Memories of Ulleswater

Faded photos I still keep
Into the past I often creep
To recreate from what I see
The environment that moulded me.

Ulleswater 2022
Ulleswater 2022

© Jim Low November 2022

For my first twenty-two years, I lived with my family in flat 4, one of five, large living spaces that made up Ulleswater. The address of this rambling, old, two storey building is 107 High Street, North Sydney in New South Wales. Those childhood and adolescent years were spread through the 1950s and 1960s. A dominant memory that always typifies Ulleswater for me was its great sense of community. It was a safe place where things operated somewhat like an extended family. Continue reading “Memories of Ulleswater”

Two Hawkesbury Memorials to First Contact at Windsor and Pitt Town

© Jim Low

Recently I made a return visit to two memorials along the Hawkesbury River (Deerubbin). Both commemorate the first contact between the Darug people of the area and an expeditionary party led by Governor Phillip. Phillip’s party was there to discover whether the waterways they had already named the Nepean and Hawkesbury were in fact the same river.

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