History of the Building​

Springwood Veterinary Clinic resides in the federation style house “Warrah”. It was build as a guesthouse for the town. The front sandstone fence and garden edging was added early in the buildings history and possible were salvaged from an earlier building, possibly Boland’s Inn.
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Among the heritage listed features are the original double fireplaces and chimneys and French doors onto the wide verandah. The building contains pressed metal ceilings, ornate glasswork and features such as servery hatch and laundry chute.

1943 Aerial photograph, SIXmaps

The vet clinic is not seen in this c1905 photo, as it was not built until c1914. It does show the general area however. The buildings (which have been demolished) on the right side of the railway are located at 8-9 Ferguson Rd.
Notes: Looking west from the Springwood platform.
On the right is 'Loorana' c.1870, built on the site of Boland's Inn c.1847; itself built on the site of the 1833 military stockade.
A NSW Govt Railway tricycle sits beyond the end of the platform with a small flower garden and a penalty warning sign.
The large white building in the centre distance is "Homedale", built for J.B. Hoare in 1881, later to become in 1918 the Blue Mountains Grammar School, under its first headmaster E.K. Deane.
Format: albumen print

Notes: Macquarie Road 1915 covering central Springwood
Format: subdivision plan, H.E.C. Robinson publisher
Date Range: c. 1915
Location: Springwood
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library bmcc.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/default/
Part of Local Studies Collection: Robinson Maps
Provenance: Blue Mountains City Council
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