Riley Street – Woolloomooloo

Riley Street takes its name from the Riley Estate — the vast holding merchant Edward Riley assembled in the 1820s from John Palmer’s Woolloomooloo farm (bought 1822) and many smaller Surry Hills / Darlinghurst grants. After Riley’s death in 1825, conflicting wills locked the land in litigation for years; an 1844 Supreme Court partition laid out a street grid (still readable on the Riley Estate plan) that organises Woolloomooloo and adjoining Surry Hills blocks. Riley Street became one of the estate’s spine streets between the Domain edge and the ridge.

Nineteenth-century subdivision produced the close-set terraces and boarding houses that defined working Woolloomooloo beside the finger wharves; twentieth-century resumptions, industry and later residential towers layered over that grid. The street remains a piece of the 1840s estate survey even where individual houses have changed.

Good Old Riley Street - Woolloomooloo 

I Spent Some Of The Best Years of My Life Living In Riley Street At Tue Woolloomooloo End. 

Convicts and Crew of the First Fleet – Fellowship of First Fleeters – Cathedral Street

The First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson in January 1788, carrying convicts, marines, sailors and officers who formed the first British settlement in New South Wales. The Fellowship of First Fleeters preserves the history and family connections of people associated with that voyage and the early colony.

Convicts And Crew Of The First Fleet 1788 - 
Pictures Taken From The Front Of The Fellowship Of First Fleeters - Cathedral Street - Woolloomooloo

SHIPS THAT MADE UP THE FIRST FLEET

Ships That Made Up The First Fleet In 1788 - 
 Pictures Taken Of The Window Of The Fellowship Of The First Fleeters - Cathedral Street - Woolloomooloo

 

There Were Quite A Few Ships Involved In The First Fleet, Some Of Them

convict Ships, Some Of Them Supply Ships 

H.M.A.S SIRIUS 

H.M.A.S SUPPLY 

ALEXANDER 

SCARBOROUGH

PRINCE OF WALES

LADY PENRHYN

CHARLOTTE 

FRIENDSHIP

FISHBURN 

GOLDEN GROVE 

BORROWDALE 

The Lunatic Reception House - Cnr Forbes Street & Burton Street - Darlinghurst 

On the corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, immediately behind the old Darlinghurst Gaol, sat a building whose job was to keep people out of the cells. The Lunatic Reception House opened on 24 July 1868 as a purpose-built observation ward for people thought to be mentally ill. The point was a hospital pathway that did not begin in the criminal justice system — a metropolitan portal into Sydney’s psychiatric hospitals that was meant to reduce the stigma of gaol admission for assessment.

It operated until 1961 (in its last years also known as the Darlinghurst Admissions Centre). The site then passed into mental-health care associated with St Vincent’s Hospital as the Caritas Centre from 1962. Fabric on the block includes the remodelled Reception House building known as Caritas House (origins 1867–68, significantly altered about 1935) and Caritas Cottage (c.1910).

The historic title “Lunatic Reception House” is the institution’s nineteenth-century legal name; modern writing may prefer “Darlinghurst Reception House” while retaining the historic form in the post title. Photographs here show the corner site and surviving related buildings.

Governor Macquarie's Report On What Was Beyond The Mountains

Ever Since The First Fleet Arrived On 1788, No Exploration Party Had Been Able To Make It Through And Over The Blue Mountains. 

25 Years Later In 1813  

Blaxland Wentworth And Lawson Had Finally Made it to the Otherside Of What Ww Now Call Mount Victoria.. 

And from The Top Of The Mountain You Could See The Sweeping Plains 

Bathurst Was The First Inland city To Be Created And 

Blaxland's, Wentworth & Crossing The Blue mountains

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1 - Blaxland's Story Of The Crossing Of The Blue Mountains 

**** it wasn't until 1813 that Bblaxland Wentworth And Lawson Finally Got Through A Small Passage at The Top Of The Blue Mountains, which Had Been Known And Used By The Local Tribes To Crossover Into Other Tribe Territory. 

**€**. This was the Land Of The WERADJIRI PEOPLE. 

The Eora and Cadigal Tribes Of The Sydney basin Region Had Pretty MuchBeen   destroyed By 1813. 

The Smallpox killed Thousands Of Matives In One Go, And White Men Woth Guns Had Taken Care Of The Rest. 

So THERE WAS TRULY BLOOD ON THE WATTLE. 

Australian Discovery By Land

LIST OF PRINCIPAL DATES 

1 - Blaxland's Story Of The Crossing Of The Blue Mountains 

**** it wasn't until 1813 that Bblaxland Wentworth And Lawson Finally Got Through A Small Passage at The Top Of The Blue Mountains, which Had Been Known And Used By The Local Tribes To Crossover Into Other Tribe Territory. 

**€**. This was the Land Of The WERADJIRI PEOPLE. 

The Eora and Cadigal Tribes Of The Sydney basin Region Had Pretty MuchBeen   destroyed By 1813. 

The Smallpox killed Thousands Of Matives In One Go, And White Men Woth Guns Had Taken Care Of The Rest. 

So THERE WAS TRULY BLOOD ON THE WATTLE. 

2 - Evan's Journal Of His Journey To TheBathurst  Plains.

3 - Governor Macquarie's Report On The Country Beyond The Mountains 

4 - Evan's Discovery Of The Lachlan 

5 - Oxley's Exploration Of The Lachlan. 

6 - Oxley's Exploration Of The Macquarie 

7 - Evan's Discovery Of The Castlereagh 

8 - Allan Cunningham's Explorations 

9 - Hume And Hovell's Journey To Port Phillip 

10 - Lockyer's Exploration Of The Brisbane River 

11 - Sturts Discovery Of The Darling 

12 - Sturt's Discovery Of The Murray 

13 - Mitchell's Exploration Of Australia Felix 

14 - Sturt's Journey Into Central Australia 

15 - Eyre's Journey From Fowler's Bay To Albany 

16 - The Burke And Wills Expedition 

17 - Stuart's Journey To The Centre Of Australia 

18 - Stuarts Journey Across Australia 

Your Country's Been Sold - Slim Dusty - Smokey Dawson - Australian Song

Your Country's Been Sold - Slim Dusty - Smokey Dawson

You Say You Belong To Australia My Friend
& Rightly You'd Die For This Land To Defend 
But Let Us Be Honest it's Sad But Is True 
Australia My Friend Doesn't Belong To You

Our Country's Been Sold By The Powers That Be 
To Big Wealthy Nations Way Over The Sea
We Couldn't Be Taken With Bayonet Or Lead
So They Decided To Buy Us Instead

And Talking Of Wars  & The Blood That Was Spilt 
The Widows; The Crippled &The Ones That Were Killed 
&I Often Wonder If They're Ghosts Can See 
What's Happening To Their Native  Country 

I wonder If Ghosts Of The Fallen Can See
The Crime; The Corruption & Poverty
With A Lost Generation Of Youth On The Dole 
Adrift on Life Oceans Without Any Goal

I Once Had A a Dream Of Our Country So Grand 
The Rivers Outback  Irrigated The Land
Towns & Canals In That Wasteland Out There 
With Big Inland Cities with Work Everywhere 
with Profit From Factory, Farming & Mine 

Was Used To Develop A Nation So Fine  

Then I Woke From My Dream To Reality 
That The Wealth Of Our Nation Goes Over The Sea 
 You Say You Belong To Australia My Friend
And Rightly You'd Die For This Land To Defend 

But Let Us Be Honest it's Sad But Is True 
Australia My Friend Doesn't Belong To You