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Allotments at Bello Retiro, Cooks River Road 1850s

Allotments at Bello Retiro, Cooks River Road 1850s

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William Henry Wells

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Wells, William Henry

National Library of Australia

The road south

Built as an access road to the farmland south of Sydney town, the road south gradually pushed far beyond Cooks River to the Georges River ferry.

Australia’s First Lottery

Australia's first lottery, held in Sydney in 1849, was surrounded by controversy and was probably illegal. It was immensely popular however and the government turned a blind eye as it seemed the only way of averting the consequences of a financial disaster.

Advertising

Real Estate

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Newtown

Inner-west suburb which developed along the main road south from Sydney. It became a prosperous shopping district in the late 19th century, and later a working-class and migrant suburb, now gentrified.

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Bello Retiro

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A large house with outbuildings, stables etc. built in the early 1830s on the Cooks River Road near Newtown by Alexander Brodie Spark, and then owned by businessman John Lord. Most of its grounds were subdivided into building allotments in the early 1840s and the house was renamed Holmwood in the 1850s. The building had been demolished by 1893.