Caroline Simpson Collection

Steps in the garden of Ecclesbourne, Double Bay, Sydney / photographer unknown

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1 photoprint : b & w ; 8 x 11 cm.

Ecclesbourne (Double Bay, N.S.W.)
gardens
sparaxis
cape bulbs
steps

Ecclesbourne at 17 Ocean Avenue, Double Bay, Sydney, was built in the 1840s by a businessman named Thomas Whistler Smith (1824-1859) on land that was then part of the Glenrock Estate, Darling Point. The property was later owned by his brother Eustace Smith (1825-1872) who sold Ecclesbourne in 1857 to Sydney solicitor James Norton (1824-1906). Norton was an ardent horticulturist and vice-president of the Horticultural Society of New South Wales in the 1870s. According to his entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography he had a garden party at Ecclesbourne each spring when his South African bulbs flowered.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; copy of original photograph in private collection.

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