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Illegal Tolls, Cooks River - letter to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald 4 December 1843

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(Sydney Morning Herald, 4 December 1843, p4)

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The Prout's Bridge Incident

Canterbury residents' delight at the new bridge constructed across the Cooks River to shorten their journey to markets in Sydney quickly turned to anger and complaint as Cornelius Prout set about imposing a toll

Bridges

Tollways

Cooks River

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River that flows through south-west Sydney, starting at Graf Park, Yagoona, through to Botany Bay at Kyeemagh. The river was extensively polluted by industry and its course was changed to accommodate the runways of Sydney Airport.

Canterbury

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Inner-western suburb bisected by the Cooks River which was a hub of industry during the nineteenth century. The area's first land grant was to the Rev. Richard Johnson, Chaplain of the First Fleet, who named it as a tribute to Canterbury in England.

Sydney Morning Herald

Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, it is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia.

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Prout, Cornelius

Early resident of the Canterbury area who lived at 'Belle Ombre', operating a punt across the Cooks River. A clerk in the Office of the Colonial Secretary and later Under Sheriff of the Colony, he raised the ire of his neighbours by imposing a toll on the bridge he had constructed across the river.

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