Federation Annandale

Short Walks

Book 2
Marghanita da Cruz
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Federation Annandale provides an insight into the Annandale community in the first decade of the 20th Century. It takes a brief diversion to the Annandale of a hundred years earlier.

Annandale is a small inner city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. In 1901, the colony of New South Wales joined a federation of six states to form the Commonwealth of Australia.

Federation Annandale: A Short Walk is the second book in a series which explores today's Annandale, while delving into its past. This book concentrates on the Annandale of the first decade of the 20th Century, with a brief diversion to 1808. Annandale is part of land granted to George Johnston in the 1790s. On 26th January 1808, Johnston lead Australia's only military coup.

The book covers the opening of a state of manufacturing piano factory, introduction of electricity and incineration, sculptors, the Mayor and Mayoress of Annandale, who went on to become Sir and Lady Taylor, and Mary Mackillop's convent in Annandale.

 

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Marghanita da Cruz has been gathering an anecdotal history of Annandale, at "Annandale on the Web" since 1998. In April 2012, Marghanita guided this short walk as part of the Annandale Heritage Festival.

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Marghanita da Cruz
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Dec 31, 2012
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75
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9781300070757
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Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
Travel / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks
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Annandale's Great War: A Short Walk Second Edition
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The scene is set in the preface which is based on stretcher bearer Clarence Oscar Power's diary. Power recorded a personal account of the passage to Europe, the evacuation of Gallipoli and then the war in Europe.

The book provides an illustrated history of Annandale in the decade 1910 to 1920 & 1810-1820, when over 1200 locals left Annandale as members of the Australian Imperial Force or to join British regiments. Written as a a self guided tour of the World War 1 honour boards and memorials around Annandale read the stories of the ANZACs whose names appear on them.

 At home, there were battles over conscription and Rozelle Bay. A Rail Viaduct was constructed on the Annandale foreshore, to carry the Rail freight line around the bay rather than over it, via an opening bridge.

1920s Annandale: A Short Walk
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1930s Annandale: A Short Walk
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1930s Annandale: A Short Walk is the fifth book in a series. Annandale is a small inner city suburb of Sydney. It is squeezed between a Bay of Sydney Harbour and Parramatta Road. The book concentrates on the 1930s, when Annandale's pubs had Art Deco makeovers. Annandale's factories were producing radios, pianos, lollies, jams, saws and gun sights. Amy Hudson started playing cricket in Trafalgar Street and went on to play for Australia. This book also covers 1830s, when Annandale was the estate of the second generation of Johnstones in the expanding colony of New South Wales. Then, Parramatta Road was the High Road to Parramatta.
1940s Annandale: A Short Walk
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1940s Annandale: A Short Walk is the sixth book in a series which delves into the history of Annandale. Each book covers a decade of of Annandale's History in the form of a self guided walk around the small suburb in Sydney's Inner West. During the 1940s Annandale factories and warehouses stored munitions and manufactured equipment for World War 2. This activity made Annandale a military target. Air Raid shelters were erected to protect workers, school children and residents. “Escapologist” Darcy Dugan came to live in Annandale in the 1940s. The end of the 1940s saw the amalgamation of Annandale, Balmain, Glebe into the Leichardt Council. 
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In 1855 19 year old chemistry student, future economist and logician, William Stanley Jevons came to work as an assayer at the new branch of the Royal Mint in Sydney. In the 1950s, Sydney's extensive tram network was shut down. This saw the end of tram services through Annandale, along the Crescent, Booth Street and Parramatta Road. '50s Annandale: A Short Walk is the seventh book in a series walking through the history of Annandale. This walk takes you back to Annandale of the 1850s and 1950s. The book includes anecdotes, historical maps and photographs which show how Annandale has evolved.

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The scene is set in the preface which is based on stretcher bearer Clarence Oscar Power's diary. Power recorded a personal account of the passage to Europe, the evacuation of Gallipoli and then the war in Europe.

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A short easy self guided historical walk around the heart of Annandale, starting at the corner of Johnston and Collins Streets. The book also covers Annandale of the 1790s.

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.

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