A stroll through a lost Sydney garden: Cairnsfoot, Arncliffe (1884-1955)

摘要

Colleen Morris's recent exhibition and book Lost Gardens of Sydney included an interwar garden at Arncliffe, in suburban Sydney, named Alwyn. As Colleen has noted, Alan Evans—an accountant for Davis Gelatine—and his wife Sylvia Winifred, built Alwynand lived there between 1927 and 1949. Their modest bungalow residence was surrounded by a prize-winning garden and Evans, who was a keen amateur photographer, has left us with a precious documentary record through his carefully recorded images. As well as his own garden, Alan Evans photographed the staff and gardens of the Davis Gelatine factory in Botany, and entered competitions run by the Australasian Photo Review.