Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Riverwood

South-western residential suburb. Originally known as Herne Bay, it developed an unsavoury reputation for poverty, overcrowding and violence, and its name was changed to Riverwood in 1957.

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Herne Bay
1900 - 1957
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