THERE’S a small Woonona park that seems to have been forgotten in time. Less than four months after the declaration of the end of World War II, Thomas Pendlebury Rest Park was officially opened by the Bulli Shire Council president, Con Quilkey on December 1 1945. It could have easily had a different name, with…
By MICK ROBERTS © COUNTLESS children have clambered over the steam locomotive gracing Corrimal Memorial Park. Known affectionately as ‘The Green Frog’, the South Bulli No 4 was manufactured in 1909 by the Avonside Engine Company in London, England before beginning her working life at the South Bulli Colliery, Bellambi. During World War II the South…
THE Canary Island Palms (Phoenix canariensis), such a feature of the Park Road side of Bulli Park, have majestically lined its border for almost a century. Despite the harsh salt laden windy environment, and often, during their younger years, becoming a meal for horses and dairy cattle, most of the original plantings have surprisingly survived.…
