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'70s Annandale: A Short Walk

by Marghanita da Cruz

Cover Illustration by Santiago Diaz

Blog: '70s Annandale

19 people came on the 2024 guided walk of 70s Annandale as part of the Hunter Baillie Church Open Day on 19 May 2024. They shared their stories and connection with Annandale! These stories are important, for history to inform the present and shape our future. So, often we have been here before!

On a cold wet day 7 people came on 2025 guided walk of 70s Annandale as part of the Hunter Baillie Church Open Day on 18 May 2025.

on 17 May 2026 a much abbreviated walk was guided, around the block (Johnston St, Booth St, Annandale St, Collins St - starting and finishing at the Hunter Baillie's Heritage Open Day which featured Devonshire Tea and exhibition in the Hall, with Talks and Organ recital in the Church. The audience for the boo, is the people who came on the guided walk.

1970s and 1870s Annandale

• Johnston St August 1979 Tribune negatives including uranium protest prank, Annandale and Newtown demonstrations, New South Wales, August 1979 Copyright status:: In copyright Copyright holder:: SEARCH Foundation Creative Commons license: Reproduction and rights for the images are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 BY International Licence. Under this licence you are free to copy, distribute, remix and build upon this content as long as you acknowledge the State Library of New South Wales and the SEARCH Foundation Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy SEARCH Foundation More Photos at https://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110369755
• Sale of Annandale Estate, Petersham. Collections of SLNSW, Z/SP/L5/1 Annandale Estate Petersham, Albion St, Parramatta Rd, Johnston St, Trafalgar St, Nelson St)
• Collections of State Library of New South Wales. Z/SP/P12
• Air quality - TEC(link viewed 15 October 2026) and painting Streets and Yards (1990) by Merrick Fry https://www.merrickfry.com/streets-and-yards-1990(link viewed 15 October 2026).

Updates (15-Oct 2026)Amends to draft

1. Colour Drawing on Cover & Landmark 24
2. 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationshipshttps://www.naa.gov.au/students-and-teachers/learning-resources/royal-commission-human-relationships-what-do-you-think-pamphlet(link viewed 15 October 2026)
3. "This landmark 1977 exhibition was seen as an important step towards stronger cultural relations between Australia and China."...more at https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/the-chinese-exhibition/ (link viewed 16 October 2026)
4. Yamma Ngunna Baaka 2019
   "Brewarrina, or ‘Bre’ as it is known to locals, is a remote community located in north-west NSW, 800kms from Sydney, and has 1800 residents.".."Walgett, then Bre, on to Bourke, Wilcannia and, finally, Menindee"..https://www.pittwateronlinenews.com/Yamma-Ngunna-Baaka-by-Miranda-Korzy.php(link viewed 15 Octeber 2026). Boehringer, Gill & Graham, Mary & MacCarrick, Gwynn & Maloney, Michelle M & Satija, Manav & Williams, Ross & Australian Earth Laws Alliance & Australian Peoples' Tribunal for Community and Nature's Rights. 2020, 2019 citizens' inquiry into the health of the Barka/Darling River and Menindee Lakes : report and recommendations / Australian Peoples' Tribunal for Community and Nature's Rights ; Michelle Maloney, Gill Boehringer, Gwynn MacCarrick, Manav Satija, Mary Graham and Ross Williams ; report editor, Michelle Maloney. Australian Earth Laws Alliance Banyo, Queensland
5. Warrangu: River Story
   This was Drapper Dobby Au's (aka Rhyan Clapham), debut Album, tells the story Brewarina. On spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/4wvan9mnICF5AVTSRyLKgx(link viewed 15 October 2026) and CD at https://snd.click/WarranguRiverStory(link viewed 15 October 2026). More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrangu:_River_Story(link viewed 15 October 2026) and making the album at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrQG7pqeRDg
6. Leah Purcell reimagined Lawson's short story, with the Drover's wife. This may have been the case with Lawson's original (ca 1892, The Bulletin published the story), but Purcell has reimagined the story into a novel, play and in 2026, purcell directed the Opera. More at https://opera.org.au/productions/the-drovers-wife-sydney/(link viewed 15 October 2026).
7. Bruce Pascoe's "The European Mind: Colonialism, Capitalism, Christianity and how to recover.
   In this book, Pascoe examines how we got here and where we could go..more at https://www.magabala.com/products/the-european-mind(link viewed 15 October 2026)
8. Australia's history has been portrayed from an English Colonial perspective and Australia's economy benefitted from supplying these wars. In 1661, the islands of Bombay were transferred by the Portuguese(as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry) to the English the marriage of Charles II. There were wars of dominance of Dutch Colonies, Robert Johnston captained a Ship against the Spanish, Napoleon, Boer War in South Africa, WWI(against Imperial Germany (Prussia)), WW2 (Against the Republic of Germany), Korean and vietnam wars. The Australian continent has evidence of the Dutch and French landing. More at
   1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnston_(naval_officer)(link viewed 15 October 2026)
   2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai(link viewed 15 October 2026)
   3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon(link viewed 15 October 2026)
   4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I(link viewed 15 October 2026)
   5. and "One of the prisoners brought by the Kangaroo is a Malayan, who was drum major of the 1st Ceylon regiment in the memorable Kandyan war upon the late capture of the Kandyan country taken prisoner, and condemned to be shot ; which sentence was commuted to transportation for life to this territory ; whither he is accompanied by his wife and three fine children. The man, who appears to be intelligent, gives an account of the death of several officers who were made prisoners by the Kandyan Monarch ;"..
      He is dark complexioned, approaching to a black, and is about 5 feet 10 inches in height. His wife, who is a Cinglasse, being a true descendant of the aboriginal inhabitants of the island, is of a small stature, handsomely formed, of a dark olive complexion, and agreeable features, as are also her three children, of whom the two youngest are boys. The appearance of this little family is truly interesting ; and the more so, when the feeling mind considers that misfortune has brought them to a part of the world in which it is scarcely conceivable they can find any means of contributing to their own support. Their na- tive country abounds in fruits, and all the natural luxuries of the East, which are attainable almost without the necessity of human exertion.".."The reduced King of Kandy, who is a native of the Malabar Coast(link viewed 16 October 2026), is held close prisoner at Colombo. His mother died during the stay there of the Kangaroo, and was interred with royal honours.
      During the march of the British forces upon the capital of Kandy" from 1816 'Sydney.', The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), 17 February, p. 1. , viewed 15 Oct 2026, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2176551.
   6. Also Trade with the Makasar https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/trade-with-the-makasar(link viewed 15 October 2026)

www.ramin.com.au/walks/70s-Annandale-A-Short-Walk.shtml last update 16 October 2026.