Louee Strret, Rylstone

Louee Strret, Rylstone
Photo: Jim Jamieson collection

Louee Street looking south, horse and cart standing in front of Post Office looking at Hayward and Benson general, Court House can be seen behind the cart.
Ref: Jim Jamison



Dunn's store, Rylstone

Dunn's store
Photo: Jim Jamieson collection

Dunn's store, Butcher, Baker and Tearoom, in Louee Street.
Ref: Jim Jamieson

Louee Street, Rylstone - Chemist shop

Louee Street, Rylstone

Photo: Jim Jamison collection.

Louee Street looking southeast across to Cudgegong Street corner and the old Chemist shop.
The awning of Jackson's building right front is the new building built 1929
Bullock team coming down the street.
Ref: Jim Jamison



Rylstone Memorial Hall


Rylstone Memorial Hall
Photo: Jim Jamison collection

Rylstone Memorial Hall on completion. 
Date on foundation stone, laid 17/04/1926
Ref: Jim Jamison

Bakers in Dabee Street, Rylstone

Bakers in Dabee Street, Rylstone

Photo: Jim Jamieson collection.

Thought to be in Dabee Street opposite the School yard, now demolished, foundations still visible.
Ref: Jim Jamison

We used to buy pies and sausage rolls from this Baker, who's name was Kearins. We would all wait in the baking room and Mr Kearins would serve us straight out of the oven. 
The Baker shop was just above the stone house in Dabee Street, just a driveway between the Bakers Shop and the fence around the house.
Ref: Shirley Tunnicliff

Jackson's house and stable

Jackson's house and stable

Photo: Jim Jamieson collection.


Looking at Jackson's house, stable and new store corner of Cudgegong Street and Louee Street 1929, taken from in front of the Memorial Hall.
Ref: Jim Jamison




Louee Street, Rylstone

Louee Street, Rylstone
Photo: Jim Jamieson collection


Looking south on Louee Street to Cudgegong Street corner, facing buildings McKenna's corner, now Rylstone Hotel.
Jackson's bakery on the right and Jackson's old building prior to being burnt out in 1929.
Note the high parapet on the Shire building further up Louee Street, parapet demolished in the 1990's when the building was renovated.
Ref: Jim Jamison

Rylstone Main Street 4


Photo: Kandos High year 9 history project in 1976.

Close-up of E.H. Nash’s grocery store. It has not changed much and might be recognized by some as the store owned by Mrs Hawkins. The tin part of the building to the left is not standing but in its place the Carlton Café.
Ref: Transcript of the presentation by a Kandos High year 9 history student in 1976.

Glen Alice Public School 1924

Glen Alice Public School 1924
 back row: Nick Nickolson, unknown ,unknown Ada Mclean, unknown, unknown, Ivy McAndrew, Don Donohue
middle row: William Jamison, unknown, unknown, unknown, Jim Jamison , unknown, unknown, unknown,
front row: Don MacFarland ,unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown.
Ref: Trevor Jamison

Louee Street, Rylstone c.1929

Louee Street, Rylstone c.1929

Photo: Jim Jamison collection.

Louee Street looking north from Cudgegong Street, circa1929.
Ref: Jim Jamison




Rylstone, Junction of Louee & Cudgegong Streets


Junction of Louee & Cudgegong Streets, Rylstone
The junction of Cudgegong and Louee Streets, looking north (circa 1900) 
Ref: THE BRIDGE VIEW INN RYLSTONE CMP by Barbara Hickson and John Broadley

Rylstone Main Street 2



Photo: Kandos High year 9 history project in 1976.

This is a photo which is McKenna’s Corner . . . horse drawn cart . . . Globe Hotel and the Butchers . . .
Ref: Transcript of the presentation by a Kandos High year 9 history student in 1976.

Capertee Royal Hotel

Capertee Royal Hotel
Photo: Capertee Royal Hotel collection

This photo shows the Capertee Royal Hotel which was rebuilt in stone in 1884 after the previous timber building was totally destroyed by fire on the night of 14th January, 1884.
Ref: SMH - 16 November 1894, p.9

The Royal Hotel at Capertee was destroyed by fire at 2.30 a.m. on 2nd September, 1931 and when rebuilt acquired a second storey.
SMH - 3 September 1931, p10 & Pddington, Over Cherry Tree Hill, p.58



Capertee Hotel

Capertee Hotel
Photo: Capertee Royal Hotel collection




Sawmill at "Woodlands"

Photo: "Woodlands" collection

George Harris at work at his sawmill at "Wooslands" - c.1900
Ref: Family history

George & Martha HARRIS c 1918

George & Martha Harris, c 1918
Photo: "Woodlands" collection

George Harris (1841-1920) married Martha Leader in 1864.
George was the tenth child of Thomas and Patience Harris.
Ref: Family records.



"Woodlands", 1915

"Woodlands", 1915
Photo: "Woodlands" collection



Photo 2


Photo: Jim Jamison collection

Narrango Mail-History of Settlement - Rylstone Area


Photo: History of Settlement - Rylstone Area

Archdeacon James Gunther

Archdeacon James Gunther
Photo: from Mary Boyce

Sydney, 21 April 1837
Dear Sir, 

By the favour of the Almighty I am permitted at last to announce to you our safe arrival. . . . The day of our embarkation having been the 10th of November last, our passage, you so will amount to five months within two days.
Ref: Extract from Reverend Günther's Letters

 2 May 1840 
Saw a few Blacks to day, also a Young man of a distant tribe, whose dialect seems to differ much from the neighbouring ones. He stays with a Settler. Rather late I reached Mr Cox’s farm, two miles beyond the intended Township of Mudgee. I was kindly received
by two Messes Coxes whose acquaintance I made for the first time (They only visit this their Estate or Estates at times.)
Ref: Extract from Reverend Günther's Journals



Rylstone School

Rylstone School
Photo: MWRC collection

An early photo of the original Rylstone Public School before it was gutted by fire in the 1920's.
Ref: MWRC

Dunns Shops c.1880

Dunn's Shops c 1880

Photo: Tony Ward Design

Sofala General Store

Sofala General Store
Recent Photo


Dabee wool bale - Fitzgerald brand

Dabee wool bale - Fitzgerald brand

Photo: KBIM collection

Dabee Shearing Quarters and Kitchen

Dabee Shearing Quarters and Kitchen


Photo: MWRC collection

The Dabee shearers quarters and kitchen were part of the shearing complex at Dabee Station which was taken up by Richard Fitzgerald in the 1820's.
Ref: MWRC

I remember around 1946/7 my Grandmother being Shearer's cook at "Dabee". I spent the school holidays working in the kitchen with her, peeling vegetables and taking the morning and afternoon smoko to the Shearing shed.
Ref: Shirley Ferguson

My Great Great Grandparents Reuben Leader and Martha Leader (nee Robins) arrived from Ilford in England on the "Castle Eden" in 1849 with 4 children and went to work at "Dabee". Two more children were born at "Carwell" and my Great Grandfather Alfred Leader was born at "Woodlawn" in 1854 and at 6 months of age came to Ilford to live at "The Retreat" on Cunningham's Creek.
Ref: Kevin Gale

Growee Gulf - Bylong Valley area

Growee Gulf - Bylong Valley area
Photo: MWRC Collection

The Davis family heading off on a picnic.
Ref: MWRC

Kandos Cement Works


The Kandos Cement Works

Photo: MWRC collection


The Cement Works played a vital part in the development of the Rylstone Shire.
Ref: MWRC

Works have 5 kilns installed, and suggest photo would be approximately 1928.
Ref: Bruce Fleming



Construction of Dunn Swamp Dam



Construction of Dunn Swamp Dam
Photo: MWRC collection

Sandstone rock was hauled and broken for use in the manufacture of concrete to construct the dam wall.
Ref: MWRC

Rabbit Trappers

Rabbit Trappers
Photo: MWRC collection

Rabbit trappers with a good day's haul, in front of the cold storage rail van.
Ref: MWRC

McLean, John (1800-1876)

Photo: Men of Mark

Dancing in the Park

Dancing in the Park
Photo: MWRC collection

Kandos celebrations on the Sportsground.
Ref: MWRC

Carriers Arms Hotel, Ilford

























Image: Cherry Tree Hill-Heritage Tour brochure


Licensed as hotel from 1878 to 1882.
Now stone residence at Ilford.
Ref: Cherry Tree Hill-Heritage Tour brochure

Johnson's home

Johnson's home
Photo: MWRC collection

An example of a Federation style sandstone home which was built by George Johnson in Louee Street, Rylstone.
Ref: MWRC

David Riches Sulky

David Riches Sulky
Photo: MWRC collection

A great mode of transport in the early days. The photo of this sulky was taken at Camboon.
Ref: MWRC
 

Airly rock fall 1911

Airly rock fall 1911
Photo: MWRC collection

Tonnes of huge rocks fell on the Airly miner's village in the rock fall of 1911.
 Ref: MWRC

"Brooklyn" 11

"Brooklyn"



































Photo: "Brooklyn" photo

Horace Sim, cutting the top limbs off a gum tree before felling it.
Ref: Fiona Sim

"Brooklyn" 2

"Brooklyn"


























Photo: "Brooklyn" collection

Front house in the snow: Dina Sim (wife of Richard Sim Snr) outside the homestead at "Brooklyn", c.1903
Ref: Fiona Sim

Original "Brooklyn" homestead, Running Stream

"Brooklyn"
























 Photo: Brooklyn collection - taken c.1902

Richard  (Snr) and Dina Sim and family at "Brooklyn".
Homestead built for Richard (Snr) by Jim Gawthorne c.1899.
People L to R: Richard (Snr), Stella, Rodney, Horace, Dina, Dick, Leo.
Ref: Sandy Sim

"Brooklyn", Cherry Tree Hill, Running Stream


























Photo: "Brooklyn" collection

Twin-cylinder Darracq owned by Dr Lester of Mudgee, broke a crankshaft on Cherry Tree Hill, 31st June 1906. The Sim family offering advice.
Original photograph 1/4 Glass Plate taken by Charles Holland, held by A. C. (Sandy) Sim.
Ref: Sandy Sim

Gibsons and Fishers


Photo: MWRC

The photo of these two families was taken in Airley at the turn of the century.
Ref: MWRC

17 Louee Street, Rylstone

Photo:Tony Ward Design - Louee Street Study - 1991

Date of Construction: c 1890
Building Description: Set back from Louee Street and across from the Dabee Street intersection, the house on the western side of Louee Street forms the northern end of the main street before the Cudgegong River. The house is single storey random stone construction. The house faces the unformed section of Dabee Street.
The house is a late Victorian/early Edwardian building which features a low pitched hip roof with a gable projecting to Dabee Street. The gable has a decorative barge-board. A single sash window with window hood over, opens from the end of the gable. The verandah has been truncated by the addition of a contemporary brick extension and car-port.
The flat roofed brick extension with aluminium windows on the north eastern corner of the house has altered the original character of the building.
Ref: Tony Ward Design - Louee Street Study - 1991

'Carwell' Slab Shearing Shed


Photo: Bruce Upton

Carwell Creek Timber Bridge 1882

Plan: Department of Roads and Bridges

Workers on the Top Weir construction, Dunn Swamp

The Crew That Built The Weir
Photo: - from left to right:
Jim Pusell, either Hilty Tobin or Hector Cole?, George Pussell (the nipper), Noel Cole, Hilty or Hector ?, Mr. Bailey, Eric Townsend, Tom Cole, George Cole, Albert Mannell ( my dad, or Dub as he was nicknamed by his mates), and the man in front kneeling is ‘Grandfather’ Davies. ( He smoked a pipe.)
Ref: Jenny Franks

Hickman, Jessie


Elizabeth Hickman stood nearly six foot tall. She was a big brawny woman who could fight like a threshing machine. She dressed like a man and carried a gun. Mrs Hickman arrived in the Nullo Mountain area of NSW in the 1920s.
Mrs Hickman excelled in doffing stock and despite these activities, the people of Nullo Mountain respected and liked the newcomer which was most unusual because they normally did not take kindly to intruders.
Ref: STOCKMAN’S HALL OF FAME, MARCH 1993

I remember my Grandmother talking about Jessie Hickman when I was a child. 
One story was of Jessie & Andy Black holding up my Grandfather on Nullo, hitting him behind the ear with a lump of wood. When he came to all his cattle had disappeared. They were dairy cattle mix as he had a dairy & milk run in Rylstone.
Ref: Shirley Tunnicliff

McPhillamey Homestead, Bogee


Photo: MWRC

An early photo of the McPhillamey homestead at Bogee in the Capertee Valley.
Ref: MWRC

Jackson's Stables


Jackson's Stables
Photo: Shirley Tunnicliff collection.

Sam Ferguson and Blackberry the Stallion


Sam Ferguson and Blackberry the Stallion
Photo: Shirley Ferguson collection.

Original Rylstone Public School


Original Rylstone Public School
Photo: MWRC collection.

The original Rylstone Public School Building was burnt in the 1920's and a new school was then commissioned.
Ref: MWRC