Objects have stories to tell
On a Friday evening earlier in December I headed out to the Rocks Christmas Markets. The Rocks is a heritage and tourist precinct in between Circular Key and Wynyard in Sydney’s CBD. It is a charming area and I love to wander the jumbled lane ways and admire the historic sandstone and brick buildings. This…
In September 2019, I visited Camden Park House on the Saturday of their annual Open Weekend. This week I’m sharing several of the highlights of my visit, including what’s inside the house and outside in the gardens. If you’d like to know more about the history of the house and some tips on visiting the…
Have you ever been to Camden Park House? It is open once a year on the third weekend of September. I have wanted to visit it every year since I heard of its existence, which was about four years ago. I finally managed to get there this year and had a wonderful time seeing the…
Last month I headed down to Melbourne for a long overdue holiday, keen to go on the self guided heritage walk called ‘Elegant Enclave’ produced by the City of Melbourne. I quickly found that it was entirely possible to spend at least two hours on this walk wandering around the Fitzroy Gardens and East Melbourne,…
St Anne’s Church Ryde is a lovely old sandstone building adjacent to a graveyard that contains the gravestones of First Fleeters.
My interest was certainly piqued when I saw an article from the Sydney Morning Herald one evening about a ghost sign that had been unexpectedly uncovered on the side of a building in George Street, Sydney. In the next week, I made time to see it for myself and snap a few pictures before it…
Perhaps every city has hidden gems. A couple of weeks ago, I got the chance to discover some of the historic gems in Rose Bay and Vaucluse while wandering along the Hermitage Foreshore. Here are several of the historic buildings that I caught sight of along the way! Perhaps I can encourage you to take…
Last month, I road tripped with my family to the southern highlands region of New South Wales. We headed through Mittagong and Bowral and then made our way out to Kangaroo Valley; a tiny historic town surrounded by mountains and autumn leaves. Driving down the mountain and into the valley can be a little hair-raising…
A few weeks ago I posted on the documentary series If Walls Could Talk presented by Lucy Worsley. In the first episode Lucy talked about an English window tax. But why was this tax ever applied? Since asking myself this question, I have been reading Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and unexpectedly came across this tongue in…
Last month I visited Government House, Sydney; just a casual tourist and all out history nerd visiting Sydney’s CBD. Needless to say its location is idyllic – even in the 35+ degree heat we experienced in Sydney that day! Set in the far corner of the Botanic Gardens, it is only a hop skip and…