The David Sheedy Foundation has initiated a grant for works to be undertaken on the John Oxley steamship, which was built in 1927 in Scotland for the Queensland Pilot Service. The ship was named after the explorer John Oxley, who was the Surveyor-General based in Sydney and explored the eastern coast of Australia.
“Connections” is a project undertaken by the recent David Sheedy Scholarship recipient, Althea Rodricks. The project is based on acquiring records from one of the National Trust’s heritage properties, the Everglades House and Gardens in Leura, Blue Mountains; and using them in an exhibition to showcase the house and the people who have cared for it.
Following purchase of land by Sidney Sheedy on a sandstone escarpment in the 1920s, he commissioned a house to be designed by FG Leslie Allen which was built in 1939 on Hardy Street. Distinctive in all round red face brick, the structure was double fronted with an engaged circular tower facing west, all founded on a Bondi White sandstone basement.
