Allen Family photographic albums

Volume no 25

commencing 4th November 1900
ending 7th April 1901

5x4 photograph negative numbers 7 to 82
quarterplate 4139 to 4199
panoramic camera 1 to 20

"Harll"
Sunday morning
November 4th 1900

7. Ethel just off to church

Saturday afternoon 10th November

4139
"Margaret" ready to go to a party

4140

Saturday afternoon

1st December /00

8. Boyce, Primrose, Marian, Denis.

Boyce and I took the children to see the ostriches at Mr Baracloughs South Head this afternoon.
The ostriches were very easily excited & very hard to photograph.
The children had tea at Diamond Bay afterwards.

9.

"Harll"
Sunday morning
2nd December

4141 Joyce & Margaret
4142
Two chance pictures in the garden after breakfast

Sunday
9th December 1900
At Mr Clibborn's "Holmesby" Elizabeth Bay

10 T.S.Clibborn, Miss Cox

11 T.S.Clibborn

Saturday morning
15th December

12. Boyce Dundas Primrose Marian Joyce Dorothy.
The view from South Head near the lighthouse.

13. Boyce Ethel Margaret Dundas  Primrose Joyce  Dorothy. "The Royal Arthur"

14 Herbert & his cart, the pony cart, Patterson & the Wallaroy carriage, Flanagan & his brougham.

Lord Hopetoun arrived today to take up the Governor generalship of Australia.
We drove out early to South Head to see the Royal Arthur arrive.

Saturday (15th December)

The "Royal Arthur" coming up the harbour past Watsons Bay

15th December (cont)

15. The procession in George Street between King Street and Martin place.
Taken from the office windows

"Martin Place"

4143 The Mounted Police

4144 The Band

Martin Place

Saturday

4145

4146

4147

Lord Hopetoun's carriage

15th December (cont)

16 The crowd in George Street after the procession has passsed.

17

Saturday

At the landing stage in the Domain.

4148

4149

4150

15 December 1900

left (Thomle)

4151

bottom right (Thomle)

Sunday afternoon

16th Dec 1900

I drove all the children and Elvie into the Domain this afternoon to see the steamers

18 Elvie, Margaret, Joyce, Denis

19 The "Royal Arthur"

Sunday 16th Dec (cont)

20. 21.

Snapshots near the landing stage

"Harll"

Sunday afternoon
16 Dec 1900

4152

4153

4154

"Ellice Margaret Allen"
age 4 years and 3 months

Saturday 15th December 1900
(These photos were taken by a Mr King)

(top left) Lord Hopetoun arriving a the Landing stage Farm Cove

(bottom left) Mr See, Lord Hopetoun, Sir William Lyne

(right) The pavilion at the Landing stage

Saturday 15th December (cont)

(left) The Procession in Bridge Street

(top right) Harry Darley. Sir Frederick Darley, Oswald Watt.
Watching the arrival in Farm Cove from Government House.

(bottom right) Sir Frederick meeting Lord Hopetoun at Government House

Christmas Day 1900

22 Denis, Joyce, Margaret

8:30am the children on the verandah surrounded by their presents

23

Christmas Day (cont)

24 Margaret and Janet on the swing at Harll;

25 Margaret with "Sammy" the cat & "Nipper" the puppy.
Denis was not interested to be in the picture.

26

Christmas

The children at "Harll" after tea 6pm

27 Primrose Marian Joyce WynLaidley Margaret

28 WynLaidley Marian Joyce Primrose

(Christmas) Day 1900 (cont)

29 Pearl and Walter brought "Geoffrey" to have tea with the children.
This was taken as they were leaving. 6.20pm

30. Denis keeping guard over "Samson"

Boxing Day 26th December 1900

Amongst the Imperial Troops at the Agricultural ground.

4155 Margaret, Ethel, Joyce, Denis, Florence

4156

4157 Margaret Ethel

In the Indian Camp

4158

4159 George Merivale, Joyce, Ethel, Florence

4160

Thursday 27th Dec

Kitty & Katha arrive today from Melbourne and staying with us at Harll for three weeks.
These two photos were taken late in the afternoon Boyce and Walter having just arrived to see them.

31. Kitty. Katha. Boyce on Postboy.

32. Walter Ethel

33. Saturday 12 Jan /01. The war balloon at the Military sports on the Agricultural ground.

Saturday Jan 12th 1901 (cont)

34 I went with Boyce and some of his children Ethel Kitty Katha & our family preferred the Pantomime

Sunday morning 20th Jan 1901

35 off Glenyarrah in the Kelly's boat
Joyce & Denis first experience

36 Oswald Watt's yacht off Glenyarrah

Sunday 20th Jan (cont)

37 Joyce

The children had a bathe at Glenyarrah much to their delight

38 Margaret Joyce Denis

(top right)
A little picture of Margaret on the swing at Harll taken by Boyce

39 Margaret Joyce

We went to Mt Waldemar (Sutton Forest) on Tuesday 22nd January

40 27th Jan. Ethel and her affectionate daughter Margaret

41 Walter Pearl
27th Jan Just off to church.

4161 Walter Pearl Dorothy Ethel Lady Innes Florence
2nd February Picnic at the Bridge near the Cross Roads.
Florence and Dorothy were staying with us

4162 Walter & I & Dorothy & May rode, the others driving

Sunday 3rd February "Mt Waldemar"

4163/4164/4165

Margaret playing with "Nipper"

4166 Margaret & Geoffrey

4167

Geoffrey is never so happy as he is when playing with the horse & waggon

Sunday 3rd February (cont'd)

4168 Florence Denis Joyce Walter
"The water boiling. Denis, with the tea"

Picnic for the children in honour of my birthday (4th Feb) which we kept up today

4169 Teatime

4170 This shows the birthday cake

4171 The horses were not neglected

4172 Margaret Geoffrey Pearl.
Tea over.

Saturday 2nd February

A view of the scene at the Queen's statue during the Memorial Service

(enlargement of a 5x4) purchased by me from Baker & Rouse

Saturday 9 February
On the "Mt Waldemar" verandah

42

43

early morning 7.30 am

Little Margaret as she came into us early this morning in her dressing gown

Picnic at Belmore Falls
about 18 1/2 miles from Sutton Forest Saturday 9th

4173/4174 Driving under a very large fallen tree near the Falls

4175 Ethel. Florence & Margaret

4176 Joyce Denis Florence Netta Ethel

Lunch at the Falls

February (cont'd)

4177/4178

The children after lunch taking the horses for a drink

4179 later on they had a paddle themselves

4180 Margaret Joyce Denis

"A blackberry hunt" Saturday 9th

4181/4182 Margaret helping

We drove after lunch about 3 miles towards Robertson to pick blackberries

4183 Ethel hard at work

4184 Joyce Margaret

4185

The children also as well as Netta & Florence

February (cont')

In the bush between "Belmore Falls" and "Robertson"

4186/4187

A very successful afternoon tea after picking half a billy full of blackberries
5pm

Sunday 10th

44 Margaret

45 Denis

Climbing up the fruit trees (continued on next page) for peaches just ripening

February 1901

46 Joyce & Margaret

47 the three children more anxious for peaches than to be photographed

(continued from previous page) Climbing up the fruit trees for peaches just ripening

Sunday 19th February (cont'd)

48 Margaret on "Shaggy"
Denis in "Punch"
Joyce on "Hero"

49 Ethel on "Postboy"

Ethel & I took Joyce and Denis for their first long ride this afternoon. We went about 7 miles and they both loved it.

Saturday morning 16 February
a few pictures of the children playing
on the balcony between 7 to 8 am.

50 Margaret and Janet
devoted to each other

51 At the nursery window

4188 Taken for Bruce's sake outside Isa's window
Janet, Margaret, Joyce and Primrose also in
attendance

Saturday 16 Feb cont'
An afternoon with the children at Berrima

52 Joyce, Primrose Margaret Denis, Janet

53 Isa Ethel

At the river before tea

54 Isa
The hotel with its new balcony
The children making friends with a dog
The Gaol

part of 55. a very happy couple

56 Ethel Isa Janet Margaret Denis Primrose Joyce
Tea on the hotel balcony

Sunday 17th February
Various pictures of Margaret & Janet

4189 "only this one please"

4190 "Janet 'Do let us go into the orchard" said Margaret

4191 obvious result of telling the children to look happy

4192 Lie down "Nipper"

4193 Primrose telling a story.
Janet doubtful whether to join the party or not.

Sunday 24th February

57 Janet & Margaret
at the pump near the kitchen

58 Primrose Joyce Denis.
The dead snake is on the rail of the fence

59 The first snake I remember at Mt Waldemar

Friday 8th March.
Ethel & I, Miss Kelly and her brother & May Innes went today to Kangaroo Valley. We stopped the night at the Pioneeer Hotel and arrived home again on Saturday evening at 8.30 pm
We spent Saturday morning going to the Cambewarra Mountain

60 May Innes in the waggonette Ethel & Margaret, Janet & Nipper, Bertie Kelly on Postboy, Miss Kelly on Bar Two. Edwards with the sulky & luncheon

61 The start from Mt Waldemar 10.50am

62 Lunch at Fitzroy Falls 1.30pm

Friday 8th March (Cont')

1 Bertie Kelly Miss Kelly part of 1

2 At the Fitzroy Falls
16 miles from Sutton Forest

These pictures were taken by me with a new Kodak (panoramic) camera which I used today for the first time.

3 May Innes and Miss Kelly

Friday 8th (March)

On the top of the Fitzroy Falls
Washing up after lunch

63 (part of) Miss Kelly & her brother

63 (part of) May & Ethel

64 Ethel May T.H.Kelly

Friday 8th March (cont'd)

65/66
Two views of the Falls from the the same point, the first taken with a 11 1/2 inch focus lens and the second with a 5 inch focus one

Friday 8th March

67 T.H.Kelly  May  Ethel  Miss Kelly

68

4.30 pm. The trough on the road down the mountain under the willow tree where we gave our horses a drink

Friday 8th March (cont')

4194/4195
5.40 am Afternoon tea shortly before we arrived at the foot of the mountain

4196/4197
6.30pm The Bridge over the Kangaroo River, just before entering into the Village

Saturday 9th March

4.
Various places where we rested on the Cambewarra Mountain

69

70 T.H.Kelly on "Molly" May on "Nap" Ethel on Postboy

71 Miss Kelly on "Bar Two"

9th March

5. / 72.

These show the nature of the scenery

73. / 74.

Saturday

6 On top of the Mountain. The road on the left leads to Berry, other one on the right to Kangaroo Valley

7 On the Berry Road where we rested

75 View of "Berry" and "Jervis Bay"

76 Cambewarra village and the Shoalhaven River

9th March (cont')

4198 Tea at Fitzroy Falls on the way home 6.35 pm

4199 T.H.Kelly, May, Miss Kelly, Ethel.

8 / 9
Sunday 10th March.
Mt Waldemar taken with my panoramic camera

Sunday 17th March

10 The view from the Mt Waldemar verandah

11 Miss Kelly  Boyce

Saturday 30th March (The day Mother & Ida arrived from England)

4199A Joyce, Denis, Margaret, Marian, Primrose, Dundas.
The children waiting for the carriage in the Harll garden.

4199B Ethel. Mother talking to Pearl.

4199C Arrival of the carriage (Patterson from Wallaroy)
Mother just getting out.

(Botton right) Mother & Ida surrounded by the children.

(All these pictures taken by Boyce)

Harle Saturday 30th March (cont')

77 Another loving group.

78 Round the steps at Harle.

79 Mother spent portion of the afternoon unpacking 3 cases with presents for her grandchildren. I photographed her about 4 o'clock surrounded by the cases.

Sunday 31st March.
Mother gave the children their presents this morning and very delighted they were.

80 Margaret with her lamb. Denis with his farmyard.

81 The presents separately
Margaret's lamb fold  Joyce's perfumery shop  Denis' farmyard.
Margaret's lamb

82 Joyce Margaret Denis

12.

Saturday 6th April
Various pictures taken with my panoramic camera at the Agricultural show

13.

14 Joyce & Denis

15.

16 Some of the side shows

These pictures show what the camera can do

17 Amongst the machinery exhibits

18.

Sunday afternoon 7th April

19 The view from Mother's balcony at Banksia.

20. The new Causeway at Banksia (partly built only)