Objects Found

Kim Cooper, Executive Assistant

I found this photo album in a deceased estate that we had just purchased in Gipps St, Bronte in 1992! My family and I were renovating this house when we discovered the album. We had attempted to contact family members through the Estate agent to no avail!

Lawrie Williams, Services Coordinator

I met Mairead Dunbar and her husband during one of my history tours who found Bondi bricks when they were renovating their home at on Glen St Bondi. Bondi bricks were made of sand and lime and fired in the brickworks kiln located near Seven Ways at North Bondi. The Bondi Sand-Lime Brick Co. Ltd operated between 1910 and 1919 and produced thousands of bricks used in the building of homes throughout Bondi and Rose Bay.

Jo Harney, Community Development Officer

This object was on my desk from when I started working at Waverley Council in 2009. The project had just been underway and this was an example piece from the public art officer and multicultural worker. It resembles a time when community development, Landscape architects and planning and public art were located in the same office and team which created some unique combinations of skills.

Ingrid Grace, Local History Research and Engagement Officer

The makers of the taps are unknown but they were installed in the Bondi Pavilion for use in the Turkish Baths 1928 – 1929 – mid 1930s. They were kept by the builder who dismantled the Turkish Baths in approximately the mid - 1930s. At an unknown date they were donated back to the Bondi Pavilion administration office.

Fleur Mellor, A/Manager Urban Design & Heritage