COLWYN, 50 VICTORIA AVENUE CLAREMONT

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2003

Overview

Coloured prints of the garden. (a) Several spindly frangipanis in a terracotta-edged garden featuring groundcovers, rocks, miscellaneous rubbish and a bird sculpture. A brick wall and a large shrub form the background. (b) A heavily shaded area with lawn, groundcovers, brick edging, a concrete swan flower pot and rubbish bins. A brick wall and dilapidated weatherboard building with white doors is in the background.

Historical information

Home built by Arthur Bunning in 1909. Large two-storey house with steeply pitched terracotta shingle roof extending over verandah. It was named Colwyn after a bay in Wales on the Irish Sea. The property appears to be Lots 1 & 2 of portion of Swan location P253 which was originally a pensioner guard block. Mrs Evelyn Bunning disliked the strong winds off Freshwater Bay and Colwyn was sold to J.B.L. Weir in 1921, B.W. Nairn in 1947, The Waddy Waddy Pastoral Company Ltd in 1949 and then to J.H.C. & E.V. Macaulay in 1953. It was then sold in 2006 and underwent extensive conservation. During this time, the block was subdivided, and the lower, riverside portion was sold. The upper block, Colwyn, was sold again in 2011.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-28--11-376-a,b

Item type

Photographs

Year

2003

Last modified

Tuesday, 23 September, 2025

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