Marrickville People & Places Social History Pictorial History Marrickville Books

MARRICKVILLE People and Places A social history of Marrickville, Newtown, Camperdown, Petersham, Stanmore, St Peters, Tempe & Dulwich Hill

By Chrys Meader, Richard Cashman & Anne Carolan Hale & Iremonger Hardcover in Dustjacket 200 Pages 1994

This is the second volume to Marrickville: Rural Outpost to Inner City and includes the heritage sites in Marrickville.

It includes the lives of a cross-section of the famous as well as ordinary people of Marrickville, Aborignes in 1845, the life of a St Peters horse teamster and more. Other chapters cover transport, post offices & local newspapers; roads, bridges, water supply & public services; churches, chapels & cemeteries; music, the arts & mass education; parks gardens & pubs; horseracing, lifesaving & other sports.

Pictorial History MARRICKVILLE

By Anne-Maree Whitaker

Kingsclear Books Softcover 139 Pages 2006

Also includes: St Peters, Tempe, Sydenham, Dulwhich Hill, Lewisham, Petersham, Stanmore, Camperdown, Newtown, Enmore

Anne-Maree Whitaker provides a richly illustrated history of Marrickville, this diverse multicultural inner western municipality in Sydney. Thomas Chalder, who was born in Marrick, Yorkshire in 1813 and arrived in Sydney in 1842, purchased land from the late Robert Wardell. In 1855, his 6-acre Marrick estate was subdivided for sale and auctioneer and local publican William Dean is credited for adding the French "ville" to the name to attract capitalists, market gardeners and speculators to the sale. By the middle of the 19th century wealthy settlers established nurseries, orchards, dairies and market gardens to supply Sydney's needs. Brickworks were established to build stylish houses along the railway lines. Businessmen such as Thomas Holt and the Hordern family settled in this convenient locality close to busy Newtown and the city but with fresh air.

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