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Star of the Sea which was a Dominican Convent in those days and my brothers
travelled by train to Bishops. Daddy was an ophthalmic surgeon who

travelled every day to town where he had his practice in Medical Centre on

the Foreshore. Mummy was a prominent socialite and Petrava sparkled and
glowed with the many parties and charity fund raisers held there during this

time.

Aspects of the interior, like the ‘shell’ mouldings above the book-cases, are believed to have
been modelled at Josephine Clegg’s request, on those in the Oval Office in the White House.

On 1 October 1965 the Appletons sold Petrava to Copse Investments Pty Ltd. The house

remains a grand place. (Fig. 3.83.)

On the day Sydney Appleton bought Petrava, his mother Winifred Appleton bought a portion
of the erf on the south side – (erf 88715) from the Rumbles. She sold it to Margaret Elizabeth

Hahn in 1959. She and her husband John Aneck Hahn built York House (42 Boyes Drive) on
this site. They subsequently added 2 erven (88747 and 88749) and York House is still owned

by the Hahn family today.

During the early war years three large houses were built in a two year period 1940 – 1942.

One of the reasons for this burst of activity was that access to the whole Quarterdeck Estate
area had been hugely improved through construction in 1939 of Quarterdeck Road. It is

unusual in being a concrete road and this is no doubt attributable to the wartime restrictions
on the use of oil-based products like bitumen. (Figs. 3.84 & 3.85.)

Arlington

On 28 June 1934 Lots 6 (erf 88708) and 7 (erf 88707) – now 37 Quarterdeck Road - were

sold by Harold Molteno Anderson and his sister Evangeline Stanford (b. Anderson) to Julia
Lamont Grant for £333 6s 8d each. She in turn sold them in 1940 to Violet Elizabeth Brown