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Ye Olde Store, Asquith
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DescriptionThe store was owned by Captain Edward Robert Amor, who had served in the Royal Navy and served on Hornsby Shire Council for one term, 1928-1931.
Below is a letter written by Mrs Edith Love (nee Lee) in 1993 which appeared in Local Colour Vol.7 No.7 p. 30.
My husband came with his family from Narrabeen in 1919 and resided at 1 Winston Street, Asquith, until we married and went to live in 35 Lords Avenue, Asquith in 1939.
Mr W. F. Simmons who was a builder, built the first Asquith store and lived and worked there for a time until he sold it to a Maurice Baines and his mother who were in it till my father bought it in 1923. Our family - father, mother and three girls lived there for some years but I can't remember for how many.
Dad then sold it to a family called Carter, (not to be confused with another family of the same name) who bought a Post Office Store in later years four or five doors away going towards Hornsby but still in Peat's Ferry Road. Amor's (I knew the family well) must have bought the shop from the Carters which I first spoke of.
Our family did not leave Asquith when we went out of the shop. My father bought a house in Hyacinth Street, about 10 or 12, and we lived there for a while as my father was working at James Somerville Produce Store in Hornsby for a long time. My mother then went into a little brick shop and residence which backed on to the railway line, (there being no road there at the time) and she sold groceries, ham and beef, sweets, milk and bread and it was right next door to Amors' Garage, run by one of the sons, Freddie Amor.
In the meanwhile Amors must have been in Ye Olde Asquith Store further down the Peats Ferry Road, as I remember so well Captain Amor coming out of the front of his shop, standing in the middle of the road yelling to Fred, 50 yards away as who was working in front of the garage to "Come down here to the shop"!!! He wanted to talk to him.
My mother didn't stay in the brick shop for very long - a couple of years I think. We left there and moved back to Hyacinth Street, No 1, but Wally Beattie went into the brick shop we had left and started up his hairdressing salon.
When the 'powers that be' decided to put up a 'back road' into Hornsby, the garage and brick shop had to be pulled down so Wally Beattie moved into a new brick building almost directly across the road from where he had been, and he was there for many years.
The new road ran alongside the Railway Line until it met Mildred Avenue - it crossed there and went up North Jersey Street, across Bridge Road and met Jersey Street, which ran towards the Station until it met Coronation Street where it turned left to go to Hornsby Station.
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Below is a letter written by Mrs Edith Love (nee Lee) in 1993 which appeared in Local Colour Vol.7 No.7 p. 30.
My husband came with his family from Narrabeen in 1919 and resided at 1 Winston Street, Asquith, until we married and went to live in 35 Lords Avenue, Asquith in 1939.
Mr W. F. Simmons who was a builder, built the first Asquith store and lived and worked there for a time until he sold it to a Maurice Baines and his mother who were in it till my father bought it in 1923. Our family - father, mother and three girls lived there for some years but I can't remember for how many.
Dad then sold it to a family called Carter, (not to be confused with another family of the same name) who bought a Post Office Store in later years four or five doors away going towards Hornsby but still in Peat's Ferry Road. Amor's (I knew the family well) must have bought the shop from the Carters which I first spoke of.
Our family did not leave Asquith when we went out of the shop. My father bought a house in Hyacinth Street, about 10 or 12, and we lived there for a while as my father was working at James Somerville Produce Store in Hornsby for a long time. My mother then went into a little brick shop and residence which backed on to the railway line, (there being no road there at the time) and she sold groceries, ham and beef, sweets, milk and bread and it was right next door to Amors' Garage, run by one of the sons, Freddie Amor.
In the meanwhile Amors must have been in Ye Olde Asquith Store further down the Peats Ferry Road, as I remember so well Captain Amor coming out of the front of his shop, standing in the middle of the road yelling to Fred, 50 yards away as who was working in front of the garage to "Come down here to the shop"!!! He wanted to talk to him.
My mother didn't stay in the brick shop for very long - a couple of years I think. We left there and moved back to Hyacinth Street, No 1, but Wally Beattie went into the brick shop we had left and started up his hairdressing salon.
When the 'powers that be' decided to put up a 'back road' into Hornsby, the garage and brick shop had to be pulled down so Wally Beattie moved into a new brick building almost directly across the road from where he had been, and he was there for many years.
The new road ran alongside the Railway Line until it met Mildred Avenue - it crossed there and went up North Jersey Street, across Bridge Road and met Jersey Street, which ran towards the Station until it met Coronation Street where it turned left to go to Hornsby Station.
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