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Significant events in the Berowra district
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DetailsMilestone anniversaries 250 to 100 years ago.
100 years ago (1920), in June, Hornsby Council spend £150 to undertake significant repairs & maintenance to Berowra Creek Punt. It is out of use for a long period during the work & this is the first maintenance on the punt since it commenced in 1903 (17 years)
100 years ago (1920) the first game of organized sport is played at Berowra Park being a cricket match between Berowra and Girraween on 2nd January
100 years ago (1920) the first private telephone connections are connected in Berowra
110 years ago (1910) developer Arthur Rickard purchases Mary Wall’s old farm in Berowra and prepares it for a land auction for residential blocks. Waratah, Goodwyn & Rickard Roads are cut out by her grandson Bill Wall, & added to Park & Crowley Roads for Auction of 146 lots by Arthur Rickard on 3rd December. Mary Wall dies a few months later – 27/5/1910.
110 years ago (1910) influential Berowra resident Ada Foster-Jones arrives in Berowra with her 3 children; Alice, Rex & Eileen Jones. Their magnificent stone and brick house on Goodwyn Road, called Arcadia, is completed in 1914 by George Huett.
120 years ago (1900) the road between Berowra and Berrilee starts to be constructed with two working gangs starting at the same time, in opposite directions, from Berowra Creek. The road is completed in 1902 and a ferry connects it across Berowra Creek from January 1903.
130 years ago (1890) Berowra is proclaimed a village and a railway station north of Berowra opens named Cowan Creek (later renamed just Cowan).
140 years ago (1880) world famous artist and author George Collingridge takes up 8 acres on Berowra Creek, in an area now known as Collingridge Point. He has Burton Crossalnd build him a stone house which calls "Capo di Monte". It still stands proudly today as one of the Shire’s oldest buildings
170 years ago (1850) a huge bushfire is unstoppable and burns from Hornsby all the way to St Leonards. This same year Mary Wall emigrates from Ireland to Sydney
190 years ago (1830) a Dr Sherwin is held up by bushrangers John McNamara & William Dalton. 2 weeks later constable Samuel Thorn shoots & kills McNamara, & constable Horne, arrests Dalton. Both police constables are later recognized through being granted land some of which is later named after them – Thornleigh & Hornsby
250 years ago (1770) Captain James Cook sails up the east coast of Australia on the Endeavour, charting the coastline as he went. He names many locations including Broken Bay.
CreatorNathan TilburyKeywordsBerowraLinkMan Made the City but God Made the Bush
100 years ago (1920), in June, Hornsby Council spend £150 to undertake significant repairs & maintenance to Berowra Creek Punt. It is out of use for a long period during the work & this is the first maintenance on the punt since it commenced in 1903 (17 years)
100 years ago (1920) the first game of organized sport is played at Berowra Park being a cricket match between Berowra and Girraween on 2nd January
100 years ago (1920) the first private telephone connections are connected in Berowra
110 years ago (1910) developer Arthur Rickard purchases Mary Wall’s old farm in Berowra and prepares it for a land auction for residential blocks. Waratah, Goodwyn & Rickard Roads are cut out by her grandson Bill Wall, & added to Park & Crowley Roads for Auction of 146 lots by Arthur Rickard on 3rd December. Mary Wall dies a few months later – 27/5/1910.
110 years ago (1910) influential Berowra resident Ada Foster-Jones arrives in Berowra with her 3 children; Alice, Rex & Eileen Jones. Their magnificent stone and brick house on Goodwyn Road, called Arcadia, is completed in 1914 by George Huett.
120 years ago (1900) the road between Berowra and Berrilee starts to be constructed with two working gangs starting at the same time, in opposite directions, from Berowra Creek. The road is completed in 1902 and a ferry connects it across Berowra Creek from January 1903.
130 years ago (1890) Berowra is proclaimed a village and a railway station north of Berowra opens named Cowan Creek (later renamed just Cowan).
140 years ago (1880) world famous artist and author George Collingridge takes up 8 acres on Berowra Creek, in an area now known as Collingridge Point. He has Burton Crossalnd build him a stone house which calls "Capo di Monte". It still stands proudly today as one of the Shire’s oldest buildings
170 years ago (1850) a huge bushfire is unstoppable and burns from Hornsby all the way to St Leonards. This same year Mary Wall emigrates from Ireland to Sydney
190 years ago (1830) a Dr Sherwin is held up by bushrangers John McNamara & William Dalton. 2 weeks later constable Samuel Thorn shoots & kills McNamara, & constable Horne, arrests Dalton. Both police constables are later recognized through being granted land some of which is later named after them – Thornleigh & Hornsby
250 years ago (1770) Captain James Cook sails up the east coast of Australia on the Endeavour, charting the coastline as he went. He names many locations including Broken Bay.
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