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Hunter Baillie Cricket Club 1906-1907 - W. Osborne Photo Leichhardt. "My grandfather Robert Shankling Muir is 2nd from the left in the back row."
Left to right: Jessie Montgomery (nee Muir), Samuel Montgomery, Christina Agnes Muir (nee Short) Robert Shankling Muir (seated), Earnest Collins (killed in Action 1st AIF), Isabella Cathleen Muir.
"Robert Shankling Muir was the son of James Muir (Dumfriesshire Scotland) and Margaret Muir (nee Dennison from Stronsay Orkney ).James and Margaret Muir arrived off Sydney heads in the sailing ship “La Hogue” under the command of Captain Wagstaff on the 21st October 1878. They had eight children and lived in Carlisle Street Leichardt. The children were James Walter, John, Elizabeth A, Robert S, Margaret, Sarah I, William, and Jessie.
Margaret Muir lived into her 95th year and I can still remember visiting her as a small child." - Photographs and information courtesy of Ed Ironside
Sir William McKell who was Premier of NSW (1941-1947) and Governor-General of Australia (1947-1953) married local Minnie May Pye, a 26-year old tailoress, in St Aidan's Anglican Church in January 1920. - Biography of Sir William McKell
In 1906, Margaret Mary Holloway married Herbert Henry Galvin and moved into their first home in Annandale. After the birth of two girls, they moved to Marrickville for a short time before returning to live in Young St. Their six children attended St Brendan's primary school.
At this time, trams ran along Booth St. According to Sydney/Newcastle Tramway History the Balmain Line tram ran from Balmain Road along Booth and Taylor Sts to Glebe and another line ran along Paramatta Rd.
"A wedding was solemnised at St. Aidan's...The bride was dressed in ivory satin, trimmed with lace and chiffon, also a wreath of orange blossoms and a tulle veil. She carried a shower bouquet, which, with a gold muff chain, was tho gift of the bridegroom....bouquets of pink azaleas and a gold bangle - SOCIAL.The Sydney Morning Herald... Saturday 7 October 1905, page 11.
At the Annandale Methodist Church ...The bride wore a white silk dress with, insertion finished at tho bottom with a large true lovers knot and a coronet of orange blossoms and an embroidered veil of Brussels net. Her gift from tho bridegroom was a shower bouquet of white roses Miss S J Watt and Miss Violet Watt were bridesmaids Their gold brooches set with rubies and shower bouquets of white and pink roses were gifts from the bride- groom Mr WH Sheridan acted as best man. After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the bride's mother and the wedding breakfast was served on the lawn in a marquee.
...a wedding took place at Huntor Baillie Church ... bride wore white silk voile and a tulle voile and wreath of orange blossoms and carried a flower bouquet of white flowers which with a chain and pendant were gifts from the bridegroom. She was attended by four bridesmade the Misses Jessie, Edith, Alice and Esther Kidson sisters of the bride who were pink and blue silk muslin respectively trimmed with white net and lace and pink and blue hats and carried bouquets -The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842-1954) Saturday 15 January 1910
Women stringing pianos 1920s - courtesy Leichhardt Local Studies collection.
Beale introduced the all-iron tuning system, for which a patent was granted in 1902. This tuning system was referred to in earlier Beale pianos as the "Beale-Vader tuning system". - Wikipedia
In other constructions where a metal plate is used, the pins often break due to seizure in the plate especially if the time between tunings is long. The pins can also bend about the stress point when being tuned and set for example, of the Beale and Vader type as described in the Australian patent application 8777/07 filed the 22nd May 1907. - www.freepatentsonline.com/5471902.html
Annandale War Memorial in Hinsby Park, "Erected by the Citizens of Annandale to the memory of the men of this District who made the supreme sacrifice in the great war 1914-1920"). The names listed include CH Cecil Winkworth and Walter Langley Baxter
I have recently restored a Beale player and they have no wooden pinblock. They use a system designed by Vader (German) which has a full cast plate and which is about 1" thick where the pins go. The pins have a 3/8" tapered section and are 1-1/2" long. They push in from the back and have a locking screw which locks the taper up. Unusual "Iron Tuning System" in Beale Piano By Peter Coggins
Playing Second Fiddle: A history of the relationship between technology and organisation in the Australian music economy refers to advertisements, from 1924/5, in which Beale and Co claimed exports to various parts of the world and trumpeted their success at the 1924 Wembley Exhibition.
PIANO INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA - Largest Factory In The British 'Empire - Canberra Times Thursday 25 November 1926
"Upright player piano, Mastertouch recording piano No 1, wood / metal, made by Beale and Company, used as a recording piano by Mastertouch Piano Roll Company, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1925....There are also several pieces of equipment used in the manufacture and repair of pianos that were previously owned by several Sydney piano repair companies such as Winkworths and Garner & Hancock." - (Powerhouse Museum Object 2006/151/12)
"Electric lighting of municipalities : correspondence published in the "Sydney daily telegraph" of June 7th, 1890, and subsequent dates : together with a short introductory notice"NLA Catalog
"TRINITY COLLEGE, LONDON. JUNE PASS LIST Junior, Winnie Farrel, pupil of the Sisters of St. Joseph, St Joseph's Convent, Annandale" -Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 5 September 1907
"LEGISLATOR'S WIFE SHOOTS HERSELF....was found lying in the grounds of St. Joseph's Convent, Annandale, with a bullet wound in the chest" -The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889-1931) (about) 21 January 1909
SATURDAY'S STORM
ANNANDALE FACTORY FLOODED.
During Saturday's storm the factory of tho Cork Manufacturing Company, In Trafalgar street, Annandale, was flooded, owing to the drain in the street not being large enough to take the immense body of water. Boys in the factory had to remove their boots in order to get away from tho machines. The factory and office had about two feet of water on the floor, and considerable damage was done to a valuable stock. - The Sydney Morning Herald 26 November 1912
BOX FACTORY ALIGHT
FIRE AT ANNANDALE.
At about 1am today a fire broke out in Bromley's Federal Box Factory, Susan Street, Annandale, near Parramatta Road. - The Sydney Morning Herald 15 May 1912
BLAZE AT ANNANDALE IN A CANISTER FACTORY - he Sydney Morning Herald 18 December 1912
"The Department of Health stated to-day that the small-pox patients so far treated had come from Annandale..." -The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 12 July 1913
AMUSEMENT TAX | "Onkaparinga" writes:
Sir,-Membership of a social club at Annandale costs 10/ for season, which admits to euchre and dance. It's the amusement tax to be paid by the club on dance tickets?
Yes, under section 11, Act 36, of 1916. - The Sydney Morning Herald 30 April 1917
"a repetition of the street scenes in Sydney two years ago, when a reduced tram service brought to light conveyances discarded as too old and useless, and drawn by aged animals, to whom the same remark ap-plied. Small rough and ready services from suburbs situated like Annandale and Leichhardt reaped a rich harvest. - Argus (Melbourne, Vic.) Thursday 17 July 1919
ANNANDALE FIRE.
HOESESHOE FACTORY
The factory of the Acme Horseshoe Manufacturing Company, In Trafalgar lane, at the rear of 207 Trafalgar Street, Annandale, was Badly damaged by fire last night... It was thought that some sparks from the fire used to heat the steel caused the out - The Sydney Morning Herald 5 February 1927
£15,000 FIRE
Sydney Drapery Stores FIREMEN IN DANGER
The premises of the Go Ahead Drapers, Parramatta Road, Annandale, were totally destroyed by early this morning. - The Canberra Times, Monday 14 May 1928
Joyce's Biscuit Factory, Annandale,1926
"Eileen and Eric met in 1927 one day at work when Eric found that the mattress case sewn by Eileen was incorrect.... They were wed at St. Aidens, Annandale in Balmain on the 23rd of May, 1929" -the real mattress and base co.History
The Raycophone system of synchronized sound for motion pictures was first demonstrated in 1929 by Raymond Cotton Allsop. See: Photographs of Radio Factory in Annandale and 1929: Australian engineer tackles the talkies
The Asbestos Packing and Braiding Company, of Annandale, expects to begin in July making rubber tubing, cords for electric wires, flat braid, and all kinds of engineers' packing -The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 15 May 1930
The Nationalist party younger set of Annandale held a dance on Monday evening at the Colonade Hall, Annandale, to raise votes for Miss F. D. Leddra, the Annandale candidate in the Sydney Flying Squadron's queen of the harbour competition. - The Sydney Morning Herald 1 October 1930
More at Annandale on the Web - 1930-1945. See Picture Australia images of veneer and plywood logs being unloaded from barge.
During 1998, the building underwent major renovation, which has transformed it into a residential complex.
The National Library of Australia, has a Beale catalogue published around 1903: Piano Catalogues: A Window Into Industry, Trade and Australian Social History.
Beale Pianos in the newspapers
See "Piano factory, heritage report", 1997, prepared by Robert irving for Walker Corporation. Available in the local studies collection, Leichhardt Library.
See Ronisch Piano dumped on Curb
Annandale North Public School was opened in 1905.
Glebe and Annandale from Glebe Island (1900-1939)
This page www.ramin.com.au/annandale/story4.shtml last update 2 March 2010.