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[edit]Where is the rest of the history? It didn't just begin in 1788. It was/is called Bulanaming. The traditional owners of the land are Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. 120.18.164.26 (talk) 13:03, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
- added some information as part of the Wikipedia:GLAM/Australian_libraries_and_WP/Events/City_of_Sydney_First_Nations event User:JelloMister
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[edit]This page is a valuable informative and visual source with many quality images of Marrickville. Perhaps if someone could note who manufactures Marrickville Road Shops awning adornments it would be appreciated.
Notable people - John Farrow
[edit]I added John Farrow to "Notable people". Libstar - did you have an issue with that because his Wikipedia article makes no mention of Marrickville? There's plenty of external references to his origins:
and so on - just google: "john farrow" marrickville
I did a bit of digging but so far have been unable to lock down the actual address where he grew up - will keep trying. There's enough good external articles to justify adding a reference to Marrickville in his Wikipedia article. He's a fascinating character.
BTW - I also just added John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong - Miracle in Marrickville to the music videos. Copy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awc9y8-xOc0 1.43.41.96 (talk) 01:57, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
I'm moving the content on The Warren here from the history section, as it is entirely unsourced and taking up most of #History.
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Thomas Holt (1811–1888) was a Sydney business tycoon who built a castellated Victorian Gothic mansion named "The Warren" in 1857 in Marrickville South. It was designed by architect George Mansfield, and contained a large art gallery filled with paintings and sculptures from Europe. It had elaborate stables built into imposing stone walls, and large landscaped gardens filled with urns overlooking the Cooks River. Holt gave it its name because he bred rabbits on the estate for hunting, as well as the grounds being stocked with alpacas and other exotics. The Warren was a landmark in the district for some decades; the still-operating Warren View Hotel in Enmore as evidence of this.[citation needed] Renovations were undertaken in 1866. There were also bathing sheds and a Turkish Bath built on the river. The 100-acre (0.4 km2) property was south of Wardell's and covered the area from today's Unwins Bridge Road to Illawarra Road and Warren Road. Thomas Holt was a large land holder in Sydney with another mansion at the edge of Gwawley Bay, Sylvania Waters, New South Wales in 1881, (his last and greatest residence, the monumental forty room Sutherland House mansion which was destroyed by fire in 1918) and vast property holdings from Sutherland to Cronulla.[citation needed] As Holt's health began to be an issue, the Warren was subdivided in 1884 with the land around the immediate building's grounds being sold off - and the family returning to Britain for the remaining years of his life. He died in 1888.[citation needed] The estate stables were demolished some time between 1884 and 1886, with the nearby Ferncourt Public School being originally built as a house "Prosna" by Polish born artist, Gracius Joseph Broinowski, from sandstone blocks of the stable, and a cedar staircase and marble mantelpiece purchased from Holt's estate installed in it.[citation needed] It is obvious today the last block remaining where the mansion stood as it is indicated by the newer houses of the 1920s-1930s as well as, obviously the name of the road, driven down the western side of the block - "Mansion Street" - and "Holt St" adjacent to it forming the lower side of the square perimeter).[citation needed] The Warren became a nunnery when the mansion and 12 acres (5 ha) of land were purchased by a French order of Carmelite nuns. The Carmelites were evicted from The Warren in 1903 for outstanding debts. By this stage the grounds appear to be bare with a high wood fence installed on the western side of the building about this time. It then was used during WWI for an artillery training range and this fenced area also appears in photos along with smaller buildings on the grounds nearby. It was resumed in 1919 by the New South Wales government was finally demolished in around 1922 - the land subdivided to build a housing estate for returned soldiers. Sir John Sulman was engaged to build this.[citation needed] Not much remains of the once imposing castle-like building except for two stone turrets from the building indicating what was once on the general spot (this was recently vandalised and the commemorative plaque stolen; noted 2010. Originally piers from the back entrance of the building, which had been stored by the council for many years - they were placed on the headland with a memorial fountain in 1967 at Richardson's Lookout in Holt Street. Other remains are garden paths with flags and liners, one or two of the original stone blocks from the walls, and the base of what was probably a garden feature such as an urn or fountain. An area with a few cobblestones in the grass, remains under some native fig trees, and was probably a drive that led to the back of the stables. Also on the bank of the river below are the crypts that Thomas Holt built into a sandstone overhang for his family. No bodies were subsequently laid to rest except for the Mother Superior of the Carmelite order who was interred for a short time.[citation needed] |
103.87.254.62 (talk) 03:24, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
- Most of this information is substantiated by a vist to The Warren and the Local History section of Marrickville library - the local council has put up information signs that cite primary sources around The Warren including at Richardson's Lookout. However, many of the resources at the Library, while reliable are extremely old; Or published by the Marrickville History society, or both! Further you can only read them IN the library - many are too fragile to check out and take home! And they are old enough and only copies so no ISBN! Very hard to cite - and unless you live in the Inner West are hard to access even if they were cited. What should be added in terms of the remains of the original building is that a staircase was used in the Ferncourt School (on the land of The Warren estate) - waste not want not!
- I've seen the photos of the land in use as an artillery training range in WWI.
- It could also be noted alongside the other info about Marrickville architecture that there is a noticeable boundary where the Victorian Terraces and Federation houses are swapped for the cottages of the returned soldiers housing estate (hard to miss the near identical houses on Richards Ave when you check street view.
- It would have taken some serious research to write this, in terms of accessing those ask-a-librarian-for-access sources but it wouldn't be surprising if the author of this section decided it was too hard to provide citations for photos and old articles and books / Marrickville history society releases with no ISBN. ~2026-22449-43 (talk) 04:41, 12 April 2026 (UTC)