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References to documents and resources used in the development of this website. It provides great opportunities for further reading on most Eveleigh Stories.

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EV11

State Records NSW (R560 1 11 7)

EV11

State Records NSW (R560 1 11 7)

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State Records NSW (NRS 1742 551/5)

EV13

State Records NSW (NRS 17420 551/42)

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State Records NSW (NRS 17420 551/44)

EV14

State Records NSW (NRS 17420 551/44)

EV15

State Records NSW (NRS 17420 591/1)

EV16

State Records NSW (NRS 17420 601/7)

EV2

State Records NSW (17420 a014 a014000195)

EV3

State Library NSW (hood 17/152u)

EV7

State Records NSW (R560 1 11 3 super structure)

EV8

State Records NSW (R560 1 11 6 doors and windows)

EV9

State Records NSW (R560 1 11 19 columns and girders)

Eveleigh News, 1954

Quoted in Andrew Dow (2006), Dow’s Dictionary of Railway Quotations. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

Evening News

17 April 1924, pp 7

Evening News

21 April 1924, pp 6

Foundations of the Welfare State by Pat Thane

Fowell

Newton Fowell Papers and Letters in the Mitchell Library

Frank Bollins, 1996

Godden Mackay, Management Plan Moveable Items, Vol. 2, Social & Oral History

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State Records NSW (15905 a014 a015000001)

FW10

Australian War Memorial (EZ0139)

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Australian War Memorial (P00046 028)

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State Records NSW (15309 a015 000017)

FW4

State Records NSW (15309 a015 000037)

FW5

State Records NSW (15309 a015 000048)

FW6

Australian War Memorial (A03132)

FW7

Australian War Memorial (E00054)

FW8

Australian War Memorial (E03323)

Gander T (1980)

“18 pounder QF Field Gun” http://www.landships.info/landships/index.html

Givillian, V

Eveleigh Railway Workshops worker in an interview by Joan Kent, 20 Feb 1996, in Godden Mackay 1996, Management Plan for Moveable Items, Vol. 2, Social and Oral History

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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”.