Listen "Episode 20 Changing Suburbs: Lower Portland - Connie Lowe"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode, we revisit an interview with the late Connie Lowe, wife of former Hills Shire Councillor Harvey Lowe, after whom the Harvey Lowe Pavilion at Castle Hill Showground was named. Connie was born in 1900 and moved to Lower Portland on the Hawkesbury River in 1931. In this interview, she spoke about her father-in-law, Councillor Robert Lowe, an original member of the Baulkham Hills Shire Council in 1906, as well as the early days of life in Lower Portland and her involvement with various community groups throughout her long life.