Cast iron pot
Object Detail
Level of current record
Brief description
Cast iron pot with handles and separate lid, used by local market gardener, Bill Gay to boil vegetables and cook family meals. His father George Louie Gay established a market garden on leased land at Rose Bay and in the 1920s, relocated to Guildford after council reclaimed the land at Rose Bay. Bill and his wife lived and worked at the market garden. A wide variety of vegetables were grown there and the family lived off their produce during the difficult days of the 1930s depression. Bill eventually took over his fathers’ market garden and maintained it until the 1950s when the land was bought by Parramatta Council and turned into a park.
Accession date
24 Nov 2015
Object number
ACC174.005