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Balmain Peninsula – Street Shopping and Places of Worship
$50.00 +$12.95 postage
Helen Carter, 2025.
This excursion into Balmain, Birchgrove and Rozelle, the third in Helen Carter’s trilogy, will delight you. It takes you on a retail and spiritual journey commencing with the earliest corner store and its first church, St Mary’s Anglican at East Balmain and concludes with the community’s obsession with online shopping today.
Readers will discover which shopkeepers sold the popular Crispin Boot, the Good Weed, the Singer Sewing Machine and learn that Lewy Pattinson (Soul Pattinson) began in Balmain and a Prime Minister had a shop in Beattie Street! Stunning historical photographs uncover a variety of architectural styles and the wonderful leadlight windows of the churches depicting biblical narratives act as a backdrop to the spiritual, social and community services provided by their Minister.
Be quick to get your copy as limited numbers remain.
Soft cover, A4 format, 140 pages in colour, 2025.