Seventh instalment of the history of Bulli Lookout. The Nixons sold the lease of the kiosk in 1950 to Peter Chamberlain. I married Peter in November 1950 . We will have our 63 rd wedding anniversary this month. When we first went into the kiosk the staff thought we would last three months ,we proved them wrong and stayed for 25 years. The public toilets were north of the kiosk on the eastern side of the Princes Highway. This was a brick building with ladies and gents back to back and a pan system. The only available water for cleaning was from a forty four gallon drum under the down pipe. During drought time Peter had to drive his vehicle five hundred yards along the Appin Road to Muddy Creek, fill the milk churns and bucket the water into the drum. When the tanks at the kiosk were empty ,water would be delivered by the council,and paid for by Peter. It took nearly two hours to gravity feed one thousand gallons into the guttering and then the tanks . A flourishing weekend two up school operated within 200 metres of the kiosk hidden in the bush until underbrush was cleared to provide for picnickers. In July 1951 the wooden cantilever lookout was shortened by ten feet. This revealed a broad arrow marked trig point. Surveyors had been asking for this trig location.It was made in the original survey,its proximity to the cliff edge indicated that at least one metre had fallen away since those days. On the 10/10/1952 the wooden lookout was demolished, its three great turpentine logs cut through and a concrete slap put in its place with a pipe fence adjacent to the kiosk. To be continued .
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:50:54 +0000
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