Rockdale Municipality

Originally called West Botany, an area of market gardens and dairies, today a commercial and residential suburb of Sydney.
Sources -
Bayside Library Local Studies Collection
'Pictorial Memories St George'. Joan Lawrence
'The Land Between the Rivers', B. Earnshaw
'Rockdale, It's Beginning and Development". Geeves & Jarvis, Revised R.W.Rathbone
'Rocky Point Road', Gary Darby
'Book of Sydney Suburbs', F.Pollen
'Brighton Le Sands', R.W. Rathbone
'Moorefields Racecourse', Anne Field
'The Rock of St George', D.M. Gleeson
'Early Churches of St George', St George Historical Society
Trove digitised newspapers
Google maps
Flickr
UBD Street directory

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Very informative, thank you.

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We are presenting the Rockdale Video live at the meeting of St. George Historical Society, on Saturday 19th March at 2;00p.m. in the Bayside Library, Princes Highway Rockdale. Hoping the comments of the audience will be equally interesting as our talk.Thought you might be interested. Thanks for your comment.

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We will be hosting a Meeting of Marrickville Heritage Society on Saturday, 10.00 a.m. 27th May, at St Peters Church, 187 Princes Highway St. Peters. The church, was built in 1838.Its NSW State Heritage listing states: ‘St Peters is probably the first real attempt at archaeological Gothic in Australia. An audio visual talk on the history of the church will reveal its connection with the film ‘Unbroken’; see the latest restoration work; view the clamp kiln bricks, wooden pillars, Lyon & Cottier stained glass windows and hear the1880 Brindley & Foster organ. Wander around the museum in the tower room and explore the Victorian graveyard. Parking in the grounds, and very accessible by public transport.It’s Free!