Uncovering the history of Leura as recorded in local newspapers
How it happened at the Leura Falls recently.
Jottings. Saturday 10 May 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
Short poem about an individual relaxing at the Leura Falls before being bitten by a soldier ant.
Coffee palace to be erected at Leura.
Jottings. Saturday 10 May 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
Coffee palace shares are nearly half sold, plans to be drawn by Mr William B Hardwick, a Katoomba architect.
Railway surveyors were measuring land.
Jottings. Saturday 19 April 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
Mentions a dangerous gully at Leura when locating the Katoomba railway siding.
Mr. Milgate and friends intent to erect a large coffee palace.
Jottings. Saturday 12 April 1890, Katoomba Times, p4.
Milgate is named as leading the Leura Coffee Palace plans
Wentworth, Katoomba, Leura and Guiva Falls present picturesque views.
Jottings. Saturday 12 April 1890, Katoomba Times, p4.
After massive rains, the waterfalls in Leura and around the mountains look particularly good.
Over the Blue Mountains.
Article. Saturday 5 April 1890, Katoomba Times, p4.
Reprint from the Daily Telegraph suggesting more government funding necessary to grow tourism in the Mountains, naming Leura Falls.
Board was very cheap at Leura Villa.
Jottings. Saturday 12 April 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
I really don't know.
Katoomba Municipal Council.
Article. Saturday 12 April 1890, Katoomba Times, p4.
Report on a Council meeting with passing mentions of William Eyre and Leura Falls, along with an amusing exchange about night soil.
Lovely sample of Mountain grown apples.
Jottings. Saturday 29 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
Eyre took some Mountains apples to sell in Sydney.
A good sample of Mountain grown potatoes.
jottings. Saturday 22 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
Eyre took some Katoomba potatoes to Sydney as a trade sample.
Deputation to the Railway Commissioners.
article. Saturday 22 February 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
In an article about a railway bridge at Katoomba, acting-Mayor Goyder mentions the railway bridge at Leura.
A coffee palace is to be established.
jottings. Saturday 8 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p3.
First mention of a coffee palace, though it sites it in Katoomba.
An embankment between Katoomba and Leura gave way.
jottings. Saturday 15 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p3.
After incredibly heavy rains, a landslide occurred on the railway between the two towns.
The railway line where the slip occurred.
jottings. Saturday 22 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
The failed embankment between Katoomba and Leura has been repaired.
Where the railway slip occurred.
jottings. Saturday 22 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
A workman is reported to have known about the potentially dangerous embankment between Leura and Katoomba for a year before it failed.
The American champion sculler Wm O'Connor came to Katoomba.
jottings. Saturday 22 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
William Joseph O'Connor went shooting lyrebirds in Leura but failed without Bob Marshall's advice.
If one of the Katoomba Railway fettlers had not discovered the leakage.
jottings. Saturday 22 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
Contends that had the embankment slip not been discovered early there would have been a very great accident.
Katoomba Dairy and Poultry Farm.
Advertising. Saturday 25 May 1889, Katoomba Times, p3.
Advertisement for the farm of Leura resident John Duff.
Blue Mountain Views.
Article. Saturday 15 February 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
Kitch and Co have produced a set of photographs of mountains views, The Rapids, Leura is among them.
The First Election.
Article. Saturday 25 January 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
The first election of the Municipality of Katoomba has taken place; F. C. Goyder became mayor and William Eyre got the wooden spoon.