Scheyville 

18 creative works found

• The meaning of OzCloggie.
  by Ozcloggie

  Part of getting into teachers college, to become, eventually, a public servant, was to be naturalised and if that meant I was staying, t…

  Born in Gouda (Yes! Where the cheese comes from! We’re sick of saying that!) / Migrated when I was twelve, just in time for puberty and high school where teachers spoke a language I did not understand, yet. / Been here 51 years. I’m an OzCloggie!

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  Army barracks #1
  by Rosalie Dale IPA

  Taken at Scheyville National Park on the fringe of Sydney Australia – formerly Army Barracks, now a fascinating huge National Park with masses of these old building still thankfully left standing. / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM

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  Army Barracks #2
  by Rosalie Dale IPA

  Another from the collection of old buildings at Scheyville National Park, Sydney Australia. This Nissen Hut was in fairly good nick, considering!! / / For those curious about the origin of the name, these corrugated iron half-spherical shelters were named after Peter Norman Nissen (1871-1930), British army officer and mining engineer. / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM

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  The basin
  by Rosalie Dale IPA

  Another from Scheyville National Park on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia where old Army training facilities still exist. I just loved the tones and light in this scene. / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM / /

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  Barracks Window
  by Rosalie Dale IPA

  Another take on Army Barracks #1 / taken at Scheyville National Park on the outskirts of Sydney Australia. / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM

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  Scheyville National Park
  by Rosalie Dale IPA

  Another scene from Scheyville National Park on the outskirts of Sydney Australia. / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM / /

• Get together 19 January - Sydney northside ...
  by Rosalie Dale IPA

  Not too long ago I wrote about a get together on our side of Sydney for anyone interested in some great photo opportunities and ‘getting …

  Not too long ago I wrote about a get together on our side of Sydney for anyone interested in some great photo opportunities and ‘getting to know you’ time … So far I have interests from DPF as well as redbubblers – and some photography nuts who are (shock horror!!) not on any sites at all!! Please get back to me asap to express interest if you are keen – so far it is a toss up whether we begin from Swanes Rose Nursery and proceed via a couple of scenec spots in a north easterly direction (Berowra Waters and Fagan Park) or we meet at the Ettamogah pub and move on via Scheyville National Park and all the delapidated Army Barracks etc., and perhaps historic Pitt Town. Looking forward to hearing from you – if transport is a problem, the nearest train is Pennant Hills and I’m sure we can arrange for rides. Rosalie

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  Army Latrines
  by Rosalie Dale IPA

  Seen better days, obviously!!! Another taken at Scheyville National Park Sydney Australia – site of old Army Barracks. / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM / /

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  The Basin - HDR
  by Rosalie Dale IPA

  Another take on The Basin. - SOLD an unframed print of this at Gallery26 early 2008 / My own HDR version of this Won 2nd place in Something Old Category, Hawkesbury Show (NSW Australia) Photographic competition May 2009 / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM

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  Collaboration - Barracks Windows
  by Rosalie Dale IPA

  Another collaboration with RichardShepherd’s magic touch. This time three old windows in the delapidated army barracks at Scheyville National Park on the northwest outskirts of Sydney. / THANK YOU SHEPY!!! / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM

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  No Glory without Power!
  by George Petrovsky

  Scheyville National Park to the NW of Sydney, is the site of an old Army camp, used to house migrants after WW2. Conditions were basic, but a real home for the thousands of displaced persons who passed through there, having survived the ravages of the war in Europe. Some of our old family friends lived in this camp… This powerboard is on one of the old and now dilapidated wooden huts which may have served as a “common room” in years gone by. / /

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  Scheyville Sunset # 1
  by George Petrovsky

  Scheyville National Park, to the NW of Sydney, was once an Army barracks, then became a camp for displaced persons, or migrants, coming to Australia at the end of World War 2. They were escaping from a ravaged Europe to a land of new opportunity. My family was one of those who arrived in 1949, when I was but a lad of 3, and although we lived in other similar camps in Bonegilla and Cowra, many of our friends had lived in Scheyville. The current lot of migrants and refugees have never had it so good! Conditions were very basic, with the corrugated iron Nissan Huts forming the main accommodation. Well, they were good enough for our Armed Forces! One such hut, now in a state of rusted disrepair, can be seen in the centre of the picture. Off to the right, what may have once been a common room or dining hall stands in a state of deterioration. The B&W powerboard is at the front of that building. The brick buildings form part of the administrative section of the base. The sun is setting on a piece of little known post-war history, and yes, I’ve done a bit of a nostalgia trip here. Other pictures in the series will be presented as the opportunity arrises.

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  Scheyville Arches Sketch
  by George Petrovsky

  An experimental treatment of one of my pictures from the Scheyville National Park series. This was part of an old workers and migrant and army camp, which has a rich and interesting history behind it.

• Schooldays. That old gang of mine. Back to Chester Hill. What goes around...
  by MrJoop

  Willy, who was a cute little class-mate, in Mr Berretty’s class, tells me that I was already such a typical teacher, when I was 12 and b…

  Saturday 25th October: Chester Hill Public School celebrates 50 years of quality education. I was there, briefly, right at the beginning.

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  Power Cuts
  by George Petrovsky

  This old power pole was found in the Scheyville National Park, to the NW of Sydney NSW Australia. Is this what we can expect in the months to come, with the battle to privatise electricity raging in NSW? Buy lots of candles!

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  Three in a row
  by Rosalie Dale IPA

  Taken in a washroom at the old Scheyville Army Barracks on the outskirts of Sydney, in the Scheyville National Park. Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM

• The making of modern Australia. We hostel kids were part of that...
  by MrJoop

  The A.B.C., here, in Australia has a website, called: The Making of Modern Australia...

  The A.B.C., here, in Australia has a website, called: The Making of Modern Australia where quite a few of us, have been telling our stories. / One of mine was about what it was like to live in the migrant hostels when my parents and I arrived from the Netherlands, in the mid-fifties. / / . / / (My mother and I sitting outside our nissan hut, in Villawood Migrant Hostel.) / Migrant hostels (That I lived in) tended to be ex-army camps and were given the fancy name: Migrant Reception Centres. / . / They were extremely basic. / . / My parents and I moved through: / Bonegilla ( near Albury), / Scheyville (near Windsor), / Villawood (near Chester Hill) / and / Matraville (on Pozieres Ave.) / (Not the Bunnerong Rd Hostel. That was for British migrants). / . / Some years ago, I saw a play, produced by my children’s drama teacher, when they attended Macdonald College, Strathfield.) / The play was set in Scheyville Migrant Hostel. / It gave my Australian-born son and daughter an insight into a small part of my life. / / Since then, there was also a Reunion organised by the Parks and Wildlife Service, at the Scheyville Hostel site. / I saw many ex-residents there. A very successful event. Met no fellow Dutch immigrants there, that I might have known but wasn’t expecting that. / . / / Scheyville, in about June, 1956, was my first experience of being in 6th grade, in Australia (for a few weeks). / / (Stopping off, in Port Said, while travelling to Australia, on the J.v.O.) / . / There have been quite a few functions, e.g., at Bonegilla, and I know that there is a museum there. As, I’ve been informed, there is one, on the Scheyville site. / . / When I attended the reunion, at Scheyville, it was a beautiful, sunny day and there really were many groups of people, enjoying picnics. / But none of the groups were ex-Dutch immigrants. / . / Luckily one of these Dutch migrant “children” (We are now in our 60s.) has taken the initiative and some of us are getting together on the eighth of August, 2009. (8/8/09), at John van Klooster’s place. / / Hostel life was definitely not all as wonderful as the information services (in the Netherlands, ans also here) had wanted us to believe but….... / ....my parents developed an extensive network of friends in these hostels and they joined the Dutch clubs and for many, many years had a very busy social life, involving not only relatives invited from the Netherlands but the many friends, made in those bare, basic, hostels. / Naturally, we ‘kids’ were busy going to school, getting careers and ‘spreading out’. / It is actually due to the van Klooster family that my parents and our friends, the van Hoorns, decided not to return to the Netherlands, when the two years were up. / We camped on their block of land, in Leppington and for the first time were out of the hostel in Matraville and life outside was not so bad! / From the hostel we moved into an old house. / / (Entertaining myself, in the backyard of the old house that we moved into, after Matraville Hostel.) / / (Four schoolfriends, at my birthday party, in the old house. Hans & Jelle, were Dutch and we are still in contact. We still use Dutch when we meet.) / . / I am still in contact with the two boys from the hostel in Matraville, with whom I attended South Sydney Boys Junior High/Maroubra Bay High School. / Our parents were friends. / . / It was via the website schoolfriends.com.au which then became friendsreunited.com, that I have had contact with other ex-Dutch, ex-hostel residents, from my generation, who also lived there as children. / . / (I was 12 when we arrived in the hostels. I turned 65, last October.) / / (Entertaining the girl with whose family we migrated, when we lived in the hostel, in Matraville.) / Did you know us? The van Kloosters? The Jamas? The Muls? The van Hoorns? The Tillers? I could go on. / Please contact me via here / . / Jo / / (Entertaining my mother, on the migrant ship: J.v.O.) / . / / (Entertaining the residents of the Abel Tasman Retirement Village and St Nicholas.) / . / / (Hans and I still use Dutch, when we meet up. Just like in 1957, when we used to take the tram, from the hostel, in Pozieres Ave., Matraville, and then walk up Avoca Street, to our high school, in Randwick.) / . / / (We remain Tulips under the Gum Tree, as Eef ten Brummelaar proved, in this booklet.) / . / / (Not long ago, this fellow ex-Matraville Hostel resident and I shared memories of life in the hostel. For a young girl, then, not all as pleasant as it should have been.) / . / / (My migration experience, represented in this program booklet, celebrating the bond between Australia and the Netherlands.) / . / / (The Netherlands Society in Bankstown, enjoying a picnic, in about 1980.) / . / / (Early days, in Australia.) / . / / (First day. Off to high school, in Randwick, Jan. ‘57.) / . / / (What’s left of the hall, in Scheyville.) / . / / (Quoting my mother, crying, in May, 1956: ” Did I leave my neat, cosy apartment, for this? ” ) / . / / (But, after four hostels, the two families bought an old house, together, and had the best times, in their lives, for the next decade.) / . / / (We migrated, together on the Johan van Oldenbarnevelt -J.v.O.) / . / / (This way, I gained a kind-of sister.) / . / So, once again…........ / / . / / Let’s think about a reunion, for those of us who came, on the migrant ships and via, the migrant hostels, ........while we still remember those memories ….to share!!! / / . / COMMENT

• Making Modern Australia. My part in it......
  by MrJoop

  Suddenly there was a loud bang and the front doors burst open. Machinery flew through the building and my father and the young man climbe…

  My (small) part, in the making of modern Australia…............