Tank Stream Bridge & Head of Sydney Cove

Bridge Street, Northern Side, Between George And Pitt Steeets

In October 1788, A Timber Bridge Was Built To Span The Tank Stream, Which Was Then The Head Of Sydney Cove. 

When Governor Phillip Inspected Port Jackson In January 1788 He Was Unduced To Start Settlement There Because Of A Rivulet At The Head Of Sydney Cove Where WiLd Celery, Paraley and Aponach Flourished - Healthy Vegetablesn For Scurvy Patients. A Swampy Spring, one Mile Away In Today's Hyde Park, Was The Birthplace Of This Rivulet, Which Fell One Hundred Feet As It Wandered Eastward Over Sandstone Rocks To King Street. Thence Nourished By Two Springs, One At King Street And Another At Spring Street, It Glowed To Bridge Street, The Head Of The  Estuary. 

To Save The Lifestream, Governor Phillip InMarch 1788 Wisely Decreed That "The Run Of Water Which Supplies The SettlementQas Observed To Be Only. A Drain Grom The Swamp. To Protect It From The Sun, The Governor Forbids The Cutting DownOf Any Tree Within Fifty Feet Of The Run, then Which There Has Not Been A Finer Found In Any One Kf The Coves In The Harbour. 

In October 1788 A Timber bridge was built to span the tank stream at this spot, which was then The Head Of Sydney Cove. in 1803 -1804 the structure was replaced by Stonebridge. 

When Governor Philip inspected Port Jackson in January 1788 he was induced to start a settlement there because Of A Rivulet At The Head Of Sydney Cove Where Wild celery parsley & spinach flourished - healthy vegetables for scurvy patients. A Swampy Spring 1 mile away, in the centre of Today's Hyde Park, Was The Birthplace Of This a Rivulet,which fell 100 feet as it wandered Eastward Over sandstone Rocks To King Street.  Then nourished by two springs, one at  King Street and another at Spring Street It Flowed to Bridge Street The Head Of The tidal estuary.

To save the live stream, Governor Philip in March 1788 wisely decreed that 

"the run of water which supplies the settlement was observed to be only a drain from the swamp. To protect it from the sun, the governor forbids the cutting down of any tree within 50 feet of the run, than which there has not been a finer found in any one of the coves of the harbour."

in February 1791 surveyor Alt deepened the stream Near Bridge Street and in April 1792 the governor had ditches dug flanking the rivulet. A paling fence was erected to keep out stock and cherish the shrubs growing on its Bank.

The Rivulet was christened the tank stream in May 1792 after his Excellency had convicts Hew a tank from sandstone which held 8000 gallons of water.

Bridge Street where the 10th stream turned into the tidal waters Of Sydney Cove became the main link between East and West Sydney Collins in October 1788 stated that again Of convicts were employed enrolling timber together to form a bridge over the stream at the head of the Cove soon footbridge spans the rushing mortars followed later By Of E he Curcular Bridge alas and overloaded Bullock wagon broke through the decking and put the breach out of action

DISSERTATION ETHNOLOGICAL VALUE OF AUSTRALIAN ART 

The History Of The Sydney Garden Palace Is A Really Important Piece In The Jigsaw  Puzzle That Is Australian Art And Where Australian Aboriginal Art Fits In To This Equation. 
The History Of The Sydney Garden Palace Is Important to The History Of Australian Art. It Tells Us More About The Decisions Of The Trustees At The Time & It Clearly Demonstrates The Issue Of  Colonisation That Keeps Australian Aboriginal  Art Outside The Art Network During This Period..
The 1876 Sydney International Exhibition Which Highlighted the Issues Between The Academy & Local Artists Also Present Another Element To The Dissertion.... 
As Far As These International Trade Fairs Go,  Since The Earliest Event In England In 1851, They Not Only Included Exhibitions From The Colonies, But Those Conquered Through The Process Of Colonisation, Framing Other Societies Alien To Their Own.

The Catalogue For The "ETHNOLOGICAL" Objects In The Sydney States That The Exhibition Was 
"FOR THE PROPER EXHIBITION OF SAVAGE FINERY AND THE RELICS OF BARBEROUS NATIONS DOOMED TO SOON DISAPPEAR BEFORE THE ADVANCE  OF THE WHITES, AS THE AUSTRALIAN ABOROGINES HAVE ALMOST DONE" - (Miller - Select Chronology - 330)

The Sydney Garden Palace (1878 - 1882)
Objects And Histories - Representation Of Aboriginality In Exhibition Of Aboriginal Objects (1855 - 1957)

Australians Could Once Stand Proud

The Real Aussie, The Happy Go Lucky, The Attitude And Sense Of Humour. These Were Real Attributes. 

Australians Could Stand Proud

We Were Not A Nation And We Were Not A People That Lived Our Lives To Economic Benefits 

We Were Not A Nation That Did Things For Money Or For Any Other Reason Apart From What Was Right. Yes. We Did Things Because It Was The Right Thing To Do.

There Were Many Setbacks, But As Aussies We Overcame Every Hardship, And We Did It With Mateship. 

Mateship And Honour Were The Two Most Important Qualities To Have. Money, Or Economic Benefits Was At The Bottom Of The List. 

There Are Many Truly Aussie Sayings, Qualities And Attributes 

- "She'll Be Right Mate" 

Those Days Of The Hood Australia Are Long Gone. 

Now - 2 To 3 Generations Later, We Have Become Smug, Stuck Up And Greedy. 

Greed Was Never Something That Would've Been Attributed To A Dinky Di Aussie. We Were Not Greedy. We Shared What We Had. We Helped Those In Need, And We Would Be Helped In Times Of Need. 

But Now, In The 21st Century we Don't Even Know Or Care To Remember Our Historical Roots. And A Lot Has Been Forgotten, Or Removed From Our History books. 

We Have Never Had To Suffer Anything Like That of Our Forefathers, And Their Forefathers. We've Never Had To Do It Tough..... Or Rough 

We've Never Gone Hungry

We've Never Had To Make Real Sacrifices To Live Here, To Move Here, 

We Have No Appreciation For the

blood Sweat And Tears Of Our Forefathers Building This Nation from The Ground Up

Everything  Was.... or Has Already Been

built, The Train Lines, The Towns, The Local Area, The State And Federal Structure Of Government 

Apart From Commonwealth Constitutional Lawyers, None Of Us,Have  Probably Even Sighted The Australian Constitution, Which Was Carefully Forged Out By Our Forefathers. 

They Were All Either Emancipated Convicts, The Children of Ex convicts, Or Grandchildren....And Then there Was The  Aristocracy.  And A Lot Of Us Would Even  Know It Now. Our Historical Roots Were Looked At With Shame For A long Time

BUT now, It's Something That Endears Us To The Country Now. Being A Fifth Or Sixth Generation   Australian Means A Lot To Me. I Appreciate That Both My Mother And Father's Families Have Been Here Since Before 1850. 

I'm Lucky To Live On The Original Family

Home That 4 Generations Previous To Me Have Lived, Loved And Died in. 

Today, Everyone Just Sees Dollar Signs. They Will Never Have That Feeling Of Knowing That You Will Die At Home, Just Like Your Father Did, Just Like Your Grandfather Did And Your Great Grandfather Did, 

Money Means Nothing. Yes, Someone Can Pay Millions, Demolish My Home And Build Their Apartments And Make Their Money To Fuel Their agreed. 

So I Will Make Sure That The Family Home Is Bequeathed to The Appropriate People. 

So, From The Foundations Our Forefathers Lived and Died For To Make This A Proud Nation. I'm Guessing They Thought We Would Appreciate The Sacrifices They Made, So We Could Have. A Better Life 

But It Is Definitely Apparent 

- We Have No Regard For The Blood Sweat And Tears Of Our Forefathers Building This Great Nation 

- Australian History Is No Longer Part Of The School Curriculum, So Children Aren't Taught, Anything Really, Apart From The Bare Basics... With A Left Wing View. 

Manipulating Children To Take On A. Socialist Viewpoint Is Nothing To Be Proud Of. As Historical fact Is Watered Down With Groundless Rhetoric, Another Generation Has Lost The Point, And The Connection To Our Past 

Greed Rules Most Australians In This Age Of Entitlement. As We Have Never Gone WITHOUT Anything, Or Suffered Mote Than A Sleepless Night, We Know No Attachment To Our Foundations That Our Forefathers Clung To. 

The Australian Commonwealth Crimes Act Of 1913 - Version 1

I'm Only Going To Be Mentioning Section 24 AA - 

Which Relates to 

- TREASON

- TREASON AGAINST THE COMMONWEALTH, DEPENDANCY OR ALLIE

In This Day And Age Of Islamic Extemism, The Commonwealth Has The Instrument Given To It, Before World War 1, In Relation To Dealing With  Terrorists Under The "Treason" Enactments Enclosed In Sectio. 24 AA Of The Statute. 

Our Forefathers Only Knew Too Well....

Citizenship Can Be Reversed Immediately, Even If The Said Person Is Not A Dual Citizen. 

Any Person Or Persons Convicted OfTreason  Against The Commonwealth and Great Britain. and Other Allies, Can Be....

- Put To The Firing Squad, Depending On Severity 

- Locked Up For Life - No Getting Out 

It Needs All Court Chief Justices To Convene And Review Evidence In A Closed Court. All High Court Justices Must Agree That The Person Is Guilty Of Treason Against The Commonwealth, Dependancies And Allies. 

Hi 

The Public Does Not Have To Be Aware That This Is Happening. 

Treason Also Extends To Harbouring / Aiding And Abetting

Mens Rea 

                       - Between The Thinking Of         Something And The Act Of Something 

Actus Rea 

These Are The 2 Basic Pillars Of The Scales Of Justice

There Is No Innocent Until Proven Guilty "If There Is Enough Evidence To Warrant Suspicion. And All High Court Judges Must  Agree."

And There Can Be No Intervention From

 the Governor General, Prime Minister, Or The Speaker Of The House.... Or Anyone In The Lower House Or The Senate.

Any Islamic Extremist, Who Moves Outside The Boundaries Of The Statutes of The Commonwealth And The Constitution, Can Easily Be Arrested And Held Without Bail Or Special Circumstamces Once Section 24 AA Is Incited By The Appropriate Authority

The Person Then Has No Rights Or Liberties Enjoyed By Fhe Rest OfThe  Commonwealth 

SECTION 24 AA - COMMONWEALTH CRIMES ACT 1913

Crimes Act 1914
Part II - Offences Against Governmenr
24aa. - Treachery

(1) A Person Shall Not -

(a) Do Any Act Or Thing With Intent

(i) To Overthrow The Constitution Of The Commonwealth  By Revolution Or Sabotage; Or To Overthrow By Force Or Violence ; The Established Government Of The Commonwealth; Ot A State Or Of A Proclaimed Country; Or

(b) Within The Commonwealth Or. ATerrotor

Truganini – Among the Last of the Tasmanian Aboriginal People

Truganini - The Last Of The Tasmanian Aboriginals

By the Time Truganini Was 17 She'd Been Raped (And Probably Contracted Syphullis), Her Mother Had Been Stabbed To Death, Her Uncle Had Been Shot, Her Stepmother Had Been Kidnapped By Mutinous Convicts Who Took Her To China, Her Sisters Had Been
Enslaved By Sealers, And Her Betrothed Had Been Murdered In Front Of Her. 
In Truganini's Case Each Assault Ipon Her Family Was Violent And Unprovoked. Her Mother Was Stabbed To Death. 

Tasmanian Aboriginal Women Were Much Prized By The Sealers Because They Were Highly Skilled Hunters Who Could Earn A Lot Of Money. 
The Treatment By The Sealers Was Undescribable
One Popular Torture For The Women Who Were Not Working Hard Enough Was To Tie The Women Face Down On The Ground and Put Hot Coals On Their Backs. 
In One Case Some Sealers Caught A Woman Who Had Tried To Escape, Tied Her Up, And Then Cut Flesh From Her Ears And Her Thighs And Them Forced Her To Eat It. 

 

Samuel Terry - The Botany Bay Millionaire's House - Pitt Street - Western Side - In Front Of The Angel Arcade

Samuel Terry's House - Pitt Street, Western Side, In Front Of The Angel Arcade

The Home of Samuel Terry Stood On This Site, Which Was Acquired By Lease By His Wife Rosetta in 1804 


When Samuel Terry Died at The Age of 61, On The 25th February 1838, He Was  Given A Magnificent Funeral Says The Sydney Gazette....
"The Deceased Was Followed To The Grave By A Large Number Of His Friends; & was Buried With Masonic Honours. The Band Of The 50th Regiment Headed The Procession, Playing The Dead March On Saul. Mr Terry's Will Was Read In The Presence Of  The Executors & All Members Of The Family. By The Will It Appears That  The Sydney  Rental Of Upwards of £10,000 A Year Has Been Left To Mrs Terry For Her Life, & After Her Decease To His Son Edward Terry For His Life, To The  Heirs Of His Body.....


The Dwelling House In Pitt Street, All His Household Furniture, Carriages etc Are Left To Mrs Terry. The Personal Wealth Valued at £250,000 Is Left To Edward Terry, & The Other Moiety to John Terry Of Box Hill..........



38 Years Before at the Quarter Session s At Preston , Lancashire, When On The 7th November 1799, Samuel Terry, Labourer, Was Charged with Stealing 2 Trusses, 2 Bundles, 2 Linen Wrappers And 400 Pairs Of Stockings 

Samuel Was Sentenced To Seven Years Transportation To Join The Citizens in Botany  Bay. He Arrived In Sydney Cove On 10th June 1801, Aged 24 Aboard "Earl Cornwallis" A 26 Gun Transport Carrying 300 Male & Female Convicts Whom 47 Died On The Voyage 

Terry Prospered & In 1810 Married the Widow Rosetta  Marsh (or Madden) Who Lived In Pitts Row. Samuel Held A Wine License Here From 1811 To 1820. When He Died Thirty Seven Years After He Arrived Penniless In Sydney Cove, It Could Truly Be Said  "He Was. A Botany Bay Rosthchild, The Richest Man In The Colony" 

The Roads Obelisk - Macquarie Place

In September 1816 The Contract Was Signed To Erect A Very Handsome Stone Obelisk In Centre Of Macquarie Place As An Ornament To This Part Of Town & Also For The Purpose Of Measuring The Miles From All The interior Parts Of The Colony..... TO the Cost Of  eighty Five Pounds Sterling.

In Greenways Obelisks We Read

This Obelisk was Erected In Macquarie Place A.D. 1818,

To Record That All The Public Roads

Leading To The Interior of The Colony 

Are Measured From It

L. Macquarie, Esq, Governor 

Then Came Macquarie the visionary, & On 6 October 1810 He Proclaimed a town plan, saying with Macquarie Place

“It being attended to remove all those old buildings & enclosures now on that ground bounded by the government domain on the east, by the judge advocate, secretary, chaplains, & Commissary houses on the south, by the spring of water in stream on the west, and by the south, by the spring water in the stream on the west & by the houses if Mr Lord, Mr Thompson and Mr Reiby on the north, and to throw the same into an open area, the said area has been named  “Macquarie Place” and it is henceforth to be so nominated.

Francis Greenway’s Residence – George Street, Cnr Argyle Street – The Rocks – Sydney

Corner of George & Argyle Streets, South Western Corner 

Francis Greenway, Pioneer Of ClassicalGeorgian  Architecture in Australia, Was Born At Bristol, England In 1777. 

In 1811 Greenway forged An Endorsement On a Contract In An Attempt To Extract An Extra £250 Off His Client colonel Richard Doolan. He Was Arrested,  Imprisoned In Newgate, Found Guilty And On The 28th March 1812 Sentenced To Be executed. Later His Sentance Was Commuted To Transportation To New South Wales For 14 Years. He Arrived In Port Jackson On The "General Hewitt" On 7th February 1814

Fortunately The Wise Governor Macquarie Realised The Value Of A Trained Architect To Carry Out His Ambitious Building Plans. And In March 1816 Greenway was Appointed Acting Colonial Architect. 

With The Job Went Free Rations, A House, coals, A Convict Servant, A Horse And A Salary Of Three Shillings A day. In June 1819 Greenway Was Granted a Full Pardon to Celebrate The Completion of The Hyde Park Barracks He Was Invited to Dine At Government House. 

Greenway Prospered Until September 1819, When John Thomas Bigge Arrived From England As. A Royal Commissioner  To Investigate Governor Macquaries Administration And To Make Suggestions For Improving The System Of Governing The Colony. Bigge Hated Convicts And Emanciposts, And. A Bad Report From

him Resulted In Greenway Being Saceked In June 1822 

Some of His Well Remembered Buildings were 

- Hyde Park Barracks 

Francis Greenway's residence on George Street in Sydney, Australia, is a historically significant building associated with the renowned colonial architect Francis Greenway. Greenway was a convict architect who played a pivotal role in shaping the architectural landscape of early Sydney. Here's an overview of the history of his residence:

Early Life and Conviction:

• Francis Greenway was born in England in 1777. He trained as an architect and was later convicted of forgery in 1812.

Transportation to Australia:

• Greenway was transported to Australia as a convict in 1814 and arrived in Sydney.
• Due to his architectural skills, Governor Lachlan Macquarie recognized his talents and appointed him as the government architect.

Architectural Contributions:

• As government architect, Greenway designed and oversaw the construction of numerous important buildings in Sydney and beyond.
• His architectural style was characterized by Georgian and neoclassical influences, and his designs had a significant impact on the city's early colonial architecture.

Construction of the Residence:

• Greenway designed and built a residence for himself on George Street in the heart of Sydney.
• The residence showcased his architectural prowess and incorporated neoclassical elements that he favored in his designs.

Design and Features:

• The residence reflected Greenway's architectural principles, featuring symmetry, proportions, and elegant detailing.
• It was a two-story sandstone building with a distinctive facade and ornate wrought ironwork.

Later Years:

• After completing his sentence, Greenway was granted a full pardon in 1817, and he continued his work as an architect.
• He designed and contributed to a range of significant buildings in Sydney, including churches, government offices, and private residences.

Legacy:

• Francis Greenway's residence on George Street is a testament to his architectural legacy and his role in shaping Sydney's early architecture.
• The building's design and historical significance showcase Greenway's enduring influence on the city's architectural heritage.

Preservation and Recognition:

• The building has undergone various changes over the years but remains a recognizable landmark.
• It is recognized as a heritage-listed site and is protected for its historical and architectural value.

Francis Greenway's residence on George Street serves as a reminder of his impact on Sydney's architectural history. As a key figure in the city's colonial development, Greenway's designs continue to influence the way we perceive and appreciate the architectural heritage of early Sydney.