1960 poem "Municipal Gum" by Oodgeroo Noonuccal

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Collated because of Conversations on Footpath

'The 1960 poem "Municipal Gum" by Oodgeroo Noonuccal Kath Walker expresses a sense of displacement and loss through the metaphor of a gumtree confined within a city street. '... https://allpoetry.com/Municipal-Gum

Late liz-butterworth-victoria-road-bridge-rozelle-18Feb2017

The painting  "Grose Farm from Toll Gate, ca.1862-1869/watercolour by F.C Terry, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW "featured on cover of "'60s Annandale: A Short Guided


Walk" 

The painting a century earlier has same elements "
Beverley Grove, 2 Sep 2016
Walker's use of the cart-horse as a parallel to the tree suggests the dehumanizing effects of industrialization. Both the tree and the horse are victims of a system that prioritizes progress over nature and individual well-being." but the painting was of Parramatta Road, in 19th Century. 
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"At one point along the road in the Petersham-Annandale section there is: a spot of peculiar interest to latter-day residents. Her
e, there once grew a giant blackbutt tree, the enormous limbs of which overhung the road for many feet. Gaol carts with prisoners condemned to death were driven to the spot, for many a hapless victim of a fiendish convict system was whisked into the beyond from a limb of this Blackbut gallows tree." ... 1922 'SYDNEY'S MUNICIPAL GROWTH', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 9 July, p. 10. , viewed 19 Sep 2025, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128220268 and in same article "Governor Macquarie, who came out to replace Bligh, however, saw the justification for the arrest, and, on his recommendation, the major had the grant restored"

Jan Cornell One Woman Show in Qtopia (former Substation), Taylor Square, 16 Sep 2025


John Young was 1st & Allen Taylor 2nd Mayor


 
Published in 1887 "THE Sydney Garden Palace A PATRIOTIC AND HISTORICAL POEM. by FREDERICK CUMMING,M.D. of the University of Edinburgh, l.f.P.S. of Glasgow" about the Garden Palace built for the 1879 International expo by John Young. (found because of conversation at lunch at Balmoral Beach).
 
1902: Allen Taylor who Taylor Square is named after was on  'As a member of the Sydney City Council Electricity Committee, on 22nd December 1902 (page 22 Minutes of Electric Lighting Committee), Alderman Allen Taylor moved:-"That tenders be invited for excavation of rockfor the foundations of the Electric Lighting Station with provision in the contract for a minimum wage." The motion was carried.
Alderman Evan Jones, subsequently moved an amendment, "that the work be proceeded with day labour". The amendment was lost lost (9 to 1) Access to the Minutes of the Electric Lighting Committee (1900-1942 in 20 volumes). Courtesy Sydney City Archives' and published at  Allen Taylor - Annandale's Second Mayor
 
2023: 'But Greens councillor Marghanita da Cruz said the substations were “actually quite beautiful” and could be used in future to store batteries. “They’re not in any way something to scoff at,” she said.'... https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/covered-in-graffiti-these-buildings-all-look-the-same-a-sydney-council-wants-them-heritage-listed-20230615-p5dgrk.html 
 
 
and in 2025: 

westconnex-wont-work-pubic-transport-will-bignell-lane-annandale-14Mar2017
 

2018-08-08-buruwan-park, walkway to Crescent, Annandale Bus Stop from Rozelle Bay Tram Stop on former freight line. 

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