by Wayne Carveth, Bulletins 7/2026 (September) and 8/2026 (October)
How did you go with last month’s mystery photo?
October update
Six people sent in answers to the September 2026 mystery photo (right). Brad Pagnell, Michele Fraser, Rodney Hammett, Chris Hughes, Helena Klijn and Chris O’Keefe all identified the house as formerly on Wigram Road at the corner of Minogue Crescent. On Facebook, another 16 people got it right, although not the exact date.
The photo was taken in 1990. The house was 121 Wigram Road and the view is looking towards the Forest Lodge shops. It formerly housed the offices of carriers S. McCormack & Sons P/L and before them, John Coady P/L, also carriers. The Carriers’ yard was between the Harold Park Hotel and the side of the house and back to Alfred Road.
Eagle-eyed readers may remember a similar photo by Phil Young that appeared as the mystery photo in the June 2018 Bulletin.
This stretch of Minogue Crescent was formerly a tram right of way and it was made into a trafficable road after 1958 when the trams were withdrawn. It was first given the name Crescent Street as an extension of the street that ran down the side of Harold Park Pacing Track. It was renamed Minogue Crescent in 1964. It is one of the few geographical places named after a (then) living person other than royalty. Dan Minogue was the Federal member for West Sydney 1949–1969 and lived at 19 Avenue Road Glebe.
The house was demolished in 2005. The Centennial Apartments, completed in 2007, now occupy the site. There is a remnant of the former house wall near the traffic lights at that corner. The large tree in front of the truck, on the right-hand side of Minogue Crescent, is a Port Jackson Fig. It is the only tree in Forest Lodge on Council’s Register of Significant Trees, as discussed by Virginia Simpson-Young in Andrew Wood’s April 2025 article.
For a detailed story of who has owned, lived and worked at 121 Wigram Road (and its neighbours at 119 and 117), see The story behind the September 2026 mystery photo by Rodney Hammett.
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