12 November 2021: The centenary of the marriage of Kelvin Walter Lutge and Ethel Lillian Webb-Wagg
Kel and Ethel are my maternal grandparents. Known as Papa and Grandma to their five grandchildren, I was eleven when Kel died. Ethel died twenty five years later. They lived "just around the corner" at 82 Gerard Street Cremorne. We spent a lot of time together. They were wonderful grandparents and clearly loved each other dearly. So today we remember their marriage a century ago at their local church, St Peter's Anglican Church Cremorne. The church looks very much like it did on 12 November 1921 when Kel and Ethel made their way there. Building of the parish hall, to the left, did not commence until the following year. This was the local church for the Lutge and Webb Wagg families after it opened in 1909. The Lutge's lived 700m away at 84 Gerard Street and it was a further 800m to the Webb-Wagg home at 14 Bray Street Mosman. Kel was a few days short of his twenty-third birthday. As Ethel was only twenty, her father gave permission for her marriage. She'd spent th...