Throsby Park Open Day 2014. Photo: Richard Taylor © Sydney Living Museums
- Open Day
Throsby Park Open Day success
Throsby Park opened its doors to visitors yesterday and by the end of the day we had shown over 350 people through the old house, stables and garden.
Despite the bitterly cold wind, people were keen to stay on, with many taking over an hour to tour the house.
Sydney Living Museums' Richard Taylor, Sarah Jane Rennie, Michael Larkin and former staffer Dave Wilson put together a great day, assisted by SLM volunteers, Throsby Park Supporters and Moss Vale locals Patsy Bingham, Paul Sabatier and Kylie Gillespie.
It was nice to see Del Throsby’s old jumping arena back in use for the event by the Moss Vale Pony Club.
For many, the highlight of the afternoon was the Southern Highlands Pipes and Drums skirling their way up the driveway.
There was also much genuine interest in the future management of Throsby Park, with people very keen to see it lived in and well cared for.
More about Throsby Park
Along the driveway
Throsby Park Open Day 2014.
Approach to house
Throsby Park Open Day 2014.
Visitors at the door
Throsby Park Open Day 2014.
On tour
Sarah-Jane Rennie, head, collection care at SLM, speaking at Throsby Park Open Day 2014.
Singers
Throsby Park Open Day 2014.
Pony
Moss Vale Pony Club member at Throsby Park Open Day 2014.
Pipes and Drums approaching
Southern Highlands Pipes and Drums at Throsby Park Open Day 2014.
Pipes and Drums
Southern Highlands Pipes and Drums at Throsby Park Open Day 2014.
View from verandah
Throsby Park Open Day 2014.
Pony club members
Moss Vale Pony Club members at Throsby Park Open Day 2014.
Throsby Park has a long association with horse riding, a famous riding school having operated on the site from the 1930s up until 2000. The pony club were delighted to accept our invitation and turned up on the day with around a dozen horses which they put through jumping and riding exercises. The return of riding activities to Throsby Park thrilled those who remembered the old riding school.
As an incidental windfall, the preparation of the grounds for the pony club also increased our own understanding of the property, the slashing of the grounds exposing some of the previous riding school land forms including the horse training mound that had previously been hidden by the long grass.
About the Throsby Park lease
Visitors on the verandah, Throsby Park house, Throsby Park Open Day, Moss Vale (detail). Photo © Paul K. Robbins/MONDE, 2013, for Sydney Living Museums
This significant historic house and rural estate is being offered for long-term leasehold.
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