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Articles by A J Guesdon
Pittwater Online News
Hesketh George Henry Swiney was born February 15 1874 in Chennai District, Tamil Nadu, India, the second son and one of six children of Major-General John Swiney, I.S.C (born February 9 1832 at Kolkata District, West Bengal, India - died May 17 1918, interred in St. Peter's churchyard, Cheltenham Borough, Gloucestershire, England) who was the second son of General George Swiney, Colonel Commandant 19th Brigade RA and Maria Arabella Haigh, and a descendant of Major Matthew Swinney of Co....
Pittwater Online News
June 1 - 30, 2026: Issue 655 Yachtsmans Paradise Newport - A Public Wharf + Reserve: Some History + 2026 Site Investigation Photos by A J Guesdon On the verges of where Newport meets Mona Vale, Yachtsman Paradise Public Wharf and Yachtsmans Paradise Reserve was land and access to the estuary which, as with every other Pittwater Public Wharf, was set aside for the benefit of all people for all time.
Pittwater Online News
May 1 - 31, 2026: Issue 654 Pittwater 2026 for Mother's Day By Joe Mills, A J Guesdon, Kevin Murray and Michael Mannington OAM A few pictures taken so far in 2026 of Pittwater's beauty spots, along with a few favourites of others - for Mother's Day 2026 - a celebration of the beauty, place and nature - from Barrenjoey to Narrabeen, from oceanside to estuary, from headlands to creeks and lagoon, from north to south and east to west.
Pittwater Online News
James Verrall, Boatman and Boatshed Proprietor, and Walter Verrall, Carpenter and Boat Builder, both of North Harbour Manly and sons of James Verrall senior, acquired 5 acres 3 roods and 34 perches through Primary Application 27062 on March 2nd, 1926 – 100 years ago this month - on the Crescent and The Avenue at Newport with just over 2 acres of this fronting what had been known in earlier times as 'Old Mangrove Bay' and alongside where 'Boulton's Jetty/Wharf' had been in one lithograph.
Pittwater Online News
As Pittwater shifted from being a bush paradise for First Nations peoples to a rural farmland idyll supplying the Town of Sydney with food harvested from the cleared cow and grain fields to a place where people may raise their children in suburbs, the many creeks that threaded through the landscape were put into concrete pipes only to reappear during heavier rain periods when they cannot withstand the capacity of water flowing through and over the landscape.
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With Autumn school holidays commencing, this Issue a look into the villa at Mona Vale first called ‘The Oaks’ which was the original home of the Brock family, first ‘Mayor’ of Warringah Shire Council in 1906, and the shift to ‘weekenders’ in the years before this became affordable and fashionable, when William Scott Fell, shipping merchant and politician, of Mosman, bought the home for weekend respite.
Pittwater Online News
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book—a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day. - Mark Twain For several years the rumour that Mark Twain visited our area has persisted in tales of a fishing trip to Manly with J. F. Archibald.
Pittwater Online News
Although Trafalgar Park was given to the Newport community in the pre-Newport 'Township' era form the 1880's on, it is Newport Oval that has proved to be a gathering place for fun from the late 1950's on. It began as a call for a sportsground at Newport Beach, and began the way many of these projects in Pittwater commenced, with the residents of that place designing and paying for other sports facilities first - specifically, in this case, a swimming pool at the north end of Newport Beach.
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