Buildings essential to our lives 1900-1960, Part II

 Plain and Fancy Dress Ball

Berowra Hall (1914)

(60x90 cm, SOLD)

This is a painting of the annual plain and fancy dress ball held at the Berowra Hall in October 1914. Fortunately the event was covered in an article in the Cumberland Fruit and Poultry Growers Advocate. The fancy dress and formal gowns were described in the article, so I have been able to achieve rare accuracy in depicting how the event might have looked. The hall was destroyed by fire on Christmas Eve 1929.

  A Berowra Bride,

Berowra Hall, Berowra (23. Oct. 1920)

(reserved for public collection)

This wedding took place at St Marks Church of England, Berowra, on 23rd October, 1920. After the ceremony the bride and groom walked through a guard of honour of raised tennis rackets made up by members of the local tennis club. The groom presented the bride and bridesmaid with bouquets of white and pink carnations which were tied with ribbons of red and dark blue (the grooms regimental colours). There were approx. 80 guests at the wedding breakfast. Entertainment took the form of musical presentations.The couple were given many useful gifts and later traveled to Luera in the Blue Mountains for their honeymoon. (based on an article in The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, 4. Dec. 1920, p.5)

 Richards Store and Station

Berowra (c. 1911) 

 Winter commuters

Berowra (c. 1940)

 Berowra Store

Berowra (c. 1959) 

 Waiting

Berowra (c. 1959 SOLD) 

 Temperance Hotel Mitcham

 Mitcham, S.A. (c. 1910)

 (60x90 cm, oil on linen)