Garden Courtyard

COUNTRY STYLE
ANTIQUE FURNITURE and Collectables



This is our lovely Garden Courtyard. We have a lovely leafy garden planted mainly with deciduous trees. Jacaradah, Robina Mop Top, Robina Unigold,weeping Apricot and Flowering Plums for a backdrop. We have mature potted specimen trees of weeping mulberry, a standardized wisteria, and a weeping elm.

The fern garden area is planted with a variety of ferns as well as mature Bangalow palms, treefern and miniature date palms. We have a herb garden planted in an old simplex fuel stove, and our side fence is covered in potato vine, and and orange flowering creeper (which was supposed to be that wonderful winter flowering orange trumpet creeper) The paving is of old bricks mainly dud from the site including turton bricks as well as convict heart and diamond bricks laid in fan patterns. The path is edged with bricks laid in end to end, and filled with crushed aggregate. The path winds across the yard encircling the mop top tree, and leading to the old bakery. There are composition stone urns and semicircular seats nestled beneath the shady trees.

This really is the best place to come and relax. We can always make you a great cappuchino, even is the baked goods are not stocked up.Come and enjoy this wonderful Oasis with us soon.

Don't you just love glass ?

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don't you just love glass?

Ruby Glass Salts $200.00

Amber Glass Lotus Vase $25.00

Deco Green Glass Cocktail Shaker $110.00

Maitland flood 1955 our shopfront

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Maitland in flood 1955


These photos kindly donated to me by David Sciffer




Maitland recently celebrated he 50th anniversary of the 1955 flood. It was a devastating event, resulting in the deaths of 12 people and extenstensive property and stock losses.
Maitland city council recently hosted a display of flood photos, film and memorabilia , at the new Art Gallery in the old Technical College building.

I have taken a keen interest in the historical flooding in the city of Maitland. (as anyone would with property here!) so I found the exhibition very interesting. They had lots of photos, donated by locals, blown up on large boards. A film, photo presentation was also running. One of the locals had donated his flood boat which was in lovely condition with original paint.I noticed some photos of our old Bakery building in Victoria St Maitland and the owner of the photos kindly sent me these two photos. They are of our shop front. Next door was the Chemist, we were Forshaws, the Newsagent.

There was a photographic studio to the side of the property next door to us. The owner Lyndon Mcleod, gave the photos that he found when he purchased the premises, to Mr Sciffer who has restored them.