THE STREETS OF

GREEN SQUARE

THE PAST SHAPES THE FUTURE

 THE PAST SHAPES THE FUTURE
OF THE GREEN SQUARE
DEVELOPMENT
The area has been home to
Aboriginal people and colonial
settlers, a local industrial
revolution and a diverse mix
of workers and residents from
all over the world.
Alexandria cafe, photo by Mark Metcalfe
Look for Green Square on a map
and you’ll find it in Alexandria,
Beaconsfield, Rosebery,
Waterloo or Zetland.
There is no suburb or postcode for Green
Square, only a train station and a major
plan for an impressive town centre, with
a state of the art library, aquatic centre,
creative spaces and beautiful parks.
Each suburb and precinct that makes
up the area has a rich social history
and a unique collection of stories and
characters. The area has been home to
Aboriginal people and colonial settlers,
a local industrial revolution and a diverse
mix of workers and residents from all over
the world.
It is vital that the heritage of this area
continues to be recognised. New street
names will come from characters and
moments in local history, as highlighted
throughout this document. The following
narrative provides interesting detail behind
these new street names.
WHERE ‘GREEN SQUARE’ CAME FROM
Frederick Green MLA was an alderman of
Alexandria Council, 1934–1948, and served as
Mayor three times (1937, 1938, 1945). He was a
member of the ALP Beaconsfield branch, and
was the Member for Redfern in NSW Parliament
1950-1968.
A small reserve at the junction of O’Riordan
Street and Botany Road was named Green
Square in 1938. It commemorated his tireless
promotion of industry and jobs in the district,
and his role in promoting the sealing and
widening of these major thoroughfares.
This is where Green Square gets its name.
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 PRE–1788
Animals, reptiles, insects and many
birds thrived in this environment
which the Eora nation occupied
for thousands of years, to fish,
forage and hunt.
from his birds & flowers of NSW, Courtesy of State Library NSW
John Hunter, Dyuralya [Brolga]
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Green Square was once a sand
dune wetland, covered by dense
heath and scrub. It was part of
the Botany Basin, and many of
the creeks and pools drained to
Botany Bay.
There was a mixture of freshwater
Melaleuca and sedge swamps, as well as
mangroves and saltmarsh lining Shea’s
Creek. A rich variety of shrubs covered the
sand dunes including banksias and grass
trees, while on the floodplain of Waterloo
Swamp the paperbark would have thrived.
Animals, reptiles, insects and many birds
thrived in this environment which the Eora
nation occupied for thousands of years,
to fish, forage and hunt. Different species
of bandicoot, possum, kangaroo, wallaby,
glider, snake and lizard – known in the
Sydney language as Bunmarra — occupied
the area.
Birdlife included the black swan or Mulgu,
the redbill or Buming, the sulphur crested
cockatoo or Garraway, the brolga or
Dyuralya and the Biyanbing, a type
of quail.
The earliest recorded documentation of
Sydney’s Aboriginal coastal language was
Gilbanung, meaning grasshopper.
Others included:
• Magari meaning “to fish”;
• Banilung meaning “a large fish”;
• Galara, a Sydney language word
that describes a “four pronged
fishing harpoon”.
1790s
Birdlife included the black swan or
Mulgu, the redbill or Buming and
the Biyanbing, a type of quail.
Near Botany Bay looking towards Sydney,
William Leigh - Sketches in NSW 1853,
Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
The Green Square area was
important in the years immediately
after 1788 because it was the
country linking the two pivotal
places in the early settlement,
Botany Bay and Sydney Cove.
The arrival of the Europeans resulted in
hard times for the Eora who had to compete
for resources.
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 1800s
The expansion of white settlement,
and the devastating impact of
smallpox, pushed the Gadigal
people outside the town
boundaries, towards Waterloo,
Alexandria and Botany Bay.
The isolation of the district and
the wetlands continued to provide
food and shelter. Pemulwuy, a
Bidjigal man from around Botany
Bay and Salt Pan Creek, became
a formidable resistance leader.
Governor King outlawed him in
1801 and he was shot dead on
2 June 1802.
Town & Country Journal, 16 June 1877, Courtesy of National Library of Australia
Waterloo Mills Wool washing Establishment – the Upper Dam,
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The abundant water of the Botany Basin has
shaped the use of the area. The ready supply
of water in the swamps attracted industries
to the area.
From as early as the 1810s, local capitalists
searching for power sources for their mills
turned to the Waterloo/Botany area. The
relatively reliable water flow provided steam
power for grinding grain and milling cloth.
Mills and houses were still surrounded by
scrub, dunes and swamps and were only
accessible by horse and dray, or on foot,
over a bumpy dirt road.
In 1825 convict-turned-businessman Daniel
Cooper acquired both the Waterloo Estate
and the Lachlan Estate, some 1585 acres
of land.
Along with brickworks, candle
and soap factories, the John Paul
pottery works, tanneries, breweries
and woolwashes, schools and
churches were established.
By the 1850s, the Cooper Estate had
flourished into an industrial suburb. Along
with brickworks, candle and soap factories,
the John Paul pottery works, tanneries,
breweries and wool washing firms, schools
and churches were established.
A Mr Barker, was an early wool scourer who
established the Waterloo Mills wool wash
located on Big Waterloo Dam and the Little
Waterloo Dam in 1848. It was later taken
over by Thomas Hayes and subsequently
Andrew Hinchcliffe. The mills employed
about 100 people, most of whom lived with
their families nearby in Waterloo.
Lower Dam, Hinchcliff’s Waterloo Mills wool washing
establishment, Town and Country Journal, 16 June
1877, Courtesy of National Library of Australia
A significant local wool broker and
manufacturer, Octavius Bayliffe Ebsworth
had a wool wash beside Shea’s Creek.
Between 600 and 800 fleeces could be
processed in an hour. He scoured and
prepared the wool for the cloth and white
yarns produced in his tweed factory in
the city.
By 1853, at least four publicans had been
granted licenses in the Waterloo and
Alexandria area to serve travellers and
local workers employed in the woolwashes,
tanneries and other local industries. The first
of these was the Waterloo Retreat, located
on Retreat Street, on the Alexandria side of
Botany Road.
During the 1850s, Waterloo was a smelly
place. Strong southerlies regularly blew
through the district and with the burgeoning
development of noxious trades such as
boiling down works and fellmongeries
— dealing in skins or hides of animals,
especially sheepskins — the south-west
wind was a distinctive and unavoidable
olfactory presence.
The Sydney Aboriginal language word
gunyama meant “wind from the south-west”
and an associated word “gunyamara”
meant “stink”.
In 1860, Waterloo became a borough.
Councillors and local residents worked
towards the improvement of the area and
the Town Hall was built in 1880–1882.
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 The fleeces were spread out on the
ground to dry naturally, the fluffy
white fleeces covering the ground.

Waterloo Town Hall, Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives

John Geddes Snr and his son, John H.

Geddes, were prominent local fellmongers
who both went on to serve as aldermen in
Waterloo. John Geddes Snr was a founding
Mr J. H. Geddes, Illustrated Sydney News, 9 January 1890, p.17.

alderman of Waterloo Council in 1860,

serving five years as an alderman (1860-2,
1868-9) and was Mayor in 1862.
The Drying Green was the name given to
the area dedicated to the drying of wool,
following washing. The fleeces were spread
out on the ground to dry naturally, the fluffy
white fleeces covering the ground.
John H. Geddes later acquired the Waterloo
Mills, Buckland Mills and Floodvale, in 1885.
Waterloo Mills later became known as The
Australian Wool Company.

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 In 1865, Archibald Forsyth established
Australian Rope Works on the corner of
Bourke Street and Lachlan Street. By the
late nineteenth century, rope and cordage
manufacturing was one of the principal
industries of the colony.
Thread was one of their brands of cord.
Forsyth’s had a rope walk, a long low
building or walkway in which the rope was
twisted into lengths, a onetime essential and
central part to rope making.

Archibald Forsyth rope factory,

Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives
Artist impression of the Drying Green in the new Town Centre

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 In 1874, the Governor of NSW
established Zetland Lodge,
a substantial house and
training stable.
One Hundred Years of Ropemaking 1865–1965, Sydney 1965.
Archibald Forsyth, David S. Macmillan and Company,
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In 1888 the business employed 150 workers,
most of whom lived in Waterloo district, with
generations of the same families becoming
rope makers — drawing on a multicultural
workforce of men and women from Greece,
Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia and the Ukraine.
A well-know philanthropist actively involved
in community life, Forsyth was elected
in 1885 to the Legislative Assembly. At
the same time he was a founder and first
President of the Chamber of Manufactures.
He helped found the committee of Animals
Protection Society, the City Bowling Club
and Randwick Bowling Club.
In 1874, the Governor of NSW, Sir Hercules
Robinson, established Zetland Lodge, a
substantial house and training stable set
back from the juncture of Bourke and
Elizabeth Streets.
Governor Robinson was a keen horse racing
man and patron of the Australian Jockey
Club at Randwick. His racing colours were
the Zetland or ‘Aske Hall’ spots, red spots on
a white ground.
Horse trainer Thomas Lamond made Zetland
Lodge into one of the prominent racing
stables and was a popular and respected
figure in the district. He served as an
alderman on Waterloo Municipal Council for
21 years from 1887-1907 and was Mayor on
four occasions.
In the new suburbs of Waterloo and
Alexandria from the 1880s, and with
population and industry, came pubs. By
1886, there were 22 within a two kilometre
radius in Waterloo alone, including the Bee-
Hive, the Balaclava, the Cheerful Home, the
Empress of India, the Mount Lachlan, the
Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, the
Salutation, the Compass and the Bugle Horn.
Beaconsfield Lane, Alexandria,
Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives

The 1880s also saw small residential Fellmongery, St Peters Brick Factory, Warren
subdivisions being established as workers Brick Factory, Baedford Brickworks, Sydney
housing, particularly in the slightly Soap and Candle Company, Co-operative
higher ground in Zetland, Waterloo and Acid & Chemical Manufacturing Company.
Beaconsfield. The Beaconsfield Estate was
subdivided in 1884 and promoted as the The liquid waste products from these
“Working Man’s Model Township”. The Hill industries flowed into Shea’s Creek Canal
View Estate and Chester Estate also date and then to the Cooks River and into
from this time. Botany Bay. High levels of pollution in
these waterways continued well into the
There was a large dairy which provided milk twentieth century.
for much of the Eastern Suburbs.
Father Sylwanus Mansour, ministering to
an ecumenical flock of Greek, Antioch
Orthodox, Coptic and Syrian worshippers in
the 1890s, oversaw the building of Australia’s
first Lebanese church, St Michael’s Melkite
Church, in Waterloo.
Industries operating in the Municipality of
Alexandria in the 1890s included Alexandria
Saw Mills, Sydney Smelting and Phosphor
Bronze Foundry, Quatre Bras Tannery and

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 Typical pottery shop/factory of the time, Camperdown,
Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives

Drownings in the dams and waterholes were Another Chinese market gardener, Sam Sing,
a constant and tragic hazard in the district. worked in this area in 1888.
In 1895, a 10-year-old boy drowned in a Environmental degradation was caused
waterhole at Paul’s Pottery. He was the by industrial exploitation. The systematic
only child of Jessie & Patrick Leonard, and draining and polluting of Lachlan and
grandson of Isabella McElhinney, the licensee Waterloo Swamps and local streams robbed
for the Waterloo Retreat Hotel in the 1890s Green Square of many of its natural features.
and leaseholder of a number of areas rented
to Chinese market gardeners.
In the 19th century, Chinese market gardens
and a branch of Shepherd’s Nursery were
located in a block of Waterloo just south of
Lachlan Street. Chinese market gardeners
were working plots in this block into the
1920s. Tung Hop was identified in the Sands’
Directories as working gardens in this block
1891–1893.

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 1900s

In the early part of the 20th century, the

Cooper Estate was broken up, providing
large areas for purpose built factories.
The Victoria Park Racecourse was
created on the former Waterloo swamp
by Sir James Joynton Smith, a hotelier
and newspaper owner. Smith was to
become Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1918.
Sam Peters was the Secretary of the
Victoria Park Racing Club and the grounds
incorporated the Totaliser Building.

Sir James Joynton Smith,

Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives

John Hunter, Dyuralya [Brolga]

from his birds & flowers of NSW, Courtesy State
Library NSW
Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives

Victoria Park Racecourse,

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 Prior to his election to the Sydney Municipal
Council, Smith was the manager of the
Grand Central Coffee Palace Hotel and
owned Hotel Astra, Bondi, and the Carlton in
the city. In 1901, he was made a Justice of the
Peace. He was credited with establishing the
first electric-light plant in the Blue Mountains
and purchased the Imperial Hotel, Mount
Victoria, the Carrington Hotel and two
theatres at Katoomba.
More than 6,000 people, including State
Government MPs, attended the opening
day at Victoria Park Racing Club, on
15 January 1908.
On the card were the Flying Handicap and
the Encourage Stakes, with jockey C. Naulty
winning three races in succession: on Find
Out in the Maiden Handicap, Tod in the
Fourteen Hands Handicap and Miss Mayfield
in the Fourteen-two Handicap.
Two women collecting winnings, Totaliser Building 1935.
Sam Hood Collection, Courtesy of State Library NSW
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The main race, the Victoria Park Handicap,
was open to all horses and run over
six furlongs with prize money of 200
sovereigns. Victoria Park Race Course was a
proprietary race track which didn’t just run
thoroughbreds, but all horses, and a day at
Victoria Park was often referred to as a day
at the pony races.
Down the cinder track thundered favourite
Chimes, middle-placed Leticia, and outsider
Fuse followed by Marsfield, equal favourite
Blue Diamond, Brother Jack, Saucy Kate and
Harbour Light trailed by ten mounts with My
Own bringing up the rear.
As they raced to the finish, Chimes and
Leticia fought it out all the way, jockey
J. Bindon on Chimes winning by a short
head, with Leticia second and two lengths
behind in third place, Fuse.
 More than 6,000 people, including
NSW Government MPs, attended
the opening day at Victoria Park
Racing Club, on 15 January 1908.

Many Chinese people were migrating into

the area and in 1909, a Chinese Temple was
built in Retreat Street, Alexandria.
The Chinese community in Alexandria was
subject to restrictive legislation, regulation,
surveillance, media propaganda, community
agitation and harassment, which took the
form of raids on gambling houses, sanitary
inspections and Board of Health strictures.

Mothers, children and nurses outside the Baby Clinic,

Alexandria, 1914, Courtesy of State Library NSW

It also saw the arrest of European women

Mothers, children and nurses at the Baby Clinic, Alexandria,

consorting with Chinese men and

regulation and surveillance of working
practices.
As reported in the local Chinese newspaper,
the Tung Wa Times, there were also good
experiences – market gardeners and local
businesses making donations to local
1914, Courtesy of State Library NSW

organisations, including fresh vegetables

to the Unemployed Workers Association,
and funds to Royal South Sydney Hospital,
founded by Joynton Smith. It was opened
in 1912, followed by a baby health centre
in 1914, aimed at reducing the high level of
infant mortality in the City of Sydney and
the surrounding working class metropolis.

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Royal South Sydney Hospital,
Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives
Engineering advertisement, Made in Australia, published 1938
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Rosebery was developed in 1911
and promoted as “Sydney’s model
residential and industrial suburb”.
Rosebery was sub-divided in 1911 and
promoted as “Sydney’s model residential
and industrial suburb”. The factories were
separated from housing by parklands
and no two adjacent houses were of the
same design.
The Cooper Estate was broken up, providing
large areas for purpose-built factories.
In 1907, Metters Limited, manufacturer of
stoves, baths, basins and sinks – and the
famous Early Kooka stove – relocated from
Alice Street, Newtown to the Alexandria
neighbourhood now known as the
Ashmore Estate.
Metters produced the famous Early Kooka
stove, with its oven door emblazoned with a
kookaburra, as well as stoves called the Pearl
and the Zenith, and the Alpha bath.
By the 1930s the factory expanded to
cover a total area of more than 10 hectares.
Metters employed hundreds of workers
locally, including many coppersmiths, and
thousands nationally – in 1939 there were
2,500 hands employed in NSW and 3,500
across Australia. The Alexandria factory
closed in 1974.
The region continued to have an Aboriginal
population. During the 1930s Depression,
many extended families moved into the
Redfern area to a place that later became
known as The Block. The post-war period
saw an influx of Aboriginal people coming
to live in Redfern and Waterloo as people
moved from the bush to the ‘Big Smoke’
Local Alexandria people watch a fire of the Metters
factory in 1934, Sam Hood Collection, Courtesy of
State Library NSW
to seek work opportunities and reconnect
with family and community. South Sydney
industries where Aboriginal people worked
included Eveleigh workshops, IXL Jam
factory (Darlington), Francis Chocolates
(Redfern), Federal Match Factory
(Alexandria), and the Australian Glass
Manufacturers (Waterloo).
During the depression of the 1920s, working
people in Alexandria and Waterloo formed
strong communities in what were often
unpleasant environments.
Alexandria was the site of major steel
engineering companies McPherson’s Pty
Ltd and Hadfields Steel Works, a heavy
engineering steel works that operated on
site until the 1970s.
McPherson’s manufactured bolts, nuts
and rivets as well as precision manufacture
of tools and machinery such as lathes
and pumps.
During the 1930s Depression,
many extended families moved
into the Redfern area to a place
that later became known as
The Block.
Hundreds of workers were involved in the
industry. McPherson’s proudly declared ”the
Sydney Harbour Bridge is only one of the
many large Australian structures which are
literally held together with rivets and bolts
from McPherson’s Bolt and Nut Works”.
There was also the Mitchell Road foundry
of Hadfields covering 1.6 hectares and
smelting steel to produce castings for
railways, tramways, shipbuilding, and mining
operations. They had a second works in
Bourke Road.
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 1940s

Alexandria, now the largest

industrial Municipality in Australia,
had more than 22,200 workers
in 550 factories, and was known
as the ‘Birmingham of Australia’.

Dunkerley Hat Mills (Akubra hat factory),

Sam Hood Collection, Courtesy of State Library NSW

Reed Paper Products was a large factory

that covered 5.2 hectares.
By 1938 it was the largest manufacturer of
paper products in Australia, employing 600
hands in its two factories at Redfern and
Reed paper products, Made in Australia, published 1938

Waterloo. They manufactured playing cards

– including the Mystic brand - and cardboard
containers in a variety of shapes and sizes,
from shoeboxes and food packaging to
display cartons and furniture packaging.
Reed also manufactured hatboxes in the
1930s and, nearby, Dunkerley Hat Mills
manufactured Akubra hats. Hat maker
Benjamin Dunkerley revolutionised the
industry by patenting a machine for
dressing fur. His invention (the first of many
which changed hat manufacturing) was
designed to take the top layer of fur off
rabbit skin to uncover the soft fur for use in
felt-hat making, a process previously done,
painstakingly, by hand.
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 Dunkerley Hat Mills, which moved to
Waterloo in 1918, named its hats the
Akubra, allegedly after an Aboriginal
name for head covering, and after being
contracted to supply slouch hats to World
War I diggers, the Waterloo millinery
business didn’t look back. In the 1940s
the factory employed 500 workers.
For 20 years, between 1928 and 1947, a
formidable figure — Miss Ruby Jane Grant
— was Matron of Royal South Sydney
Hospital.
Matron Grant was an advocate for nurses’
training and conditions, president of the
NSW Nurses’ Association from 1933 – 1937,
and was involved with the Australasian
Trained Nurses’ Association and the New
South Wales Branch of the Trained
Nurses Guild.
Matron Ruby Jane Grant with Sir John Joynton Smith at South Sydney Hospital,
Sam Hood Collection, Courtesy of State Library NSW
Three-time mayor Frederick Green wasn’t
the only notable alderman to serve the area.
Mrs Mary Veronica Neilson was Waterloo
Municipal Council’s first female alderman
(1945 – 1948), and first female Mayor (1946
& 1947). She was a member of the ALP
Waterloo branch, on the board of Royal
South Sydney Hospital and was actively
involved in the local Police Boys’ Club. Mrs
Neilson was wife of former alderman &
Mayor John William Neilson and was mother
to six children.
From the 1950s manufacturing either
declined or decentralised to the western
suburbs of Sydney leaving large areas of
former industrial land for urban renewal.
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 Opening of Sydney factory of British Motor
Corporation, on old Site of Victoria Park racecourse,
Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives
During the 1950s, the Victoria Park
racecourse site was bought by British
Motor Corporation for industry and today
is the Victoria Park residential, retail and
commercial development.
By the 1960s, Green Square was thought
of as a convenient place for other Sydney
suburbs to dump their waste. Waverley
and Woollahra councils were permitted to
build the huge Waterloo Incinerator over
the in-filled site of Waterloo Dam adjoining
residential Zetland streets.
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People battled for 24 years to have it
closed down. This was the Waverley-
Woollahra Incinerator that poured stench
and dangerous levels of particle fallout onto
their neighbourhood between 1972 and 1996.
The ‘Zetland Monster’ stood a few hundred
metres from the current Green Square
station site.
With the decline of secondary industry
since the 1970s, the 20th century industrial
landscape of vast factories and belching
chimneys was in retreat.
 21st Century
While the area still supports
manufacturing, there has been
an increasing influx of high-tech
industries, offices, commercial
businesses, showrooms and
storage facilities replacing
the old heavy industries of
car manufacturing, foundries,
chemicals and brewing —
establishments with labour forces
that used to run into thousands.
As workers moved out of the
area, young families and urban
professionals moved in.
As the population grows and changes, the
Green Square development project will
match this growth with quality facilities,
Green Square library design, image from Stewart Hollenstein and City of Sydney
parks and infrastructure. The aim is to
create a vibrant neighbourhood with
excellent transport connections, an active
commercial, community and cultural life,
Artist impression, the town centre library and plaza.
and cutting-edge green technologies.
A good understanding of the area’s history,
will help planners, developers and the
community create a sense of belonging.
The new street names are just one way of
celebrating this history – other historic sites
can be recognised throughout the area such
as the original Totaliser building on Joynton
Avenue that now serves as a library and
community centre for the City of Sydney.
Buildings on the old Royal South Sydney
Hospital will also be restored to become a
community creative hub.
As the new buildings of the future Green
Square begin to rise, the City of Sydney
hopes to preserve old associations and local
identity, in step with the social, physical and
economic transformation of this historic
part of Sydney.
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cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/greensquare

The City of Sydney would like to credit the Histories of Green Square (2004, UNSW),

edited by Grace Karskens and Melita Rogowsky, as a major source of information for this booklet.