The house where the jar came from has since been demolished … it was being prepared for demolition when the junk was put out the front … it was an old vacant rundown fibro house
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The area originally was a cheap holiday/fishing destination, close to Sydney, and accessible by steam train, lots of shacks were built, and then when people retired, they retired up here, to their “holiday home”
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And still do
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Spike Milligan, (whose mother lived in the area), once called Woy Woy, the largest above ground cemetery in the world …
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We honoured Spike by calling our newly built, ($1,000,000), bridge for the cyclists ……
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The Spike Milligan Bridge … much to the chagrin of the councillors who wanted to name it after a politician … people power won out
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But I digress
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We gave it a decent burial on the weekend …
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A nice spot up the top of Blackwall Mountain
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Someone said a prayer, some toasted with a beer
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Crystalised ginger ???
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We will never know
