Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley signs an autograph at the Prime Ministers' Corridor of Oaks at Faulconbridge on December 6, 1947. Photo: Blue Mountains City Library Local Studies Collection.
Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley, a former engine driver, shows how to use a shovel at the Prime Ministers' Corridor of Oaks at Faulconbridge on December 6, 1947. Photo: Blue Mountains City Library Local Studies Collection.
The daughter of war-time Prime Minister John Curtin, Elsie Cole, plants her father’s oak tree at Faulconbridge in December 1947 while Ben Chifley looks on. Photo: Blue Mountains City Library Local Studies Collection.
Mrs H. L. Brookes, the eldest daughter of Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, at the Corridor of Oaks on August 17, 1936. Photo: Blue Mountains City Library Local Studies Collection.
Former Australian Prime Minister Artie Fadden plants his oak tree in the Prime Ministers' Corridor of Oaks, Faulconbridge on December 6, 1947. He planted his tree in company with Ben Chifley and Elsie Cole, daughter of John Curtin. Photo: Blue Mountains City Library Local Studies Collection.
Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating plants a tree in the Prime Ministers' Corridor of Oaks at Faulconbridge on August 30, 1995. Photo: Sydney Morning Herald.
Blue Mountains Mayor Ian Dash with Prime Minister William McMahon and Sonia McMahon at the Corridor of Oaks on April 22, 1971. Photo: Blue Mountains City Council Local Studies Collection.
Former Australian Prime Minister James Scullin plants an oak tree at Faulconbridge on September 9,1939. Joseph Jackson, founder of the Prime Ministers' Corridor of Oaks at Jackson Park, Faulconbridge, looks on.
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will plant a tree in the Prime Ministers' Corridor of Oaks at Faulconbridge on Monday, October 8.
Joseph Lyons was the first prime minister to plant an oak tree in Jackson Park on September 12, 1934.
Twenty three trees have been planted since then.
Joseph Jackson, the Federal Member for Nepean from 1927-1957, was instrumental in establishing the Corridor of Oaks. He bought and donated the land to Blue Mountains Shire Council so it would become a national memorial opposite Sir Henry Parkes’ former residence, Faulconbridge House.