If you were considering buying a block of land in Canberra in the 1920s, you really had to believe in the place.
The brand-new capital city had just a few thousand residents in 1924, but over the border in Queanbeyan, Della Calthorpe was eyeing the empty streets and sense of possibility.
She told her husband, stock and real estate agent Harry Calthorpe, that Canberra would be the place to be in years to come.
