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The Sydney Morning Herald of 25 December 1901 reported on a “plucky rescue” at Manly: “Mr Grantley B. Sheridan, of Manly, on Sunday last was with some companions near the outlet of Curl Curl Lagoon, when he was summoned to assist a bather who had been carried out by the current, and was in danger of drowning. Mr Sheridan swam out, caught his man, then sinking for the last time, and by manful battling managed to bring him to a sandbank, where onlookers had formed a living chain, and both were hauled ashore in safety. It was half an hour before the rescued man was brought to his senses. Mr. Sheridan made a similar rescue last year at Manly, with a similarly successful result.”[1]
Mr Sheridan, 29, was awarded a silver medal and Certificate of Merit by the Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society of NSW, and a Bronze Medal by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia.[2]
The rescued man was Philip Bushell, aged 22. Philip Bushell (1879-1954) was the nephew of Arthur Brooke, who founded Brooke Bond tea. Philip, too, went into the tea business, with his brother Alfred, and they had just established the tea-shop Bushell and Co in George Street, Sydney. Later, they formed Bushell’s Ltd in February 1912, with Philip as Managing Director and Chairman, and by the 1920s the firm was well-known all over Australia, particularly for its eye-catching promotional stunts. Philip Bushell married on 12 February 1916, and had two daughters. He died in 1954.[3]
Grantley Sheridan, without whom we may never have had Bushell’s tea, moved inter-state, and latterly lived at Toorak, Victoria, where he was a bank inspector. He died there in 1936, aged 64.[4]
Mr Sheridan, 29, was awarded a silver medal and Certificate of Merit by the Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society of NSW, and a Bronze Medal by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia.[2]
The rescued man was Philip Bushell, aged 22. Philip Bushell (1879-1954) was the nephew of Arthur Brooke, who founded Brooke Bond tea. Philip, too, went into the tea business, with his brother Alfred, and they had just established the tea-shop Bushell and Co in George Street, Sydney. Later, they formed Bushell’s Ltd in February 1912, with Philip as Managing Director and Chairman, and by the 1920s the firm was well-known all over Australia, particularly for its eye-catching promotional stunts. Philip Bushell married on 12 February 1916, and had two daughters. He died in 1954.[3]
Grantley Sheridan, without whom we may never have had Bushell’s tea, moved inter-state, and latterly lived at Toorak, Victoria, where he was a bank inspector. He died there in 1936, aged 64.[4]
The attached photo shows a prominent Bushell's advertisement from 1937 at Queenscliff bridge overlooking the spot where the rescue took place.
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