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City Of Canada Bay Heritage Society

Locality: Concord, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9744 8528

Address: 1 Bent Street 2137 Concord, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.canadabayheritage.asn.au/

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25.01.2022 Preparations for Remembrance Day are well under way. Tomorrow the Australian War Memorial will hold a nationally televised commemorative ceremony that will be a...ttended by a limited number of invited guests. You can watch the ceremony, commencing at 10.45am, broadcast live across Australia by the ABC or via our Facebook page. As always this service will include the laying of wreaths and a minute's silence at 11am. We encourage you to observe a minute’s silence with us to remember not only those lost, but all those who came home and those who follow in their footsteps. This Remembrance Day Commemorative Address will be given by Corporal Daniel Kieghran VC. More information, including the Order of Service, is available on our website: http://ow.ly/3LJR50Cg6CM #WeRememberThem #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget

20.01.2022 On this day, 12th November 1894, Australian inventor Lawrence Hargrave demonstrates that it is possible for a man to fly. Lawrence Hargrave was born in England ...in 1850 but emigrated to Australia in 1865. He took on an engineering apprenticeship in Sydney and was always interested in a variety of experiments, particularly those to do with flying machines. Hargrave invented the box kite in 1893 and used it to further his aerodynamic studies. On 12 November 1894, Hargrave linked four of his kites together, added a sling seat, and flew about five metres in the air on a beach near Wollongong, New South Wales. In doing so, he demonstrated that it was possible for a man to build, and be transported in, a safe and stable flying machine. His radical design for a wing that could support far more than its own weight opened up opportunities for other inventors to develop the design for commercial purposes. Hargrave never patented his designs, so did not receive the recognition he deserved. Pictured: Lawrence Hargrave and his kites at Stanwell Park, south of Sydney. State Library of NSW, a1381003

15.01.2022 Behind every name on every memorial, large and small, across this nation, there is a story of courage. Colonel Susan Neuhaus There are thousands of memorial...s across the country that stand as a reminder of the service and sacrifice Australians have made for us. These are our places of pride. Help us build the national register of war memorials to ensure we remember those who have served. Visit https://placesofpride.awm.gov.au to put your local war memorial on the map and upload photographs. #PlacesofPride #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget

13.01.2022 War memorials continue to be enduring expressions of love, loss, grief, and pride through towns, communities and cities across the nation. ‘Places of Pride’, th...e National Register of War Memorials, is an Australian War Memorial initiative to record the location and gather images of every publicly accessible memorial in Australia. Help us build the national register by uploading photos of your local war memorial this Remembrance Day to https://placesofpride.awm.gov.au #PlacesOfPride #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget

13.01.2022 Ken Warby’s incredible Spirit of Australia under construction - parked outside his home in Concord c 1976. Warby was an amazing character who home-built his ...machine from wood and fibre glass and used an RAAF surplus jet engine as the power plant. The entire operation was completed on a shoestring budget. On 8th October 1978 he set a world water speed record of 511.11 km/r on Blowering Dam in NSW. This record still stands after 42 years. One of the great Australian world records in any endeavour. Image: The Australian National Maritime Museum (Graeme Andrews) See more

12.01.2022 Have you heard about Ashton's Mortlake Baths? These baths were established by Samuel Ashton in 1886, and were a celebrated place for the community until their ...closure in the late 1930s. Recently Mayor Angleo Tsirekas visited the site with Ashton's descendants to commemorate a new plaque celebrating the fantastic work of Samuel Ashton. The baths have a rich history. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there were many tidal swimming pools along the Parramatta River providing welcome relief and recreation on hot days. Ashton’s Mortlake Baths, near Majors Bay on the Parramatta River, were established in 1886. They were the first non-tidal enclosed public baths built in metropolitan Sydney. Samuel Ashton, a bricklayer by trade, who emigrated from England, blasted the baths out of sandstone bedrock adjacent to the foreshore. They measured 30 metres by 12 metres. He devised a way to empty and fill the baths with the tides and every fortnight they were emptied out and the sides and bottom scrubbed and whitewashed. Bathers were charged threepence (2.5 cents) admission, which included use of a clean towel. It is recorded that 21,000 school children attended the baths each week during the swimming season. Although electrical pumps had been installed so the baths were not dependant on the tides, competition from larger and more modern swimming pools in the area led to a decline in patronage in the 1930s. Ashton’s Mortlake Baths closed to the public in 1937 and were eventually filled in 15 years later. #ThrowbackThursday

11.01.2022 Came across this photo of Cabarita Swimming Pool back in the 60's .. ah, the times we spent there .. lining up to do our stuff on the spring board or the high d...iving board (for the more adventurous), swimming lap after lap and just hangin' with our mates and maybe even some teenage romance See more

10.01.2022 here's a thought

10.01.2022 Join us as we celebrate the festive season with Christmas carollers across some of our town centres! The carollers will delight us with Christmas classics f...rom 5:308:30pm on the following dates: 3 December Fred Kelly Place, Five Dock 10 December Church Street, Drummoyne 17 December Jellicoe Street, Concord 23 December Rhodes Amphitheatre, Rhodes. For more information about our summer events across the City visit: bitly.com/ccbsummerevents

08.01.2022 "The first public telephones opened in Sydney in 1893. Telephone boxes, which included a coin operated payphone, were first produced in the Sydney Postmaster Ge...neral’s workshops. From the 1950s onwards, these red telephone boxes were commonly found in suburbs throughout Australia. Such boxes (or booths) had lighting, a door for privacy, and windows to let others know when it was in use. Often the telephone boxes included a directory of local telephone numbers and phone books. By the early 1990s, there were more than 80,000 public phone boxes across Australia. Joan Hatton’s fascination with local features included a series of photographs from the early to mid-1970s of telephone boxes, recording them prior to their removal and the advent of mobile telephones. This image is now on display as a part of our exhibition 'The Everyday Observer: Joan Hatton' which is on until 15 November. Image: Telephone Box, Montgomery Street Kogarah, NSW, date unknown. Georges River Libraries Local Studies collection." Found on: https://www.facebook.com//a.4148025583/10159742845103306/

08.01.2022 His rank was ordinary seaman, but there was nothing ordinary about Edward Teddy Sheean. He was just 18 years old when he defied orders to abandon ship as the ...rapidly-sinking HMAS Armidale came under heavy attack by Japanese aircraft in the Timor Sea on the 1st of December 1942. Instead, Teddy, the youngest member of the crew, raced to help cast off life rafts and the ship’s two boats, before scrambling back to an anti-aircraft gun, strapping himself in, and blazing away at the enemy planes as they strafed his crewmates in the water. Although badly wounded in the chest and back, he kept firing even as the ship disappeared beneath the waves. Of the 149 men on board Armidale, 49 survived thanks to Teddy’s actions that day. Seventy-eight years after he sacrificed his life to save his crewmates, Teddy was awarded Australia’s highest military honour for acts of bravery during wartime. The Victoria Cross was presented to his nephew, Garry Ivory, who travelled from Tasmania to the investiture ceremony at Government House in Canberra. Garry has dedicated almost half his life to campaigning for proper recognition of his uncle’s bravery. It’s everything for me and the family, Garry said. I never gave up. I continued to fight on. I used to look at the painting at the War Memorial, and say, ‘He fought till his last breath, so if I’ve got to do that to get him awarded the proper recognition, I will,’ and that was my aim right through. I would look at a copy of the painting and that used to inspire me. He fought to his last breath, so I can do the same. He was proud to see his uncle’s story told at the Memorial in a moving Last Post Ceremony read by the Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Michael Noonan. It’s been 32 years all up, but the way I’m feeling now, it’s been worth every minute. It is very, very special, and I’m very, very proud. Read the article in full: https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/teddy-sheean-vc Images taken by Ian Roach at the Last Post Ceremony for Edward "Teddy" Sheean VC, 1 December 2020.

07.01.2022 Nearly every town across Australia has its own war memorial. They range from small monuments perhaps a stained glass window in a church to community halls a...nd swimming pools. In Episode 22 of Collected Louise Maher finds out how Places of Pride works and meets a volunteer who has contributed over 400 memorials to the site. Listen now: http://ow.ly/As5j50CubkW #PlacesofPride

06.01.2022 If someone posed the question ‘who was the longest serving member of 3RAR during the Korean War?’, there would be very few who would know the answer. It wasn’t ...an Australian, but a Korean boy, Choi Yung Kil, who could claim that title. Assistant Curator Elise Horspool has unravelled Choi’s story from the time when he was found by the men of 3RAR near Pakchon to his eventual emigration to Australia in the years after the Korean War. It is a story told with great sensitivity and feeling, and readers will see the Korean War and its aftermath from a different perspective. To read Elise’s article, purchase the latest issue of Wartime magazine: http://ow.ly/ZY2c50CpKY9 Image: Choi Yung Kil near Pakchon, November 1950 AWM P10153.005

05.01.2022 Arnotts Bridge, Paramatta Rd, Homebush. I’ve travelled on this road countless times over the decades and only last week noticed there was a staircase, obscured... from normal view unless you stop right there because of a heavy traffic jam !! In other news, we had relatives who worked at the Arnotts factory, and they used to get broken biscuits cheap or free, so whenever we went to visit them, we would get a plate of broken biscuits with afternoon tea. Update - well I'm glad I'm not the only one who hadn't noticed :) . See more

03.01.2022 A long journey home for the Unknown Australian Soldier Remembrance Day at the Australian War Memorial in 1993 was a particularly significant occasion; that year... an unknown Australian soldier was entombed in the Memorial grounds. The idea of reburying the remains of an Australian who lost his life in the horrific trench warfare of the Western Front had existed since the 1920s. In 1992, a decision was taken to reinter a digger in a tomb in the Hall of Memory as an appropriate way of marking the 75th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice. In late 1993, Memorial Director Brendan Kelson travelled with a small team to Adelaide Cemetery, near Villers-Brettoneaux in France, where the Commonwealth Graves Commission had identified four resting places that might yield a suitable candidate for repatriation. These men had been reburied from various battlefields after the war; their identities were lost to time. The first grave that was exhumed held the remains that would travel to Australia and be laid to rest at the Memorial. The remains were handed to the delegation which would accompany them on their five day journey to Canberra. Continue Reading: http://ow.ly/jJnJ50Cd4Et Visit our Remembrance Day hub to explore our range of digital experiences including our webinar series, veteran interviews, podcasts, virtual poppy wall, videos and more. Explore: www.awm.gov.au/werememberthem #WeRememberThem #RemembranceDay Image: The bearer party conveys the coffin up the steps to the front of the Australian War Memorial. PAIU1993/268.07 Photographer: Hans Reppin.

02.01.2022 Collected podcast: Episode 23 How do you preserve fragile items of clothing that tell remarkable stories about two young women whose lives were transformed by W...orld War Two? Henryka’s cotton frock was made from Nazi curtains to give her something to wear when she finally walked free from a concentration camp. Maud’s satin wedding gown was packed away for three years while she waited to be reunited with her American fiancé. In Episode 23 of Collected Louise Maher explores the lives of these two women and finds out how their precious dresses are being cared for at the Memorial. Listen here: http://ow.ly/mBFf50Cnwzl Image: Henryka’s cotton dress and Maud’s satin wedding dress.

01.01.2022 Pictured are just one section of two regiments of Australian Light Horse that on the 31st of October 1917, braved shell and machine-gun fire to gallop over 3 mi...les of open plain, and with bayonets drawn,charge the Turkish stronghold of Beersheba. The men and horses were ravenously thirsty, the horses having had no water for nearly 60 hours, which gave an urgency to the attack, for once the horses smelled water there was no stopping them. TheTurks overwhelmed by the speed and sheer audacity of the attack, failed to lower their gun-sights quickly enough, enabling the light horse regiments to gallop beneath their fire. Within an hour Beersheba was won, and most of the precious wells were saved. This victory was strategically important as it opened the way to the taking of Palestine and Jerusalem, thus changing the course of history in the Middle East. Of the 800 men and horses involved in this charge, 44 horses were killed, 32 horsemen died and 36 were injured. It was one of the last great cavalry charges in military history and one of the most successful https://hubs.ly/H0xfrX80 The Australian Light Horse is an iconic part of our history. From the Boer War through World War One the Australina Light horse has taken its place in. We hope to keep their history and their story alive through our Light Horse inspired collections. Come and see our complete collection dedicated to the Australian Light horse and their mounts. #Beersheba #LightHorse #WW1 #WWI #GreatWar #AustralianLightHorse #Horse #History #historic #military #collection