Clifton Gardens/Zoo Circuit: Once again sunny, pleasant weather for one of Sydney's great walks which afforded many outstanding views across the harbour to the city skyline as well as to the Opera House and the Bridge. It is a comfortable walk too with excellent board walks, shady soft tread underfoot, Parking at Clifton Gardens amused us as the meter rejected coins but once we had that covered we were ably led by Marie-Claire who knows that walk and the area very well indeed. Clear water, Moreton BayFigs, natural unspoilt bush, Bacino Cafe, school kids on the beach all helped to make a perfect walk.
(Bradleys Head was named after Lieutenant William Bradley of the First Fleet who surveyed the harbour in 1788 with Captain John Hunter)
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"There is a fine view from Bradley's Head. There is also a memorial to the four naval vessels which have borne the name H.M.A.S.Sydney and the mast from the first of these. This mast belonged to the light cruiser which, on 9th November 1914, engaged the German cruiser Emden near Cocos Island in the first naval engagement of the Great War (WWI) involving an Australian ship. Nearby is a stone column from the old Sydney Post Office which was used to measure a distance of precisely one nautical mile from the tower of Fort Denison."
Walkers: Marie-Claire, Moira, Pippa, Donna, Carolle
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| 30 Rooms in The Manor
quote - "The Manor is a mansion in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. Built circa 1911, loosely in the Federation Queen Anne style, it stands in the harbour-front street of Iluka Road, in the Mosman locality of Clifton Gardens. It is listed on the heritage register of New South Wales.[1]
[edit]History and description
The Manor's original owner, a Mr Bakewell, initially planned a cottage of eight rooms, but the project kept growing until it was a mansion with over thirty rooms, most of which were lined with beaten copper. It became known locally as Bakewell's Folly.[2] In 1922, the Theosophical Society rented The Manor for a community of some fifty people, headed by Charles Leadbeater, a claimed clairvoyant, and a major figure in the Society. The Manor became an important centre for the Society and was regarded as a great "occult forcing-house".[3]
The English writer Mary Lutyens stayed at The Manor in the 1920s and described it as "a huge and hideous villa".[4] The young Indian Jiddu Krishnamurti, who was presented as the new "World Teacher", stayed in nearby David Street with his brother Nitya while Lutyens—his eventual biographer—stayed at The Manor.[5]
The Theosophical Society bought the house in 1925, holding it under a trust deed. In 1926 they started the radio station 2GB; the initials stood for Giordano Bruno, a saint. The station operated from The Manor for a few years.[6] In 1951, they set up The Manor Foundation Ltd to own and run the house. The Society still uses The Manor as of 2013."
(Well what a surprise it was to learn from the above quote from the Internet that 2GB, a Sydney radio station that the initials GB stand for Giordano Bruno a saint who was burnt at the stake. At a meeting recently a couple of the walkers in this Walking Group and I listened to an interesting talk about this very man. Most people have never heard of him. None of us at that meeting certainly had no knowledge of him. Why I wonder is 2GB named for him?)
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