This, and a number of photographs that will be posted in sequence after it, are photo's that were given to Professor Ross Thorne, Department of Architecture, Sydney University, by Peter Laurantus, son of George Laurantus...
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This is my grandfather Evangeli Megaloconomos sitting outside his cafe in Stanthorpe QLD in about 1917. He returned to Kythera soon after this - where he remained for the rest of his life. I was lucky to meet him in 1979...
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THE SPEECH I DID GIVE By Minas T Coroneo Prompted by Kiriaki Orfanos’s touching memoir of her family’s New York Café in the Kytherian of August 2004, I dug up a speech I gave in 1997 when the local Historical Society in...
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As Kytherian shop keepers became more affluent in the period after WWII, they began to make displays of this new found affluence. This is reflected in the ornate Art Deco re-furbishment of many of the shops and shop fixt...
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Evanagelos is the suited gentleman on the extreme left. Harry Aliferis was born on 13.11.1914, in Lahi, Greece. His wife, Maria (nee, Dermatis), is from Neapolis. [Both villages located in Southern Greece, opposite Kythe...
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Gunnedah Museum - Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia, was created from a disused Water Tower. From the the nondescript exterior it would be impossible to realise that the interior houses three-storey's of photographs,...
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A covered pool, for year-round swimming, was later added to the large, impressive, and well-equipped, Gunnedah Pool - in Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia. Gunnedah did not have a swimming pool located in the town, un...
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The large, impressive, and well-equipped, Gunnedah Pool - Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia. Gunnedah did not have a swimming pool located in the town, until a Kytherian drowning tragedy, involving the Vernardos famil...
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All the major carparks in Gunnedah, NSW, are named after Kytherians, as a mark of respect for the impact they had on the growth and development of the town. Kytherians, and Greek-Australians generally, are held in very h...
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All the major carparks in Gunnedah, NSW, are named after Kytherians, as a mark of respect for the impact they had on the growth and development of the town. Kytherians, and Greek-Australians generally, are held in very h...
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All the major carparks in Gunnedah, NSW, are named after Kytherians, as a mark of respect for the impact they had on the growth and development of the town. Kytherians, and Greek-Australians generally, are held in very h...
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New South Wales Premier Bob Carr officially opening the Roxy Cinema, Bingara, on Saturday 29, 2004. The Roxy Theatre, Bingara, NSW, Australia, was created/built/owned by two Kytherians, George Psaltis (Protopsaltis), and...
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Brendan Byrne, Annabelle Dulhunty, Brendan Smith - Brendan Smith meeting with Chapel Cinema representatives Brendan Byrne and Annabelle Dulhunty. [Some background history as to how the Kytherian built Roxy theatre at Bin...
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"Many of the historic items displayed in the General Store would have been supplied to the community through this very outlet". [See a previous entry (with map of Queensland graphic) for extensive history of the Cassimat...
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"The kitchen boasted a wood burning stove. The original ice chest was later replaced by a kerosene fridge". [See a previous entry (with map of Queensland graphic) for extensive history of the Cassimatis Family.] The orig...
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"Exquisite bed linen of the 1940s and 1950s displayed alongside simple basic furnishings in the bedrooms of Cassimatis Cottage". [See a previous entry (with map of Queensland graphic) for extensive history of the Cassima...
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"The cottage is furnished with much of the original furniture as well as personal possessions of the Cassimatis family". [See a previous entry (with map of Queensland graphic) for extensive history of the Cassimatis Fami...
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The main room was the hub of all activity in the home. It served as a dining and sitting room as well as accommodating sewing, ironing, a piano, telephone and several wireless sets. [See a previous entry (with map of Que...
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"The history of the Cassimatis family is beautifully presented in the Museum". [See a previous entry (with map of Queensland graphic) for extensive history of the Cassimatis Family.] The original store, and the Cassimati...
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"Cassimatis General Store - unique turn of the century artefacts, maintained and preserved." [See a previous entry (with map of Queensland graphic) for extensive history of the Cassimatis Family.] The original store, and...
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