> > > if its premises were requisitoned as the Far West Children' s >> facility was > > Never heard of that happening.................. That is still in Manly > > See http://www.royalfarwest.org.au/about_us.html#history > > >> 3. when it ceased to exist or > > Neither have ......... and I dont think ever likely to > > > Bye > > MargM > Sydney List Admin > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 22:50:33 +1100 > From: David Fitzsimmons <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ANS] Manly Grammar School > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Joan > > I attended Manly Boys High from 1962 to 1967 and it was just an > ordinary > public high school then, not the selective school it is now. > > I grew up in the area and have never heard of Manly Grammar. > > regards > > David Fitzsimmons > Canberra > > On 1 December 2010 22:17, Marg M <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Edwards Joan" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 7:44 PM >> Subject: [ANS] Manly Grammar School >> >> >> Hi Joan >> >>> Does anyone know anything about Manly Grammar School? >> >> Never heard it called Grammer School. Used to be called Manly High >> School >> but has changed to >> >> http://www.manlyselective.nsw.edu.au/ >> >> My husband was in its first enrolment of pupils when it opened c 1951 >> I have a copy of I thinks it a 50 year aniversary booklet >> .......somewhere >> . >> >> I have a >>> newspaper report that stated it was looking for alternative premises >>> in Blue Mountains in WW2. Does anyone know >>> 1. if it remained in Manly >> >> Was and is still in North Curly >> >> if its premises were requisitoned as the Far West Children' s >>> facility was >> >> Never heard of that happening.................. That is still in >> Manly >> >> See http://www.royalfarwest.org.au/about_us.html#history >> >> >>> 3. when it ceased to exist or >> >> Neither have ......... and I dont think ever likely to >> >> >> Bye >> >> MargM >> Sydney List Admin >> >> >> Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post >> any >> reply...... Thank you! >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 22:16:28 +1000 > From: "Dave Aitchison" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ANS] Manly Grammar School > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > If you Google 'Manly Grammar School' it comes up with one reference > to the > school (actually the principal) > It is a PDF doc > > Hope this helps to at least prove the existence of the school > > Dave A > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:22:09 +1100 > From: "Tony Moore" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ANS] Manly Grammar School > To: David Fitzsimmons <[email protected]>, > [email protected], "Edwards Joan" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Joan, David, et al, > > It's no wonder David doesn't remember it because it was long gone by > his school > days: > > Google drags up this PDF about Manly Grammar School for Girls, with > accompanying photo: > http://tinyurl.com/38nxnce > > The Manly Grammar School (for Girls) run by Miss I Strachan as > Principal, > appears to have started in Ashburner Street several doors along from > Montagu > House, in The Breakers (although this may be an error in the Sands? > Directory). >> From 1928-1930, the Manly Grammar School was listed in Valpre >> Flats, with the > Hattersleys. Montague Flats, The Breakers and Elouera were listed > separately. > In 1932, Manly Girls? Grammar School was listed at no 44, the former > Montague > Flats or Montagu House. After one or more moves in Ashburner Street, > the school > had settled for the following decade. > In 1932, Ashburner Street appeared as an almost unbroken line of > boarding > houses and residential flat buildings, with the exception of Manly > Girls? > Grammar. The school?s tennis court and terraced gardens provided a > defining > character to the northern end of Ashburner Street until the school > closed in > circa 1941. The house was then demolished and replaced in the early > 1950s by > The Citadel apartment building. > > Cheers, > > Tony Moore > (Castle Hill, NSW) > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > > > On 1 Dec 2010 at 22:50, > Snipped heavily: > David Fitzsimmons wrote: > From: David Fitzsimmons <[email protected]> >> Hi Joan >>> I grew up in the area and have never heard of Manly Grammar. >> David Fitzsimmons >> Canberra >> >> On 1 December 2010 22:17, Marg M <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Edwards Joan" <[email protected]> >>> Hi Joan >>> >>>> Does anyone know anything about Manly Grammar School? > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3290 - Release Date: > 12/01/10 06:57:00 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:21:46 +1000 > From: "Margaret Bauer" <[email protected]> > Subject: [ANS] Richard Pomeroy > To: "Sydney Newsgroup" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hi Listers > I have a RICHARD POMEROY born 1846 in Cork, Ireland, and died 1925 at > Granville in Sydney (so the BMDs tell me). > He and his wife Eva Edith Pocock divorced in 1911, and the reason > for this > query is if someone who has access to one of those early postal > directories > pre 1925 just might be able to give me an idea where he was residing > precisely and more importantly (and if listed) what his occupation > was. > I have the rest of his siblings and their lives but this Richard is > proving > the more elusive one to round off his bits and pieces. > It is beginning to look like he was the black sheep of the family or > just > had a wandering urge making it awfully hard to nail his life story. > > I know it is a long shot but just thought I would drop it on the group > incase I have missed something. > > Thankyou > Margaret > ************************* > Margaret Bauer > Qld, Australia > [email protected] > ************************* > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:11:56 +1100 (AUS Eastern Daylight Time) > From: "MaxB" <[email protected]> > Subject: [ANS] Postal redirections > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello List, > I am wondering if postal redirections from an old address to a new > one have > been achived. > I am interested in tracking down descendants of Henry Smith c1916 who > resided at 69 Gerrick Road Lakemba NSW. > Google Earth has trouble finding that address so I presume it has had > something been built over it and no longer exists. > Regards > Max Bancroft > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 07:29:40 +0800 > From: "Wendy" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ANS] Postal redirections > To: "MaxB" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hello Max, > > Being a surname quite common would be hard but what I do quite often > is go > to White pages link below, type in just surname and place and then > write to > all. > > I have just posted of 12 letters to a number of "HILL's" in a > certain town > trying to find a connection to family. > > http://www.whitepages.com.au/initResSearch.do?subscriberName=&location > > Cheers > Wendy > West Aust > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "MaxB" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 7:11 AM > Subject: [ANS] Postal redirections >> I am wondering if postal redirections from an old address to a new >> one >> have >> been achived. >> I am interested in tracking down descendants of Henry Smith c1916 who >> Max Bancroft > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 01:52:29 -0000 > From: "Sue Ahrens" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ANS] Elderslie and Brighton College schools 1880s and > 90s > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]@ntlworld.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hi Karl, Phillipa, > > > >> An online search of NSW State Records lists a pre-1939 school called > >> Elderslie. ... This would not be any school in the Camden > >> suburb of the the same name as that suburb dates from the early 1990s > > > > I lived in Campbelltown in the 1950s and 60s's, and I have a feeling > that > there was a locality called Elderslie out Camden way at that time, > although > I could have invented that memory, I suppose. But even if I am > right, it > was most likely too small to have had a school pre-1939, so Karl's > lead is > certainly worth checking. > > > > Sue > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the AUS-NSW-SYDNEY list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the AUS-NSW-SYDNEY mailing list, send an email > to [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of AUS-NSW-SYDNEY Digest, Vol 5, Issue 267 > **********************************************