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It Was a Very Close Community Page 2 “It was a very close Introduction The Union/Bank/Thomas Street Conservation community” Area is largely contained within two major residential subdivisions of the mid-nineteenth A walking tour of the century. The area immediately south of Union Union/Bank Street Conservation Street was part of William Blue’s 50-acre land Area, McMahons Point grant, part of which was inherited by his daughter Susannah, and subdivided in 1859 by Distance: 3.5 km her husband William Chuter. Whilst to the north Approximate time: 3 hours of Union Street is the 1870s subdivision of Grading: low to medium Edwin Sayers ‘Euroka’ Estate. The land was originally owned by the Cammeraygal people. Their numbers and social structures were devastated in the decades following colonization and land was being given away to colonists from the late 1800s. In 1817 Governor Macquarie gave a grant of 80- acres of land on the North Shore to ex-convict William Blue and he named this area, encompassing the present day suburb of McMahons Point, ‘Northampton Farm’. This was a working farm on which he and his family cultivated vegetables and fruit for the Sydney market. Prior to receiving his land grant he was living in the Rocks and had started the first ferry service across the Harbour from Dawes Point to Blues Point in 1807. After Blue’s death in 1834 Northampton Farm was divided up amongst his children William, Robert, John, Susannah and Mary. And contrary to his will, the family began to subdivide and sell portions of the property from as early as 1836. In 1859 William Chuter, second husband of Blue’s daughter Susannah, auctioned the Chuter Estate. In 1882 John Blue subdivided and sold his land north of the Chuter Estate bounded on the north by Union Street, east by Blues Point Road and south by Holt Street continuing west to Berrys Bay. North Sydney History Walk: It was a very close community Page 2 By this time the township of St Leonards had Today, the prevailing attitude of outsiders is that been gazetted (1838), adjoining Blue’s grant and the entire North Sydney population are which established the present day North Sydney “silvertails”. Whether this is fair or not, this was town centre and a road from Blues Point by no means always the case, and certainly not northward (Blues Point Road then named St in the 1800s through until the late twentieth Leonards Road). Local government arrived in century in the Bank/Thomas/Union Streets the district in the late 1860s and the Borough of precinct of McMahons Point. Former McMahons Victoria was formed in 1871, encompassing the Point resident Jack Sullivan laughs at this present day suburb of McMahons Point. The description, “we lived in slums and they’re calling provision of infrastructure such as gas, water, us silvertails with money. Bank Street and transport, and communications, religious and Ancrum Street and some of those little slums educational facilities fostered a thriving working down there in Union Street in North Sydney, class community in the vicinity of the Chuter, paying twelve and six a week rent and ten Blue and Euroka Estates. shillings a week”. North of Union Street early land grants to Walker What was once a workman’s area has been and Miller were amalgamated and acquired by gentrified in recent decades. The long-time older shipping magnate and parliamentarian Sir Edwin working class residents have either moved out Mawney Sayers, who sold ‘Euroka’ to Sir or died and a younger, more middle class Thomas Dibbs. He in turn began to subdivide population has moved into the area. As a result the western slopes of the property in the 1870s, of this recent trend, the cottages have been forming the present day Ancrum, Bank and restored and extended and guidelines to Euroka Streets precinct. recognise the architectural residential character been enshrined in the LEP and DCP. Allotments in these estates were uniformly small, whilst some building sites were steeply sloping Our walk starts at the Commodore Hotel, cnr and difficult to build on. Purchasers of land were Blues Point Road and Union Street. predominantly working class people such as mariners, boatbuilders, carpenters, stonemasons, carpenters, bricklayers and other labourers. In this area rows of single and double storey terrace houses appeared in the 1870s and 1880s using readily available local sandstone. A small number of allotments were developed into the early twentieth century as detached red brick Federation houses. The area saw significant upheaval caused by the construction of the railway line to Milsons Point in 1893 and again in the mid-1920s when William and George William Montgomery in front construction began at Euroka St for the new of the Old Commodore Hotel, 1880s. (North railway line and tunnel to the Sydney Harbour Sydney Heritage Centre, PF 664) Bridge. North Sydney History Walk: It was a very close community Page 3 The Billy Blue Inn was built in 1848 by John mainly interested in the Blue. This building was demolished in 1901 coastal shipping trade. when taken over by Tooth and Co. and they built Sayers occupied Euroka a new pub on the site. This building in turn was and remained there until replaced in 1938 and again in 1973 when it too 1868. Sayers was also a was demolished and replaced by a new Old Member of the NSW Commodore Tavern. The present hotel was Legislative Assembly extensively rebuilt and extended in 1997. 17 Jun 1859 - 17 Jun 1859; and Walk west along Union St Member for St Leonards 17 Jun 1859 - 17 Jun 1859. He was a founder of North Sydney This street marks the boundary between William School of Arts, Warden of St Thomas' Church of Blue’s 50-acre land grant known as England. He died in Mosman in 1909. Northumberland Farm and the small grants to the north given to William Miller and Thomas From 1860 Sayers experienced severe financial Walker. difficulties and was eventually forced by the mortgagees to sell Euroka in 1867 at which Continue up Union St time there were no buyers. Thomas Allwright Dibbs, manager of the Commercial Banking Stop at the entrance gate to Graythwaite. In Company of Sydney, acquired the property and September 1832, Thomas Walker, public official, leased the house from 1872-1880 to his brother paid 60 pounds 9 shillings for a 39-acre land Sir George Richard Dibbs (1834-1904), who was grant. On the 25 October 1833, Thomas Walker Premier of NSW and Colonial Secretary 1891- conveyed 13 acres of his grant, to the north and 1894. east of where Graythwaite was later built, to William Miller, for 20 pounds thirteen shillings. Merchant and ship owner, Dibbs was educated By 1837, Walker had built himself a residence at St Philip's Church of England School and then on his grant almost adjacent to Miller's newly the Australian College under the Reverend J. D. built house. In January 1845 Walker drew up his Lang. He became junior clerk with William will bequeathing this house, called Euroka and Brown & Co., wine merchants in 1848. He joined 16 acres to his wife. He died in 1850. his brother in Dibbs & Co., commission agents, in c.1854; associated with father-in-law in Three years after Walker’s death, the house and business ventures 1857-1859; then returned to remaining land was sold to George Tuting, a J.C. Dibbs & Company, as manager of mercer of Pitt St, Sydney for 1500 pounds, at Newcastle branch and later the Sydney office. which time the grounds were described as He travelled to Valparaiso, Chile, as corn factor, comprising 113 acres. He sold the house and opening a branch of J.C. Dibbs & Company in land in 1853 to Edwin Sayers, Sydney for $3900 1865; he was bankrupted by the failure of the pounds. Agra Bank 1866; he returned to Sydney in 1867 and by 1875 he had paid his creditors in full. The new owner, Edwin Mawney Sayers (1818-1909), was a shipowner who had arrived He was a Member of Legislative Assembly in Sydney from Melbourne about 1850. He was representing West Sydney 1874-1877, St Leonards 1882-1885, The Murrumbidgee 1885- North Sydney History Walk: It was a very close community Page 4 1894 and Tamworth 1894-1895. He was made sympathy for those brave men who have so Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael unselfishly given their services and their lives and St George (KCMG) in 1892. Dibbs also fighting for the Empire in the cause of Justice moved into importing and ship owning from and liberty as a Convalescent Home for our Sick 1869, becoming the Chairman of the Australia and Wounded Soldiers and Sailors and when Steam Navigation Co. and was also managing not required for that purpose as a Convalescent trustee, Savings Bank of New South Wales, Home in perpetuity for distressed subjects of the 1896 - 1904. He appears to have left ‘Euroka’ British Empire regardless of Sect or Creed.' An by 1880. official opening of Graythwaite was held on 1 March 1916. Dibbs presented the deeds of Graythwaite to the Premier who handed the property on to the NSW branch of the Red Cross. Alterations were made to Graythwaite to fit it out as a convalescent home and was at first used for less severely ill convalescents. In 1918, the Red Cross decided that Graythwaite should be converted into a Hostel for long-term cases of disablement. A change in emphasis required substantial changes to the building. Graythwaite as it looked during the ownership of Graythwaite was used as a convalescent home the Dibbs family, c1897.
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