In this Place - A public artwork for Lenah Valley

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• My Lovely LENAH VALLEY

  by Margi H, about 7 years ago
  

  I have always loved Lenah Valley since I was a six year old child in 1934 and my family moved from Battery Point’s Maryville Esplanade, (name changed to Marieville quarter of a century later) to Jennings Street, (originally Redlands Avenue) New Town.  Though only halfway up the street, ours was the last house on our side;  opposite to us were two brick houses, the lower one with an orchard attached, and they were the only houses on that entire side of the street.  From the orchard, a large unfenced paddock sloped down half the length of the street to the... Continue reading

• Apple Orchards

  by HR, about 7 years ago
  

  Richard Hickman built Normanville in 1846 (at 39 Brushy Creek Road). The original apple sheds and cottages are still standing. There is still a small orchard of apple and pear trees on site and the soil on the old farm precinct is very fertile. His descendants told us that Richard used to have a still for producing his own secret stash of liquor (apparently a killer apple cider) and that the fruit trees from 'Normanville' were used to start the orchards in Geeveston where he used to visit his daughters in his old age, in a horse drawn cart. There... Continue reading

• Growing up in Lenah Valley in the 50s & 60s

  by GW, about 7 years ago

  I spent the first 21 years of my life in Pottery Rd with my family & friends from 1953 on. Fond memories of playing in the bush and exploring the creek near Pottery Rd, also the large sand banks (mostly clean fill dumped near McCann Cres & Edge Ave). We used to build cubbies & make cracker bombs using Tomb Thumbs & small balls of mud shot high from a willow stick over the sand banks. Other memories include exploring the frog ponds and old quarry of the Giblin St brick works.

• My Family Home

  by Carol H, about 7 years ago
  

  The home I live in is truly a family home.  Built in 1926 the house was first occupied by my Great Grandmother Alice and her husband. It then passed to my grandmother, also named Alice and her sister Ethel. Upon their deaths it was bequeathed to my mother and I inherited the house from her, In time it will be passed on to my daughters.  Although it is a modest weatherboard structure it is a home filled with love and memories as  five generations of woman have been continual residents and raised their families in the home.  I feel privileged... Continue reading

• Rivulet

  by danielherbert, about 7 years ago

  Every summer as a child, my friends and I would all go to the water hole up in the rivulet, far up along Lenah Valley Road. We would spend hours swimming and exploring the surrounding forest, finding animals, fish and secret meeting places We would stay until dusk, then we would all wander home slowly only to repeat it all the next day. These memories are some of the happiest of my life. 

• The Lenah Valley RSL

  by Don1, about 7 years ago

  when I turned 18, over 35 years ago, I decided to join the RSL.  My father, and his 'cronies' as they were called spent many Fridays after work there, and I had been a couple of times.  However, this memory is about an ANZAC Dawn Service morning.   It was 5.30am and I was going to a dawn service-I arranged to meet Dad there.  In my naivity I walked in thinking it would be relatively quiet at that time of the morning.  I couldn't believe my eyes - the place was packed -beers everywhere, and the  room thick smoke from cigarettes... Continue reading

• Memories of Lenah Valley by Glenyse Russell

  by alex, about 7 years ago

  The original Newsagents and Post Office was on the site where the Amcal Pharmacy is today. This was run for many years by Gordon & Daisy Lucas. They also sold toys and vegetables as well as papers and magazines. They ran a lay-by system for the toys so that the Zinc workers could pay them off when they received their Christmas bonus.

  When a classified advertisement for The Mercury was placed it was delivered by the next Metro Bus to the City. It was handed to the driver and the bus number was noted and then rung through so Mercury... Continue reading

• 'The Park'

  by Don1, about 7 years ago

  Before it was known as John Turnbull Oval' it was, by most residents of Lenah Valley, simply referred to as 'the park'.  As boys, we would leave from our homes at Sharps Rd, Bealey Ave, Augusta Rd, and Ratho St, and often meet at the park for bike riding, football, soccer, and cricket.  If we had some cash, we might get $1hot chips from the shop, then home for tea when it was getting dark.  It was, and still is, a great park.

• Growing up in Lenah Valley

  by Guila Kelly, about 7 years ago

  My  family lived on the hill, a short walk from Augusta Road. We attended Lenah Valley Primary and most days walked to the Waverley Ave tram stop, caught the tram to the corner of Creek Road and so on to school. Often caught the tram home at lunch and back again for the afternoon.

   My father owned the property at the corner of Greenway Avenue where his brother and sister in law Roy and Molly O'Neal ran a grocery business and lived with their family at the back of the shop. Next door was the hairdressing salon run by my... Continue reading

• Ron Beltz the boat builder - by Andy Beltz

  by alex, about 7 years ago

  Although he worked as a builder, joiner and cabinet maker, Ron Beltz' real desire was to build boats, and he designed and built number of craft in his backyard at 95a Giblin St, Lenah Valley.

  He was entirely self taught in his design and building skills and his family remembers that there was never a time the backyard was not filled with a vessel being built or the materials for one to be started on.

  When completed, all the craft were taken by road from his house by truck, going up Giblin St... Continue reading