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also represented. The grounds feature an outdoor display of model trains and original ephemera from NSW railways such as signage, benches and station contents, which were being removed and disposed of in the 1980s. The house also features a commemorative museum to the great
Australian politician, intellectual and statesman Dr. H V Evatt.
229:(1900 – 1984) married Marjorie Andreas, a daughter, of Harry and Alice, and the Evatt family connection to the property began. Clive Evatt Jnr, an Andreas grandson, managed the property. Clive Evatt and his wife, Elizabeth Evatt, are the founders of the present museum. They are responsible for the exhibition of
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Represented characters included Alice in
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Leuralla housed a toy museum from 1980 to 2022. It included a collection of toys, children's literature, games and models from the 20th
Century. Items included rare tinplate trains, airplanes, zeppelins, ships, automobiles, lead and elastolin figures, as well as working model train layouts complete
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The museum included a display of Nazi-themed toys that were used to indoctrinate children in the German Nazi era. A sign at the display said that the museum "disclaims and condemns" such use and that they are shown for public knowledge. After the closure of the museum in 2022, the Nazi-themed toys
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are rendered and the building is on a rockfaced sandstone base. Leuralla has a hipped roof with short projecting hipped wings on the southern and northern sides. The wide external sandstone staircase which has twin flights from the ground under a single storey portico. The portico is topped by a
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Andreas established an exotic garden from his earliest ownership of
Leuralla and much of it was saved from the 1909 bushfire. It was redeveloped around the 1914 house and is still 5 hectares (12 acres) in size. A formal garden lay out was used originally by Andreas and later
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242:(1894 – 1965) memorabilia and for the toy and railway collection displayed in various buildings. Herbert Vere Evatt was Clive Evatt Snr's brother but had no particular connection with Leuralla and had a home of his own in Leura.
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improved the garden overall. There is a sculpture garden on the south side of
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