Artarmon, NSW: Was Known as “The Bush”

Artarmon is a suburb located 9 kilometres north-west of the Sydney, on the lower North Shore.

Cammeraygal people

Cammeraygal is variously spelled as Cam-mer-ray-gal, Gamaraigal, Kameraigal, Cameragal and several other variations.

Living as hunter–fisher–gatherers in extended family groups, the Cammeraygal, were severely impacted by Smallpox to which they had no immunity, with the arrival of the British.

British officer David Collins, who spent eight years in New South Wales in An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, published in London in 1798, wrote the women sang together as they fished and kept time with their paddles when they rowed.

Evidence of Aboriginal occupation can be found in caves, hand prints on stone, rock art, weapons and middens. 

Barangaroo was a woman from the Camaragal people during the early days of the British arrival. She, unlike her husband, Bennelong, refused to wear clothes and had a pierced nasal septum.

An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801
Read: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES

1786

Polmont Farm (144 acres) on the western side of today’s Pacific Highway, was developed by James Williamson on land granted by Governor Hunter in 1796. 

1800s

William Gore came to Australia with William Bligh who appointed him Provost Marshal. Gore was given a land grant in 1810, where Artarmon exists today.

Gore’s family lived in Ardthelmon Castle (pronounced Art-e-mon), in Ireland, which dates from the 1640s.

During the Rum Rebellion, William Gore arrested John Macarthur. Then the Rum Corps arrested Gore, and he served two years in the Newcastle coalmines.

In 1818, Gore defaulted on his mortgage and lost most of his land, except for a plot where he built Artarmon House in which he lived.

The first house, built by Gore at Artarmon in 1820 by Gore, was replaced by a grander building in 1869 by Richard Hayes Hartnett.

Bricks were first made in the area in 1828.

Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Friday 23 August 1822

Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Tuesday 15 December 1829

1830s

In 1830 there were no Aboriginal people living a traditional lifestyle in the area.

1850s

Orchards and market gardens were established.

 

1860s

In 1865, the Municipality of North Willoughby was proclaimed.

The land for Gore Hill Cemetery was first dedicated in May 1868.

1880s

The southern part of Artarmon developed several industries from the 1880s.

1890s

Artarmon Station was opened in 1898. On 25 April 1898, the Willoughby tram service was officially opened as an extension of the North Sydney network.

1900s

The BUTCHER BROTHERS AND CO.'S NEW BRICKWORKS, GORE HILL. Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), Wednesday 13 May 1903

A mailbox was established at Artarmon railway station in 1907.

Valetta House, Artarmon, NSW, PD. (Valetta, the original home of William Gore, is now known as Trelowarren) More info

Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Monday 9 September 1912

Cleland Park was declared a public park in 1908.

Artarmon Railway Station, NSW, 1908, SLNSW

Artarmon Railway Station, NSW, 1908, Willoughby Library.

Looking towards Chatswood from Artarmon Railway Station, NSW, 1908. The northbound Sydney train track was first built in 1890. Artarmon Railway Station was opened, 6 July 1898 but it wasn't until 1916, that a brick station building was built.

New infants school at Artarmon, NSW, All the children from Artarmon had formerly to either walk to
the ChatBwood School, a distance of a little more than a mile, or travel by the train. The latter method often caused a good deal of anxiety to parents, as many of the children are only 6 or 7 years of age. The new school. Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Thursday 6 October 1910,

Artarmon Railway Station , NSW, 1915

 

WWI

Lieutenant D E Wilson (Artarmon), wounded. Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wednesday 16 June 1915

 Private W. Roy Pugsley, Of the 18th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcements. He has been missing since August 22, and his parents, who live at Hampden-road, Artarmon, would be grateful If any returned soldier has news of him. Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Saturday 11 December 1915

Comrade-in-Arms. The group was photographed in Cairo beforet he Gallipoli campaign. On the Ieft is Pte Collins, who was killed in action at Anzac, in thee centre is a Bengal lancer, who was wounded at the Suez Canal; and on the right is Sergt, Garnet R. Downer of Artarmon, near Sydney, who, after serving through the whole Gallipoli campaign, was last month killed in action in France. Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wednesday 2 August 1916

Fete at Artarmon, NSW, Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wednesday 21 February 1917

Before the Harbour Bridge was built to the North Shore, the area was known as “the bush”.

1920s

 

This snapshot was taken In Broughton-road, Artarmon, In tho Willoughby municipality, a thoroughfare leading from the railway station to the Lane Cove-road. Some of the local boys make quite a good thing by hiring out planks to motorists in trouble.Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Friday 13 January 1922

Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Friday 24 October 1924

The wireless weekly : the hundred per cent Australian radio journalVol. 4 No. 26 (10 October 1924) 

Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Friday 12 February 1926

Wilkes Ave, Artarmon, NSW, 1924 (viewed from Artarmon Railway Station. Behind the gardens is Artarmon Road)

Mr. Harnett says that, when his father first took over the Gore Hill property from the wood-carter Sims, he found the remains of William and Mrs. Gore, and those of a daughter, in a portion of thick scrub. The coffins had originally rested on very low trestles, above ground, but Mr. Harnett says that when he saw them, the wood was almost all dust, through which showed the whitened bones of the pioneers. It is stated that the reason William Gore had his remains left above ground was because of an old belief regard- was "in aerial."

Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Sunday 28 August 1927

Artarmon's New Public School Officially Opened, Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tuesday 17 September 1929

1930s

 

The Great Northern, at Artarmon, NSW, Building : the magazine for the architect, builder, property owner and merchant.Vol. 47 No. 277 (12 September 1930)

GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, ARTARMON, SYDNEY. A Link With Early Days. The site of this hotel, the Great Northern, Artarmon, which has just been co’m-pleted, is that of one of the first hotels on the north side of the harbour, and is the third to occupy this position. Situated at the junction of Gordon and Mowbray Roads, it was originally the centre of a sporting circle, an old race-course being- located to the west of it, and many a race, sports meeting or even cock-fight, has been celebrated or deplored over its foaming tankards. The second hotel, and predecessor to
the present one, was opened some 51 years ago (1879) and was the excuse for much revelry, say the oldest inhabitant informs us, an ox being roasted whole in the yard and free beer being dispensed to all and- sundry; no wonder he remembers the incident clearly and says “times ain’t what thev were.” This hotel ended up bv being called The Artarmon Hotel, altered several times) but the new occupier of the site has styled itself the “Great Northern” in view of the fact that it flanks the new Great Northern Road to Newcastle (Pest’s Ferry permitting). Building : the magazine for the architect, builder, property owner and merchant.Vol. 47 No. 277 (12 September 1930)

Gardens at Artarmon Railway, NSW, 1930s (Charles Henry Wickham (1869-1936). The gardener in the photo was a resident who designed and managed the railway station gardens on behalf of the Artarmon Progress Association from 1928 until 1936.

Artarmon Village, NSW, 1935. Artarmon Progress Association

Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wednesday 25 January 1933

Clarke Bridge, Artarmon, NSW, Building : the magazine for the architect, builder, property owner and merchant.Vol. 48 No. 283, (12 March, 1931)

Clarke Bridge, Artarmon, NSW, Building : the magazine for the architect, builder, property owner and merchant.Vol. 48 No. 283, (12 March, 1931)

Repainting Artarmon police station with yellow and black bands yesterday. The new colour scheme will attract attention to the "pill-box," and so assist the police.Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Saturday 4 February 1933

Construction (Sydney, NSW : 1938 - 1954), Wednesday 1 June 1938

1940s and WWII

SOME WHERE I IN AUSTRALIA. — Flying - Officer A. P. Goldsmith, D.F.C., D.F.M., and Malta Cross, of Artarmon, celebrated his return to operational flying on Tuesday by shooting down one of the five Jap Zero fighters destroyed over Darwin by Spitfires.Daily Mirror (Sydney, NSW : 1941 - 1955), Friday 10 September 1943

REPATRIATED prisoners of war from Italy, who arrived in Sydney yesterday. From left to right: Sergeants Walter Martin, of Artarmon, and Russell Kelly, of Strathfield, and Privates Thomas Carter, of Scone, Stan Whitehead, of Young, arid Lance Ward, of Glebe. Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), Saturday 17 July 1943

Grace Bros, Repository at Pacific Highway, Artarmon, 1947, SLNSW. Originally built in 1932 for Grace Bros as a furniture repository

Two members of Artarmon Junior Red Cross circle, JEANETTE HUTLEY and YVONNE CARTER, admiring gifts which have been made by members for the JRC Exhibition opening in the Town Hall on Wednesday. Clothing and toys will later be sent to children of invalid ex-servicemen.Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Tuesday 17 August 1948

Midday Meals in Schools Is A New Deal Objective. Daily meal service at Artarmon is typical
of the best being provided in this State. Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation.Vol.30 No.4 (25 April 1949) (The Oslo lunch was devised by Norwegian physician and professor Carl Schiøtz in 1932 to improve the health of poor children. By 1950 it was in schools throughout Australia)

 

1950s

Artarmon tram, NSW, 1950s

Corner of Wilkes Ave and Elizabeth St, Artarmon, NSW, 1950s

St. John Ambulance Officer E. O. Perrot, of Artarmon, wearing medaIs belonging to himmself as well as some which belonged to his forefathers who took part in the .Battle of Waterloo. Daily Mirror (Sydney, NSW : 1941 - 1955), Wednesday 25 April 1951

Sister Patricia Hadley, of Artarmon, N.S.W., climbs the rope ladder to the R.A.A.F. air-sea rescue launch in Port Phillip Bay. With other R.A.A.F. nurses she has been training with the R.A.A.F.'s Aviation Medicine Section at Point Cook. The nurses had first hand experience of survival when they were set adrift inthe Bay in a rubber dinghy. Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), Wednesday 17 November 1954

WOMEN DRIVERS can heat Junior's bottle or make a "cuppa" in the sun-bathed snack room, or have a freshening shower and brush-up in the plastic-curtained shower-room, which are facilities provided in a new Rest-Room service especially planned for the growing army of women motorists on the highways. First one of a nation-wide network of new service stations was opened on the Pacific Highway at Artarmon this week. Land (Sydney, NSW : 1911 - 1954), Friday 2 July 1954

“Speedo” knitting mill, known as “The House of Speedo”, opened in February 1957, at Artarmon.

Windsor and Richmond Gazette (NSW : 1888 - 1965), Wednesday 14 August 1957

1960s

 

Three television transmission towers are constructed in an area collectively known as the Artarmon Triangle. 

In 1969, the western side of the railway line was rezoned, and is now mostly apartment buildings.

1990s

The Gore Hill Freeway opened in 1992 through Artarmon.

 2000s

 

Chatswood and Artarmon from Forrestville, NSW, 2008, https://www.flickr.com/photos/tolomea/

Around Artarmon

The former Artarmon Uniting Church property, NSW, opened 1926 (now library)

246-260 Mowbray Road, Artarmon. NSW. Built in 1888 for American journalist Frank Coffee, and named Iroquois.

Artarmon, NSW

Artatmon, NSW

Artarmon Train Station, NSW

Federation house, Artarmon, NSW

1920s house, Artarmon, NSW

Things To do

Heritage Walk

Aboriginal Sites: Northern Suburbs and Hawkesbury

The Kennards Hire Museum

Arncliffe, NSW: Was Known as Cobbler's Hill

Arncliffe is located 11 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district (CBD).

The Gweagal, Bidjigal and Gadigal Clans

Aboriginal people of the the Gweagal, Bidjigal and Gadigal Clans lived a mobile lifestyle. mostly staying near water sources, in the region.

The valleys of Wolli Creek and Bardwell Creek show evidence of Aboriginal people with smoke-blackened caves.

Early information was recorded about Aboriginal people by David Collins (author) and James Neagle (engraver), in, An account of the English colony in New South Wales with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c. of the native inhabitants of that country …, 1798. Read here

Drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. : with a supplement of New South Wales [ca. 1819]. Read here

1840s

William Hirst, created a subdivision in 1840, named The Village of Arncliffe Estate. William Hirst was born in Settle, Yorkshire, England. Arncliffe is named after a small village called Arncliffe in North Yorkshire, England.

The first inn at Arncliffe was the "Yorkshireman's Arms", from 1842.

In 1843, Forest Road, part of Surveyor General Thomas Mitchell's line of road to the Illawarra District, commenced, using convict labour.

Surveyor General Thomas Mitchell' reported Georges River' was marked and recommended the supply of a punt. On 1 July 1843, Mitchell reported that a ferry was in place. A hand-winced ferry with a capacity of two horse-drawn carts or three with skilful manoeuvring and the rear gate left partly open was established, replacing the previous row boat system. The road pursued the ridges from Arncliffe to Lugarno, where a punt crossed the Georges River.

Propeller (Hurstville, NSW : 1911 - 1954)

Auction of land at Arncliffe.

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Friday 28 February 1845

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tuesday 30 July 1844

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tuesday 15 August 1848,

1850s

Arncliffe Hill was known as Cobbler's Hill and the area became the vegetable garden for Sydney.

From 1853-60, Levi Barden was the licensee of the Bold Forrester Inn, on Wollongong Road, Arncliffe.

People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator (Sydney, NSW : 1848-1856), Saturday 15 November 1856

ANNUAL LICENSING MEETING, SYDNEY, 1857: Thomas William Lane, Governor Denison Inn, Cook's River. Arncliffe.

1860s

1870s

In 1872, a Publican Licence was granted for the Highbury Barn, on the corner of Barden Street and Forest Road. Arncliffe. Frewin Sleath, the licensee of the Highbury Barn Inn, also operated a quarry.

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thursday 4 September 1879,

1880s

Brothers, Thomas and Alexander Milsop bought land on Wollongong Rd in 1884 and built identical houses, Belmont and Fairview.

171 Wollongong Road Arncliffe, was built by Frederick John Gibbins and completed in 1885. It is currently the Macquarie Lodge Retirement Village.

William George Judd's estate "Athelstane" was built near the corner of Wollongong Road and Dowling Street, about 1884. The estate of seven acres was later reduced to 2 acres. Judd arranged for a bridge to be built over Wolli Creek and also had land set aside for parks at Arncliffe, Marrickville and Penshurst.

William George Judd and Family Outside "Atheistane, Arncliffe, NSW(The Education Department resumed the land in 1949 for a school)

In December 1884, a post office was opened when Arncliffe Railway Station opened.

"Mintaville"/St Joseph's Convent was built by Robert James Parish in 1887, in the Victorian Italianate style, and named for his wife, Annie Minta Parish.

1890s

By March 1898, a post office building opened on Firth Street, a short walk from the railway station.

Western Outfall Main Sewer, a former sewage farm outfall sewer and now ocean outfall sewer near Valda Avenue Arncliffe was constructed in 1898, The vent was demolished about 2015.

1900s

Arncliffe Railway Station, Sydney, N.S.W. - very early 1900s. The station was reconstructed into an island platform and opened in 1906.https://www.flickr.com/photos/hwmobs/

St George Call (Kogarah, NSW : 1904 - 1957), Saturday 23 June 1906,

 St George Call (Kogarah, NSW : 1904 - 1957), Saturday 23 June 1906

Arncliffe, Sydney, N.S.W. - very early 1900s. Park St (corner of Realm St) Arncliffe looking east out to Botany Bay. Aussie Mobs

Catholic Church at Arncliffe, N.S.W. - early 1900s, Aussie Mobs

This former Methodist Church was built in 1907 and became part of the Uniting Church of Australia in 1977 and in 1980 a Coptic Orthodox Church.  Methodist services had been held in a small building in Arncliffe since 1875. St George Call (Kogarah, NSW : 1904 - 1957), Saturday 23 March 1907

Steam trams travelled up Wollongong Road from Arncliffe Station to Preddy's Road, called "The Arncliffe to Bexley Tram," from 1909 to 1926.  An hourly service ran from early morning to midnight.

Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Friday 10 September 1909

ARNCLIFFE RAILWAY STATION, NSW - 1907, Rockdale Library

Bexlcy Tramway by the Minister for Works, the Hon. O. A. lee, M.L.A. Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Wednesday 20 October 1909

Arncliffe to Bexley steam tramway opened on 13 October 1909 and operated from Arncliffe railway station, NSW, NLAUST

MR. J. H. A. PIKE, THE YOUNG AUSTRALIAN INVENTOR" IN WIR.ELESS TELEGRAPHY, WAITING FOR MESSAG ES IN HIS OPERATING ROOM AT ARNCLIFFE. Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Wednesday 2 March 1910

 Laying of he foundation-stone of St. David's Church of England, Arncliffe, NSW, Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), Wednesday 26 January 1910

George Fortescue & Sons at Arncliffe made windmills and other machines.

Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Wednesday 19 July 1911

An open-air theatre opened at Arnclife in 1911.

Many Victorian, Federation or Californian Bungalow houses were built around Arncliife. (today there are many unsympathetic alterations to many of these houses)

Chinese garden at Arncliffe, NSW, Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Tuesday 30 December 1913 (possibly, Chinese market garden of Kim Too, which was situated where Arncliffe Park is now)

St. George Cricket Premiers — ArncliffeA Team St George Call (Kogarah, NSW : 1904 - 1957), Saturday 19 April 1913

Death of Mrs. S. M. Morgan. The death occurred recently of Mrs. Susannah Maria Morgan, at her residence, "Teluba," Arncliffe, Sydney.Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Wednesday 9 July 1913 ("Teluba", used by the St George School Education Area, is a Victorian style vila on the corner of Segenhoe Street and Avenal Street)

WWI

The South Coast Waratahs were one of the recruiting marches that came through Arncliffe (1.).

Pte. R MCulloch, Arncliffe, NSW, killed, Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wednesday 20 October 1915

Laurences of Dove Street, Arncliffe, NSW, Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wednesday 4 September 1918

The pneumonic flu epidemic broke out in December 1918. (About 40 per cent of the population became ill and somewhere between 12,000 and 15,000 people died)

Arcliffe-Bexley Tram, 1915-20. NLAUST

1920s

St George Call (Kogarah, NSW : 1904 - 1957), Friday 25 November 1921

The New Lyric Theatre operated at Arncliffe in a tin shed.

St George Call (Kogarah, NSW : 1904 - 1957), Friday 1 December 1922

Arncliffe Savings Bank, NSW, ca. 1900-1927, SLNSW

David Unaipon, an Aboriginal man, whose face is on Australia's $50 note, lived in Arncliffe, during the 1920s. Read more

Bunyip (Gawler, SA : 1863 - 1954), Friday 24 August 1934

The Myee Babies' Home and Myee Hostel was established in 1926 in Arncliffe and run by the Child Welfare Department.

Steam Motor with two Trailer Carriages waiting to depart for Bexley, from Arncliffe, NSW, on the last day of operations 31st December 1926

1930s

FIERCE GUST of wind to-day swept Mr. G. Lewis's store in West Botany-street, Arncliffe, and left & trail of damage as shown above. Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Tuesday 18 November 1930

AUSTRALIAN VERSION.— Some of the Aborigines Rugby League team from the La Perouse mission station who played against the Arncliffe Scots' Club at Earl Park.The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954) View title info 
Mon 20 Aug 1934

The Round Tower Church of Arncliffe, built by Rev. Father Rafferty, andconsecrated last December. Catholic Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1932 - 1942), Thursday 9 December 1937

The Nest Girls' Home, Wollongong Rd, Arncliffe, NSW, (closed in 1969 and was converted to aged care.) Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Sunday 14 April 1935 ( example of domestic style Victorian architecture)

1940s and WWII

Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Thursday 5 June 1941

Sylvia Evans, photographed by her husband Alan, showing off her new electric refrigerator at ‘Alwyn’, Arncliffe ,Sydney, 1941. This photo may look staged, but it is not, Museums NSW

1 Wollongong Road, Arncliffe, NSW, before Al Zahra Mosque was built (nd)

Miss E. Lynch, Forest Road, Arncliffe, seeks news of her brother, Private A. T. Lynch, 2/19 2 Batt., last heard of in Singapore. Daily Mirror (Sydney, NSW : 1941 - 1955), Saturday 18 December 1943

Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Monday 26 May 1941

I'lying Ofiicer 1. J. Meliee, of ArnclilTe, awarded the DtFC for gallant service.Captain of a Lancaster bomber in England, he has been promoted In acting Flight-Lieutenant. Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Thursday 22 February 1945

Owner Ordered to Let Vacant House to Digger Owner of an Arncliffe cottage that has been vacant for 14 years was ordered by a magistrate today to let it to a "Tohruk Rat" with a wife and three children. Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Friday 13 July 1945

MR. E. ANSELL, of Arncliffe. NSW (left), says he wouldn't swap his 1907 Renault for the I9^W
Ford V8 owned by Mr. Hugh Lambert, of Dulwich Hill. Mirror (Perth, WA : 1921 - 1956), Saturday 27 December 1947

Arncliffe Hotel, crn Princes Hwy and Forest Rd, Arncliffe, NSW, 1949

This four-bedroom brick house was moved 30ft. on to new foundations in Prince's Highway, Arncliffe, today, to- allow for the widening of the road. According to Mr. W. Diggelman, contractor, it was the first time an attempt had been made to move a complete brick dwelling in Australia. The house was dragged to its new foundations by winches and the job was completed in an hour without a brick being forced out of place. Preparatory work took almost three weeks. Daily Mirror (Sydney, NSW : 1941 - 1955), Tuesday 11 October 1949

1950s

Interior scenes from the film Jedda (the first film to feature Aboriginal people in lead roles) were shot at. Avondale Studios at Henderson St Turrella (next to Arncliffe), Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), Sunday 6 December 1953

Propeller (Hurstville, NSW : 1911 - 1954), Thursday 15 April 1954

Arncliffe Anglican Church, NSW, 1958

1960s

"Athelstane" mansion was demolished in the 1960s, and three two-storey school blocks were built.

1980s

The Fatima Al-Zahra Mosque, established 1980.

Fairview hosue was used as a sheltered workshop and hostel for disabled people until the mid 1980s.

2000s

The Arncliffe, NSW, vent stack, built 1898, and 27 metres in height, demolsihed, 2015

Around Arncliffe

Historically significant Fairview 197 Wollongong Road Arncliffe,, NSW, built 1890

"Gladstone and Wentworth", semi detached terrace houses on Forest Road, Arncliffe, NSW, were built in 1886 in the Victorian architectural style

Glenwood house, Arncliffe, NSW, circa 1886, built in the Victorian style 

Lourane is a Victorian style cottage on Dowling Street, Arncliffe, NSw, built 1898

Cairnsfoot  Loftus Street, Turrella, NSW,  was built from 1880 to 1884 by Edward M. Farleigh

By March 1898, a post office building opened in Firth Street, a short walk from Arncliffe, NSW, railway station

Arncliffe station, NSW, opened on 15 October 1884 

St Francis Xavier’s Catholic Church, Arncliffe, NSW, completed in 1932

Former Rosslyn Hospital, Arncliffe, NSW, (Forest Rd), Victorian style villa 

 Federation façade, 'Lidsdale', built 1902, Arncliffe, NSW 

 Former Commercial Bank of Australia, Arncliffe, NSW

Firth Street, Arncliffe, NSW

Arncllife, NSW, hertage house

Arncllife, NSW, hertage house

The former Arncliffe Fire Station, NSW, opened in 1909, now pre-school

Things To Do

Suggested Sunday Drive

See Mour Arncliffe Heritage

Lydham Hall Historic House and Museum