Foreword Liverpool Migration Heritage Trail
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Corner Elizabeth & Goulburn Streets, Liverpool HOLSWORTHY 8 AL AMANAH COLLEGE TH SOU 55 Speed Street, Liverpool 9 M CGOWEN CRESCENT HOUSES AND ROAD BUILT BY BRITISH MIGRANTS McGowen Crescent, Liverpool 10 SV. BOGORODICA-PRECISTA (HOLY MOTHER OF GOD) CHURCH E T O 37 – 39 Atkinson Street (corner Nagle Street), Liverpool C EATH 11 H MIGRANT HOSTELS AT VOYAGER POINT Sirius Road, Voyager Point 1 2 3 4 5 6 WAT KETANEK KHMER BRINGELLY/ROSSMORE MARIA LOCK’S PUBLIC LIVERPOOL TOWN HALL HILDA M DAVIS SENIOR KAMPUCHEA KROM MARKET GARDENS LAND CHESS BOARD Established: 18 February 1939 CITIZENS CENTRE Original Town Hall established: 1881 (Buddhist temple) Established: 1998 Established: c. 1890Land granted: 1833 Established: 1994 Established: 1973 This temple is isolated from urban From the earliest years of the colony, It seems ironic that the land here Chess is an international game, it The original Italianate town hall, built This centre was named after Hilda life as a place of retreat. The setting, convict migrants worked in Liverpool to was granted to one of the Darug crosses borders. It needs no language, on this site in 1881, was replaced by a M Davis, an outstanding local citizen amongst gum forest, exotic fl owering provide Sydney’s food. During the 1890s people, local residents for so many only the desire to play. functional interwar building which opened who supported community activities in plants, the creek and footbridge, offers many large estates were divided and generations, but displaced by the here in February 1939. As the centre of Liverpool from her retirement until she tranquility and inspiration. Not only a several Italian families already living in European immigrants who arrived in Chess is thought to have originated in local government, and representing all died aged ninety-nine in 1986. place to understand and pay respect to Liverpool as well as other migrants, 1788. For thousands of years the Darug India in about 600 AD and spread via levels of government, the town hall the teaching of the Buddha, the temple such as the Chinese, took over these people lived on the western side of Persia to the Mediterranean region and was an important site for migrants. It seems appropriate that the foundation is also a community meeting place. small blocks of land and grew fruit the Georges River. They were named Europe. Although people from different stone of the Hilda Davis Senior and vegetables. Profi ts were marginal after the wild yams they planted and countries played each other informally Naturalisation and citizenship Citizens Centre was laid by the Prime A group of Kampucheans, who arrived and often small acreages, like those at harvested on the local river banks. for centuries, the fi rst international ceremonies were conducted here Minister and Federal member for in Australia during the 1980s and 1990s, Hoxton Park, were managed by women, They found food in the river and chess tournament was held in 1851 at by the mayor, as the Queen’s Werriwa, Gough Whitlam on 25 August purchased this site in 1998. This group while their men worked in the city. adjacent swamps, as well as hunting, the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. representative. British and Common- 1973. During Whitlam’s government, comes from a Khmer region in South and gathering seeds, shoots, roots and Howard Staunton, who promoted the wealth migrants automatically had multiculturalism was offi cially Vietnam, which is still linguistically The location of market gardens in berries. They used trees and plants to chess set design that is most used citizens’ rights on arrival. In 1949 recognised and a policy of assisting and and culturally distinct, despite being Liverpool has changed over the years. provide tools, medicine, canoes and all today, started the competition. Karl Australian citizenship was introduced fostering other cultures within Australia annexed by Vietnam over two hundred They moved west as rural land, in other needs. Ernst Adolf Anderssen of Germany won which gave the option to European was established. This centre has years ago. places like Casula and Green Valley, and was recognised as the fi rst world- residents to be naturalised. After 1956 become a focal point for many migrant was claimed for housing during the Maria Lock, a member of the Darug champion chess player. non-European migrants could apply communities to meet, especially before A three tonne golden Buddha sits 1960s and 1970s. Today Bringelly, people, was an outstanding pupil at the for citizenship if they had been living in they have found their own communal under the shelter of a pagoda. Cast in Rossmore and Austral still support Native Institution in Parramatta, where This place for playing chess was Australia for fi fteen years. Citizenship is space. Recently many Iraqi migrants Bangkok (Thailand), it was imported market gardeners who grow a wide she stayed between 1814 and 1819. Her created by Liverpool City Council in an offi cial and formal acceptance of a have settled in Liverpool and for them, by the community in 1999. There is variety of fresh vegetables, herbs, fruit fi rst husband, Bennelong’s son, died in 1994, when Macquarie Street was migrant into Australian society. this centre has become a meeting a prayer hall here too, but there are and fl owers to supply Sydney’s markets 1823. The following year she married closed to traffi c. place. Bigge Park opposite, is also used plans to build a new hall with traditional and multicultural cuisine. These areas, Richard Lock, a convict carpenter. This Campaigns to immunise children for spontaneous gatherings. Kampuchean roof and ornamentation. and Edmondson Park, will soon be was unusual as it was the fi rst offi cially It was instantly popular and people against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping Monks live in the cottage nearby.