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Kuring-gai Trustees' house-boat

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • beachcomber australia said:
    Snap! - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=174530
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Evidently the steam launch was called Kuring-gai. You can just about make out the lettering on the bow.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Aha! It was 1899 -
  • beachcomber australia said:
    That's Eccleston Du Faur centre of frame on the "neat and serviceable houseboat". See comments and links on the oil launch photo above.

'The Sphinx' memorial at Kuring-Gai Chase National Park

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • beachcomber australia said:
    Somewhat poignant story to this Memorial to fallen A.I.F. comrades by Pte W.T. Shirley - www.webcitation.org/5qRqIKLqo . Photo certainly post 1928, probably late 1930s. Google Maps satellite for location - maps.google.com.au/maps?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Sydney+...
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    beachcomber australia Thanks for adding those links, quite a feat for one man to build. From the webcitation site (above) the inscription is: "To my glorious comrades of the A.I.F by the late W. Shirley No 5756 Pte. 13th Battalion Died 27th August 1928"

Bobbin Hill Road, 100 chains below trig station, descent 508 feet, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • beachcomber australia said:
    I spy with my little eye ... ... Frederick Eccleston Du Faur (1832-1915) at centre frame. See comments and links etc ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    See also

In Gibberagong Creek, from Big Wattle Point, Station 311

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    I think there is a comma after "Point" - ie "Station 311". The only Gibberagong I can find is a track alongside Cowan Creek in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. Was Cowan Creek once named Gibberagong Creek? Amazingly you can now walk along the track from the comfort of your armchair !! GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/5gn6o - not this particular view.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    That is Mr Eccleston Du Faur on the left, paddling with his trousers rolled up. Which implies the photo is one of a series taken in 1899. See comments etc -
  • beachcomber australia said:
    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Yes, I think a lot of the place names have changed over the years. I remember 7 months ago trying to find a detailed online map of Kuring-gai from c.1900, with no luck. It strikes me that due to Mr Du Faur's work in opening up and protecting the Chase, it became a more attractive and much easier place to get to by rail and/or steamer. Consequently more photographers came - I am thinking of all those 'unidentified' photos in the Phillips Collection (PhM) and Hall (ANMM). Watch these spaces ... !
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Eureka! 1910 Kuring-gai interactive online map FOUND !! Gibberagong is an alternative name for Cockle Creek, to the west of Bobbin Head. There is enough information for a thesis in this map - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-rm3117-s1-sd&r...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Aha! The photo's title "station 311" is explained by a table at the top left of the map, which gives the distances from various railway stations in chains. www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-rm3117-s1-sd&r... 1 chain = 0.0201168 kilometres (or 80 chains to 1 mile), so 311 chains = 6.26 kilometres. I bet Mr Du Faur supplied all the information and detail for the map, with his background as a draftsman and surveyor for the Surveyor-General's Office and Crown Lands Office. See his bio - adb.anu.edu.au/biography/du-faur-frederick-eccleston-3448