Remember this?

Everyone knows Kellogg’s make cornflakes and All Bran, but did you know they once made a ‘peppy’ cereal called Pep? This picture of the product comes from a 1927 Kellogg’s letterhead. It is part of the company’s application to build a factory on Stephen’s Road, Botany.

In council’s archives, this letter is stored with technical architectural drawings of the company’s first factory building in the area. Drawn by engineers in Chicago, these plans must have seemed very glamorous to the council employee who opened the envelope they came in! They are also by far the biggest and most detailed architectural plans the council had then received.


If you are interested in learning more about Kellogg’s in Botany, look out for our future exhibition called Made in Botany: the History of Manufacturing in the City of Botany Bay. If you have any stories about the factory, please contact us.

This picture is part of an on-going mini exhibition we are having on the front wall of Pagewood Library. Each month we will be having a changing displaying of 5 to 6 photographs and objects. In doing so we hope to open your eyes, or jog your memories about the City of Botany Bay. If you miss a month, don’t worry. We will be blogging the best image of each month right here.

The Emergence and Disappearance of Lauriston Park, A Forgotten Suburb

 

As part of Heritage Week, there will be a talk about the suburb Lauriston Park which existed on the site of the current Sydney Airport at Eastgardens Library on Saturday, April 9 at 2pm.

The talk will discuss the development of the suburb, resident life, local activities and anecdotes, and the eventual disappearance of the suburb to make way for the airport extension. Local history collection items  such as oral history, images and video will be used in the discussion.

Free admission

Bookings Essential:   Please call Eastgardens Library on 9366 3888

Summer Holiday Activities Program 2010 - 2011

A big thank you to everyone who came to the summer holiday activities at the library!  We hope that everyone had fun and look forward to seeing you at the library again.

Thank you again for making our summer holiday activities so successful!

Come and join us for Storytime

Don't forget, our regular children's activities Storytime, Rhymetime and Craft are on again!  Come along and enjoy a story, sing songs and have fun with arts and craft.

Eastgardens Library (During school term)
Rhymetime (For babies & toddlers)
Tuesday & Friday 10:00am – 10:30am

Storytime & craft (For preschoolers)
Tuesday 11:00am – 11:45am

Storytime
Friday 10:30am – 10:45 am

Pop-ups & Puzzles
Friday 10:45am – 11:30am

Mascot Library (During school term)
Rhymetime (For babies & toddlers)
Wednesday 10:30am – 11:15am

Craft (For pre-schoolers)
Wednesday 11:00am – 11:45am

Term 1      Februrary 1 - April 8, 2011

Term 2    May 3 - July 1, 2011

Term 3    July 19 - September 23, 2011

Term 4    October 11 - December 20, 2011