Newtown Heritage Study Review 2008 - City of Greater Geelong

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Newtown Heritage Study Review, July 2009 – Volume 1 Photo 2.07 125 Aberdeen Street- interwar Bungalow. Source: Kevin Krastins May 2008. Photo 2.08 135 Aberdeen Street inter war Californian Bungalow. Source: Kevin Krastins May 2008. Photo 2.09 view along Aberdeen Street from George Street. Source: Kevin Krastins May 2008. Prepared by City of Greater Geelong 52
Newtown Heritage Study Review, July 2009 – Volume 1 SECTION 3 3 Eyre Heritage Precinct 3.1 Precinct Boundaries The Eyre Heritage Precinct is comprised of properties within the area bounded by Aberdeen Street (south side generally between Pakington Street and Shannon Avenue), Cumberland Street (part), Skene Street (part), Manning Street (part), Pescott Street (part) and Chadwick Street (part), Newtown. The heritage precinct is located within the Parish of Moorpanyal, County of Grant. 3.2 Contextual background Historical Evidence (refer to historical figures at the rear of this section) The initial Years In 1837, Newtown and Chilwell formed part of the earliest suburbs in the Geelong area, then under the control of New South Wales. Earlier in that year, Governor Bourke of New South Wales visited Geelong with Government Surveyor, Robert Huddle. As a result of that visit, Henry Wilson Smythe was sent over from Sydney with instructions to survey a site between “Corio Bay and the Barwon River for a township and streets”. The plan drawn up by Smythe was revised by Hoddle and signed by him on the 21 st August 1838. 1 In 1837, Chilwell with its grassy slopes extending to the Barwon River and its magnificent red gum trees studded along the river valley, and New Town, with its commanding view of Corio Bay and Point Henry presenting one of the finest panoramas in the district was described by early visitors to Geelong as a delightful place for a village. 2 Residential Developments The first sale, 3 October 1839, made available land bounded by today’s Shannon Avenue, Aberdeen and Pakington Streets and the Barwon River, mostly 25 acre blocks, except for the irregular river allotments of Section V, Parish of Moorpanyal. 3 Sales by auction and private contract continued slowly throughout 1841 (Figure 3.01). The area was first known as New Town. Edward Curr was the first purchaser of Allotment 6, Section VII, Parish of Moorpanyal, County of Grant (located on the eastern side of Cumberland/Frederick Street) which cost him £100 at the Crown land sales in Melbourne October 3, 1839. The allotment contained 25 acres and had a frontage of one thousand links to what is now Pakington Street (Figure 3.02). 4 E B Addis purchased on 30 January 1841, Allotment 5, Section VII, Parish of Moorpanyal, County of Grant at the Crown land sales in Melbourne (located on the eastern side of Cumberland/Frederick Street), on an allotment containing 25 acres and a frontage to what is now Aberdeen Street. 5 1 The Earlier Days of Newtown and Chilwell 1858-1958 page 5. 2 City of Newtown and Chilwell Centenary 1858-1958 page3. 3 Model Borough “An Introduction to old Newtown and Chilwell” by Gladys Seaton p13. 4 P.L. Brown, ‘Building and Early History of the Hermitage’, Geelong Advertiser, 21 December 1960. 5 Moorpanyal Parish Plan, Source: Geelong Heritage Centre, 1989. Prepared by City of Greater Geelong 53
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