Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Grand United Fellowship Of Goodfellows 1921

Sunday, March 20, 2016

The Sydney Common - Moore Parklands

The Sydney Common

The largest urban park in the southern hemisphere, developed as a parkland since the early days of European settlement. It also gives its name to the small residential suburb on its western fringe, whose most famous resident was Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White.

Common land proclaimed by Governor Macquarie in 1811 for Sydney's inhabitants to graze animals. The original 1000 acres was reduced in 1866 as land was sold to fund levelling and tree planting.

Go Ahead Over 200 Years And It Is Becoming A Mayer Of The People V's the State

Since The Time Governor Macquarie Put Aside The Land To Make a Common There Have Been Many Threats To The Land And Open Space by Various Subdivisions At The Beginning Of Centennial Parks Existence To Pay For The Park Itself, To Successive Governments Wanting Turn It Into Something Else.

The Kippax Lake Area Of Moore Park Has Been Proposed To Be A Sports Precinct, And Now There Is the stubby Cotter Bridge Which Blew Out All Government Budgets, For What A Footbridge Should Be Worth.

THEN THERE IS THE MATTER OF THE CENTENNIAL PARK TRUST MEMBERS BREAKING THE TRUST DEED AND SELLING THE LAND FROM LACHLAN SWAMP AND THE ORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE WATERLOO AND LORD PAPER MILL FROM 1803.

Charles Moore, the Head Of The Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens

It's Really Enough To Break Your Heart When You Happen To Come Across Plans Like The DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOORE PARK PRECINCT.

Just Who The Hell Do These People

Think They Are

This Land Was Given To The People Of New South Wales By Governor Macquarie In 1811. Thank God He Had A Vision.

In 1983 By Act Of Parliament The New South Wales Centennial And Moore Park Trust And Board Waa Created To Manage Centennial Park, Moore Park And Queens Park.

All Things Measured The Trust Has Been Very Successful In That Time.

Where The Board And Trustees Have Really Fallen Over Was The Sale of A Tract Of Land On Alison Road Across From The Randwick Racecourse.

In Late 2015...... In The Dead Of Night.... The Trust Voted To Sell This Land For $7 Million Dollars To The Light Rail Corporation.

This act Was And Still Is Illegal. It Is Set Out Clearly In The Deed. under

Section 5 - Sub section 19 - Part 2

Clause 3

ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THE ORIGINAL SYDNEY COMMON LAND GRANTED TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW SOUTH WALES IN SEPTEMBER 1811 SHALL EVER BE RESUMED OR APPROPRIATED BY EITHER PRIVATE ENTERPRISE OR BY THE NEW

SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT UNLESS BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Sydney’s First Cemetary - Beyond Sydney Cove Terminal At The Head Of A Small Bay

Sydney's First Cemetary - Beyond Sydney Cove Terminal At The Head Of A Small Bay

Hereabouts Was Situated Sydney's First Burial Ground 1788 -1792. Some Headstones Were Still In Position I 1874

Captain Collins Records - "Every Person Belonging To The Settlement Being Landed, The Numbers Amounted To 1030 Persons. The Scurvy Now Broke Out, Which Aide By Dysentry, Began ToFill The Hospital And Several Died.

Sergeant James Scott Of The Marines Recorded The First Death, Writing In His Journal

"Sunday 24th February, Thos Harmsworth, Son To. This Harmsworth A stone Died Of A Feaver:" A Few Weekks Later On 30th April, The Same Journal Noted. "This Harmsworth, Marine Died."

In June 1788 Surgeon general John White StatedThat 28. Convict Men And. Women Had Died, Also Three Marines & Ten Children. No Doubt They Were Interred In This Burial Ground, The First Cemetary In Sydney.

Later, Collins Wrote Of The Proposed Barracks - "Their Situation Being Directly In The Neighbourhood Of The Ground Appropriated To The Burial Of The Dead, It Became Necessary To Choose Another Spot.... The Gorvernor, In The Company With Rev Mr Johnson, Set Apart The Ground Foremerly Cultivated By The Late Captain Shea Of The Marines. "

A Letter From A Female Convict Written On 14th November 1788 (Historical Records Of New South Wales Volume 2) Describes The West Side Of Sydney Cove, The Area Known As The Rocks, And Goes On to Say: -

At The Extremity Of The Lines, Where Since Our Arrival The Dead Are Buried, There Is A Place Called The Church Yard, but We Hear, As Soon As A Sufficient Quantity Of Bricks That Can Be Made, A Chiurch Is To Be Built, And Named St Phillip, After The Governor."

The Sydney Gazette Of The 5th February 1804 Said -

"The Plan Of Inclosing The Burial Ground In Order To Prevent Swine And Other Stock From Grazing Upon It And Rooting Up The Earth, Has Been Proposed By The Sexton, And Approved Of. Several Gentlemen Have Already Con'tributed Liberally To Reward The Labour The Must Necessarily Attend The Execution of The Design."

Friday, March 11, 2016

Randwick Asylum For Destitute Children - Now Prince Of Wales Hospital

AVOCA STREET AND HIGH STREET, RANDWICK, NEW SOUTH WALES

THE ASYLUM FOR DESTITUTE CHILDREN - NOW THE SITE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL

THIS

***** %%%%% Atherfield Landmark gothic mansion - Darling Point -

Atherfield

Built in 1870, "Atherfield" Is A Landmark Gothiic Revival Mansion Positioned On The Sprawing 1157sqm Landholding On The Darling Point Pninsula.

Originally An eight rom home

Ann Bushby's Dove And Olive Branch Public House

Ann Bushby's Dove And Olive Branch Public House

Mrs Bushby's As It Shows, Did Not Brew Her own, As Her Advertising Shows; She Had On Sale Taylor's London Porter, And Local Australian Beer from Wrights Brewery In George Street

The First Public Gallows - The Barley Mow Hotel

Castlereagh Stteey and Park Streets, North Wastern Corner

The Barley now Hotel

The Barley Mow Hotel Holds The Oldest Continuous License In Sydney, Dating From 1830, But The Byilding Has Been Reconstructed. Earlier (1804) This Was The Site Of The Public Galliws.

In "Sydney 1848" Tells Us That

"That The First Place Of Execution Wad In The Vicinity Of What Is Now Occupied By The St James Watch-House, Others That It Was On The Opposite Side of Elizabeth Street. Where Hendersons Buildings Now Stand.

But By A Chart In A French Work, Published By The Authority Of Napoleon 1803, It Appears To Have Been Near The Site Of The Old Court House; On One Point; There Is No Difference Of Opinion; That The Exact Spot Later Formed Part Of A Garden That Extended Up King Street, Embracing Part Of The Site Of the New South Wales Supreme Court

Back To Joseph Fowles From "Sydney 1848"

- " About The Year 1804 The Gallows Was Removed To The Corner Of Park And Cartlereagh Streets, Where The Barley Mow Public House Now Stands.

THE SYDNEY GAZETTE OF NOVEMBER. 25TH 1804 Describes A Trip To The Gallows When John Green, A Black Man Charged a With Rape, Was Sentanced To Death. After Being Consoled By The Reverand Samuel Marsden "He Kneeled And Received With Some Visible Emotions The Last Offerings Of Piety. Yielding To His Fate He Expressed Concern At His Condition And Lamented That He Could No More Indulge A Hope Of Ever Beholding His Ancient Parents; He Declared The Province Of Pennsylvania To Be That Of His Nativity.

While The Work Of Death WasUnder Preparation He Took Leave Of The Populace In A Short Harangue, Warning Against A life Of Dissopation - And Then Departed For An Unknown a Region."

"The Gallows Was aagain Erected Near Te Site Of Barkers Mills, In Sussex Street, It Was Afterwsrds Removed To The East Corner Of a What Is now The Protestant Burial Ground, Near Strawberry Hill; Again Over The Sand Hills To The Back Of The New Military Barracks (In York Street)"

Fowles Neglected To State That The Gallows Was Also Erected Outside The Jail At Essex And George Streets, Until It Was Removed To Darlinghurst Jail I. 1841. The Most Important Public Hanging Here was Of The Murderer John Knatchbull, executed On 13th Feb 1844

Friday, February 26, 2016

Cleveland House Part 4 - 2 Years later

CLEVELAND HOUSE 2 YEARS ON

FEBRUARY 26th 2016

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Governors Of New South Wales From 1788 To 2016

GOVERNORS OF NEW SOUTH WALES SINCE 1788

1. Captain Arthur Phillip RN

7th Feb 1788 - 10 Dec 1792

2. Captain. John Hunter RN

11 Sept 1795 - 27 Sept 1800

3. Captain Phillip Gidley King

28 Sept 1800 - 12 Aug 1806

4. Captain William Bligh RN

13 Aug 1806 - 26 Jan 1808

5. Major General Lachlan Macquarie

1st. Jan 1810 - 1st Dec 1821

GOVERNORS UNDER KING GEORGE IV (1820 - 1830)

6. Major General Sir Thomas Brisbane BT, GCH, GCB

1st Dec 1821 - 1st Dec 1825

7. Luietenant General Sir Ralph Darling - GCH

19th Dec 1825 - 21st Oct 1831

GOVERNORS UNDER KING WILLIAM IV (1830 - 1837)

8. Major General. Sir. Richard Bourke - KCB

3rd Dec 1831 - 5th Deec 1837

GOVERNORS UNDER QUEEN VICTORIA (1837 - 1901)

9. Major Sir George Gipps

24th Feb 1838 - 11 July 1846

10. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy - KCB, KCB

3rd Aug 1846 - 28 Jan 1855

11. Sir William Denison - KCB

20 Jan 1855 - 22nd Jan 1861

12. The RT Hon. Sir John Young - BT, GCMG, KCB

16th May 1861 - 24 Dec 1867

13. The. RT Hon. The Earl Belmore - GCMG, PC

8th Jan 1868 - 2st Feb 1872

14. The RT Hon Sir Hercules Robinson - GCMG

3rd June 1872 - 19 March 1879

15. The RT Hon. Lord Augustus Loftus - GCB

4th Aug 1879 - 9th Nov 1885

16. The RT Hon. The Lord Carrington - GCMG, PC

12 Dec 1885- 3 Nov 1890

17. The RT Hon. EarlOf Jersey - GCB, GCMG, PC

15 Jan 1891 - 2 March 1893

18. The RT Hon Sir Robert Duff - GCMG

29thMay 1893 - 155th March 1895

19.The RT Hon The Viscount Hampden - GCMG

21 Nov 1895 - 5 March 1899

20. The RT Hon. The Earl Beauchamp - KG, KCMG, PC

18th May 18899 - 30th April 1901

GOVERNORS UNDER KING EDWARD VII (1901-1910)

21. Admiral Sir Harry Rawson - GCB, GCMG, RN

27 May 1902 - 27 May 1909

22. The RT Hon The Lord Chelmsford - GCMG

28 May 1909 - 11 March 1913

GOVERNORS UNDER KING GEORGE V (1910 - 1936)

Frog Hollow - Albion St & Riley St - Surry Hills

FrogHollow - Cnr Of Albion Street & Riley Street - Surry Hills

Boy Has This Place Changed, Even Since I Was Young. This Is a Where I Spent My First Christmas Alone After I ran Away From Boarding School In 1993. I Was 15, It Was Christmas Eve & Both My Parents Had Bombed Themselves Out On Sleepers, Valiums, Rohypnols.... Whatever.... Needless To Say They Slept Right Through Till Boxing Day Night...

So There I Am In The Old Frog Hollow.... & It Was Really Quite Scary... I Met This Aboriginal Girl Who Lived In A Tent Like Thing In The Corner Of The Park Section... For The Life Of Me I Can't Remember Her Name... But She Was Homeless & I Remember She Took Me Under Her Wing That Night & We Got Drunk On Passion Pop. She Took Me Right Around Kings Cross. I Got To Meet A Lot Of Working Girls & Other Homeless People.. I Remember Arriving Back To Queens Park Hilton About Lunchtime On Christmas Day Exhausted & Hungover. & That Was My Christmas 1992

Refloating The HMS Endeavour Off A Coral Reef - 1770

Refloating The HMS Endeavour Off A Coral Reef On The Great Barrier Reef
1770

The First Fleet Women Come ashore - 6th Feb 1788

The first fleet women come ashore

On Wednesday 6th Feb 1788, The Women Were Brought Ashore From Their Transport Ships.....

"At 5 O'clock In The Morning, All Things Were Got In Order For Landing The Whole Of The Women, And 3 Of The Ships Longboats Came Alongsude Us To Receive Them; Prevoous To Their Quitting

The Ship, A Strict Search Was Made To Try If Any Of The Many Things Which They Had Stolen On Board Could Be Found, But Their Artiface Eluded The Most Strict Search, And At 6 O'clock, We Had The Long Wished Pleasure Of Seeing The Last Of Them Leave The Ship. they Were Dressed In General Very Clean, & Some Few Amongst Them Might Be Said To Be Well Dressed. The Men Convicts Got To Them Very Soon After They Landed, & It Is Beyond My Abilities To Give A Just Description If The Scene Of Debauchery

Some of the First Fleet journals and letters do not even mention this little ceremony, there were only a few officers and men involved. There appear to have been no convicts on shore for this ceremony, or if they were, they didn’t rate a mention. A number of the officers were also not present nor mentioned it in their journals. Those who were not on shore or who did not mention this incident include: Worgan, White, Tench, Collins, Blackburn, Bradley and Clarke.
This could indicate, to the participants, this was nothing more than a thanksgiving for their safe arrival. None of the reporters give the incident much importance, unlike the reading of Phillip's Commission on 7 February 1788. Some of the male able-bodied convicts were disembarked the next day, 27 January, and the remainder over the next few days. None of the female convicts were allowed off the ships until 6 February 1788, when the sick were also landed and admitted to the tent hospital.
Therefore, in reality, on 26 January 1788 the only event was the anchoring of the ships of the First Fleet in Sydney Cove, the running up of a flag and a toast to the King and success of the colony.
The official ceremony occurred on the 7 February 1788.
Phillip:
"The 7th of February, 1788, was the memorable day which
established a regular form of Government on the coast of New South
Wales. On a space previously cleared, the whole colony was
assembled; the military drawn up, and under arms; the convicts
stationed apart; and near the person of the Governor, those who
were to hold the principal offices under him. The Royal Commission
was then read by Mr. D. Collins, the Judge Advocate. By this
instrument Arthur Phillip was constituted and appointed Captain
General and Governor in Chief in and over the territory, called

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Bradfield - The Harbour Bridge - The Trains - Water - irrigating The Continant

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The Harbour bridge

the Sydney Train System

Sydney has A Number Of Little Known railway Tunnels. The Oldest one Was built Under george Street in 1855 From The Sydney Railway Yard to Darling Harbour. A Gap At Broadway Let the Smoke From The Steam Trains Escape. The Tunnel Is Still in Use ((Not Sure What It is in Use For ))

Another Old Tunnel runs underneath Jubilee park At Glebve. It Forms Part Of The Metropolitan goods line Which Runs From Darling Harbour to Cantebury. The Line Was Started in 1855 & Finished In 1917. The Line Is Only Used For Goods And As No Passengers Travel on It, Few People outside The Railways Knows Of Its Existence.

However the Line Was Known To Thousands of American Troops Whio Labnded At Rozelle Bay Firing The Scond Woprld War,. A Monument In the Rozelle Mar5shalling Yards In A Reminder Of Those Days

A Number Of Unused Tunnels Were Built in The 1920's As Part Of the Dr J. j. c. Bradfield Scheme For Sydneys Transport. They Include tunnels Near Wynyard Station Which WEere Used For Many Years By Trams. They Are now Used As A Carpark Under the Menzies hotel .

Short tunnels Constructed in the 1920's Around Town Hall Were Built In Case trhe Railways System Was Extended At Some Point in The Future`

Water

Bibliography

Bibliography

The Queen Victoria Building - A Sketch Portrait - Allan Gamble.
First Published 1988
ISBN 0 947131 12 4

The Copming Of The British To Australia - 1788 - 1829- By Ida Lee ( Mrs Charles Bruce Marriott)
First Published 1906

Last Stop To Nowhere - the Australian history You Never Learnt At School

Batavia's Graveyard - Mike Dash - Published 14 Feb 2002
ISBN - 0-575-07024-2

Arthur Phillips Commission - Opened At Circular Quay 6th Feb 1788 - Instructions And Setup of A British Colony Making Arthur Phillip Commander In Chief

Governor Phillips instruction - From the british Parkliament - 25th April 1787

Captain Cooks Secret instructions Frmo King George III 1770

Queen Victoria's instructions to governor General - 29th October 1900

Order In Council Ending Convict Transportation - 22nd May 1840

New South Wales Courts Sct - 1787 - Enabling Judiciary

University Of Sydney Act 1850

An Act For The Better Government Of Her Majesty's Australian Colonies - 16th July 1855

Sydney in 1848 - by Joseph Fowles - Illustreated By copper Plate Engravings - Principal Streets, public buildings, Churches, Chapels

History of New South Wales From The Records - VOLUME 1 - Governor Phillip - 1783 - 1789

Manly - First Fleet Records - 1788 - 1790

Hstorical contect Of The Conservation Of The The Conservatorium of Music Site Which Was the Governemtn Horse Stables

The Founding Of Australia - First Fleet & convict Notes

Serenade To Sydney

This Fabulous Century

Rum, Rebels And Ratbags

the Dirt On the Rocks - www.dirtontherocks.com
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The Sydney Train SWystem - As Designed by Bradfield

The Bradfield Scheme - Watering Inland Australia

Nationasl Trust Register Listing Report - Circular Quay Railway Station -

National trust Register - The Conservatorium Of Music

Queen Victoria - Diamond Jubilee - 1898

Find Out Some Of The Celebreations in Sydney For Queens Bivtorias Diamond Jubilee

Queen Victoria - Golden Jubilee - 1887 -

Find Out Some Of he Celebrations That Happened In Sydney Foer The Golden Jubilee

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Description Of Sydney New South Wales

Sydney, The Capital Of New South Wales & The Metropolis Of Australiasia, Is Siutated On The Suthern Shore Of Port Jackson, At A Distance Of 7 Miles From The Pacific Ocean,

In Latitude 33 Degres 55 Minutes South

And Longtitude 151 Degrees 25 Minutes East

It Is Built At The Head Of The Far Farmed "Cove", & With Darling Harbour As It's General Boundary To The West, extends In An Unbroken Succession Of Houses For More Than 2 Miles In A Southerly Direction.

As A Maritime City It Is Unrivalled. Possessing At Least 3 Miles Of Water Frontage, At Any Part Of Vessels With The Heaviest Burden Can Safely Approach The Wharves. The Ground Is Mainly Sandstone

Nelson Head Inner Lightouse - Nelson Bay New South Wales

Nelson Head Inner Lighthouse

Begore The First Permanant Inner Light Was Erected In 1872, There Were At Least 11 Shipwrecks Resulting In The Loss Of 37 Lives. The Wrecks Date Back To The "Cumberland:" I 1797.

The Government Gazette Of 1872 Promulgated Tat "From The 1st Apri 1872, A Harbour Light Will Be Exhibited On Nelson Head, Visible To A Distanver Of 8 To 10 Miles In Clear Weather... To Be A Guide To Vessels Coming To Nelson Bay."

The Light Was Mounted At Nelson Head On A Post, And Was The First Recorded Beacon Light In the Bay. It Is Possible That Other Navigational Markers Were Used Before 1872

Chinese Fisherman Were Reported To be Using The Bay As Early As 1800 Or Earlier.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

The Argyle Cut - Argyle Street-Millers Point

THE ARGYLE CUT - THE ROCKS

Do you go cut is a striking example of conflict public works. It was a colonial effort to overcome a challenging landscape, providing a more level crossing between the rocks and Millers point.

In 1843, convict labour was deployed to cut the roadway through the rocky peninsula. It was completed in 1959 with the use of explosives and council labour. Bridges over the cup were completed later.

The Uncle cup was also taken in the 1920s with the construction of the approaches to the Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Argyle Cut is A striking example of convict Public works. It was a Colonial effort to overcome a challenging Landscape, providing a more level crossing between The Rocks & Millers Point,

In 1843, convict labour was deployed to cut the roadway through the rocky peninsula. It was completed in 1859 with the use of explosives

Whenever I Happen To Pass The ARGYLE CUT I Always Think What An Amazing Piece Of Work It Is. Can You Imagine The Hundreds Of Comvicts All Chained Together In Chain Gangs. With Nothing More Than Blunt Picks Hitting The Sandstone.

Walking Through The Cut You Just Can't Imagine Gravity Of Human Labour to Cut This Straight Out Of The Rock.

Also Hard To Imagine The Bits Of Broken Sandstone Being Either Carried By Hand Or Using A Wheelbarrow Style Tool...

Down To The Coastal Estuary Called Circular Quay And Tipped Into The Tidal Flat. The Reclaimed Land Has Added About 50 Metres To The Quay, And the Semi Circular Walls Were Built.

When You See The Sandstone Sea Wall That Goes Right Around The Working Harbour From Millers Point, Dawes Point To Circular Quay And What Would Have Been Fort Macqaurie.

"This Square Forms A Part Of An Area Of Old Sydney Called The Rocks, Once Famous As A Residential District And A Notorius Haunt Of Sailors. Argyle Street Was Named By governor Macquarie In 1810 After His Native Country.

In The Cut Itself - High On The Wall There Is ThisNotice

" Chas Moore -Mayor- 1867 - 1868

Above This Spot A Bridge Known AsThe Princes Street Bridge Spanned The Original Argyle Cut. As A Memorial Of The Bridge, The Above Stone, Which Formed Part Of It, Is Placed Where The Shadow Of The Bridge