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Queen Street Woollhara

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 My pal and I went to explore Queen Street Woollhara today after I found the Local History Walking Tour  - Queen Street celebrating 2025 brochure and tucking it away. Very easy walk and so much history. Butchers, bonnet makers and Prime Ministers. Wonderful. 

Campsie

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Our first stop was the library of course. Campsie library and knowledge centre is incredible. Huge and we found all sorts of English books you would have to wait ages for in the inner west. We joined of course and took our haul back to the car.  It was a huge old style library with a massive local collection with titles that I love about the minituae of suburbs. Looking Angel and washing and me.  What are these dolls?  Old library paraphenalia Local collection Collective jigsaw At the opening. The most 'interesting' decorations.  Plus the glued in books.  I had already joined and now picked up my books that I reserved and my new library card.  Moving on we went down the mains street. VERY Korean and a mix of other ethnicities including Nepalese, Malay and Filipino and others.  We ate at the latter. Lots of the buildings were old and the signs were all sorts of faded. The fashion...well I have to say it was 'interesting'. Shoes and salad for sale on the...