'60s Annandale: A Short Walk

By Marghanita da Cruz

60s Annandale: A Short Walk takes you back to Annandale of the 1860s and 1960s.

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.

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.

Cover: Grose Farm from Toll Gate, ca1862-1869 by FC Terry. Mitchell Library SLNSW ML315

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781716732331

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'60s Annandale: A Short Walk

painting of a road with bush on one side buildings in the distance and horses and carts and stage coach

Cover: Grose Farm from Toll Gate, ca1862-1869 by FC Terry. Mitchell Library, State Library NSW. ML315

Marghanita da Cruz

'60s Annandale: A Short Walk

ISBN: 978-1-4717-1490-0(paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-71673-233-1 (eBook)

© 2022 Marghanita da Cruz

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

The Walk (Map)

Map Part A

Map Part B

Map Part C

Map Part D

Stop 1 Charles Perkins' Home, 27 Catherine St

Stop 1b Charles Perkins Precinct

Stop 2 Parramatta Road

Stop 3 St Johns, Missenden Road, Camperdown.

Stop 4 Fowler's Pottery

Stop 5 Toll Gate

Stop 6 Pyrmont Bridge Road

Stop 7 Omnibuses and Hansom Cabs

Stop 8 Johnston Creek

Stop 9 PMG School, 48 Nelson St

Stop 10 Beale Pianos/Norths

Stop 11 The Sherriffs, 41 Trafalgar Street

Stop 12 Tuck Shop

Stop 13 Tom Bass

Stop 14 Gates to Annandale House

Stop 15 Terraces, Johnston St (near Reserve St)

Stop 16 1960s Redbrick, 78 Johnston Street

Literary 7 Musical Works

Stop 17 St Brendan’s Hall

Stop 18 Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church

Stop 19 Annandale Council Chambers

Stop 20 Methodist Church

Stop 21 Victorian Fence 1960s flats

Stop 22 St Aidan’s Hall and the Greek Community

Stop 23 Former Primitive Methodist Church

Stop 24 Kodak Building

Stop 25 Melocco Brothers

Stop 26 Corner Store

Stop 27 Vietnam War

Stop 28 Annandale Imitation Realists

Stop 29 The Witches house – Flats

Stop 30 New Bridge over Johnston Creek

Stop 31 Timber Yards

Stop 32 Soap and Candle Making

Stop 33 Albion Lodge

Stop 34 Pritchard Street

Stop 35 The Abbey, Weynton Street

Stop 36 Hagans Cnr Store

Stop 37 Annandale Association & Betty Mason

Stop 38 Horse Trough, North Annandale School

Stop 39 Haledon, 181 Annandale St

Stop 40 The Royal Picture Theatre

Stop 41 Fruit & Chapplow Fresh Flowers

Stop 42 White’s Creek Aqueduct & John St

Stop 43 The Vic, Police Station and 44 Collins St

Stop 44 Annandale Cottage, 55-61 Albion St

Stop 45 Annandale Estate & Johnston Vault

Stop 46 Olympia Roller Skating Rink

Stop 47 Car Accident on Parramatta Road

Stop 48 Annangrove, Petersham

Endnotes

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the late Betty Mason. Betty served as the Secretary of the Annandale Association from its inception until her passing in 2021.

In November 1969, Betty got together with other concerned residents to defend Annandale from the expressways, which were planned to run through the suburb. A resident action group was formed with Betty as secretary, Jeffrey Miles, a Sydney barrister who would later become Chief Justice of the ACT, anthropologist Nick Peterson and his wife Ros and history student Alan Roberts.

Objectives for the new association were thrashed out at the Mason’s home. Betty’s husband Hugh saw his role as a free-wheeling ideas-man staying