There is always a frisson of excitement in the office when Column 8 receives an actual, tangible letter. Particularly when it’s from the hand of our old mate Avid Eddie of Berkeley Vale. “Around 1945-46, horse-drawn vehicles were an unusual sight in Sydney, except around the Double Bay/Edgecliff area. I recall regularly seeing an elderly man of Asian appearance sitting in his cart, laden with fruit and veg, as his well-trained draught horse slowly traversed the hill on New South Head Road at Edgecliff, against the motor and tram traffic. From where did he start, and did he buy or grow…
