings, under the new redundant John Finn Discounts. While probably not a major point of historic interest, if you look up and read the sign, you may wonder who was Nicholls? […]

‘Hawthorne’ Abbotsford Road Homebush

by Cathy Jones ‘Hawthorne’, 78-80 Abbotsford Road Homebush is one of the oldest houses on the ‘Village of Homebush’ estate. The photograph above is featured in Where to live: the ABC guide to Sydney and Suburbs published in 1917. This publication is available from NSW State Library. ’Hawthorne’ is described as a ‘fine brick residence […]

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