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In the 1860s much of Annandale was still covered in Bushland. The Johnstons had begun subdividing their 1799 Land Grant. There were a few houses and industries along Parramatta Road and on the water front.
'60s Annandale: A Short Walk takes you back to Annandale of the 1860s and 1960s. The 1960s saw the building of modern red brick houses and flats on vacant land or where Victorian houses were demolished. The demolition of these houses lead to the formation of the Annandale Association. Expressways were threatening but Green Bans and Community Activism over the next 10 years saved Annandale.
Annandale of the 1960s was Bohemian place and the Annandale Imitation Realists came together and created art which would incorporate found objects. '60s Annandale is Marghanita da Cruz's 8th book in a series which present Annandale's history as a series of short walks.
Cover: Detail Grose Farm from Toll Gate, ca1862-1869 by FC Terry. Mitchell Library State Library NSW ML315
Amazon KindleNote Stop 34 Pritchard St: The book references a guilty of murder verdict on Kathleen Folbig for the death of her four babies - she was sentenced and eligible for Parole in 2025. And her custodial sentence would end in 2028. But Inside Out Book launched at Gleebooks in Glebe on 2 Sep 2025 "Twenty years in jail: Kathleen Folbigg's extraordinary story of wrongful conviction, and how science, advocacy and friendship freed her.
In 2003 Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of killing her four babies. Her trial relied on her husband’s accusations and diary entries expressing her guilt over her children’s deaths. She was sentenced to forty years in prison.".