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 […]
By Cathy Jones This advertisement from Building Magazine (Vol. 67 no. 399 November 24 1940) features an image of 52 Llandilo Avenue Strathfield, a two storey brick interwar Functionalist style house. This house was built on Lot B, land subdivided from ‘Dunrobbin’ at 54 Llandilo Avenue. 52 Llandilo Avenue was the home of Allan Manning […]
By Cathy Jones This history is in response to a request for information about the location of a house named ‘Royston’ in Strathfield. ‘Royston’ is a slate roofed, rendered brick single storey Victorian Italianate style house. ‘Royston’ was built c.1888 for its owner H Lipscombe and rented to a succession of tenants. Lipscombe initially rented […]
