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Plan of the villa Bello Retiro on the Cooks River Road for sale by auction by Mr Stubbs, on the 28 September 1842

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Raphael Clint
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Clint, Raphael

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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.

Sheas Creek

Creek now confined to a stormwater channel flowing from Alexandria into the Alexandra Canal.

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Enmore

Inner-west residential suburb on the ridge between Newtown and Marrickville. Its name comes from Enmore House (1835), designed by John Verge for master mariner Captain Sylvester Brown.

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Erskineville

Formerly industrial, now residential inner-city suburb to the southwest of central business district. The Rev. George Erskine, a Wesleyan minister, built a house here in 1830 which he called Erskine Villa.

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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.