After 10 days on the road in Tassie, this afternoon I said goodbye to Steve Randell in Hobart. I'll leave for Sydney next morning. My best wishes go to Genene Randell, who's in the Hobart hospital right now. I'm sure we all wish her a speedy recovery !
Staying overnight at “Battery Point”, I took a short stroll down the road to the Errol Flynn Reserve (again). Find attached some more photos. Learning to swim here, Errol will most likely have enjoyed the same views than we do now. I've even taken a short video of the reserve, which I might upload, with Inga's support, to the You Tube Channel of our blog, when I'm back to Germany.
My last posting(s) will be from Sydney in a few days.
— Volker
Anonymous
January 12, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Again, great photos, Volker! Thanks for sharing! I really want to visit there one day.
Anonymous
January 12, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Wonderful, thanks so much, Volker!
Sending get-well wishes to Genene, I also hope she will be fine soon!
Anonymous
January 12, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Thank you Volker for sharing your experience through your travels in Australia. It was a pleasure to meet you and show you the Errol Flynn Hobart that we love ourselves. Members of the blog would be most welcome to visit and we would be glad to see you here. May I endorse the thoughts of Mike at Drifters Cafe that the next time that Beams End is revisited it is by yacht as Errol himself did it with Volker as our guide. We await your next posting before you return to Germany and your job. Thank you for your good wishes.
Anonymous
January 12, 2012 at 8:34 pm
I can tell you that that very seaward journey is already in the works.
Anonymous
January 13, 2012 at 1:36 am
Hi Steve;
I am just reading Volker's post and see that Genene is in hospital. I sincerely hope it is nothing serious and she will be out and about very soon. Please give her my best wishes for a speedy recovery! Tina
Anonymous
January 13, 2012 at 2:46 am
Hi Volker;
Wonderful pictures again, which give a good idea and feeling of the area. When in Sydney Volker maybe you could visit Errol's grandparent's former home on 54 Carabella Street in Kirribilli and take a picture for us? Also, maybe all the other places Errol used to roam? Sure would be great round up.
Your trip must give you such a great rewarding feeling!
All the best to you in Sydney! Tina
Anonymous
January 13, 2012 at 3:01 am
Volker! What a treat this series has been! Thanks so much for sharing with the blog! I know it must be been lots of work we didn't see you do all along the way…
Anonymous
January 13, 2012 at 3:09 am
Steve! I hope Genene is doing fine and will be home soon! She was first to point out something fun in regards to my name in Hobart sending me a pic of herself beneath a sign reading De Witt Street! Close enough for me (no space is used in my name spelling although there was one back in the early history of its spelling!) So I was smiling when I saw the pic Volker included of a sign giving directions:
Anonymous
January 13, 2012 at 8:25 am
Hi Tina,
I'll try to go there on my way or back to Neutral Bay.
Anonymous
January 14, 2012 at 5:41 am
Hi Volker;
I hope you can make it, it would be great!
More so, I hope you will be staying in touch with us after this ever so memorable trip down memory lane of yours. I sincerely hope you enjoyed Australia and Tasmania! It was such a pleasure, such great pleasure indeed!
I wish you all the very best, Tina
Anonymous
January 14, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Hello Tina,
can you give me some more backgroung info about EF's grandparents living in Kirribilli? So far I have had only knowledge of an address in Bondi.
Anonymous
January 14, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Hi Robert,
Seriously
give me a call when you assemble the crew. I will make my sailing licence this summer in Germany
Anonymous
January 14, 2012 at 11:13 pm
Hi Volker;
Sorry for not replying sooner but I had to go out!
In answer to your question I have the following to offer and maybe David and Robert has also some information to add to this for you.
Errol's paternal grandmother Jessie Flynn nee Thomson of which Errol and his father had her maiden name as one of their middle names and the only address known to me is that she lived at
28 Brighton Boulevard in Bondi - suburb of Sydney.
Errol's maternal grandmother Edith Young-Hammer nee Madden
lived in Manly before 1920 – I have no address – in 1920 she moved to
54 Carabella Street in Kirribilli – suburb of Sydney and in the mid 1920s she moved to
279 Avoca Street in Randwick – suburb of Sydney.
While you are at it maybe you could also check out if the USHER”S HOTEL is still around as it was a famous hunting ground of Errol, where he met Marge Parks, had free snitched lunches and bought cigarettes only to sell them again cross the street to recuperate his investment.
I am sure Robert or David could add a few good addresses for you to check out and make some outstanding everlasting new historical pictures.
All blog members and casual blog visiting fans are indebted to you for ever!
Thank you so much for all you did so far – you are great – my hat of to you!
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 12:57 am
Hi Volker;
I thought I give you some picture as a guideline, which I found of the addresses in question on Google maps of which I have these pictures I am posting. Problem is one never can be sure of the actual address as one can't find the house number readily and therefore it becomes often guess work which of course is not good enough for publication on the blog.
You see, I am in the process of recording for posterity on the blog all Errol Flynn's Homes, which you can see on the tab to the left of this page and of course I have to be accurate, hence me asking this great favour of you to check them out and photograph them, but only if you have the time. I don't wish to burden you, I am only asking – if by any chance you are able to do it, it would be ever so great.
Here is 28 Brighton Boulevard the former home of grandmother Jessie Flynn.
Here is 54 Carabella Street, Kirribilli the former home of grandmother Edith Young-Hammer.
Here are two possibilities – it is either one or the other as they are side by side – question is – which one is number 54???
And here is another picture of a former home of grandmother Edith Young-Hammer 279 Avoca Street.
I hope that will help you to identify the houses!
My very best wishes to you – Tina
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 1:30 am
This may all serve to confuse Volker. #54 Carabella, as has been discussed here, is not the tall, cream corner building, but most likely the right side of the duplex listed as #52. And Volker, if you really want to scope out a fascinating historical gem, go to the Spotlight department store at 65 Ebley Street in Bondi Junction and take some pictures inside, for it is within those walls, the former Cinesound Studios, that our Errol filmed his scenes for “In The Wake Of The Bounty.” (I would mention that this info is from The Chronology but it might look like book plugging) Happy hunting, mate!
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 1:54 am
Keep a weather ear out for the call, Tina.
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 2:03 am
Here I am with my weather ear and all! Ready and able!
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 2:21 am
Very experienced and able sailor calling for duty! “Aye Aye Captain”
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 2:28 am
Uhh…..careful of water in that ear.
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 2:46 am
Ha – what's a little water in the ear, Errol would have loved that Storm!
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 2:52 am
You'll be given fair notice!
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 6:47 am
*chuckle*
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 7:54 am
Hi Robert,
my plan is to take the bus tomorrow to Bondi. 65 Ebley St & 28 Brighton Blvd. & Coogee Beach are on my list. Tim Griffith from Canberra sent me some outside photos from the former Studios last October, but since it will be Monday, I should be able to get inside.
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 8:08 am
Chuckle? Ma'am?!
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 8:12 am
It is either the one or the other and Volker thank you so much – you are wonderful!
Good luck on your trip – Tina
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 8:20 am
As I always suspected, but didn't get the opportunity to establish when I was down there. Thanks, Volker.
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 8:28 am
Hi Robert;
I found #50 around the corner of the white house (it showed the number on the door clearly) and we discussed that and therefore we said #52 would be the left door of the front of the house and #54 could be most likely the right door, but just in case if it is not so I took a picture of the house next door maybe that could be #54. In any case Volker will clear the mystery and we thank him very much for it. Take care – Tina
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 9:04 am
Hi Tina,
#54 is the red brick building to the right, as Robert assumes correctly. the street number cannot be read easily from more than 2-3 metres, but it's easy when you stand in front of it. I#ll probably post photos tomorrow.
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 9:21 am
But if it's Tuesday it must be Belgium!
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 7:26 pm
*biggest grin*
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Volker has established just which one it is: the right side of duplex #52
Anonymous
January 15, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Biggest grin? Ma'am?!