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June General meeting - Guest speaker Liz Parkinson
On The Rocks
In this talk, Liz hopes to draw a picture of how the area around the early Circular Quay, and Lower George Street, evolved in the early years of European settlement. She will look at the lives of some of Sydney’s early movers and shakers who ran their businesses from there and how they fared in the climate of the day. Click here for more info
Short Bio
Liz came from Muswellbrook in NSW, and now lives in North Avoca. She has also lived overseas in London & Israel.
After leaving school she completed a degree in Economics at Sydney University, followed by a diploma of Education at Newcastle University. She taught for a while, but before abandoning regular teaching, she took up silversmithing, which she then taught instead to consenting adults. She had also worked for her late husband’s internet business in the late 1990s and early 2000s called Terrigal Net.
She became very interested in family and local history in her 20’s which was a passion she inherited from her father. In 1975 he had just died and Liz was given a trunk full of his papers and documents, which had included a screed of family history research which he had commissioned not long beforehand. She was astounded as she had known nothing about this and her father was no longer there to ask about the contents. It seems as if he had been severely embarrassed about it as there were so many convicts in the family! Thus he had kept it a secret, while swearing the researcher to silence! So it set Liz on a path where she came to write a history of the Underwoods, about some of her ancestors, which exposed some of these convicts, which would have horrified her father. In addition she wrote Landmarks of Old Sydney Cove in the Bicentennial year (to go with a t-shirt), and these books were followed by a history of Terrigal.
She is a self-taught artist who regularly exhibits in Australia and overseas these days, and has had write-ups in a number of art journals. You can see more about Liz on her web-site: http://www.lazylizard.com.au
Short Bio
Liz came from Muswellbrook in NSW, and now lives in North Avoca. She has also lived overseas in London & Israel.
After leaving school she completed a degree in Economics at Sydney University, followed by a diploma of Education at Newcastle University. She taught for a while, but before abandoning regular teaching, she took up silversmithing, which she then taught instead to consenting adults. She had also worked for her late husband’s internet business in the late 1990s and early 2000s called Terrigal Net.
She became very interested in family and local history in her 20’s which was a passion she inherited from her father. In 1975 he had just died and Liz was given a trunk full of his papers and documents, which had included a screed of family history research which he had commissioned not long beforehand. She was astounded as she had known nothing about this and her father was no longer there to ask about the contents. It seems as if he had been severely embarrassed about it as there were so many convicts in the family! Thus he had kept it a secret, while swearing the researcher to silence! So it set Liz on a path where she came to write a history of the Underwoods, about some of her ancestors, which exposed some of these convicts, which would have horrified her father. In addition she wrote Landmarks of Old Sydney Cove in the Bicentennial year (to go with a t-shirt), and these books were followed by a history of Terrigal.
She is a self-taught artist who regularly exhibits in Australia and overseas these days, and has had write-ups in a number of art journals. You can see more about Liz on her web-site: http://www.lazylizard.com.au
