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The punt at Tom Ugly's, Wednesday 30 September 1903

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a3275018 / PX*D 573, 495-498]
(Album 31: Photographs of the Allen family, 20 September 1903 - 20 January 1904, Mitchell Library)

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Blakehurst The road south
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Coaches Horses Horses as transport Punts Rivers and Catchments
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Georges River Tom Uglys Point
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Tom Uglys Point ferry

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Blakehurst

Gameygal country until Europeans arrived, the area that became Blakehurst was part of huge grants given to the Townson brothers before 1810, and exploited for timber, charcoal, lime and soda, before farming began. As roads and transport improved in the mid-nineteenth century, settlement moved south. Chinese market gardeners farmed land in Blakehurst, and shipbuilding took place along the waterfront. The township grew fast in the early twentieth century, becoming a residential suburb.

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.

Horses as transport

Punts

Rivers and Catchments

Coaches

Horses

Georges River

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River that rises at Appin in the upland swamps of the O'Hares Creek catchment, and flows 80 kilometres north and east to meet Botany Bay at Taren Point, in Sydney's southern suburbs. The total catchment is over 930 square kilometres managed by a large number of local government authorities and is the main tributary of Botany Bay.

Tom Uglys Point

Headland between Shipwrights Bay and Kogarah Bay, on the north shore of the Georges River.

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Tom Uglys Point ferry

Ferry service established initially with a punt in 1864 and then steam ferry from 1882 between Tom Uglys Point and Horse Rock Point on the Georges River. It was replaced by a bridge in 1929.

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