DISCOVERIES AND REDISCOVERIES HERITAGE FESTIVAL - 16 APRIL - 29 MAY 2016

Image: Callan Park gardens by Fay Burdon 2015

Leichhardt Council acknowledges the traditional owners of this land – the Gadigal and Wangal people, who form part of the Dharug nation, and their descendants ANNANDALE REDISCOVERED LEICHHARDT LEICHAHRDT LEICHAHRDT Bus Tour ALFRESCO EXHIBITION Exhibition & Opening Walking Tour WALL TO WALL MURAL TOUR Discover the stories of the Heritage DISCOVER AND REDISCOVER DISCOVER NORTH LEICHHARDT’S OF LEICHHARDT Streetscapes of this urban village Discover and Rediscover the Local Come and discover the eclectic in Sydney’s inner west. Annandale FORGOTTEN INDUSTRIAL Photographic Exhibition Come and murals of Leichhardt, from historic is bounded by Sydney Harbour, enjoy the wonderful work of our annual PAST WHEN: 10AM TO 12 NOON political iconic murals such as The Parramatta Road and two creeks. heritage photographic competition. Crescent Mural of Annandale designed Gas lights, horses and trams have WEDNESDAY 11TH MAY. The exhibition will contain a broad by Rodney Monk in 1980, painted at a adorned the streets. The exhibition In the first half of the 20th century, community response to the discoveries turning point in Leichhardt’s History as draws on Leichhardt Library’s local Leichhardt was a closely settled and rediscoveries of urban and natural the inner city was being transformed history collection to present a brief area with many local factories and treasures in the local community. with changing demographics illustrated history of Annandale from workshops providing employment associated with de- industrialisation. colonial Land Grant to a community for the many workers, both men and Opening: Wednesday 6th April Celebrate Wall to Walls 10th year of over 8,700 residents and churches, women who lived Household names Where: Actors Centre ACA (Italian with an extensive amount of murals temples, civic spaces, schools and like Cyclops Toys, Robins shoes both Forum Cultural Centre) celebrating colour, diversity, coffee diverse businesses. Italian Forum Piazza Level had large factories in this area as well Time: 6pm for 6:30pm start as many smaller but iconic businesses culture, history and heritage are there Opening/Launch of Heritage Festival 3pm Cost: Free Event like Roebucks rocking horse factory to be discovered. Saturday 16 April 2016 Bookings: 9367 9266 and lawn mower manufacturer known All welcome - Light refreshments When: Thursday 14th April 10am -12pm as the ‘King of Mowers’ plus several Saturday 16th April 2pm -4pm Where : Annandale Shops corner Email: [email protected] other places of work. We will also of Booth and Johnston Street Blog: www.localnotes.net.au Meet at: Leichhardt Town Hall Annandale Website: www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/ pass two long disappeared cemeteries 107 Norton Street, Leichhardt, When : Saturday 16 April 2016 Library/Local-History which were operating in Leichhardt New South Wales, Time: 3 - 4pm at that time and for which all physical Bookings: 9367 9226 Bookings: 9367 9266 traces have disappeared plus several Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] BALMAIN/ROZELLE other interesting and iconic sites. Blog: www.localnotes.net.au Website: www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/ Bus Tour Website: www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/ Library/Local-History Library/Local-History GARDEN DISCOVERIES OPEN When: Wednesday 11 May GARDEN TOUR 10am -12pm Meet at: Pioneers Park, BALMAIN AND ROZELLE Leichhardt Finish at Italian Forum. Cost: Free Event (Hosted by Leichhardt Bus Tour Library and Local History.) Join us for a spectacular tour of local Bookings: 9367 9226 gardens from the historic gardens Email: [email protected] of Broughton Hall, Ewenton House, Blog: www.localnotes.net.au Wyoming, Callan Park and discover the Website: www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/ Mort Bay Gardens with morning and Library/Local-History afternoon tea at the Balmain Watch CALLAN PARK BOTANICAL TOUR House. A garden tour not to be missed. ANNANDALE ECO HERITAGE TOUR GRAND TREES & GARDENS When: Monday 16th May Jason Chatwin will give a guided eco/ PRIVATE : INSTITUTIONAL : Tour 1 10- 12pm nature foreshore walk of Johnston’s SIGNIFICANT Tour 2 2pm -4pm Creek, Rozelle Bay, Federal Park & Discover & rediscover the romance of Meet at: Balmain Library 370 Bicentennial Park Precinct. This tour this heritage listed site, 60ha of Darling Street, Balmain. will cover the native flora and fauna of parkland, heritage buildings, harbour Cost: Free Event (Hosted by these areas, changes to the landscape LEICHHARDT Leichhardt Library beach join ourwalking tour in the outlining the original and modern and Local History) mystical gardens & learn about the Exhibition & Opening foreshore, bush regeneration including Bookings: 9367 9266 bounty & history in the neighbourhood. THOMAS WRAN’S ANNANDALE Email: [email protected] the salt marsh wetlands and proposed SCULPTURES APRIL 1-30 Blog: www.localnotes.net.au upgrades to the park precinct. When: Sunday 22 May Website: www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/ Venue: Meet at NSW Writers’ Centre Phillip Drw has undertaken extensive Library/Local-History When: Tuesday May 17th Time: 2 – 4 pm research of Thomas Wran’s Annandale Time: 10am -12pm Cost: $20 per person Sculptures. The establishment of the Meet at: Annandale Wharf (children under 12 free) Wran family began in tragedy and a Cost: Free Event pitiless struggle for survival in the Bookings: 9367 9266 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Queensland wilderness. Soon after he Email: [email protected] Cheque payable to Friends of Callan Park Blog: www.localnotes.net.au PO Box 238, Rozelle 2039 or arrived and set up in Balmain, sculptor Website: www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/ extraordinaire, Thomas Vallance Wran, EFT BSB 633 000 Act. # 142343243 Library/Local-History Payment must include and great- great grandfather of Neville your surname & “May Tour”Send confirming Wran, was soon occupied carving a email to [email protected] remarkable sandstone facade on Bull’s Warehouse in Pitt Street. It QUESTIONS [email protected] AND depicted, for the very first time, a www.callanpark.com veritable menagerie of Australian birds and animals to an astonished BALMAIN ASSOCIATION public. Come and enjoy quite the astonishing and revolutionary work of EXHIBITION: DISCOVERING Wran’s first major commission which PEOPLE & HOUSES OF BALMAIN was resurrected as the church front at 81A Johnson St in Annandale REDISCOVERING BALMAIN’S in 1891. LOST HOUSES: Lerna, Kalouan, Broughton Hall, Opening: Wednesday 13th April Where: Leichhardt Library, Italian Rozelle Post Office, Birchgrove House Forum, Piazza Level 2040 and others.Remembering the 1500: Time: 6pm for 6:30pm start Discovering Balmain’s Cost: Free Event Lost Heroes from the Great War. Bookings: 9367 9266 All welcome - When: Saturday April 16, 23, Light refreshments 30 – May 1, 2016 Email: [email protected] Where: The Balmain Watch House Blog: www.localnotes.net.au 179 Darling Street, Balmain Website: www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/ Contact: [email protected] Library/Local-History

www.localnotes.net.au your local history blog!