Category: Changing Times

Higgin’s Store

Samuel Higgins and his store Glasgow-born Samuel Higgins came to Australia at the age of three with his family. In 1903, when Samuel was 27

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In Memory of the Fallen

IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN from Beecroft and Cheltenham in World War II by Tony Cunneen Beecroft War Memorial Killed 1939 -1945 R.Atkinson  J.Howard E.P.Austin 

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James Sydenham

    James Sydnenham – Real Estate       James Sydenham  outside his real estate office on the corner of Wongala Crescent and Hannah street in the 1930s.  

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Knit It Beecroft

Knit it Joan Reid’s passion, since the age of four, was knitting!  This is the story of her shop. With my passion for knitting I

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Nurseries

From some 17,000 years ago when Aborigines arrived in this place, they named the local plants and farmed it for the fruits and other edible

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Past and Present

The swinging social life of Beecroft and Cheltenham – past & present by Catherine Bartho Many residents of Beecroft Cheltenham live their lives here going

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Peggy

Peggy [1] Peggy was an identity of Beecroft in the 1950s and 1960s. She came to Beecroft when she was 13 years old. As a

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Politicians Federal

Federal members elected by Beecroft/Cheltenham voters   Electorate Years Member Party Parramatta 1901-09 Sir Joseph Cook Free Trade Parramatta 1909-16 Sir Joseph Cook Commonwealth Liberal

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