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Credits

Stakeholder Engagement

Australian Technology Park
Duncan Read, General Manager
Mal Hartley
Graham Izod

Urban Growth
Kerrie Symonds
Vanessa Gordon

Community consultation, research, content development

Two Trees & Co
Juliet Suich – Project management and producer

Historical research, content and script development

Archaeological and Heritage Management Solutions Pty Ltd
Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy
Graham Wilson

Content and script development

3-D Projects
Peter Tonkin

Digital interpretation

Comprising website, mobile tour and kiosk design and development, media production and project management

Art of Multimedia
Beata Kade - Producer and project director
Jason Stevenson - Creative director
Javed Gardezi - Senior developer
Simon Olsen - Senior digital designer
Catherine Neasbey – Production manager

Eveleigh Stories narrator

Lewis Fitz-Gerald

3801 Limited
Alida Eisermann
Artscape
Australian Railway Historical Society
Bill Casley
Bill Driver
Bob Rhymes
Bob Wright
Brian Dunnett
Carraigeworks
Central Signs
City of Sydney

Future Past Heritage Consultants and Dr Lucy Taksa
Ian Mair
Jack Mulcahy
Jillian Bartlett
John Gibson
Les Coghill
Maniratana Sao
Mohammed Chami
National War Memorial
Nerida Kikken
NGH Environmental
NSW Department of Environment and Heritage
NSW Heritage Council

NSW State Archives
Only Human
Patrick Cranney
Peter Ratcliffe
Powerhouse Museum
Project Two Graphic Design
Rappoport Heritage Consultants
Richard Butcher
State Library of NSW
State Library of QLD
Sydney Trains
Transport Heritage NSW
Urban Growth NSW Development Corporation
Wrought Artworks/Steel Windows and Doors

Images used in the project were supplied by the following institutions and are individually labeled and credited on the page where they are displayed:

Donald Friend, Sydney Opera House Collection
Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
Natural History Museum, London
National Library of Australia
British Library
London Metropolitan Archives
National Archives Kew
SBS

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An Indigenous Place

Eveleigh is Gadigal country. We acknowledge their ownership of this land and pay our respects to past, present and emerging elders.

The second half of the nineteenth century saw a rapid expansion in New South Wales railways. In Sydney, this meant both the early stations and workshop facilities quickly became too small, and had to be expanded or relocated.

40,000 BC

Pre contact – Members of Cadigal, or Gadigal, people inhabit Redfern, Erskineville and surrounds. The Gadigal Traditional Owners who today speak for the Sydney clan area stretched “from the south side of Port Jackson from South Head to Petersham”. The Gadigal people spoke the coastal Eora dialect of the Darug language and are often referred to as the Eora people. Redfern as a site was important to its people because it had a source of water – Shea's Creek, which today is Alexandra Canal, as well as a source of food from the wetlands that drained into the creek. Redfern’s high point on the terrain offered views of the trade route from Circular Quay to Parramatta, on which the colony’s first railway would be built. These trade routes connected with larger routes which linked the north and south, and east and west of Australia. Not only goods, but ideas, songs, ceremonies and news travelled along these routes.

1788

The British arrive in January with catastrophic effect on the Aboriginal way of life. The Eora people do not flee, as Captain James Cook predicted, but stand their ground. Governor Phillip attempts to create good relations, but these soon disintegrate due to the persecution of the Aboriginals by the convicts. The Aboriginals are pushed out of Sydney town with fear of being shot, and with the quick pollution of the Tank Stream by tanneries, they are forced to use water sources near Redfern.

1789

The smallpox plague devastates the Aboriginal people. Without immunity to the disease brought by the British, a large percentage of the Cadigal clan is wiped out. Following the plague, survivors from surrounding clans join together to survive, and to participate in the guerrilla movement led by Pemulwuy.

1791

James Chisholm arrives in the colony of New South Wales aged 19 as a non-commissioned officer.

1793

Settler David Collins observes Cadigal people performing a ceremony “between the town and the brickfield”.