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Penrose
Small township in the Southern Highlands
Located between Bundanoon and Marulan on the Highland Way,
Penrose is 152 km south-west of Sydney, 650 m above
sea-level and, according to the sign on the outskirts of the
town, has a population of 205. Like Wingello and Exeter,
Penrose is a town which came into existence in the late
1860s when the railway between Sydney and Goulburn was being
constructed. It thrived until the 1920s and then slowly
declined when the trains started to by-pass the station.
Today, with the advent of the XPT fast train and the
decline of small railway stations as transport nodes, the
town is on the edge of oblivion. Nearly every house and
every business in the town is either for sale or boarded up.
This is a far cry from the romantic image of a tiny, quiet
village 'nestled amidst towering pine trees, fringed by the
State Forest, deep gullies and gorges' which is depicted in
A Village Called Penrose written by Lesley Day in 1987.
The first European to pass through the area was
surveyor-general James Meehan who travelled through the
district on 17 March 1818 and named the local creek St
Patrickıs River (known locally as Paddyıs River).
The railway with its two stations - Kareela and Cables'
Siding (where the railway crossings at the northern and
southern ends of town are now located) - arrived in 1868.
People began to settle beside the track in 1870. One of the
first properties was that of Philip Rush who occupied the
land now known as 'Sylvan Glen' in 1870.
By the 1890s the town had grown large enough to have its
own Methodist Church (previously used in Bowral and
reerected at Penrose in 1893), post office and police
station. It was surveyed in 1895 and plans were made for a
village, named after Penrose in Cornwall.
By the 1920s the town was on the edge of the boom created
by the fashion of holidaying in the Southern Highlands. 'Edenholme',
with views across to Jervis Bay, was opened as a guest house
and Mrs Teudt, who ran the guest house, gained a reputation
as a superb cook. It was destroyed by fire in the early
1950s.
It was in the 1910s that orchards were planted in the
district. During World War I the two sidings were closed and
Penrose Railway Station was opened. By the 1930s more guest
houses - notably 'Cherry Hinton' and 'Sylvan Glen' - were
opened and the fresh country air attracted substantial
numbers of visitors from Sydney. But the town had never
really created a solid economic base for itself and after
World War II, when many people moved to Sydney, it started
to decline. Today it is a few houses with little prospect of
revitalisation.
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