This is where I grew up. The photo was taken in 1904. So if you take 1904 from 2021 you get twenty five. Makes me 26 this year. That’s right isn’t it Algy?
As you can see, transport hasn’t changed and the big building on the corner is the Ryan’s Hotel which meant getting to the pub was much harder than getting home. My brother-in-law and I can attest to this on many occasions.
The Illawarra Escarpment hasn’t changed a dickie bird whereas me and my brother-in-law have.
The town is called Thirroul which means “easy to pub, hard to get home” in the local lingo and in the late 1880’s everyone spoke French so the locals knew that then.
The roads are still shit and now traffic lights are needed to control the flow of horse drawn buggies. Gee how things have changed.
Thirroul was the location of about half of ‘Kangaroo’ by D.H.Lawrence. It seemed to contrast with Sydney which he regarded as a shit hole.
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Yes I remember him well. It was 1922 and I must have been 12 at the time. My family lived near his house called Wyewurk. Smart man I thought.
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Mr Mark, you are clearly the exception to Thirroul 🙂
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Very nice Mark.
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Thanks Viv. My sister still lives in that street.
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Yep that’s right, you’re 26.
Marvellous, love it. I grew up in Hornsby which means Home of White Bread and worked in Chatswood which means place of many cars.
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… many cars and dodgy parking ….
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Thanks to Thirroul History in Photos Phillip Street Thirroul 1904 (it was called View Street back then though)
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I once lived in View St. But the street was holidaying in Annandale then.
I was raised in East Hills, which translates as place of many people who were not wealthy enough to live in Panania (now one of the drive-by shooting capitals of the South Western suburbs).
Pub, post office, fish and chips shop, chemist, the Niagra Milk Bar, dentist ! and ladies haberdashery !! hardware store with bare wooden floorboards and Ampol Service Station where nobody ever bought petrol, coz nobody in East Hills could afford a car.
In fact, Mom used to save up for a taxi home from Revesby as a special treat (shared of course with strangers). The taxi… not…. well you get the picture …
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Therese, do you remember when in geography class, the teacher asked what were the main characteristics of East Hills (perhaps the Georges River ?) And Robert Tierney answered “Small Fences” and cracked up the class because first there WERE a lot of housing commission houses with tiny fences and second, not being the sharpest tool in the shed, Bob was being serious 🙂
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When my cousin was asked where the Queensland border was located he replied that he was at home in bed with mum.
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You forgot the Chinese take away palace and allegedly inventor of the iconic an fantastic prawn cutlet, sweet and sour pork, chicken chow mien and fried rice.
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It was called the “Hing Nam” which translates as “simple and delicious”.
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We had a Chinese take away in Thirroul called Moon’s which roughly translates to moons. You ate their when you waz rich and you were sick of fish and chips. Later we got a pizza shop that made the best calzone in the universe especially after a night at the Ryan’s Hotel.
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