Manly Museum - 1982 - Manly, NSW, Australia
S 33° 47.904 E 151° 16.886
56H E 340910 N 6258869
The Manly Museum was Opened by Neville Wran, the Premier of NSW.
Waymark Code: WMYH1J
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 06/15/2018
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With a history of an Art Gallery going back to 1922, after taking over an outdoor concert pavilion in 1930, the original building needed to be enlarge to take on more displays. While it has quite a collection of art, it also houses a collection of over 1300 of swimwear, as Manly has been known as a popular swimming place 'for decades'. [ex-Wikipedia:
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The Museum was opened by The Honourable Neville Wran, QC (1926 - 2014), who was the Premier of NSW from 1976 to 1986, and also the president of the Australian Labor Party from 1980 to 1986. He was born in Paddington, a Sydney inner-city suburb, and went to the Balmain Public School, and Fort Street Boys High School. He went to the Sydney University, gaining a Bachelor of Law in 1948, admitted as a solicitor in 1951, accepted to 'the Bar' in 1957, and became a 'Queen's Counsel' in 1968.
While Neville Wran became the NSW Premier in 1976, it was on the narrowest of margins at the elections, but he built on that, and term came into being of a 'Wranslide' when there was quite a swing, bringing a better governing majority with the subsequent election in 1981. From Wikipedia, at one time he had a 80% Approval Rating in opinion polls.
Neville Wran
Near the northern entrance to the Manly Museum is cast bronze plaque with a heavy brown patina for the Opening, which reads:
This plaque commemorates the Opening of the
MANLY MUSEUM
by the Premier of New South Wales
The Hon. N.K. WRAN, Q.C., M.P.
13th September, 1982
Engineer Mayor Town Clerk
P.C. Lindsay J.A. Thorburn C.R. Menzies
Address: 1 West Esplanade, Manly, NSW, 2095, Australia
Phone: (02) 9976 1421
Hours: 10am - 5pm Tuesday - Sunday
Visited: 1936, Sunday, 4 February, 2018