Notes: Macquarie Road looking west, cropped
Format: B&W photograph
Date Range: 1908
Location:Springwood
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Part of Local Studies Collection: SHS 820
Provenance: Springwood Historical Society
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Notes: also known as the Waterhole, the remains of an early quarry. Part of a publicity series for Blue Mountains City Council.
The pool has local significance as the larger of the two railway quarries of the 1860s near in Faulconbridge. It has also aesthetic significance as a pleasing, if rather damp, reuse of a flooded quarry.
Construction years: 1864-1865
Physical description:The old quarry is roughly circular, some 30 metres in diameter, with higher walls to the east supporting the railway line. These walls continue to the south beside the picnic area, which utilises a flat sandstone shelf and an area of chronically wet grass. Water-lilies flourish in abundance in the quarry-pool along with reeds.
As a result of the widening of the Great Western Highway, the former quarry is now immediately adjacent to the highway. Steel safety fencing has been erected along the western (highway) side of the pool. There is a concrete pipe upright and slab and roof picnic shelter on the southern side.
Water lilies flourish in the quarry-pool along with reeds and contrast in an aesthetically pleasing manner with the sharp, quarried and natural rock sides of the pond on its northern and eastern sides. Naturally twisted trees of a picturesque form grow on the shallow soil on top of the rock on the northern side of the pond. This is a visually tranquil spot beside the very busy highway.
In 1958 BMCC prepared the site and installed a water supply with bubbler and a cement picnic table and seating.
The picnic reserve also contains a memorial plaque to indigenous volunteer bushfire fighter Claude Cooper who died on the 3rd December 1957 while fighting fires in the Blue Mountains.
Format: medium format colour film, identified as taken by Ern McQuillan
Date Range: 1968
Location: GWH Faulconbridge
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Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: BMCC Publicity files, Ern McQuillan
Links:
Fb006 : Water Lily Pond - www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDe...
The Rock Carvings and What They Meant. (1896, October 17). The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), p. 808. Retrieved September 27, 2017, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163784547
Plaque - monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/tragedy/display/21...
Notes:
“The Allies”, said the editor of the Blue Mountains Echo of 13 August 1915, “can make no further progress in the Dardanelles until reinforced with troops. Our own men there are calling for assistance.” One response to the desperate need for reinforcements originated in Gilgandra in October 1915 with 26 men, the brain wave of local plumber WT (Bill) Hitchen, captain of the Gilgandra Rifle Club and his brother Richard. Named The Coo-ee March, it was the first of many privately organised recruiting marches of the time; they gathered recruits as they progressed and became known as snowball marches
The Coo-ees entered Springwood on Monday morning 8 November through the smoke from nearby bushfires and bearing their banner with the motto “First Stop Berlin”, accompanied by an escort of four mounted policemen, a piper playing stirring highland marches, a squad from the Springwood Rifle Club and cheering school children. “Hitchen’s Own” then made camp on the Homedale Estate.
A thousand people from Springwood and surrounds attended the evening open-air concert and recruiting meeting where more young men joined up. A local reporter wrote: “How well Springwood entertained is best told in the words of a lady who helped, ‘It was the biggest wash-up that I ever heard of,’ she said, and that is saying something coming from the sex that reckons life is one wash-up after another.” The next morning at nine o’clock with the piper again in attendance the Coo-ees marched out of town.
The large building on the left is Springwood School of Arts. Beyond that is Edward James Ashcroft's Model Butchery, which he operated 1909-24. The shop was built in 1897 and demolished in 1984.
Format: B&W photograph by Joe Booker
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Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection SHS836
Provenance: Terry Booker
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Notes: postcard from Springwood soldiers, oval inset shows the Coo-ee recruiting march passing through Springwood 1915 with the School of Arts in the background.
Soldiers pictured on the postcard are: Esbert Lees, Willie Hall, Sam Honeysett, Dave Wagner, Clarrie Wright, Jack Hugo, Alf Davis, Stan Paviour, Harry Hall, Bert Ward, Harry Holder and Gordon Hartigan.
Format: B&W photograph
Date range: 1915-16
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Part of: Local Studies Collection postcards
Provenance: BMCC
Tags: Great War World War 1 AIF Cooee March Western Front history soldiers
Notes: Macquarie Road 1915 covering central Springwood
Format: subdivision plan, H.E.C. Robinson publisher
Date Range: c. 1915
Location: Springwood
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Part of Local Studies Collection: Robinson Maps
Provenance: Blue Mountains City Council
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Tags: Springwood