W.M. SOMERVILLE, “LIBYA” , WOOLLAHRA: LETTER from WEST NORW00D, U.K.
This paper is about a heritage building in Sydney, ‘Libya’, and I have to admit at the outset that my research has been unfruitful in finding the reason for the name. I did learn something about William and Alice Somerville, the Aborigines that occupied the land before the white men came, the parcel of land that was divided up in Woollahra, (Aboriginal word for ‘a lookout’), as well as the