CONFUSION has grown as to the identity of the man in this photograph. This is Louis Scieroni, who after almost 20 years resigned his position as the Bulli Pass maintenance man and abandoned his little hut in the scrub above Green’s Pinch in 1897. History hasn’t been kind to Louie – as I’ll call him…
EVER wondered how Green Pinch on Bulli Pass got its name? It was named after William B. Green, who lived there from about 1886 to 1906. With his family, he called ‘The Pass’ home for about 20 years before retiring to Thirroul, where he died in 1926 at the age of 83. William Green was…
THE MAN IN THE STREET The Devil’s Elbow L. Marshall has no fears: — I read with much surprise the letter of “Narrow Escape” regarding’ the elbow on Bulli Pass. Being a constant user of the Pass Road and travelling over it every day, as I drive a transport motor, I am surprised to find…
Persons in the habit of travelling along the Bulli-road will be familiar with the spot shown in our illustration. The road winds round a hill, not far from the sea, and the scenery is of the loveliest. The soil is rich and the vegetation luxuriant. In describing the Bulli Pass and its approaches, Mr. Judge…
The lorry was descending the Bulli Pass, and when approaching a sharp bend on a steep grade the brakes failed to act, and the vehicle dashed through a fence, which saved it from a more serious fall. Seven men were riding on the lorry at the time, and two of them sustained broken bones.…
THERE was standing room only when a coroner’s hearing was held over several days in the old Bulli court house in 1927. The court heard how Louis Johnson, motor-car driver, ploughed into a stationary car near Bulli Pass killing young lovers, John Conroy and Veronica Hockley. The two 20 somethings were just getting out of the car…
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By MICK ROBERTS © OUT the front of the the Black Diamond Heritage Centre at Bulli Railway Station, there’s an odd looking water trough. A little too high for the average canine to sip from, the trough is a relic from Bulli’s past, when horses dominated the roadways. The water troughs were the pre-motor car service station…
A PETITION to the N.S.W. Government for the resumption of the land adjacent to the Bulli Pass is being extensively signed throughout the Commonwealth. It is desired to place the control of this world famous beauty spot in the hands of a trust, which, if done, should ensure protection against the numerous acts of vandalism which have lately despoiled the place of much…
IF you take a trip to Cataract Dam, there are three essentials to the complete enjoyment of the trip; one is a permit from the Water Board, the other an inch rule and a ready reckoner. Through the goodly management of Mr. W. Cochrane, O.B.E., and the fine response to his appeal, something like…
Here we have Doreen Gravolin and Imelda Parslow, two members of the Page from Thirroul. The girls are cousins and Imelda is on the left. She sent the picture in, and it is taken at Bulli Pass. -Freeman’s Journal (Sydney) Thursday 16 June 1932 * A Page for Little People, By Gumblossom, was a regular children’s column in the Freeman’s Journal. Can…
FOR five hours after a beer truck had crashed while coming down Bulli Pass, last night, sightseers sat on the side of the roadway drinking free beer. They came from as far afield as Fairy Meadow and Wollongong to join in the rush for ‘free slops’. More than six kegs of beer were damaged in…
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