Photographs of Calder House School, ca. 1855-1879 / Alfred Branch Campbell

PXB 583

fonds

ca. 1855-1879

Graphic Materials, Photographs

908535

10 photographs - 15.5 x 20.6 cm - albumen

The Scots born James Chisholm (1770-1837) arrived in New South Wales in 1790, aged twenty, as a sergeant in the New South Wales Corps. He built Calder House in the 1820s or 1830s. Chisholm died in 1837; his widow, however, continued to occupy Calder House until 1855.

Reference:
Heritage Impact Statement - North Eveleigh Concept Plan: http://www.smda.nsw.gov.au/ (Accessed 13 June 2012)

Calder House in Redfern, N.S.W. was used as a private boys' school from 1855.

In 1871-79 Joseph David Sly was headmaster of Calder House, a school conducted from 1855 by J. Fred Castle on the Chisholm estate; it closed in 1879 when the government bought the ten-acre (4 ha) property in Redfern for railway purposes.

Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sly-joseph-david-4593 (Accessed 17 May 2012)

Calder House was demolished in 1924

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Alfred Branch Campbell, W.W. Campbell & Co. Ltd, 249 Clarence Street, Sydney gives an account of his time at the school in July 1868 (copy of original manuscript located at MLDOC 2719 - dated 23 March 1921)

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