Wenty Voices / Wentworthville Now and Then

Wenty Voices / Wentworthville Now and Then Through this page I aim to share information and stories that I write about my home town

If you're interested in sharing your Wenty memories, experiences or pictures please send them through. Depending on the response I get I may write a book based on some of this information at a later date. If your information is selected for inclusion in a book I'll contact you about completing a release form.

Many thanks to Tom Salkeld, for allowing me to share this info and photos from his recent post on the ‘I Grew Up In Went...
05/06/2026

Many thanks to Tom Salkeld, for allowing me to share this info and photos from his recent post on the ‘I Grew Up In Wentworthville’ group. :0)
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My father, Fred Salkeld, relocated from Coledale, where he worked in the coal mines, to Wentworthville in 1932. There, he opened a hardware store at 28 Dunmore Street. At that time, hardware stores were commonly known as ironmongers. He would canvas and deliver goods to various farmers in the area, often traveling to South Wentworthville, parts of which were known as the bull paddock due to the presence of slaughter yards in the Centenary Road area. He would also travel west to Plumpton and Merrylands. Initially, he used a horse and cart, later upgrading to a Chandler Panel Van. In the 1950s, he modernised the shopfront, and my sister Helen worked there from the time she left school until he sold the shop to the Wentworthville Mall developers in 1960.

Thanks to Brett Bradney, for sharing his grandfather, George Byrnes’ Wenty RSL member’s badge No. 6.George was also an e...
04/06/2026

Thanks to Brett Bradney, for sharing his grandfather, George Byrnes’ Wenty RSL member’s badge No. 6.

George was also an early badge-holder at Wenty Leagues and Cumberland Catholic Club. :0)

1968 Greystanes Farewell group photo, courtesy of Marilyn Levick.
03/06/2026

1968 Greystanes Farewell group photo, courtesy of Marilyn Levick.

The other thing I have got on Pendle Hill are these 4 views of the suburb, from the 1943 'Six Maps' series. These images...
02/06/2026

The other thing I have got on Pendle Hill are these 4 views of the suburb, from the 1943 'Six Maps' series.

These images are available courtesy of AUSIMAGE 1943© Jacobs Group Pty Ltd

Elia Trim was asking if I had any info on Pendle Hill. The short answer is 'not a lot.' Here's a news item from the 29th...
02/06/2026

Elia Trim was asking if I had any info on Pendle Hill.

The short answer is 'not a lot.' Here's a news item from the 29th of April 1959 about Reg Daley, Pendle Hill Stationmaster for 35 years, from the Cumberland Standard.

Here’s a couple of plaques that adorn the walls at the old Baby Health Centre, and later ‘Sometime Centre,’ in Friend Pa...
02/06/2026

Here’s a couple of plaques that adorn the walls at the old Baby Health Centre, and later ‘Sometime Centre,’ in Friend Park.

This building was extended in 2019, and is now called the Friend Park Children’s Centre.

Friend Park was named after Edgar and Alice Friend, who donated most of the land that the park occupies to Holroyd Council in October 1935, on condition that the land was made a children’s playing area.

I visit Wenty every month or so, and still find that the suburb is still a nice place to walk around and be part of. Fro...
02/06/2026

I visit Wenty every month or so, and still find that the suburb is still a nice place to walk around and be part of.

From colonial times onwards there have been changes in the makeup of the people that call Wenty home, and there’s probably always been people who weren’t happy with those changes.

Recently, some derogatory comments have been made about the population of current day Wenty.

Freedom of speech is important, but so is kindness and respect, so just a heads up, that any comments that denigrate Wenty or its people won’t be tolerated.

Thanks to Michael Ryan for sharing these mementos from his time at Parramatta Marist Brothers. :0)
30/05/2026

Thanks to Michael Ryan for sharing these mementos from his time at Parramatta Marist Brothers. :0)

Ah, the good old days, when Grace Bros. sent a telegram, to tell you when your new washing machine would arrive. :0)
30/05/2026

Ah, the good old days, when Grace Bros. sent a telegram, to tell you when your new washing machine would arrive. :0)

For those that knew the Comerford family - I've found this photo of Henry Comerford aged 10, outside 'Yoorooga' at the c...
29/05/2026

For those that knew the Comerford family - I've found this photo of Henry Comerford aged 10, outside 'Yoorooga' at the corner of Hudson & Bridge Roads.

Source: Cumberland Council Library Service, Holroyd Historic Photo Collection HP0036

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