We recently visited the Normal Lindsay Gallery and Museum in Faulconbridge, New South Wales. It is quite easy to get there during the week (Monday to Friday) without a car by taking the train from Central Station in Sydney to Springwood (on the Blue Mountains Line), then catching the 960C bus at 10.50am from The Hippy Shop across the road from the railway station. You can get back the same way by catching the 2.50pm bus back to Springwood from the gallery. Norman Lindsay and his second wife, Rose, lived in the house, which is now the cornerstone of the gallery. It is filled with Norman Lindsay's watercolours, model ships, oil paintings, vases and currently, a Magic Pudding Exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of publication of Norman's children's book, The Magic Pudding . The exhibition features sketches, movie and theatre posters, marionettes and versions of The Magic Pudding published in different languages. You can also peek at the kitchen largely ...
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