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Annandale: From Land Grant to Urban Village
Opp. p. 182. `Taking of Colbee & Benalon. 25 Novr 1789' (SLNSW
a3461020The Gadigal Clan lived on the Southern side of the Sydney Harbour in a landscape of Iron Bark and Turpentine Forrest. There is evidence of human society, in the area, dating back 15,000 years...more
Late 18th Century
- 1770 Cook: On 22nd August 1770 Captain James Cook notes in his diary: " two or three of the Men we saw Yesterday had on pretty large breast plates which we supposed were made of Pearl Oysters Shells this was a thing as well as the Bow and Arrows we had not seen before...more
- 1788 First Fleet: On the 23rd January 1788 Surgeon John White notes in his diary: "While the people were employed on shore, the natives"...more
- 27 April: Expedition westward from Sydney Cove..more
- 1799 Land Grant: George Johnston and John White had received adjoining land grants on the southern side of Parramatta Road. In 1799, "North Annandale" was granted to George Johnston...more
19th Century
- 1808 Rum Rebellion: On 26th January 1808, George Johnston lead a military coup and arrested the Governor William Bligh. The coup was dubbed the "Rum Rebellion". The NSW Corps which Johnston headed was called the "Rum Corp" but the coup was really over land grants. In particular the allocation of Camperdown to the Governor on the basis that John Macarthur's claim wasn't legal....more
- 1816 Macquarie: On 4th May 1816, Governor Macquarie's proclaimed: "First, —That from and after the Fourth Day of June next ensuing, that being the Birth-Day of His MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY KING GEORGE the THIRD, no Black Native, or Body of Black Natives shall ever appear at or within one Mile of any Town, Village, or Farm" ...more
- Annandale Estate: George Johnston died in 1823. A bitter family rangle ensued, before Robert Johnston, George's second son, take control of Annandale from his mother Ester. Robert imported a Brick making machine and there were also grape vines on the estate...more
- 1838 Toll Gate: A Toll Gate was setup on Parramatta Road, just east of the bridge over Johnston's Creek...more
- Annandale Cottage: Annandale Cottage, is identified as "cottage and offices" it was also known as Macquarie Lodge. In the 1840s the cottage was let to David Collins, whose wife ...more
- Salting: "the Sydney Salting Company has erected capacious premises at the head of Johnston's Bay, and has commenced boiling down sheep and cattle"...more
Second half of 19th Century
- School: An 1843 Map of Robert Johnston's Annandale estate shows a "brick cottage" on "high road" (Parramatta Road), another "cottage" and a "cottage and offices". In January 1950, James Bradley advertised his new boarding school in Annangrove the brick cottage on the Parramatta Road...more
- Jevons: Stanley Jevons arrived in Sydney in 1855, to work as an assayer at the Mint. He moved into Annangrove with his colleague and his wife. Jevons brought a camera with him and took some of the earliest photographs of Sydney. He also left a diary, letters and a social map of Sydney....more
- Subdivision: First Subdivision by Robert Johnston of the area between Johnston St, Booth St, Susan St and Parramatta Road...more
- Soap & Candles: Cowan and Israel leased 100acres from Robert Johnston and set up a soapworks on the foreshore...more
Last quarter of 19th Century
- North Annandale Model Township: 1870s: John Young and North Annandale Model Township...p39, AURA- Annandale Urban Research Association - Journal 1, The Early History of Annandale (2015)
- Primitive Methodist Church:
A Primitive Methodist Church was built in Annandale in 1883, the church is still extant at 110 Trafalgar Lane. The school hall which stood at 110 Trafalgar Street was replaced by a much grander Masonic Hall, now the Annandale Galleries...more
- Annandale Public School
& Presbyterian Church Hall: The Annandale Public School was opened in 1886...more
- The little Church Hall behind the landmark sandstone church at the corner of Johnston and Collins Street was opened in 1886 as a Sunday school and used as the interrim church...more
- Hunter Baillie
Memorial Presbyterian
Church: The first service in the imposing sandstone Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church, with its landmark steeple, at the corner of Johnston and Collins Streets, was celebrated in February 1889...more
- Methodist Church: The Methodist Church at 81 Johnston Street was opened in 1891, the facade which features native animals and plants came from the John Bull Warehouse, which burnt down two years earlier...
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- Post Office: After lobbying since 1888 and the operation of a temporary post office at 13 Collins Street, the Government Architect Walter Liberty Vernon designed Post Office at the corner of Johnston and Booth Streets finally opened...more
- Jam Production: The Taylor Brothers had operations in Hobart, Tasmania and Camperdown (Sydney) before expanding to Annandale...Taylor Brothers Jams
- Secession: In 1893, under the leadership of John Young a former mayor of Leichhardt, the Annandale Borough seceded from Leichhardt and held their elections in the Primitive Metodist School in 1894...more
- Henry Parkes: In 1896, four years before federation, Henry Parkes dubbed 'the father of federation' died at Kennilworth, at 262 Johnston Street...more
- Mary Mackillop: Mary Mackillop and St Joseph's convent and St Brendan's School and Church ...more
- Aqueducts: In 1895-98, Sewerage separated from Storm water – Johnston and White's Creek Aqueducts...more
- Queen Victoria Maternity Home: In 1891 George Lewis established the Queen Victoria Maternity Home...more
- Council Chambers: In 1899, Mayor Allen Taylor opened the Annandale Council Chambers...more
20th Century
- Beale Pianos: In 1901 Edmund Barton opens Beale Piano Factory...more
- Suffragettes: In 1902, NSW Women got the vote – 4 Annandale women from Annandale St were leading suffragettes...more
- Police Station: In 1905 the Walter Vernon Liberty designed Annandale Police Station openedmore
- Annandale North Public School: In 1905 residents asked for a new school, the North Annandale Public School was opened in 1907.. more
- St Brendan's: St Brendan's catholic church opened in 1912 ...more
- Electricity: Though the Beale Piano factor had its own electricty supply and there were other electricity pioneers in Annandale, electric street lighting arrived in Annandale in 1910 supplied by the City Council, where Allen Taylor was Lord Mayor and on the Electricity Committee...more
- Movies: There was an open air picture theatre on Parramatta Road around 1908. The Annandale Picture Theatre was built next to the post office and replaced with the Annandale Theatre later known as the Royal in 1925...more
- 1920: O.K. ELLIOTT'S, LIMITED, The Crescent, Annandale. Balmain and Birchgrove Trams (only) to door 2d from Central Station...Trams
- WW1: Over 1200 Men from Annandale served in WW1 including Douglas Grant, Wireless Miller Brothers, Hinsby Park Memorial...more
- Rail: The viaduct and bridges were completed and the Metro Freight Rail opened in 1922...more
- The Royal: New Annandale Theatre opened – panoramic photographs of Annandale from the top of the building and Raycophone sound equipment for Movie theatre's was manufactured in Annandale in the 1930s by Harrington's in Booth Street...more
- Masonic Lodge: In the 1930s the Primitive Methodist School in Trafalgar Street was replaced with a much grander Masonic Lodge...more
- Women's Crickets: In the 1930s Amy Hudson took up a bat and ball in Trafalgar Street before going on to bat and bowl for Australia before and after WW2...more
- Mosquito Bombers: In the 1940s, Annandale's factories built mosquito bombers and gun sights. Several bomb shelters were also erected...more
- Council Amalgamations: In 1949, Annandale along with Glebe and Balmain are absorbed into Leichhardt Municipal Council...more
Second half of 20th Century
- Migration: Post War Migration...more
- Bohemia: The Sydney Push at the Abbey...more
- Expressways: The Annandale Association, Residents Action Groups and BLF Green Bans saved Annandale from demoliton and expressways....more
- Neighbourhood Centre: In the 1980s, Pensioners campaigned for somewhere to meet and secured the Annandale Neighbouhood Centre and the building of the back hall...more
- Adaptive Reuse: In the 1990s Factories were turned into homes - the largest redevelopment was the former Beale Piano Factory
- Annandale expands: In 1995 Annandale boundary was extended across Johnston's Creek to include the part of Camperdown, bounded by Booth Street, Mallet Street and Parramatta Road...more
- Trams: In 1997, a Tram (Light Rail) service starts on former Freight Line
21st Century
- Wetlands: In 2001, two wetlands were created the Fresh Watre White's Creek Wetland and salt marsh Federal Park Wetland
- Thai Budhist Temple: In 2007, during his visit to Sydney for APEC, the Thai Prime Minister visits Wat Budharangsee, Annandale...more
- Annandale split across councils: In 2003, Municipal Council Boundary change – Annandale Foreshore and pocket between Wigram Road, Booth Street and Johnston's Creek mored under City of Sydney...more
- Wolly Mammoth : 2010: Save Annandale Village: Wooly Mamoth Campaign...more
- Local Provenance Plants: Established in 1995, the Rozelle Bay Community Native Nursery moved into purpose built accomodation in Wisdom Street in August 2012...more
- Yoga: In 2013, the Yoga in Daily Life centre closed down...more
- Zen: The Sydney Zen Centre, City Zendo is in Young Street ...more
- New Park: Douglas Grant Memorial Park...more
2016
This page www.ramin.com.au/annandale/annandale-nsw-2038-timeline.shtml last updated 28 June 2017
Sketch by Merrick Fry
Johnston's Estate, Annandale, 1877 by Samuel Elyard