Carss Park, 'The Gateway to Opportunity'
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Carss Park, situated between Kogarah Bay and the Princes Highway, is an historical area. Its tidal pool, sandstone walls and remnants of native bush make it a popular recreational destination.
Sources
'Carss Park', Beverley Earnshaw
Kogarah Historical Society
Kogarah Local Studies Library
Hurstville City Library
Trove digitised newspapers
Google maps
Monument Australia
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So pleased to have found your channel. I was a £10 pom who arrived in Freemantle, WA in 1971 & then grew up from about age 3 in Sydney, in Bexley & surrounding area's.
I'm now back in old blighty, but like Peter Allen sung "I still call Australia home"
I had some wonderful old glass negatives of loads of places around Marrickville, Cooks Rvr, Arncliffe, Bardwell Park & many other places, but left them with a friend before I left in 91.
What a lovely & nostalgic thing to have found tonight.
Thanking you 🎉🎉🎉
If we were giving a prize for “the long distance viewer,” I suspect you would be well in the running. The male voice on the video, is mine,I came out here in 1974 from the same place.When I tell people here of my origins, I'm greeted with, "you needn’t have bothered telling me, I guessed that." The female voice is the Creator of the videos and she was born in Australia. We have a long standing relationship, where I check the final script for overlong sentences and we debate pronunciation. I am still challenged by certain Australian suburbs’ names, but have accepted “Oz” as the sound to make. A Kiwi recently pointed out that a suburb, which takes its name from New Zealand, did not have the sound he would make.
I am saddened by hearing of your collection of glass plates of the area. Marrickville’s new library seems to be a place where people go for free Wi Fi, and to take coffee. The local Heritage Society, of which we are members, meets there. There is no Museum in Marrickville. Bexley, has a rather tired shopping centre, but rather makes up for it with its stock of individualy interesting housing from an early period. In short we are very pleased with the numbers watching our video on the suburb.We volunteer at Carss Cottage in Carss Park.The cottage doesn’t quite get the attention it deserves.Sitting on the hill above the bay is the challenge as people prefer to picnic, walk dogs, etc. on the low road round the bay.We have sixty four videos of various suburbs, if you click on our icon, (St. Peters church) you should have them all together in chronological order. That is the time we made them. My UA-cam feed from the U.K., seems to be dominated by videos of non-league soccer teams. A nostalgia a fine thing. Thanks for your comment, do keep making them.
We use to go to Carss Park for picnics, as students, from Kogarah high.
Fond memories
Thank you ❤. My great Uncle was Harald Coxhead
I am inclined to think that you know everything about him, and at some time or other have visited Carss Cottage. We, that is the two voices on the video, are volunteer guides at the cottage, and will be on duty there from 1 o’clock till 4 next Sunday, that is the 29th of October. We recently went through the books held in the cottage, and noted the ones with your Great Uncle’s and aunt’s name on them. The aunt being his daughter, whose wedding dress is on display. They appear to have delighted in reading books of some quality. Something which is now a thing of the past. The Kogarah Brass Band will be at the cottage from 2.p.m. Thanks for the complimentary remark, it keeps us going.
Once again, thank you for your wonderful work. Presenting a part of Sydney that, despite my relative proximity to the area, had little knowledge about. Another wonderful and enchanting walk through the history of our great city.
The Creator and I volunteer at Carss Cottage, whenever there’s a fifth Sunday in the month. We are always struck by the number of people that use the park for either walking, jogging, cycling and picnicking to name a few activities. Some actually venture onto the higher ground where the cottage is and we are surprised where they come from, Panania to name but one suburb. I have read your comment to the Creator, and her reply was, she had thought of all those visitors to the park from other suburbs, who don’t know the history of Carss Park. We like yourself, can be described as ‘in relative proximity to the area.’ Then again, who is not given the proximity to the Princes Highway. I am very pleasantly surprised at the number of views that we have after only one day. I doubt that you give any great thought as to how your remarks encourage us, they are of so much more value than any monetary reward we may receive in the not to distant future. Here’s hoping you can in some way identify with North Sydney.
Thank you for this video! I grew up on Bruce St in Kogarah Bay and of course have many memories and experiences growing up beside Carss Park. It's always great to discover more about what came before me in this area. I always wonder what the bay and area must have looked like before colonisation and how it has changed ever since. Maybe it's an age thing since I'm only in my 20s but it feels as though the park has been receiving a lot more local council attention in the past 5 or so years along with the attention to the swimming pool. The walkways around the playing fields opposite the Bush Park have all been upgraded and more is still being done to the Parkside Drive Reserve area leading up to Harold Fraser Oval (which seemed to be drastically slowed from completion resulting from the COVID-19 lockdowns). Can't wait to be able to access the area at the bottom of Bruce St towards Harold Fraser Oval once they complete those jobs, unless they have already and I haven't noticed haha.
Also worth noting that the Kogarah SES Unit is tucked in next to the oval and there's also some tennis courts in that back end of the park. What's funny to me is that I was always that close to the SES Unit there and yet I only became interested in getting involved after I moved out of home, so now I volunteer at the Bayside SES Unit closer to where I'm currently living!
Wow! I think you’ve made our day. UA-cam Analytics consistently informs us that the people watching our channel are for the most part over forty five years old. You have surprised us on two counts, that of your age and also the quality of your writing. We are more than surprised at the number of viewers, subscribers and watch hours, we have, particularly of late. The Creator of the videos serves on the committee of Kogarah History Society, although we are not local to the area. Tomorrow we shall be part of a group showing a school group round Carss Cottage and round the adjacent parkland. Life prior to colonisation is all part of the talk|walk and in the museum at the cottage. In short a time line, including, artefacts which are all part of Carss Park past. Pleased to see you enjoyed the video. You do know there are fifty eight others, one of which may be the suburb you now live in, and do tell your friends.
Thought I should add, that after entertaining/ educating a well behaved group of school children, in the order of eighty, we adjourned to the cafe in the park. Walking back to our car, I asked the question, “what is left of pre-colonisation days? The reply was the “stand of trees ,” to the left of us. The view of the bay, showed us the stone wall round part of the bay, so we can count that out, but the further you view left and right from the wall suggests that those parts of the bay haven’t changed. I’m not altogether aware of much else, though I suspect the children could have told you for they were taken on a walk around the area. Norfolk pines, if you happen to see any, are we suspect an introduced species. We spent our time introducing a constant stream of children to Aboriginal artefacts, ethnically diverse items-treasures from across the world from people who have made their home here, devices that provided audio entertainment prior to the mobile phone and tablet age. A time when, an imagination was essential as to knowing what was happening and music was so very different.
Another history lesson and wonderful presentation. I only know of the Chinese gardens on West Botany St, Arncliffe. My parents owned a restaurant on Forest Rd, Arncliffe near St. David's Church and can only remember once going to the gardens. Thank you for informing that Todd Park was once a Chinese gardens also. Carss Park is a hidden treasure as have driven passed countless of times but never ventured inside.
Kevin, have you changed your identity. Note the title of the Carrs Park video, “The Gateway to Opportunity.” Now is your chance to meet the Creator and her assistant, who replies to the remarks made on our comments page. We shall be volunteering at Carss Cottage from 1 till 4.p.m. on Sunday, 30th of July. As for the Chinese gardens at Arncliffe this year seems to be a magnificent crop of something, but not being vegetable gardeners, we are just not sure what it is. Did you know of the Chinese gardens at what is now Tillman Park Tempe? I trust you have noted the next video is North Sydney. Delighted to think of your constant viewing of our videos. Thank you.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 I think because I have two YT accounts the wires have crossed, but glad you have found me. Did not know of the Chinese gardens at Tempe, so that's another pleasant surprise. Could be more we don't know of. The one at Arncliffe is heritage listed and that is gold to me.
@@fookriver Your interest in Chinese gardens has prompted me to search in Trove for, “Chinese gardens,” for the period 1850-1900. Specifically N.S.W. It is when you get into the 1860s that they become a most admired people for their ability to produce not only vegetables but ginger.Reports of their activity in country Victoria even appear in the Sydney newspapers. The Josephsons residents of Newtown had a problem with one of the their gardeners he was given to stealing fruit from off the trees he cultivated and on selling it, this I think in the late 1850s. Also in the same period Chinese garden chairs were all the fashion. I trust you might find this as interesting as I did. The Creator has just informed me of the Chinese Gardeners of Botany are mentioned on our Botany video. Why do you think there is a Gardeners Road, not I assume after a Mr. Gardener.
On Sunday 8th September “History Week” Kogarah Historical Society's Carrs Cottage Museum at Carrs Park is open from noon till 4 p.m. Free entry. Their latest exhibition “School Ways School Days,” should have parents and grandparents, wallowing in memories of their childhood, of what they wrote with and on, how they were disciplined, the music they sang and played, the charts and maps they learned from, and the games they played. Anyone for French cricket? Let your children see what you had to cope with! You’ve heard our voices on this UA-cam video, you might like to see us in person as we guide you round Carrs Cottage.
On Sunday 8th September “History Week” St. George Historical Society, from 10.a.m. till 4.00 p.m. Free entry. There’s a rare opportunity to see the inside of Tempe House, built 1836, and Chapel, at Wolli Creek.You’ve heard our voices on this UA-cam video, you might like to see us in person as we guide you round Tempe House.
Your interest in Chinese gardens has prompted me to search in Trove for, “Chinese gardens,” for the period 1850-1900. Specifically N.S.W. It is when you get into the 1860s that they become a most admired people for their ability to produce not only vegetables but ginger.Reports of their activity in country Victoria even appear in the Sydney newspapers. The Josephsons residents of Newtown had a problem with one of the their gardeners he was given to stealing fruit from off the trees he cultivated and on selling it, this I think in the late 1850s. Also in the same period Chinese garden chairs were all the fashion. I trust you might find this as interesting as I did.