In one of our Museum display cabinets there is a shelf displaying an old fashioned school pupil size slate and an unopened 1860’s packet of slate pencils made in Germany for the British market. As the late ABC Broadcaster Colin Munro pointed out to us when describing the school desk in room 1 at Sydney …
Ion Idriess was wounded at Gallipoli and Beersheba whilst a member of the 5th Australian Light Horse. He returned to Australia and in 1927 and commenced a marvelous new career of writing historical Australian adventure and historical books. He completed over 50 books in his lifetime, many running into 30 reprints. He was also a …
In the days before corner shops and cellophane packets, cooks and housewives from hotels to outback bark homes all used individual spices – e.g. they ground their own nutmeg. The pictured item is a spice holder manufactured in Britain circa 1830-1840. No doubt Emily Mary Barton had one at the cottage “Rockend” at Gladesville and …