Dear Alan... Thanks for your reply.... Interesting about the Defence Dept giving you the run around... Which reminds me... I must contact them to suggest they do some maintenance to Thornton Hall... re gutters and drain pipes etc... before winter comes... and more deteriation sets in. Because the home is now out of sight and locked up behind security fencing... it also becomes out of mind sight as well... and the deteriation is not noted or corrected... Apparently it will still be some years before any development starts as there are still issues over the future use of the land. But is the meantime... our dear 1870's Thornton Hall is in limbo... Cheers Laura Player

Where exactly is Thornton Hall? Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "laura" <player@bigpond.net.au> To: <AUS-NSW-PENRITH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:07 PM Subject: [AUS-NSW-PENRITH] Thornton Hall & Red Cow > Dear Alan... > Thanks for your reply.... Interesting about the Defence Dept giving you the run around... Which reminds me... I must contact them to suggest they do some maintenance to Thornton Hall... re gutters and drain pipes etc... before winter comes... and more deteriation sets in. > Because the home is now out of sight and locked up behind security fencing... it also becomes out of mind sight as well... and the deteriation is not noted or corrected... > Apparently it will still be some years before any development starts as there are still issues over the future use of the land. But is the meantime... our dear 1870's Thornton Hall is in limbo... > Cheers Laura Player > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Hi, Tom and Judy! If you look in the street directory for Penrith, at the end of the Crescent you will see a street called Mountainview Crescent (near Lemongrove Road). Well, the entrance to that street now had a gate and a fence across it, and there's no entry. Thornton Hall is straight in there. My own feeling is that the Commonwealth Government hardly needs the enormous tract of land that they own there, and that, since Thornton Hall (as Laura will tell you) is one of the most historically-significant buildings in the Penrith area, it woyuldn't hurt them to forego its use as a storeroom and return it, and the street, to the people of Penrith. As it is now, access to that area is prohibited, and, as Laura says, the old homestead is being allowed to deteriorate, I guess to the point where it will be beyond saving. This is vital for our national security? Alan. Tom & Judy <chetta@optusnet.com.au> wrote: Where exactly is Thornton Hall? Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "laura" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:07 PM Subject: [AUS-NSW-PENRITH] Thornton Hall & Red Cow > Dear Alan... > Thanks for your reply.... Interesting about the Defence Dept giving you the run around... Which reminds me... I must contact them to suggest they do some maintenance to Thornton Hall... re gutters and drain pipes etc... before winter comes... and more deteriation sets in. > Because the home is now out of sight and locked up behind security fencing... it also becomes out of mind sight as well... and the deteriation is not noted or corrected... > Apparently it will still be some years before any development starts as there are still issues over the future use of the land. But is the meantime... our dear 1870's Thornton Hall is in limbo... > Cheers Laura Player > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.

Good afternoon, Listers. Does anyone know if there is information available about the employees at the Munitions factory at St Marys during the early 1940's? My mum worked there, probably up until mid-1944, probably as a driver (I remember she talked about escorting or driving the payroll car). I'd love to find out a bit more about this place and her duties. Judy (nee Andrews)