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Woollahra
Woollahra ( ) is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woollahra is located east of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra. Woollahra is located on the traditional land of the Birrabirragal and Gadigal people of the Eora, Eora Nation. The Municipality of Woollahra takes its name from the suburb but its administrative centre is located in Double Bay. Woollahra is known for its quiet, tree-lined residential streets and village-style shopping centre. History Woollahra is located on the traditional land of the Birrabirragal and Gadigal people of the Eora, Eora Nation. When European settlers arrived in 1788, First Fleet officer Daniel Southwell translated the local Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal word (Dharug language) ''Woo-la-ra'' (also later spelt by others as ''Willarra'' and ''Wallara'') as meaning "lookout", b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipality Of Woollahra
Woollahra Municipal Council (or Woollahra Council) is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), eastern suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woollahra is bounded by Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour in the north, Waverley Council in the east, City of Randwick, Randwick City in the south and the City of Sydney in the west. The administrative centre of Woollahra Municipal Council is located at Redleaf in Double Bay. The List of mayors of Woollahra, mayor of Woollahra Municipal Council is Councillor, Cr. Sarah Swan. Suburbs in the local government area Suburbs in the area include: Demographics At the Census in Australia#2011, 2011 Census, there were people in the Woollahra local government area, of these 47.1% were male and 52.9% were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.2% of the population. The median#Medians for populations, median age of people in the Municipality of Woollahra wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woollahra House, Point Piper, Sydney
''Woollahra House'' refers to two mansions built on the same site in Point Piper, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The first house was built in 1856 by Sir Daniel Cooper and the second by his son, William Charles Cooper, in 1883. Both houses have been demolished, but two buildings still remain from the original structure. The gatekeeper's lodge from Sir Daniel Cooper's house, which was built in 1871, is now the Rose Bay Police Station, and the stables which are now Wyuna Court, a prestigious block of apartments. These buildings in the Municipality of Woollahra are of some historical interest. History Sir Daniel Cooper Daniel Cooper was born in 1821 in Lancashire, England. He was the second son of Thomas Cooper, a merchant and came to Australia as a child with his parents. He returned to England at the age of 14 to complete his education but came back to Australia in 1843 and became a commercial partner with James Holt. He later became a member of Parliament and was elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemont (Woollahra)
''Rosemont'' is a heritage-listed residence at 14 Rosemont Avenue, Woollahra, Municipality of Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by James Hume and Alexander Campbell. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History Alexander Campbell ownership Rosemont was built around 1857Woollahra History & Heritage Society for Alexander Campbell, merchant banker and at one time a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and his wife Harietta, who lived there. The stone was quarried in the grounds and Mr. Campbell was his own architect. Its cast iron came from the foundry of Peter Nicol Russell.RNE, 1991 says the architect was James Hume and that its cast iron came from the foundry of Peter Nicol Russell. The garden was bounded by Trelawney Street and Ocean Streets and Edgecliff Road, reaching to Merioola. It was not till many years later, when the property was subdivided, that Rosemont Avenue was created. With his family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waimea House
Waimea House is a heritage-listed residence located at Waimea Avenue, Woollahra in the Municipality of Woollahra local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was built during 1858. It is also known as Helen Keller House. The property is privately owned. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History ''Waimea'' formed part of the original grant to Captain John Piper in 1820, who later sold to Daniel Cooper and Solomon Levey in 1830.Local Environmental Plan, 1995 Cooper & Levey's land holding was massive and they ran a renowned mercantile firm in early Sydney. The land then passed into the hands of Sir Daniel Cooper, the first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of NSW and the builder of "Woollahra House" on Point Piper. The foundation stone of Woollahra House was laid by Governor Denison in 1856 and in the same year Cooper leased the land on which Waimea House was to be built by Thomas Wheaton Bowden, who, according to Sands D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddington, New South Wales
Paddington is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Located east of the Sydney central business district, Paddington lies across two Local government in Australia, local government areas. The portion south of Oxford Street, Sydney, Oxford Street lies within the City of Sydney, while the portion north of Oxford Street lies within the Municipality of Woollahra. It is often colloquially referred to as "Paddo". Paddington is bordered to the west by Darlinghurst, to the east by Centennial Park, New South Wales, Centennial Park and Woollahra, to the north by Edgecliff, New South Wales, Edgecliff and Rushcutters Bay and to the south by Moore Park, New South Wales, Moore Park. History Aboriginal people The suburb of Paddington is considered to be part of the region associated with the stories of the Cadigal people. These people belonged to the Dharug language, Dharug (or Eora) language group, which includes what is now known as the Sydney central busine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Bay
Double Bay is a harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district. It is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra. Double Bay takes its name from the bay of Sydney Harbour and refers to the two geographical formations between Point Piper and Darling Point, which are interrupted by a miniature point in between. The eastern part is also known as Blackburn Cove. It has some of the most expensive real-estate in Australia and is colloquially often referred to as "Double Pay", a term coined due to the high income of people living there, and the nature of the shopping area which features high-end fashion labels. History Double Bay developed soon after initial European settlement in 1788. In the early years of the colony, Double Bay was used as shelter for fishermen who would regularly fish around the harbour. Farming mostly cattle and lettuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Baronet
Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Baronet (1 July 1821 – 5 June 1902) was a nineteenth-century politician, merchant and philanthropist in the Colony of New South Wales. He served as the first speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the colony and was a noted philatelist. Cooper was given the hereditary title of Cooper baronet of Woollahra in 1863, the second of four baronetcies conferred to British expatriates in the Australian colonies. Early life Cooper was born at Bolton, Lancashire, England, the son of Thomas Cooper, merchant, and his wife Jane Ramsden. He was the nephew of the emancipated convict and extraordinarily successful businessman, Daniel Cooper, who took an interest in the education of his nephew. He was taken to Sydney by his parents when a child, but was sent back to Britain again in 1835 and spent four years at University College London. Cooper began business at Le Havre, France, but his health failing, he returned to Sydney in 1843. There, he acquired an interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgecliff, New South Wales
Edgecliff is a small suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Edgecliff is located 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra. The postcode is 2027. Edgecliff is surrounded by the suburbs of Double Bay, Woollahra, Paddington, Rushcutters Bay and Darling Point. The property prices are very high because it is close to the city and many homes provide views of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour). History Edgecliff takes its name from its geographic siting. The rocky cliff of the suburb was extensively quarried in the early day of European settlement. The area was dominated for some time by the Glenrock property, on the north side of New South Head Road. Sir Edward Knox built ''Fiona'' in 1864 after having it designed by J. F. Hilly. It has been described as "a Classical Revival two-storey mansion" and was made of sandstone. Other elements of the estate included ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellevue Hill, New South Wales
Bellevue Hill is a harbourside suburb in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located five kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the Municipality of Woollahra. The suburb is located within the Division of Wentworth electorate. History The area of contemporary Bellevue Hill was originally part of the lands of the Cadigal people. Their livelihood was composed of fishing and shellfish collecting. In the early 19th century, Irish-Australian immigrants referred to the area as Vinegar Hill, after the Battle of Vinegar Hill, an engagement during the 1798 uprising of the United Irishmen in south-east Ireland. Governor Lachlan Macquarie took great exception to this and decided to name the suburb Bellevue Hill, the ''belle vue'' meaning ''beautiful view''. The area became part of Daniel Cooper's estate, who passed most of it on his death in 1853 to his nephew, Sir Daniel Cooper. From the mid-19th century, land along the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Suburbs (Sydney)
The Eastern Suburbs is the eastern metropolitan Regions of Sydney, region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Location Informally, references to "eastern suburbs" are often limited only to the area east of the Sydney Central Business District, one of the earliest areas developed beyond the town centre. However, the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney in the more expansive sense refers to the whole area situated to the east and south-east of the Sydney central business district, around the southern shore of Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour to the Pacific Ocean beaches and continuing on to the port at Botany Bay and La Perouse, New South Wales, La Perouse. The region is sometimes defined as all of the suburbs within Local government in Australia, local government areas of the Municipality of Woollahra, Waverley Council and City of Randwick as well as eastern parts of Bayside Council and City of Sydney. Some suburbs in the City of Sydney and Bayside Council which are south of Central Station, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point Piper
Point Piper is a small, harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, east of the Sydney CBD, in the local government area known as the Municipality of Woollahra. Location The suburb of Point Piper sits on Sydney Harbour, beside the suburbs of Rose Bay, Bellevue Hill and Double Bay. The eleven streets in Point Piper are: Buckhurst Avenue, Longworth Avenue, New South Head Road, Saint Mervyn's Avenue, Wolseley Road, Wolseley Crescent, Wingadal Place, Wentworth Place, Wentworth Street, Wunulla Road, and Wyuna Road. Heritage listings Point Piper has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * 10 Dunara Gardens: '' Dunara'' Commercial area Point Piper does not have a commercial area, and has few amenities or public facilities. The closest commercial areas are in nearby suburbs such as Rose Bay and Double Bay. Beaches and reserves *Duff Reserve, off Wolseley Road, deep water point, popular for weddings and picnics *Lady Martin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bondi Junction
Bondi Junction is an Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 6 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Local government in Australia, local government area of Waverley Council, Waverley. Bondi Junction is a largely commercial area which has undergone many changes since the late 20th century. There have been many major commercial and residential developments around the main street and surrounding area, notably a new interchange station, bus/rail interchange and large shopping mall. Many of the original pubs have been maintained, notably, the Nelson Hotel, so named because of its location on Nelson Street. Bondi Beach is a neighbouring suburb to the east with its namesake beach. Similarly named Bondi, New South Wales, Bondi and North Bondi are also neighbouring suburbs. Bondi Junction and the neighbouring area is well known for its famous rugby league team, the Sydney Roosters, still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
