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THE STREETS OF

GREEN SQUARE THE PAST SHAPES THE FUTURE

THE PAST SHAPES THE FUTURE OF THE GREEN SQUARE DEVELOPMENT

The area has been home to Aboriginal people and colonial settlers, a local industrial revolution and a diverse mix of workers and residents from all over the world.

Look for Green Square on a map and you’ll find it in Alexandria, Beaconsfield, Rosebery, Waterloo or Zetland. There is no suburb or postcode for Green Square, only a train station and a major plan for an impressive town centre, with a state of the art library, aquatic centre, creative spaces and beautiful parks.

Each suburb and precinct that makes up the area has a rich social history and a unique collection of stories and characters. The area has been home to Aboriginal people and colonial settlers, a local industrial revolution and a diverse mix of workers and residents from all over the world.

It is vital that the heritage of this area continues to be recognised. New street names will come from characters and moments in local history, as highlighted throughout this document. The following narrative provides interesting detail behind these new street names.

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Frederick Green MLA was an alderman of Alexandria Council, 1934–1948, and served as Mayor three times (1937, 1938, 1945). He was a member of the ALP Beaconsfield branch, and was the Member for Redfern in NSW Parliament 1950-1968.

A small reserve at the junction of O’Riordan Street and Botany Road was named Green Square in 1938. It commemorated his tireless promotion of industry and jobs in the district, and his role in promoting the sealing and widening of these major thoroughfares.

This is where Green Square gets its name.

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PRE–1788

Animals, reptiles, insects and many birds thrived in this environment which the Eora nation occupied for thousands of years, to fish, forage and hunt.

Green Square was once a sand dune wetland, covered by dense heath and scrub. It was part of the Botany Basin, and many of the creeks and pools drained to Botany Bay. There was a mixture of freshwater Melaleuca and sedge swamps, as well as mangroves and saltmarsh lining Shea’s Creek. A rich variety of shrubs covered the sand dunes including banksias and grass trees, while on the floodplain of Waterloo Swamp the paperbark would have thrived.

Animals, reptiles, insects and many birds thrived in this environment which the Eora nation occupied for thousands of years, to fish, forage and hunt. Different species of bandicoot, possum, kangaroo, wallaby, glider, snake and lizard – known in the Sydney language as Bunmarra — occupied the area.

Birdlife included the black swan or Mulgu, the redbill or Buming, the sulphur crested cockatoo or Garraway, the brolga or Dyuralya and the Biyanbing, a type of quail.

The earliest recorded documentation of Sydney’s Aboriginal coastal language was Gilbanung, meaning grasshopper.

Others included:

• Magari meaning “to fish”;

• Banilung meaning “a large fish”;

• Galara, a Sydney language word that describes a “four pronged fishing harpoon”.

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Birdlife included the black swan or Mulgu, the redbill or Buming and the Biyanbing, a type of quail.

Near Botany Bay looking towards Sydney, William Leigh - Sketches in NSW 1853, Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW

The Green Square area was important in the years immediately after 1788 because it was the country linking the two pivotal places in the early settlement, Botany Bay and Sydney Cove. The arrival of the Europeans resulted in hard times for the Eora who had to compete for resources.

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1800s

The expansion of white settlement, and the devastating impact of smallpox, pushed the Gadigal people outside the town boundaries, towards Waterloo, Alexandria and Botany Bay. The isolation of the district and the wetlands continued to provide food and shelter. Pemulwuy, a Bidjigal man from around Botany Bay and Salt Pan Creek, became a formidable resistance leader. Governor King outlawed him in 1801 and he was shot dead on 2 June 1802.

The abundant water of the Botany Basin has shaped the use of the area. The ready supply of water in the swamps attracted industries to the area.

From as early as the 1810s, local capitalists searching for power sources for their mills turned to the Waterloo/Botany area. The relatively reliable water flow provided steam power for grinding grain and milling cloth.

Mills and houses were still surrounded by scrub, dunes and swamps and were only accessible by horse and dray, or on foot, over a bumpy dirt road.

In 1825 convict-turned-businessman Daniel Cooper acquired both the Waterloo Estate and the Lachlan Estate, some 1585 acres of land.

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Along with brickworks, candle and soap factories, the John Paul pottery works, tanneries, breweries and woolwashes, schools and churches were established.

By the 1850s, the Cooper Estate had flourished into an industrial suburb. Along with brickworks, candle and soap factories, the John Paul pottery works, tanneries, breweries and wool washing firms, schools and churches were established.

A Mr Barker, was an early wool scourer who established the Waterloo Mills wool wash located on Big Waterloo Dam and the Little Waterloo Dam in 1848. It was later taken over by Thomas Hayes and subsequently Andrew Hinchcliffe. The mills employed about 100 people, most of whom lived with their families nearby in Waterloo.

Lower Dam, Hinchcliff’s Waterloo Mills wool washing establishment, Town and Country Journal, 16 June 1877, Courtesy of National Library of Australia

A significant local wool broker and manufacturer, Octavius Bayliffe Ebsworth had a wool wash beside Shea’s Creek. Between 600 and 800 fleeces could be processed in an hour. He scoured and prepared the wool for the cloth and white yarns produced in his tweed factory in the city.

By 1853, at least four publicans had been granted licenses in the Waterloo and Alexandria area to serve travellers and local workers employed in the woolwashes, tanneries and other local industries. The first of these was the Waterloo Retreat, located on Retreat Street, on the Alexandria side of Botany Road.

During the 1850s, Waterloo was a smelly place. Strong southerlies regularly blew through the district and with the burgeoning development of noxious trades such as boiling down works and fellmongeries — dealing in skins or hides of animals, especially sheepskins — the south-west wind was a distinctive and unavoidable olfactory presence.

The Sydney Aboriginal language word gunyama meant “wind from the south-west” and an associated word “gunyamara” meant “stink”.

In 1860, Waterloo became a borough. Councillors and local residents worked towards the improvement of the area and the Town Hall was built in 1880–1882.

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The fleeces were spread out on the ground to dry naturally, the fluffy white fleeces covering the ground.

Waterloo Town Hall, Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives

John Geddes Snr and his son, John H. Geddes, were prominent local fellmongers who both went on to serve as aldermen in Waterloo. John Geddes Snr was a founding alderman of Waterloo Council in 1860, serving five years as an alderman (1860-2, 1868-9) and was Mayor in 1862.

The Drying Green was the name given to the area dedicated to the drying of wool, following washing. The fleeces were spread out on the ground to dry naturally, the fluffy white fleeces covering the ground.

John H. Geddes later acquired the Waterloo Mills, Buckland Mills and Floodvale, in 1885. Waterloo Mills later became known as The Australian Wool Company.

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In 1865, Archibald Forsyth established Australian Rope Works on the corner of Bourke Street and Lachlan Street. By the late nineteenth century, rope and cordage manufacturing was one of the principal industries of the colony.

Thread was one of their brands of cord. Forsyth’s had a rope walk, a long low building or walkway in which the rope was twisted into lengths, a onetime essential and central part to rope making.

Archibald Forsyth rope factory, Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives

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In 1874, the Governor of NSW established Zetland Lodge, a substantial house and training stable.

In 1888 the business employed 150 workers, most of whom lived in Waterloo district, with generations of the same families becoming rope makers — drawing on a multicultural workforce of men and women from Greece, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia and the Ukraine.

A well-know philanthropist actively involved in community life, Forsyth was elected in 1885 to the Legislative Assembly. At the same time he was a founder and first President of the Chamber of Manufactures. He helped found the committee of Animals Protection Society, the City Bowling Club and Randwick Bowling Club.

In 1874, the Governor of NSW, Sir Hercules Robinson, established Zetland Lodge, a substantial house and training stable set back from the juncture of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets.

Governor Robinson was a keen horse racing man and patron of the Australian Jockey Club at Randwick. His racing colours were the Zetland or ‘Aske Hall’ spots, red spots on a white ground.

Horse trainer Thomas Lamond made Zetland Lodge into one of the prominent racing stables and was a popular and respected figure in the district. He served as an alderman on Waterloo Municipal Council for 21 years from 1887-1907 and was Mayor on four occasions.

In the new suburbs of Waterloo and Alexandria from the 1880s, and with population and industry, came pubs. By 1886, there were 22 within a two kilometre radius in Waterloo alone, including the Bee-Hive, the Balaclava, the Cheerful Home, the Empress of India, the Mount Lachlan, the Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, the Salutation, the Compass and the Bugle Horn.

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The 1880s also saw small residential subdivisions being established as workers housing, particularly in the slightly higher ground in Zetland, Waterloo and Beaconsfield. The Beaconsfield Estate was subdivided in 1884 and promoted as the “Working Man’s Model Township”. The Hill View Estate and Chester Estate also date from this time.

There was a large dairy which provided milk for much of the Eastern Suburbs.

Father Sylwanus Mansour, ministering to an ecumenical flock of Greek, Antioch Orthodox, Coptic and Syrian worshippers in the 1890s, oversaw the building of Australia’s first Lebanese church, St Michael’s Melkite Church, in Waterloo.

Industries operating in the Municipality of Alexandria in the 1890s included Alexandria Saw Mills, Sydney Smelting and Phosphor Bronze Foundry, Quatre Bras Tannery and

Fellmongery, St Peters Brick Factory, Warren Brick Factory, Baedford Brickworks, Sydney Soap and Candle Company, Co-operative Acid & Chemical Manufacturing Company.

The liquid waste products from these industries flowed into Shea’s Creek Canal and then to the Cooks River and into Botany Bay. High levels of pollution in these waterways continued well into the twentieth century.

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Typical pottery shop/factory of the time, Camperdown, Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives

Drownings in the dams and waterholes were a constant and tragic hazard in the district.

In 1895, a 10-year-old boy drowned in a waterhole at Paul’s Pottery. He was the only child of Jessie & Patrick Leonard, and grandson of Isabella McElhinney, the licensee for the Waterloo Retreat Hotel in the 1890s and leaseholder of a number of areas rented to Chinese market gardeners.

In the 19th century, Chinese market gardens and a branch of Shepherd’s Nursery were located in a block of Waterloo just south of Lachlan Street. Chinese market gardeners were working plots in this block into the 1920s. Tung Hop was identified in the Sands’ Directories as working gardens in this block 1891–1893.

Another Chinese market gardener, Sam Sing, worked in this area in 1888.

Environmental degradation was caused by industrial exploitation. The systematic draining and polluting of Lachlan and Waterloo Swamps and local streams robbed Green Square of many of its natural features.

1900s

In the early part of the 20th century, the Cooper Estate was broken up, providing large areas for purpose built factories.

The Victoria Park Racecourse was created on the former Waterloo swamp by Sir James Joynton Smith, a hotelier and newspaper owner. Smith was to become Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1918. Sam Peters was the Secretary of the Victoria Park Racing Club and the grounds incorporated the Totaliser Building.

Sir James Joynton Smith, Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives

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Prior to his election to the Sydney Municipal Council, Smith was the manager of the Grand Central Coffee Palace Hotel and owned Hotel Astra, Bondi, and the Carlton in the city. In 1901, he was made a Justice of the Peace. He was credited with establishing the first electric-light plant in the Blue Mountains and purchased the Imperial Hotel, Mount Victoria, the Carrington Hotel and two theatres at Katoomba.

More than 6,000 people, including State Government MPs, attended the opening day at Victoria Park Racing Club, on 15 January 1908.

On the card were the Flying Handicap and the Encourage Stakes, with jockey C. Naulty winning three races in succession: on Find Out in the Maiden Handicap, Tod in the Fourteen Hands Handicap and Miss Mayfield in the Fourteen-two Handicap.

The main race, the Victoria Park Handicap, was open to all horses and run over six furlongs with prize money of 200 sovereigns. Victoria Park Race Course was a proprietary race track which didn’t just run thoroughbreds, but all horses, and a day at Victoria Park was often referred to as a day at the pony races.

Down the cinder track thundered favourite Chimes, middle-placed Leticia, and outsider Fuse followed by Marsfield, equal favourite Blue Diamond, Brother Jack, Saucy Kate and Harbour Light trailed by ten mounts with My Own bringing up the rear.

As they raced to the finish, Chimes and Leticia fought it out all the way, jockey J. Bindon on Chimes winning by a short head, with Leticia second and two lengths behind in third place, Fuse.

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More than 6,000 people, including NSW Government MPs, attended the opening day at Victoria Park Racing Club, on 15 January 1908.

Many Chinese people were migrating into the area and in 1909, a Chinese Temple was built in Retreat Street, Alexandria.

The Chinese community in Alexandria was subject to restrictive legislation, regulation, surveillance, media propaganda, community agitation and harassment, which took the form of raids on gambling houses, sanitary inspections and Board of Health strictures.

Mothers, children and nurses outside the Baby Clinic, Alexandria, 1914, Courtesy of State Library NSW

It also saw the arrest of European women consorting with Chinese men and regulation and surveillance of working practices.

As reported in the local Chinese newspaper, the Tung Wa Times, there were also good experiences – market gardeners and local businesses making donations to local organisations, including fresh vegetables to the Unemployed Workers Association, and funds to Royal South Sydney Hospital, founded by Joynton Smith. It was opened in 1912, followed by a baby health centre in 1914, aimed at reducing the high level of infant mortality in the City of Sydney and the surrounding working class metropolis.

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Royal South Sydney Hospital, Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives

Rosebery was developed in 1911 and promoted as “Sydney’s model residential and industrial suburb”.

Rosebery was sub-divided in 1911 and promoted as “Sydney’s model residential and industrial suburb”. The factories were separated from housing by parklands and no two adjacent houses were of the same design.

The Cooper Estate was broken up, providing large areas for purpose-built factories.

In 1907, Metters Limited, manufacturer of stoves, baths, basins and sinks – and the famous Early Kooka stove – relocated from Alice Street, Newtown to the Alexandria neighbourhood now known as the Ashmore Estate.

Metters produced the famous Early Kooka stove, with its oven door emblazoned with a kookaburra, as well as stoves called the Pearl and the Zenith, and the Alpha bath.

By the 1930s the factory expanded to cover a total area of more than 10 hectares. Metters employed hundreds of workers locally, including many coppersmiths, and thousands nationally – in 1939 there were 2,500 hands employed in NSW and 3,500 across Australia. The Alexandria factory closed in 1974.

The region continued to have an Aboriginal population. During the 1930s Depression, many extended families moved into the Redfern area to a place that later became known as The Block. The post-war period saw an influx of Aboriginal people coming to live in Redfern and Waterloo as people moved from the bush to the ‘Big Smoke’ E

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to seek work opportunities and reconnect with family and community. South Sydney industries where Aboriginal people worked included Eveleigh workshops, IXL Jam factory (Darlington), Francis Chocolates (Redfern), Federal Match Factory (Alexandria), and the Australian Glass Manufacturers (Waterloo).

During the depression of the 1920s, working people in Alexandria and Waterloo formed strong communities in what were often unpleasant environments.

Alexandria was the site of major steel engineering companies McPherson’s Pty Ltd and Hadfields Steel Works, a heavy engineering steel works that operated on site until the 1970s.

McPherson’s manufactured bolts, nuts and rivets as well as precision manufacture of tools and machinery such as lathes and pumps.

During the 1930s Depression, many extended families moved into the Redfern area to a place that later became known as The Block.

Hundreds of workers were involved in the industry. McPherson’s proudly declared ”the Sydney Harbour Bridge is only one of the many large Australian structures which are literally held together with rivets and bolts from McPherson’s Bolt and Nut Works”.

There was also the Mitchell Road foundry of Hadfields covering 1.6 hectares and smelting steel to produce castings for railways, tramways, shipbuilding, and mining operations. They had a second works in Bourke Road.

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1940s

Alexandria, now the largest industrial Municipality in Australia, had more than 22,200 workers in 550 factories, and was known as the ‘Birmingham of Australia’.

Dunkerley Hat Mills (Akubra hat factory), Sam Hood Collection, Courtesy of State Library NSW

Reed Paper Products was a large factory that covered 5.2 hectares.

By 1938 it was the largest manufacturer of paper products in Australia, employing 600 hands in its two factories at Redfern and Waterloo. They manufactured playing cards – including the Mystic brand - and cardboard containers in a variety of shapes and sizes, from shoeboxes and food packaging to display cartons and furniture packaging.

Reed also manufactured hatboxes in the 1930s and, nearby, Dunkerley Hat Mills manufactured Akubra hats. Hat maker Benjamin Dunkerley revolutionised the industry by patenting a machine for dressing fur. His invention (the first of many which changed hat manufacturing) was designed to take the top layer of fur off rabbit skin to uncover the soft fur for use in felt-hat making, a process previously done, painstakingly, by hand. R

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Dunkerley Hat Mills, which moved to Waterloo in 1918, named its hats the Akubra, allegedly after an Aboriginal name for head covering, and after being contracted to supply slouch hats to World War I diggers, the Waterloo millinery business didn’t look back. In the 1940s the factory employed 500 workers.

For 20 years, between 1928 and 1947, a formidable figure — Miss Ruby Jane Grant — was Matron of Royal South Sydney Hospital.

Matron Grant was an advocate for nurses’ training and conditions, president of the NSW Nurses’ Association from 1933 – 1937, and was involved with the Australasian Trained Nurses’ Association and the New South Wales Branch of the Trained Nurses Guild.

Three-time mayor Frederick Green wasn’t the only notable alderman to serve the area. Mrs Mary Veronica Neilson was Waterloo Municipal Council’s first female alderman (1945 – 1948), and first female Mayor (1946 & 1947). She was a member of the ALP Waterloo branch, on the board of Royal South Sydney Hospital and was actively involved in the local Police Boys’ Club. Mrs Neilson was wife of former alderman & Mayor John William Neilson and was mother to six children.

From the 1950s manufacturing either declined or decentralised to the western suburbs of Sydney leaving large areas of former industrial land for urban renewal.

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Opening of Sydney factory of British Motor Corporation, on old Site of Victoria Park racecourse, Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives

During the 1950s, the Victoria Park racecourse site was bought by British Motor Corporation for industry and today is the Victoria Park residential, retail and commercial development.

By the 1960s, Green Square was thought of as a convenient place for other Sydney suburbs to dump their waste. Waverley and Woollahra councils were permitted to build the huge Waterloo Incinerator over the in-filled site of Waterloo Dam adjoining residential Zetland streets.

People battled for 24 years to have it closed down. This was the Waverley-Woollahra Incinerator that poured stench and dangerous levels of particle fallout onto their neighbourhood between 1972 and 1996. The ‘Zetland Monster’ stood a few hundred metres from the current Green Square station site.

With the decline of secondary industry since the 1970s, the 20th century industrial landscape of vast factories and belching chimneys was in retreat.

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While the area still supports manufacturing, there has been an increasing influx of high-tech industries, offices, commercial businesses, showrooms and storage facilities replacing the old heavy industries of car manufacturing, foundries, chemicals and brewing — establishments with labour forces that used to run into thousands. As workers moved out of the area, young families and urban professionals moved in. As the population grows and changes, the Green Square development project will match this growth with quality facilities, parks and infrastructure. The aim is to create a vibrant neighbourhood with excellent transport connections, an active commercial, community and cultural life,

and cutting-edge green technologies. A good understanding of the area’s history, will help planners, developers and the community create a sense of belonging.

The new street names are just one way of celebrating this history – other historic sites can be recognised throughout the area such as the original Totaliser building on Joynton Avenue that now serves as a library and community centre for the City of Sydney. Buildings on the old Royal South Sydney Hospital will also be restored to become a community creative hub.

As the new buildings of the future Green Square begin to rise, the City of Sydney hopes to preserve old associations and local identity, in step with the social, physical and economic transformation of this historic part of Sydney.

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Gadigal Avenue

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Dis

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Sou

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Driv

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Portm

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Elizabeth Street

Kirby Walk

Vict

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Par

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Gra

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and

Para

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Levy Walk

Sprin

g St

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Asco

t Ave

nue

Hutchinson Walk

Rot

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venu

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Ros

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Tilford Street

Dal

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Leyland GroveCooper Place

Stedman Street

Geo

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Juliu

s Av

enue

Merton Street

Morris Grove

Hansard Street

Names for Streets withinPrecinct 4 - Epsom Park and South Victoria Park


Projection: MGA Zone 56Datum: GDA94Paper Size: A4Prepared By: City Plan Devt.Printing Date: September 11, 2012File: EP_StreetandParkNames.mxd

Ü 50 0 5025 m

ZETLAND AVENUE PETERS STREET

GEO

RG

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S AV

ENU

E

DEF

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S AV

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PON

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PAR

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MU

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BINDON PLACE

ROSE VALLEY WAY


Names for Streets and Parks withinPrecinct 5 - Overland Gardens and Dolina Development Sites

Copyright ©2012 City of Sydney Council, All Rights ReservedCopyright ©2012 Land and Property Information, All RightsReserved. This map has been compiled from various sourcesand the publisher and/or contributors accept no responsibilityfor any injury, loss or damage arising from the use, error oromissions therein. While all care is taken to ensure a high degree of accuracy, users are invited to notify Council’s GISGroup of any map discrepancies. No part of this map may bereproduced without written permission.

Projection: MGA Zone 56Datum: GDA94Paper Size: A4Prepared By: City Plan Devt.Printing Date: September 11, 2012File: OG_ParkandStreetNames.mxd

Ü 30 0 3015 m

GREEN SQUARE’S NEW STREETS AND PLACE NAMES OVERLAND GARDENS AND DOLINA DEVELOPMENT SITE

Magari Street

Banilung Street

Galara Street

Bunm

arra

Stre

et

Gilb

anun

g St

reet

Gal

ara

Stre

etGarraway Park

Epsom Road

Dal

men

yAv

enue

Sout

hern

Cro

ss D

rive

Link Roa

d

MAGARI STREET

BANILUNG STREET

GARRAWAY PARK

GALARA STREET

GA

LAR

A S

TRE

ET

BU

NM

AR

RA

ST

GIL

BA

NU

NG

ST

23

MCEVOY ST

YOU

NG

ST

PHILLIP ST

CRESCENT ST

SOU

THD

OW

LIN

GST

QUEEN ST

DO

WLI

NG

ST

DACEY AVE

ELIZ

AB

ETH

ST

GREEN SQUARE NEIGHBOURHOOD

SERVICE CENTRE

ZETLAND

CONSFIELD

GREEN SQUARETOWN CENTRE

ROSEBERY

WATERLOO

MOOREPARK


MCE

VOY

ST

COLLINS ST

BUCKLAND ST

BEACONSFIELD ST

BOTA

NY

RD

FOUNTAINST

BO

TAN

YR

D

BOUR

KERD

GREEN SQUARE RAILWAY STATION

ALEXANDRIA

BEA

ALEXANDRIA PARK

PERRY PARK

4KM TO CITY

TO AIRPORT 3.5KM

FACILITIES TO BE BUILT

The Green SquareDevelopment Area

MULGU PARK

BIYANBING PARK BEACONSFIELD PARK

BUMING PARK

MARY O’BRIEN PARK MATRON RUBY GRANT PARK

DYURALYA PARK

WULABA PARK WATERLOO PARK

GARRAWAY PARK GUNYAMA PARK

PLAZA

TRAIN STATION

LIBRARY COMMUNITY CREATIVE HUB HEALTH & RECREATION CENTRE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE CENTRE

JOYNTON PARK

TOTE PARK

GREEN SQUARE NEILSON SQUARE THE DRYING GREEN

PARKS

COMMUNAL SQUARES

THE ROPE WALK

GREEN SQUARE DEVELOPMENT SITE

MCE

VOY

ST

COLLINS ST

BUCKLAND ST

BEACONSFIELD ST

BOTA

NY

RD

FOUNTAINST

BO

TAN

YR

D

BOUR

KERD

GREEN SQUARERAILWAY STATION

ALEXANDRIA

ALEXANDRIAPARK

PERRYPARK

4KMTO CITY

TO AIRPORT3.5KM

FACILITIES TO BE BUILT

The Green SquareDevelopment Area

MULGU PARK

BIYANBING PARKBEACONSFIELD PARK

BUMING PARK

MARY O’BRIEN PARKMATRON RUBY GRANT PARK

DYURALYA PARK

WULABA PARKWATERLOO PARK

GARRAWAY PARKGUNYAMA PARK

PLAZA

TRAIN STATION

LIBRARYCOMMUNITY CREATIVE HUBHEALTH & RECREATION CENTREGREEN INFRASTRUCTURE CENTRE

JOYNTON PARK

TOTE PARK

GREEN SQUARENEILSON SQUARETHE DRYING GREEN

PARKS

COMMUNAL SQUARES

THE ROPE WALK

25

MCEVOY ST

YOU

NG

ST

PHILLIP ST

CRESCENT ST

SOU

THD

OW

LIN

GST

QUEEN ST

DO

WLI

NG

ST

DACEY AVE

ELIZ

AB

ETH

ST

GREEN SQUARE NEIGHBOURHOOD

SERVICE CENTRE

ZETLAND

BEACONSFIELD

GREEN SQUARE TOWN CENTRE

ROSEBERY

WATERLOO

MOORE PARK

For more information visit

cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/greensquare

The City of Sydney would like to credit the Histories of Green Square (2004, UNSW), edited by Grace Karskens and Melita Rogowsky, as a major source of information for this booklet.

Documents

The Streets of Green Square - The Past Shapes the · PDF fileTHE PAST SHAPES THE FUTURE OF THE GREEN SQUARE . DEVELOPMENT. The area has been home to Aboriginal people and colonial