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Edwards, Zeny

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Edwards, Zeny

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Zeny Edwards is an architectural historian, biographer and author

Ambleside as Author

Annie Wyatt House as Author

Cazneaux, Harold as Author

Fisk memorial as Author

Gordon as Author

Killara as Author

Killarney Castle as Author

Ku-ring-gai Tree Lovers' Civic League as Author

Lindfield as Author

Pymble as Author

Roseville as Author

St Ives Boundary Tree as Author

Warrawee as Author

Pymble Grove Real Estate sales prospectus 1915 as Collection

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Ambleside

Ambleside and its garden were a refuge and an inspiration to photographer Harold Cazneaux, who lived there from 1915 until his death in 1953.

Annie Wyatt House

Annie Wyatt, a founder of the National Trust (NSW), lived here from 1926, and the unofficial first meeting of the trust was held in the house in 1945.

Cazneaux, Harold

Born in New Zealand and raised in Adelaide, Harold Cazneaux became one of Sydney's pre-eminent photographers, documenting its changing face and different moods.

Fisk memorial

Unveiled in 1935, the monument stands outside Ernest Fisk's house, Lucania.

Gordon

Gordon grew around the railway station as businessmen sought fine vistas and spacious home sites with easy access to the city.

Killara

Killara's first European settlement was a convict timber-getting camp established in 1805. In 1821 land was granted to settlers who continued to clear timber and then farm, but Killara remained remote because of bad roads. The railway enabled closer settlement from 1899, and Killara became a garden suburb of large houses and parks.

Killarney Castle

Opened by Governor Davidson in 1918, Killarney castle at Gordon was built from local stone for Thomas Taylor to replicate an Irish castle.

Ku-ring-gai Tree Lovers' Civic League

Founded by Annie Forsyth Wyatt in the 1930s, the Tree Lovers' Civic League grew out of concern at the destruction of the natural environment.

Lindfield

Aboriginal people were the traditional owners of Lindfield until the timber-getters of the convict camp arrived in 1810. Land grants to farmers and orchardists followed, with more development as the highway north, and later the railway, made transport easier. Suburban development proceeded side by side with dairies and small farms. From the late twentieth century, new medium density development has increased Lindfield's population.

Pymble

Granted to Robert Pymble, a free settler from Hertfordshire, the area which was to become Pymble was farmland and orchards for most of the nineteenth century. Development followed the railway line, and Pymble became a desirable leafy suburb.

Roseville

Grants in Roseville were given to Europeans from the 1820s. Orchards and timber were important industries until the railway spurred subdivision and development from the 1890s. By the 1920s there was a thriving suburb with services, churches and schools.

St Ives Boundary Tree

A big tree in the 1880s when it was noted in a census of plants, the Boundary Tree still stands at Mona Vale Road, St Ives.

Warrawee

Built on Aboriginal land, Warrawee was cleared by timber-getters and became orchards and residential land by the 1870s. Subdivision followed the railway in 1900, but commercial development was not allowed, and some of Sydney's best domestic architecture is displayed in Warrawee houses built before World War II.

Pymble Grove Real Estate sales prospectus 1915

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