Quinn’s Post – Gallipoli
After the Australians had gone ashore at Gallipoli on 25th April 1915, various battles revolved around a number of well defended places. One was a
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After the Australians had gone ashore at Gallipoli on 25th April 1915, various battles revolved around a number of well defended places. One was a
A number of men from the Beecroft Cheltenham area served on Gallipoli.
DICK STUUT & SONS, HAIRDRESSERS – AN EARLY UNISEX HAIRDRESSING SALON. In 1951 in the aftermath of World War II, Dick (Dirk) Stuut and his family,
The Children’s Bookshop The Children’s Bookshop, Beecroft opened in November 1971. The proprietors were mother and daughter Beecroft residents, Beryl Moncrieff Matthews and Robin Moncrieff
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
Thomas Stobo’s Store With the opening of the Strathfield to Hornsby railway in 1886 and the growth of the farming community, it was inevitable that
Powell’s store – Before Supermarkets From 1938 until it closed about 1960, the major grocery in Beecroft was operated by Jack and Birdie Powell. In
George Frederick Willis was the father of David John Willis [1], in whose memory Beecroft’s Boer War memorial was built. George Frederick was a first
Henry Rawes Whittell was born in 1857 in College Street, Sydney, where his father practised medicine. His mother, Esther, was from a wealthy Wiltshire family
Albert Ernest Wright de Berri Wachsmann was born in Nelson, New Zealand, in 1874, of German and French stock. His father, Captain Albert Frederick Wachsmann,
John Vernon, born in England in 1844, came to New South Wales and took a position in the Auditor-General’s Department. In Sydney in 1871 he
Charles Churchill Tucker was born in 1857, the third son of James Cawley and Elizabeth Tucker and one of a family of seven boys and
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