Notes: Side of the Carrington Hotel in the background
Format: B&W photograph
Date Range: 1910
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Notes: When a railway platform was erected in 1891 and was followed, on Christmas Eve 1892, by the opening of the Leura Coffee Palace (renamed The Ritz in 1914), the beginnings of a Leura township were confirmed. Postal facilities were established in 1893 and during the next twenty years land on both the north and south sides of the railway line was subdivided and offered for sale. A new railway station was built in 1902.
The Hotel Alexandra was licenced by JH Bloome in 1905 and designed by Katoomba architect Harry Goyder in 1903 for the owners Mr HM Kensett and Mrs Kensett.
Format: B&W photograph, possibly by the Leura photographer AG Fowler
Date Range: c.1910
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Links:
Leura History by John Low - dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/leura
LEURA. (1905, October 13). Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), , p. 5. Retrieved March 23, 2016, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article218756876
Hotel Alexandra, Leura. (1909, March 6). The Blue Mountain Echo (NSW : 1909 - 1928), , p. 12. Retrieved March 23, 2016, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107961344
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Notes: Morning sunshine finds four boys out early making snowballs. The building on the right is the Congregational Church which was demolished in the early 1970s to make way for the Civic Centre.
Format: Glass plate negative, A A Manning photo.
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Format: B&W photograph
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Part of: Local Studies Collection PF424
Provenance: Harry Phillips
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Format: Colour photograph scanned from a medium format transparency
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