Heritage Annandale Short Walks

1890s Annandale A Short Walk

ISBN: 978-1-4477-9363-2 (E-Book US$4.99)
ISBN: 978-1-4478-1111-4 (Paperback US$14.97)

Keywords: Walk, History, Annandale, NSW, Sydney, Australia, Property, Municipal, Industry, Public Transport, Sewerage, Sanitation, Residential, Development

This book describes a short easy historical walk around the heart of Annandale. The walk starts at the corner of Johnston and Collins Street Annandale. Marghanita da Cruz has been researching the history of Annandale since 1998. In April 2011, she guided this walk for a group from the National Trust. It was so well received that she was encouraged to publish it.

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1890s Annandale, Maps and Pictures

Adele and Alan Taylor married in Annandale in 1886. Taylor would go on to found Allen Taylor and Co, become and Alderman and Mayor of Annandale, in the 1890s, then Lord Mayor of Sydney and later a Member of the NSW Legislative Council. The walk is entwined with the Taylors and their local contemporaries Saint Mary Mackillop, John Young and Henry Parkes, the Father of Federation.

The book also covers the Engineering Heritage listed Annandale Sewage Aqueducts, the first reinforced concrete structure in Australia, and Public Transport in 1890s Annandale.

First Fleet

Captains Hunter, Collins & Johnston with Governor Phillip, Surgeon White &c. visiting a distressed female native of New South Wales at a hut near Port Jackson, 1793 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19807638

Plans of North Annandale (now known as Annandale)

W. Pritchard & Son. 1900 Plan of north Annandale : municipality of Leichhardt. National Library of Australia MAP Folder 4a, LFSP 49, part of the Loose Leaf Ferguson Sales Plans. http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-lfsp49
Pritchard, W. 1890 Map of north Annandale showing Johnston Street, Johnston Bay, Rozelle Bay, Collins Street, Booth Street, Trafalgar Street, Parramatta Road, the Crescent, White's Creek, Johnston's Creek and Tramline. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34336711

Allen and Adela Taylor

Wife of Alderman Allen Arthur Taylor. Photograph taken in Commemoration of her efforts for the enlargement of the nurses home, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15753420
Alderman Allen Arthur Taylor, MLC. [1902-1912, 1915-1924] Lord Mayor 1905-1906, 1909-1912 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11514708
Election of Alderman Allen Arthur Taylor as Lord Mayor of Sydney, 1909 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12831129

Hunter Baillie Presbyterian Memorial Church

Pre-Concert Refreshments, Hunter Baillie Spring Festival of Music, 2009 http://blog.tomw.net.au/2009/11/last-hunter-baillie-spring-concert.html

Johnston Street

Hunter Baillie Church under construction, with School Hall in foreground circa 1888 http://hunterbaillie.org.au/hunterbailliechurchannandalec1899.html
Hunter Baillie Manse and Johnston Street, circa 1899 http://www.hunterbaillie.org.au/northeastcornermanse.html
Funeral Procession Johnston Street, http://www.bentons.com/uploads/images/photos/annadalefuneral.jpg
Johnston Street Annandale from Johnstons Bay, circa 1888 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14939451
Intersection of Johnston and Booth Streets Annandale, circa 1888 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14945070
Annandale Post Office, circa 1900 http://ramin.com.au/annandale/story-annandale-post-office.shtml
Reliance, Johnston Street Annandale, the home of Alfred Vandyke, circa 1887 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9515033
The Abbey, Kennilworth and Witches Houses Johnston Street, circa 1890 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14458832

Primitive Methodist School Hall

First Annandale Borough Elections, Primitive Methodist School Hall, 1894 http://localnotes.net.au/?p=97

Annandale Aqueducts

Johnstones Creek Aqueduct under constructionhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/161196561
White's Creek Sewer Aqueduct, Sydney circa 1900 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11076325
Johnston Creek Sewer Aqueduct circa 1900 http://localnotes.net.au/?p=1235

Johnston and Rozelle Bays

Annandale Wharf - Halsted, George F. (fl. c.1852–c.1880) 1865, Johnsons [ie Johnstons] Bay, [1865-70?] / watercolour by Halsted http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14458400
1870. Glebe Island, Johnson's [i.e. Johnston's] Bay http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/13292553
The golden glow of evening : Glebe Point from Rosella [i.e. Rozelle] Bay, Sydney Harbour / W.H. Howe Published 1897. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26327427

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