Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some old Cocks Photographic studio-style photos on display at the Kiama Pilot’s Cottage have confirmed the age of the Kiama Blowhole Tennis Courts (right next door)as around 1892.
Check out the size of the Norfolk Pine next to the courts in 1892 and later in 2009.
The view above clearly shows the two surfaces and a shelter, in exactly the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This was published in the Sydney Morning Herald in April 27, 1947 by Bill Beatty and seems to based on the Henry Kendall (An Australian Poet who had cousins at Kiama and wrote about nine poems set around Kiama) poem below.
This possibly is further based on the murder of Robert Fox by James (or John) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is an official Pilot Flag, since 1934 and is called a Code H Flag and replaced the Pilot Jack
Here is some info from this site http://flagspot.net/flags/xf-pilt.html
4 March 1935. The Honourable Company of Master Mariners wrote to the Admiralty asking, “Is the Pilot Jack a proper flag to be displayed at stem head of a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2009 | 9 Comments »
“Hell must be filled with beautiful women and no mirrors”
http://theoscarsite.com/whoswho3/orrykelly.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orry-Kelly
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/orrykelly/
Orry-Kelly with Tony Curtis on the set of his Oscar-winning “Some Like it Hot” film where he was costume designer.
http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140703b.htm
Kelly, Orry George (1897 – 1964)
Birth:
31 December 1897, Kiama, New South Wales, Australia
Death:
26 February 1964, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Cultural Heritage: [...]
