Annandale on the Web
Established 1998
Established 1998
By 1876, the subdivision of the Annandale Estate had begun. In 1877, John Young acquired North Annandale for £ 121,000. The following year his company offered a prize of £ 150 for the best design for Annandale.
Ferdinand Reuss Junior put forward a plan, to subdivide the land into a grid pattern. A grand 100 foot wide Johnston Street would be the "location of villas and the better class of houses, as much as possible by themselves"; Annandale St, would be a slightly less grand, with the streets reduced to 80 feet in width; and the rest of the estate would be divided into 66 foot wide streets, with 66 foot frontage blocks, to house artisan's.
1894, 360 acres known as the East Ward of Leichhardt between Johnston's Creek and White's Creek, from Parramatta Road to Rozelle Bay, became the Municipality of Annandale. - Leichhardt timeline. Elections for the Annandale Municipal Council.
The Annandale Public School was opened in 1886. In 1977, the gates of Annandale house were re-erected in the school's grounds.
Henry Parkes, Premier of NSW 1872 - 1892 and "Father of Federation" lived at "Kenilworth" in Annandale until his death in 1896. According to Chris, who called into 2BL brekky on 30/9/05, Mark Twain was a guest at Kenilworth during his visit to Sydney - which he documented in Following the Equator - A Journey Around the World. 'Kenilworth' is one of the Gothic houses in Johnston St, now popularly known as the witches houses.
According to Sydney/Newcastle Tramway History there were two Steam Tramlines servicing Annandale one along Parramatta Road opened in 1883 and the Balmain line was extended from Glebe, along Taylor and Booth Sts to Balmain Road (across from Leichhardt High).
Between 1886 and 1889, The Hunter Baillie Memorial Church was erected by John Hunter Baillie' philanthropic wife as a memorial to her husband. Hunter Baillie had been a sub-editor of the Colonial Observer and later a financial advisor to the Bank of New South Wales.
The Annandale Sewer Aqueducts were constructed in 1896, over Johnston's Creek and White's Creeks. They were Australia's first reinforced concrete structure.
In 1898, Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney laid the foundation Stone of St Brendan's Catholic Primary School.
The Council Chambers in Johnston St, were built in 1899, for the Annandale Borough, which had seceded from Leichhardt, in 1894. Sir Allen Taylor, was Mayor of Annandale from 1897 to 1902 and later went onto become Lord Mayor of Sydney. The building is now the Annandale Neighbourhood Centre.
See Early Photographs of the Aquaduct, St Brendan's and Voting in Annandale
Annandale in the newspapers of the day.
This page www.ramin.com.au/annandale/story3.html last Updated: 29 September 2008.
