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“Woodstock”, 172 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, NSW, now solicitors’ offices Hemmed in and surrounded by tall office blocks on the Pacific Highway in North Sydney, stands a simple two-storey Victorian Georgian sandstone house. It was built in 1870 for John Brown, a wealthy timber getter and merchant
John Brown was born in about 1826 and in 1851 married Mary Ann Waterhouse, daughter of Thomas Waterhouse. John was an uneducated and self-made man and settled at Gordon (then called Lane Cove) on Sydney's North Shore. The couple lived in a house on the site of what is now Ravenswood School for Girls.
In 1854 he acquired 404 acres (163.5 ha) of land in an area between Pearce’s Corner, Hornsby, and Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga, and east of the Lane Cover River which was known as “Brown’s Paddock”. Ada, Lucinda and Roland Avenues, Wahroonga, are named after three of John and Mary Ann’s children.
John ran a timber getting business, clearing the land and selling the timber on it. The timber was dragged by bullock teams to Fidden’s Wharf on the Lane Cove River for transportation to Sydney. His business was so successful it covered the cost of the land purchase. He then developed his land into orchards and was known as the Squire of Gordon. Apparently, at one stage he employed some 100 pairs of pit sawyers to cut the massive trees needed for the timberwork on Glebe Island and Pyrmont bridges.
In 1870 John and Mary Ann Brown moved and built this fine house they called “Woodstock” at North Sydney, then known as St Leonards, much closer to Sydney Harbour. They lived at Woodstock with their 11 children. In July 1879, their eldest son, John Thomas Brown, had his wedding solemnised at Woodstock when he married Louise Dalton, daughter of F. Dalton, gold commissioner for the Lachlan District. In the same month their eldest daughter, Sophia Florence Brown, also had her wedding at Woodstock when she married J.G. Laing of Balmain. Sadly, Mary Ann Brown did not live long to enjoy her North Sydney house as she passed away there on 24 February 1881.
After Mary Ann died, John continued to have interests both in North Sydney and Gordon and died at a property called “The Grove”, Gordon, on 5 April 1884 aged 58. Two days after his death, on 7 April, his funeral left his Woodstock house at 1 pm for Lane Cove Cemetery (now known as St John’s Anglican Churchyard at Gordon) where John was buried with Mary Ann. Their headstone is the most impressive in the cemetery and the church has a memorial window to the couple as well.
Little is known about the history of Woodstock after the Brown family left. However, by 1898 it was being used by the Sisters of the Order of Mercy from the nearby Monte Sant Angelo Convent, as the temporary location for the St Anthony’s Foundling Hospital. It was operated by the Sisters after the hospital moved from Strawberry Hills in inner Sydney. At Woodstock, 20 babies were in their care.
Over the next 90 years Woodstock managed to survive when all around it was demolished. It was restored in 1982 as a business premises. Today (2022) it accommodates the offices of Shore Lawyers.
References
‘The Foundling Hospital’. (1898, April 23) in “The Catholic Press”, p. 20. Retrieved July 26, 2022, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104494678
Lyons, Jill “Pioneers at Peace : the story of St John’s Cemetery Gordon, Spurwood Press, Turramurra, NSW, 1994. gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1501111h.html
Simpson, Margaret unpublished manuscript “Old Sydney Buildings”, 1995.
“Flowton”, 434 Bobbin Head Road, North Turramurra, NSW, part of Lady Davidson Private Hospital Within the grounds of the Lady Davidson Private Hospital at North Turramurra, on Sydney’s Upper North Shore, stands a Federation cottage called “Flowton”. It was built in 1895 as the family home of public servant and patron of exploration, Frederick Eccleston Du Faur (1832-1915), known as Eccleston.
Eccelston was born in London, his ancestors having migrated from Gascony in France to England in 1765. He arrived in Sydney in July, 1863, and soon joined the Surveyor-General’s Office as a draughtsman. In 1866 he transferred to the Crown Lands Office and for ten years laboured on a map of the runs available for selectors. It was unfortunately destroyed in the massive Garden Palace fire in the Botanic Gardens in 1882 which is said to have been one of the reasons why Eccleston ultimately left the public service. He went on to run a pastoral company, Du Faur and Gerard, which invested in land on the Upper North Shore in an area Eccleston had officially called by its Aboriginal name, Turramurra, meaning ‘lofty place’.
In 1873 Eccleston had been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, was chairman of its Geographical Section, and helped to finance the last expedition to ascertain the fate of the explorer, Leichhardt, who had disappeared in 1848. In 1883 he became the first chairman of the Geographical Society of Australia and suggested exploration of Antarctica decades before Scott, Shackleton and others joined the polar race. Eccleston considered that the Australian climate was affected by weather conditions in Antarctica and was on the committee which raised funds in support of Mawson’s expedition.
Eccleston decided to move his family from the inner west to the North Shore and in 1888 commissioned his friend, the unconventional American architect, John Horbury Hunt, to design him a large two-storey home for his family at Warrawee, south of Hornsby, then surrounded by bush and orchards. Named Pibrac after Eccleston’s French grandfather, the Count Du Faur of Pibrac, it illustrated Horbury Hunt’s enthusiasm for the Arts and Crafts style and timber shingle walls.
The declaration of Yellowstone National Park in the USA in 1872 and his walks in rugged country around Sydney and Mount Wilson had inspired Eccleston to advocate for the preservation of Ku-ring-gai Chase, north of Sydney, in 1891. After being informed by the Minister for Lands that no further land was available for national parks, Eccleston invited the Governor, the Earl of Jersey, to a picnic in the bush there. The Governor was said to have been so impressed by the natural beauty of the area, it was declared a national park and gazetted on the 20th June, 1894. Eccleston subsequently purchased land adjoining the new national park at North Turramurra and, in 1895 sold Pibrac, which he said was too expensive to maintain. He again engaged Horbury Hunt to this time design a single-storey Federation cottage on his land which he called Flowton, after the graceful English Du Faur family mansion, Flowton Hall, near Ipswich, in Suffolk.
Flowton was located in a very remote location, six and a half kilometres from Turramurra Station. Eccleston’s wife, Blanche, never got used to its isolation. Just getting to the city involved driving the horse and buggy to the station, leaving them at the livery stables, catching a train to Milsons Point then a ferry across the harbour.
Eccleston became the first Managing Trustee and President of Kur-ring-gai Chase and worked tirelessly to safeguard it from development. Over the years it was threatened with kaolin mining, country club building and, in 1899, was even put forward as one of the sites for the new capital of the Commonwealth of Australia. Called Pacivica, the plans included a copy of Windsor Castle and the Tower of London together with lakes, gardens and bridges!
Along with Francis Kirkpatrick, a business associate, Eccleston supervised and even actually built part of the original road through to Ku-ring-gai Chase to Bobbin Head. Eccleston’s three children, Guy, John (Bertie) and Freda were enlisted to watch over the native flora in the Chase around Christmas time to protect the valuable waratahs from city flower sellers illegally stealing them. Freda Du Faur honed her rock-climbing skills on the cliffs around Flowton and went on to become a well-known New Zealand mountaineer, being the first woman to climb Mt Cook.
It was Eccleston’s son, Guy, who developed the gardens and horticulture at Flowton. He corresponded with Joseph Maiden, the Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens, who gave him advice on plants and interesting ones to grow in the Flowton gardens. Guy was assisted by a caretaker, Clarence Buisst, whose wife, Gertrude, was employed as Flowton’s housekeeper. At this time it was still lit with candles and kerosene lamps and did not have mains water until 1914. The gardens provided produce, the milkman called twice daily, baker three times and week and a butcher arrived in his cutting cart with a bevy of flies in summer.
Blanche Du Faur died at Flowton in 1907 followed by Eccleston in 1915 at the age of 82. They were buried together in the churchyard of St John’s at Gordon. Over a few years the contents of Flowton were gradually auctioned including the Jacobean furniture, some of it having been in the Du Faur family for generations, the painting collection including those by Conrad Martens, Medici prints, together with the farm machinery, a four-in-hand coach, buggy and horses.
In 1918, 53 acres of the Flowton property, including the house, was acquired by the Commonwealth Department of Defence and a home operated by the Red Cross was built with 75 beds for returned servicemen suffering from the effects of being gassed or having tuberculosis. Its mountain-like fresh air was seen as an asset. The facility was officially opened on the 7th July, 1920, and named the Lady Davison Home after Lady Margaret Davidson, wife of the New South Wales Governor, Sir Walter Davidson. She had been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918 for her work with the Red Cross and the Scouts and Girl Guides in New South Wales.
Eventually accommodating about 100 ex-soldiers, the patients were expected to work in the orchards and gardens. One of the soldiers, Private William Shirley, decided instead to build a memorial and spent one and a half years carving a sphinx out of solid rock, close to the hospital at the entrance to Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.
In 1923 the Repatriation Commission took control of the home. During the 1940s more wards were built and patients with other conditions were admitted for convalescence as well. It remained a sanatorium until the 1950s when the incidence of TB in the community reduced. (The last tuberculosis ward closed in the late 1970s). In 1961 the home became an auxiliary to the Repatriation General Hospital at Concord and renamed the Lady Davison Hospital with Flowton being used as its Administrative Centre. Allied health professionals such as physiotherapists, speech and occupational therapists were also employed. One of the main functions of the hospital at this time was the rehabilitation of amputees with prosthetics as well as children affected by their mothers having being prescribed the morning sickness drug, Thalidomide.
The hospital was privatised in 1997, was renamed the Lady Davidson Private Hospital, and was handed over to Australian Hospital Care for the rehabilitation of both veterans and private patients. It has gone through several providers but from 2005 has been operated by Healthscope. Over the years modern spacious wards have replaced the old ones, it currently accommodates 115 patients has five gymnasiums and a large hydrotherapy pool.
In later years Flowton was used a small museum devoted to the Du Faur family and history of the hospital. Sadly, this is now closed and in 2022 the house is abandoned because it is apparently now unsafe. This is a sad fate for a house with such history related not only to the famous Du Faur family, who did so much to ensure the preservation Ku-ring-gai Chase, the history of North Turramurra as well as the work of the hospital throughout much of the twentieth century.
Main References
Irwin, Sally “Between Heaven and Earth: the life of a mountaineer Fred Du Faur 1882-1935”, White Crane Press, Hawthorn, Victoria, 2000.
Lawrence, Joan “North Shore Walks”, 1991
“Huon Park”, 402 Bobbin Head Road, North Turramurra, NSW, part of North Turramurra Residential Care Hidden behind the distinctive round shaped sandstone Nazareth Chapel on Bobbin Head Road, in the Sydney suburb of North Turramurra, stands a large and impressive Federation home known as “Huon Park”. It was completed in about 1897, built for the gentleman farmer and politician, George Bertrand Edwards (1855-1911), and today is part of a residential aged care centre operated by Southern Cross Care.
George Edwards was born in Tasmania and worked as a journalist with the Hobart "Mercury" newspaper. He later became the manager of the Peacock Jam Factory in Hobart which manufactured jam from fruit shipped from Tasmania’s Huon Valley. The jam factory had been established by George Peacock, and Edwards married the founder’s daughter, Mary Ann (known as May) Peacock, after which they moved to Sydney for Edwards to manage the Redfern factory.
Initially, George and May lived in the inner-west suburb of Strathfield but in 1895 George acquired 50 acres of land at North Turramurra. The property included the present Turramurra Golf Course and the area was bounded by what are today, Stonecrop Road, Curagul Road and Bobbin Head Road. George and May moved to the then remote location on Sydney’s Upper North Shore and initially constructed a small timber cottage, since demolished, on what is now the Turramurra Golf Course. Across Bobbin Head Road, a grand two-storey Federation home was erected between 1896 and 1897 to replace it. It was said to have been constructed by Italian labour, and apparently featured a number of fittings of Italian origin. The mansion was called “Huon Park”, after Edward’s early association with Tasmanian fruit production in the Huon Valley.
Constructed of tuck-pointed red brick, the house features a faceted bay-window topped by a flat pyramidal roof and flying gables with a timber screen. Most prominent of all is the wide timber verandah skirting almost two sides of the house. The timber posts, balustrades and brackets are quite thick and the ground floor valences leap to the verandah posts in a series of graceful curves of varying radius. The whole effect is lightened by the addition, in the valences, of lattice work made of light wooden laths which created a cool filigree screen against the sun. The start of the architectural style, later known as Federation, in about 1890, marked the decline in the use of cast-iron for structural and ornamental components of verandahs common in the earlier Victorian period and a growth in the use of timber instead. Huon Park illustrates this change particularly well. The use of steam, and later electricity, to operate tools such as bandsaws, jigsaws and lathes, made it possible for wood to be turned and sawn in a variety of shapes and sizes, easily, relatively cheaply and in large quantities.
George Edwards believed his property would be good for growing fruit so peaches, plums and apricots were planted on the present golf course and near the house. The fruit did not do as well as he had hoped, though pears eventually did best. As well as a vegetable garden, the property had cows, pigs, fowls, ducks and geese. While being a “gentleman farmer”, Edwards maintained his interests in Sydney.
In 1901 he was elected as a member of the first Federal Parliament in the House of Representatives in the electorate of South Sydney as a Freetrader. He retired from Parliament in 1906 owing to ill health and to look after his business interests but in 1910 he was elected as the member for North Sydney for the Liberal Party. Edwards campaigned for the introduction of a decimal system of coinage and measurement for Australia, and was successful in having a favourable resolution on this matter passed in both houses. He was Chairman of the Select Committee on Coinage but the introduction of decimal currency in Australia which did not come about until 1966.
The Edwards family lived in quite an isolated location and in order to have important letters signed, an office boy would have to go to extraordinary lengths by today’s standards to reach Huon Park from the City. This involved a journey by ferry across the Harbour to the North Shore, train to Turramurra Station, then a long walk out to the house of seven kilometres, have the letters signed, and return the same way in the afternoon.
Water for Huon Park was collected in a number of wells, the largest of which held about 2,000 gallons. They were filled with water collected on the roof of the house and a windmill, the first in Turramurra, pumped it back into a holding tank on the roof for the household. A dam was also built for watering stock and emergency water storage. Another “modern convenience” was the use of gaslight for illuminating the house. An acetylene gas plant provided the gas which was piped throughout the house. In 1911 the gasometer’s valve was playing up so Edwards had asked John Graham, a Scottish tiler working on the house’s roof, to assist him lift off the gasometer’s heavy top. Tragically, the gas plant exploded, both men were killed and the explosion is said to have been audible all the way to Chatswood (9 km away).
Understandably, after her husband’s sudden and tragic death, May Edwards no longer wished to live at Huon Park and in 1912 the property was advertised for auction. The notice in "The Daily Telegraph" described it as a large family residence on about 7 acres of land in an elevated position on the North Shore line not only with “suburban conveniences” but “mountain advantages”. On the ground floor it featured a spacious reception hall, drawing and sitting rooms, spare room, kitchen, panty, laundry, maid’s room, wood and coal recesses and a back verandah. The first floor comprised a balconette, six bedrooms, dressing room, bathroom, servant’s room and a linen press. The outbuildings included a coach-house, motor garage, tennis court and summer house.
Despite the auction notice, one of May Edward’s daughters, Dorothea, later went to live at Huon Park with her husband, a Royal navy officer, Captain Maurice Baldwin Raymond Blackwood, and their young family. Maurice Blackwood DSO RN was the first Commanding Officer of Sydney’s Volunteer Coastal Patrol, comprising motor yacht owners, established in 1937. Captain Blackwood died in 1941 and in 1951 Dorothea had the estate subdivided into eight allotments and continued living on the allotment with the house until 1960 when it was purchased as joint tenants by a Mary Janbury, Margaret O’Dougherty, Julia Rigney, Agnes Mary Stobba and Mary Slee and transferred to their parent organisation, the Trustees of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth in 1963. The name of the house was subsequently changed to Nazareth House and an architect, Thomas Edmund O’Mahony, was commissioned to build aged care accommodation, a service wing and chapel. He also converted the old house into a convent for the sisters, with administration offices occupying the ground floor. In 2002 Southern Cross Care (NSW & ACT), originally Knights of the Southern Cross, purchased the property from the sisters and the complex was renamed the Southern Cross Aged Care Residential Apartments, North Turramurra. In 2019 it underwent redevelopment to construct 113 new aged care suites while the round chapel at the front and the historic Huon Park house behind it were restored to their former glory.
References
"The Daily Telegraph", 25 September 1912, p.4.
GML Heritage, "Southern Cross Care North Turramurra Report on Historical Archaeological Excavations Report prepared for Southern Cross Care", 2020.
Wyatt, Margaret, "North Turramurra: the story of a Community", North Turramrra, NSW, 1981.
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“Hillview”, 1334 Pacific Highway, Turramurra, NSW Two Federation buildings, close to Turramurra Railway Station, are part of a property called “Hillview”, on Sydney’s Upper North Shore. A single-storey house fronts the Pacific Highway and until recently was used by community health workers. Behind it, with spectacular views overlooking Sydney, is a large and very impressive two-storey building, which continues to be used by the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Health Service. Both buildings and their surroundings have an interesting history important to the local area.
The railway between Hornsby and St Leonards was opened on 1 January 1890 and Eastern Road Station (later renamed Turramurra) was built across Gordon Road (now the Pacific Highway). An extension of the line from St Leonards to Milsons Point saw trains operate from 1893 down to Sydney Harbour. The advent of the railway opened up large areas of the North Shore, with the Port Jackson & Investment Co. subdividing and selling land for suburban blocks.
In 1893 Ivan Auprince, a Sydney hairdresser, bought his first land at Turramurra. Ivan had established his salon in Sydney’s Imperial Arcade and was apparently Australia’s first wig maker. He was also noted as a merchant and dermatologist. In the early 1890s a single-storey, twin-gabled Federation house called “Hillview”, facing Gordon Road, had been built and this is where Ivan lived with his family. Tragically, Ivan’s wife, Ellen, who was only 31, passed away at “Hillview” on 5 March 1897. In 1902 “Hillview” was leased as a “first class boarding establishment” by Miss Jean Murray, in a healthy elevated position, with a tennis court and croquet lawn. “Hillview” was advertised as an “ideal home for those in delicate health” with “hot, cold baths and needle baths”. In 1907 Ivan finally sold his “Hillview” property to the businessman, Edmund Sheffield Willoughby Paul (1874-1951).
E.S.W. Paul had been born in Sydney but educated overseas qualifying as a solicitor in 1900. His father, Edmund Monson Paul (1824-1914) was a British-Australian businessman and diplomat who served as an honorary Consul for Russia in Sydney. Schweppes soft drinks were amongst the products imported and the Paul family were prominent in establishing the manufacture of Schweppes beverages in Australia. E.M. Paul became Manager in Australia of Schweppes Ltd, while his son, E.S.W. Paul, was Managing Director in Australia and Member of the London Board of Directors from 1919.
Miss Murray continued to run the single-storey boarding house for Paul and it was renowned as serving the “best table” on the North Shore. Chinese gardeners were employed to tend the vegetable garden and poultry and a cow were kept, while apples, pears, quinces and China apples were grown in the orchard.
In about 1913 Paul had a two-storey Federation Queen Anne style mansion built behind the single-storey one which continued to be used as a boarding house. Marseilles pattern terracotta roof tiles covered its varied roof shape, topped with terracotta ridge ornaments. Tall chimneys with terracotta chimney pots, flat-topped dormer windows and a railed timber viewing stage were also featured on the roof. A wide verandah, with painted timber posts, balustrades and matching decorative valences skirted several sides of the house. The house turned its back on Gordon Road, instead facing towards the panoramic views across Sydney to the Cronulla sandhills and Botany. It was never designed as a family home but as a guest house, though Paul hosted many dinner parties there.
A pair of Trachyte columns flank the entrance which leads into the vestibule decorated with green columns of imported marble. A fireplace surround and overmantel were said to have been a replica of a mantlepiece in Balmoral Castle, the Queen’s Highland residence in Scotland. At the back of the house a coke-fired boiler heated water which was stored in a copper tank in the roof and provided a constant supply of gravity-fed hot water to the house. A laundry, since demolished, catered for residents’ washing needs, with a designated “drying ground” beside it.
The gardens were meticulously maintained, the manicured lawns contrasted with the red gravel driveways and white-painted gateways and pergolas. Sandstone steps descended to a lawn tennis court through terraced rockeries and the gardener kept the steeply sloped lawns trimmed with a scythe. The grounds were once a renowned showpiece throughout the North Shore and much admired by passengers passing by in the trains.
Paul leased the entire property, including both houses, to Mrs Gertrude Haddy between 1915 and 1923. The single storey one continued to be used as a boarding house and the new mansion, a guest house was managed by the Sevigne family. Paul remained a bachelor but his widowed sister, Mrs Rosalie Threlfall, came to live with him at “Hillview” in the front house, on the Highway.
In 1923 Paul decided to convert the two-storey guest house into flats and extensive additions were made to the eastern side of the main building. Paul lived permanently at “Hillview” from 1928, having previously staying only occasionally at the guest house. His work involved regular interstate and overseas travel so he was away for considerable periods of time. The apartment he occupied was on the first floor of the two-storey guest house, taking full advantage of the extensive views. His two magnificent Rolls-Royce cars, one a convertible and one a sedan, were garaged in the old coach-house which originally accommodated horses and coaches.
Following the bombing of Darwin during World War II, Paul moved the Schweppes office away from the city and its close proximity to the Harbour, to one of the flats in the two-storey house. As a precaution, sandbags were piled high at the front door and an air raid shelter was dug in the southern corner of the “Hillview” property.
Impressive wrought-iron entrance gates were added to “Hillview” in 1946 for vehicular access from the Pacific Highway. Paul had originally seen them in 1924 at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley during a business trip to London. They were part of an exhibit there comprising a 30-metre-high pagoda erected by the Burmese Government. The pagoda and gates were shipped to Sydney and erected as the permanent Schweppes’ pavilion at the Royal Easter Show from 1927. Unfortunately, the pagoda was destroyed by fire in 1946 so Paul had the gates removed to “Hillview” and re-erected.
After a long illness Edmund Paul died at “Hillview” in 1951 at the age of 77. His will provided for both buildings at “Hillview” to be converted to a convalescent home for war veterans as a memorial in his name. However, legal complications in his will prevented this from occurring. Instead, a wing was added to the War Veteran’s Home at Narrabeen in 1956 called the E.S.W. Paul Block. The estate was passed to Paul’s nephew, Martyn Threlfall, who had lived at “Hillview” with his family from 1937. After Threlfall’s death it passed to his widow and then her sons, Nicholas and Michael.
In 1973, Ku-ring-gai Municipal Council acquired “Hillview” but the buildings were allowed to deteriorate and became a target for vandalism. They were subsequently leased to the Health Commission as “Hillview’s” location on the Pacific Highway, close to public transport, and with ample parking, made it an ideal site to accommodate health care providers and services for residents of the Ku-ring-gai Municipality. Repair and restoration work was undertaken and funds for it raised by local Rotary clubs.
The Hillview Community Health and Resource Information Centre (in both buildings) was officially opened on 1 December 1978. After initially leasing “Hillview” from Council, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital subsequently purchased the buildings from locally raised funds in 1980. As the decorative gates were too narrow for a public entrance way, they were removed by the Hospital and stored by Council until 1986 when, after restoration, they were placed in “Hillview’s” garden fronting the Highway in memory of E.S.W. Paul.
The front house at “Hillview” (on the Highway) provided administration and information services, physiotherapy, podiatry, speech pathology, audiology, community nursing, clinical phycologists and social workers. The mansion at the rear housed dieticians and geriatric physiotherapists as well as services such as remedial reading, health promotion, home nursing, support groups, programs and leisure activities. Unfortunately, the single-storey house at the front of the site has been recently vacated, is deteriorating and its future is in doubt.
Major Reference
Marchant, Beryl, “The History of Hillview 1832-1983”, published to coincide with the Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai Hospital Golden Anniversary, 1983.
Phipps, Irene, Acting Local Studies Librarian Ku-ring-gai Municipal Library, ‘Rise and Fall of Hillview’ in “North Shore Times”, 31 May 1989.
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Locksmith Thornleigh Lock, Stock & Barrel Locksmiths
Fast & reliable mobile locksmith, servicing Sydney's North Shore for over 25 years. Popular service areas include Turramurra, Hornsby, Pymble, Killara, Gordon, Wahroonga & St Ives. For a reliable locksmith, call us on 0411 700 072.
Address: PO Box 413, Turramurra, NSW 2074, Australia
Phone: +61 411 700 072
Website: lsblocksmiths.com.au
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Fast & reliable mobile locksmith, servicing Sydney's North Shore for over 25 years. Popular service areas include Turramurra, Hornsby, Pymble, Killara, Gordon, Wahroonga & St Ives. For a reliable locksmith, call us on 0411 700 072.
Address: PO Box 413, Turramurra, NSW 2074, Australia
Phone: +61 411 700 072
Website: lsblocksmiths.com.au