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| The Quilting shop
Last week -Exploring Annandale
Thank you Kate for leading us around Annandale and providing so much information. There was much to see and enjoy, beginning with the Abbey followed by the Witches houses, the Beale Piano factory, the Hunter Baillie Memorial Church with it's soaring tower, Oybin a grand old house from around 1880. Johnson Street is one of the widest streets in Sydney which at the time of planning was intended to be the finest street in the colony, the Quiltsmith Shop lodged in a tree lined residential street, the delightful Toucan shop with all manner of handmade wares from Latin America. Many of the houses in Annandale are original as there has not been large scale redevelopment as seen in so many suburbs. There was so much more to see but time ran out unfortunately.
Coffee at "Me too Please"with Ben and Lisa with interesting wares from around the world in their delightful shop.
Wendy kindly presented a Pedometer to the group as a little farewell (for the moment) to measure accurately distances walked - Future stats are in the pipeline!! Thank you so much dear Wendy - Moira is currently studying its use…….and the mechanics of the device.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annandale,_New_South_Wales - This wiki site covers Annandale comprehensively providing the names of architects, aldermen, early pioneers of the suburb and facts about many of the buildings and houses. We didn't get to see many of them but I appreciated so much managed in the time available.
Walkers: Jane, Moira, Wendy, Kate, Donna, Pippa, Marie-Claire, Carolle
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