Beautiful Carisbrook Historic House will be the setting for an evening of poetry, live music, food and drinks.
Paris is the city of light, love, and joie de vivre – come dressed French style if you like.
There will be live music and poetry performed by the Lane Cove Poets to delight you as you sip Pernod and wine whilst enjoying big platters of olives, cheese, and baguettes in Parisian style.
Everyone is welcome to perform poetry, tell a story, sing, or just sit back and enjoy: an evening when family, friends and like-minded people gather to swap poetry and stories, written, spoken, or sung. It is a great connection to community.
The dedicated performance area is in the magnificent Carisbrook Historic House courtyard. The gardens around the house are magnificent and you can take advantage of the last days of daylight saving.
Irish poet Daragh Byrne will be our MC and diplomatic timekeeper.
This event could be the perfect way to avoid the wall to wall coverage of the NSW State Election Results. The event begins on 25 March 6.30 to 9.00pm, for a night to remember.
Limited seats. Bookings www.trybooking.com/1015498
What is Carisbrook Historic House?
Carisbrook is a survivor of a time when the land around the Lane Cove River was a world away from Sydney Town. Built in the 1880s from locally quarried sandstone, the house sits handsomely overlooking Burns Bay on the east and the Lane Cove River to the west.
The Brooks family built the house on land owned by their family since the 1850s. It remains the oldest surviving house in the area, its fabric largely intact. This wonderfully preserved house transports its visitors back to the foundation days of early Lane Cove. Its asymmetrical facade, large bay window, and low-pitched slate roof are characteristic of the Italianate style, a very fashionable architectural style of the Victorian period.
Carisbrook was retained in the Brooks family until 1904, when the family left Australia to live in South Africa. Since then, it has passed through several owners’ hands until it was purchased in 1969 by the Lane Cove Council as a gift to the Lane Cove community. A permanent conservation order was placed on the house by the Heritage Council of NSW in 1981. It is now maintained by the Council and curated by the Lane Cove Historical Society Inc.
It is open once a month on the weekend – a must-do activity for families. Look out for the open weekend dates on In the Cove.
Where is Carisbrook Historic House?
It is located on Burns Bay Road Lane Cove West. You can access the car park by turning into Waterview Drive from Burns Bay Road.
Address: 334 Burns Bay Rd , Lane Cove, NSW, Australia, New South Wales
Website: www.carisbrookhouse.com
Facebook: @carisbrookhistorichouse
Email: [email protected]
Are you a bit of a history buff? Why not enter the Lane Cove Historical Society (LCHS) Lane Cove History Prize. The winner will receive a cash prize of $1000. The award encourages Lane Cove residents to research the colourful history of the Lane Cove Municipality.
A successful entry must document aspects of the lives of people in Lane Cove and its environs, including beyond modern Lane Cove, which covered a broader area in the past.
As one of the earliest sites of settlement on the northern side of the harbour, colonial Lane Cove has had a very interesting history, and much of the details have yet to be fully documented. Moreover, into the 20th and 21st centuries, the community of Lane Cove has witnessed many social changes, all worthy of wider reflection and documentation.
A vibrant community like Lane Cove deserves to have its strengths and its achievements recognized and celebrated.
Submissions will be accepted on any aspect of Lane Cove’s history; however, this would be a great opportunity to tell your family’s Lane Cove story.
Other possible research topics include:
- interesting Lane Cove individuals or families;
- the history behind your street;
- early settlers or ethnic groups who came to live in Lane Cove;
- bushcare groups;
- your local sporting team’s history;
- your local school’s history;
- your local church’s history;
- your local community group’s history; or
- local roads and transport systems.
This is an opportunity for Lane Cove Seniors to write up their own histories. It is also an ideal time for you or your kids to sit down with grandparents, or older family members/neighbours and document their lives in Lane Cove.
Sponsored by the Lane Cove Historical Society, the competition is once again open to all with an interest in Lane Cove and its past.
Entry Requirements
An essay (illustrated where appropriate) of 5,000 to 7,000 words,
OR
An Oral History produced digitally as a video or audio recording on USB stick or disc of 30-45 minutes duration. This must be accompanied by a written transcription (in Microsoft Word format).
The interview/video must also be accompanied by a short written summary and an explanation about why it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lane Cove’s history.
OR
A Video Doco of 7 to 15 minutes
The information submitted must be original research that has not been already published or documented. If the research is about a known person, event or phenomenon, you can still enter the prize if you offer some fresh perspectives or insights. Any research offered for the Lane Cove History Prize must also be original in the sense that it has not been offered elsewhere, either in another prize or, for example, in completion, of some degree program of study.
Details, including guidelines and criteria for submission, can be found here. The entry must be submitted by 31 August 2023.
If you have any questions about the prize, please email here.
The best submissions will be published in the LCHS’s Journal, and all submissions will be archived in the LCHS Collection and also given to the Local Studies Unit of the Lane Cove Library. This project will primarily benefit the residents of Lane Cove. However, it will also enrich the reserves of historical research within New South Wales and Australia.
Previous Winners
The 2022 winner was Ruth Benfield, for an affectionate and sensitive account of Ruth’s family connections with Carisbrook Historic House in the 1950s and 1960s. It’s a cracker of a story and there is even a reference to the Carisbrook ghost.
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