This view along Avalon Parade was taken from South Avalon headland in the early 1920s. (Old) Barrenjoey Road is clearly visible as the horizontal line running from left to right. As yet there is no (New) Barrenjoey Road. The tennis court stood on the western side of the present Shell service station site and behind […]
On 5 November 1989 members of the Avalon Preservation Trust were present to witness the release of an 8 years old female koala back into Angophora Reserve. She had been rescued from the continual bombardment of 2 very parental magpies who had bailed her up in a Wandeen Road grevillea. Taronga Zoo helped her recover […]
Judging by the attitude of this koala it looks as though the cameraman is about to regret not having asked permission for this friendly ‘snap’ taken in the front yard of a house in Queens Avenue in 1964.
Geoff’s maternal grandparents lived at 64 Avalon Parade in a house built by his grandfather, William George Pryor on land they bought in 1944. George (who had three daughters) was a very gentle man and this koala looks very content and secure in his arms in their backyard. George worked originally as a coach builder, […]
To promote the screening of ‘Grand Prix’ at the Avalon Cinema’ in 1966, Arnold Spry came up with the innovative idea of displaying an actual open-wheeler similar to the one in which Alec Mildren won both the 1960 Australian Grand Prix and the coveted Australian Driver’s Championship. Mildren’s chief mechanic, Glen Abbey is in the […]
For some years in the 1950s Gwen Searl kept a ‘minute book’ in which she recorded the ‘going-ons’ around Avalon Beach, including the school. She even pasted in this book the butts from the Opening Night of the ‘Avalon Cinema’ – 28 July 1955. It was officially opened by Mr Rob Askin, MLA for Collaroy […]
Arnold Spry stands proudly beside the ‘state of the art’ projection equipment on Opening Night (28 July 1955) of the ‘Avalon Cinema’. The projectors were imported from England and supplied by Gaumont-Kalee and labelled ‘the most advanced gear available’. His assistant was Bob Rychbyn.
This photo taken in 1923 shows Alan Hay with his daughter Irene on his lap. Alan had married Clara Dorothy Collier in 1919. His other daughter Evelyn sits between the two Butcher children and her dad. The girl on the right was a friend from the dairy at Careel Bay. Note the lean-to against the […]
