Ashfield is a suburb of Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Ashfield is located about 8 kilometers south-west of Sydney's main business district.
Ashfield populations are highly multicultural. The urban density is relatively high for Australia, with most of the areas in that area a mixture of especially postwar low flats (apartment blocks) and separate Federation era homes. Among them are a number of magnificent Victorian buildings that offer little of Ashfield's cultural heritage.
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History
Aboriginal people
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the area now known as Ashfield in the wider area, the Wangal people moved and lived, having migrated from Southeast Asia and then down. The exact number is unknown, some studies show there are between 8,000 and 10,000 aborigines in the wider Sydney area, fluctuating with seasons and tribal conflicts. Their territory is believed to center on the modern Concord and stretch eastward to the swamp of Long Cove Creek (now known as the Hawthorne Channel). The land was heavily forested at the time with high eucalyptus trees covering higher ground and marshy trees along Iron Cove Creek. People are hunted by killing animals and native fish. Violence is known to occur between tribes and tribes, especially against women.
Early English settlement
In 1790, a rough track was built between two colony settlements at Sydney Cove and Parramatta. This route later became the main artery of the Greater Sydney expansion and, as the northern boundary of what is now Ashfield, dictated early British settlements in the area. The first land grant in the area was made for Rev Richard Johnson in 1793 and all of it was awarded in 1810. By the 1820s, all grants had been merged into two large estates: Ashfield Park (north of Liverpool Rd and Parramatta Rd) and Canterbury Estate (south area of ​​Liverpool Rd). Ashfield Park was named by Robert Campbell, whose father was laird of Ashfield in Scotland.
Population growth
In 1838, Elizabeth Underwood, then owner of Ashfield Park, split part of her land to form the Ashfield village between Liverpool Rd and the St. Altes. Part of the subdivision was the construction of St. John's Church on Alt St. in 1841. It is the oldest surviving building in Ashfield. In 1855, the village had about 70 houses and 200 residents. However, the opening of the Sydney-Parramatta railway that year, with Ashfield as one of its original six stations, caused a population explosion. In 1872, there were enough people in the area to be given a city council. By 1890, the population had grown to 11,000.
During this time, Ashfield is seen as a highly desirable location compared to the city, which has become overcrowded and fragrant. Many Victorian houses were built in the late 19th century. But during World War I, the suburbs had failed and the wealthy people headed for the North Shore. Many of the magnificent houses collapsed in the 1920s and 1930s and were replaced with small art deco blocks from flats or semi-detached houses. Some remain, however, and are listed in the Landmarks section.
In the 1950s, Ashfield populations began to descend, as in many of the surrounding suburbs, as people moved into new homes on wider land in the suburbs. The Council's response was to start approving large blocks of flats, many of which were built during the 1960s and 1970s but which are also being built today. However, recognition of the region's heritage with many suburban buildings is protected by inheritance orders.
Industrial history
Although there has never been a famous industrial area, Ashfield has several important industries. At Parramatta Rd near Frederick St is the six Australian motor car manufacturer that opened in 1920. The site then became the AWA factory that manufactures radio valves and other components. This site has been transformed into commercial and residential development. On the other hand Frederick St is the Peek Freans cracker factory, a tower that (and still is) a familiar place for passers-by on Parramatta Rd. However, this factory is no longer an industry, serving today as a major hardware store.
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Infrastructure
Commercial area
The main shopping area is located along Liverpool Street just south of the Ashfield railway station. Along these lines, there are several medium-sized office blocks, many street-level shops and the Ashfield Mall, a shopping center with supermarkets, discount stores, and specialty shops. This commercial area also extends to Charlotte Street and Elizabeth Street on the north side of the station. The second commercial area is located along Parramatta Road which consists mainly of retail and light industries associated with automotive.
Transportation
According to the 2006 census, the most common way to work from Ashfield is by car (46%) followed by rail (41%). Ten percent of people use the bus for all or part of their journey while six percent walk and one percent ride a bicycle. The number of public transport patronage (46%) more than doubled the overall rate for Sydney.
Ashfield is located at the intersection of two main roads. Parramatta Road runs from Sydney to Parramatta and eventually continues as the Great Western Highway through Penrith and the Blue Mountains to Bathurst. Liverpool Road runs from Parramatta Road in Ashfield to Liverpool and eventually continues as the Hume Highway to Melbourne via Goulburn and Albury. While the completion of the Sydney Orbital Network has passed these two streets, they remain busy and well connected to all parts of Sydney. Another major road is Frederick/Milton Street connecting City West Link Road in Haberfield with Georges River Rd in Croydon Park. There is also a proposal to build a tunnel connecting City West Link Road with the start of M4 Western Motorway in North Strathfield. However, the proposal has attracted large local opposition and its plans are currently being reviewed.
Ashfield rail station is located in Inner West & amp; Leppington Line from the Sydney Trains network. Ashfield opened in 1855 as part of the original Sydney railway line to Parramatta. It was renovated in 2002. There is an express service and all the stations to Circle City, Homebush, Parramatta and Leppington.
Ashfield is the terminal for two Sydney bus services: 464 & amp; 466 (for Mortlake and Cabarita respectively, via Enfield & Burwood). Nine other routes pass through Ashfield: 406 (to Five Dock and Hurlstone Park), 413 (City to Campsie), 418 (to Burwood and Bondi Junction), 461 (City to Burwood), 490 & amp; 492 (Drummoyne to Rockdale and Hurstville), 491 (Five Dock to Hurstville) and 480 & amp; 483 (City to Strathfield).
From 1890 to 1948 tram services ran from Ashfield to Enfield and Burwood. The tram was originally driven by steam, but powered in 1910.
There are hardly any dedicated bike lanes on the outskirts of Ashfield but there are local bike user groups who have worked with the Council to identify preferred routes through Ashfield for cyclists. The Strathfield-Newtown route is the most important of these, passing Park Lane and Robert Street to Summer Hill connected to Cooks River to the Iron Cove Greenway Corridor providing access to two popular local bikes.
Education
Ashfield has three primary schools: Ashfield Public (at Liverpool Rd), St Vincents (Catholic school in Bland St), and Yeo Park Baby (on Victoria St. at the southern edge of the city). It also has three high schools: Ashfield Boys High School (in addition to Ashfield Public at Liverpool Rd), Bethlehem College (Catholic girls school at Bland St), and De La Salle College (Catholic boy school next to Bethlehem in Bland St ).
Ashfield Public is the oldest of which was founded in 1876 after much of the lobbying of the locals. Before that there were schools operating outside the Methodist, Anglican and Presbyterian churches and there was even a public school operating briefly outside the Methodist church between 1862 and 1866 but it was not until 1876 that it became a permanent place. In 1907, two years of secondary school were added and the school became a Superior School but it was not until 1965 that Ashfield Boys High was formally established and separated from elementary school.
Bethlehem is a junior high school in the area, founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1881. This led to the St. Charles Catholic primary school founded shortly thereafter. When burned in 1904, St Vincents became a substitute, taking the name of the newly built church next door. The De La Salle School was founded in 1915.
A year after Bethlehem was founded, an Anglican girl boarding school named Normanhurst began in Bland St. It moved to Orpington St. in 1888 and stayed there until 1941 when it was closed. It produced a number of famous students including Pamela Travers (author Mary Poppins) and tennis champion Daphne Akhurst. There are a number of other private schools in the area during this period too but none survived to this day.
Health
There is no public hospital in Ashfield although there are two private facilities. The Sydney Private Hospital on the corner of Victoria Street and Robert St first opened in 1931 as the Masonic Hospital. It at one point had an Accident and Emergency Unit, Intensive Care Unit, and Maternity Unit. All this was closed in 2000 when the hospital changed ownership. Now focus on elective operations. Wesley Private Hospital in Frederick Street is an established mental health facility.
The nearest public hospital to Ashfield is the Canterbury Hospital at Campsie and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown.
There is a surprising amount of aged care facilities in the suburbs including stand-alone services and services operated by larger organizations. Most are located in large buildings that used to be large domestic companies with a small number of modern designed facilities.
Landmarks
For visitors passing through Ashfield along Parramatta Road, Liverpool Road or the railway line, the three main landmarks stand out are the old Peek Frean Biscuit factory tower (now Bunnings) at Parramatta Road, Wests Leagues Club on Liverpool Road next to the railway and reservoir Ashfield water in Holden Street south of downtown. The water tower was built in 1912 and provides water supply to the surrounding area.
House
The Ashfield Board produced a number of guides for heritage walks in the area. To the south of the city center is Plynlimmon (built in 1867) at Norton St and now a daycare center; Glenore (built 1897) and Buninyong (built 1901), two adjacent properties on Tintern Road; Mountjoy (built 1870) is now part of a hospital on Victoria Street; Glentworth (built 1887) also on Victoria Street and now part of the retirement village; Ashfield Castle (built 1887) on Queen Street and originally known as Ambleside; Thirning Villa , (built 1868) and now part of Pratten Park; Gallop House in Arthur Street, now part of a nursing home; and Milton on Blackwood Avenue, built in the 1850s and was once home to NSW Premier Sir Henry Parkes. The northern railway is Pittwood on Charlotte Street, formerly part of a nursing home but now used by the Sydney Missionary and Bible College; the impressive tower Amesbury (built in 1888) on Alt Street; near Taringa on Taringa Street; and Gorton at Henry Street, built in 1860 and since 1876 has become a Baby House. On Lapish Avenue in the western end of the city still stands a five-storied street of five Sydney Art Deco semi-detached couples and block units at each end that were designed and built during World War II as speculative historical housing full of land has been meticulously researched and documented.
A number of these properties are listed on the National Register Area including Amesbury, Ashfield Castle, Buninyong, Glenore, Taringa and two unnamed Gothic homes at 177-179 Norton Street. Also listed on the Register are Ashfield Park (see Park section), police and fire stations on Victoria Street, and the rotunda band at Yeo Park.
Church
The first church in Ashfield is St. Anglican Church. John the Baptist on Alt Street. It was part of the subdivision of Elizabeth Underwood in 1838 that gave rise to Ashfield village and was reserved for it for the purpose of 'the establishment of the Episcopalian Church'. Before that, the service of the Anglican church was held at his home. The work at St Johns began in 1840 and after the project was taken over by the colonial architect Edmund Blacket, it was consecrated in 1845. It is the oldest surviving building in Ashfield.
In 1842, the adjacent landowner Robert Campbell made an area between Liverpool Street and Norton Street available to the Methodist school chapel and school building. In 1864 a larger building was erected on an extant site as the Ashfield Uniting Church. It is also the home of the Exodus Foundation which provides 400 meals a day for the needy.
The Presbyterians did not build a local church until 1876, choosing a site on the corner of Liverpool Rd and Knox Street. Before this they attended St. David's in Haberfield. Although they later built a larger church on the same Knox Street site, the original church is located at the South West corner of the property, after being moved twice from its original location.
The Catholic service began in the area in 1880 with the establishment of Bethlehem College. Service quickly surpassed the small school chapel and in 1894, the Vinsensian Fathers began building a church on Bland Street, opposite Bethlehem. Designed by Catholic Architects Sheerin and Hennessy in the majestic Romanesque style, St Vincents was completed in 1907.
The Baptists held their first service at the School of Arts building on the corner of Liverpool Road and Holden Street. After building a small church under Holden Street in 1886, they returned to the School of Arts in 1903 which came to be known as the Baptist Tabernacle. In 1937, they sold the buildings, which were torn down and replaced with cinemas, and moved to their current location on the corner of Holden and Norton Streets. It's Gothic-style with a landmark tower, an impressive street facade, and a sympathetically designed adjoining hall.
Seventh-day Adventists have owned a church in Ashfield for over 100 years. The Church was first established from a series of camp meetings held in the area in the late 1890s. The church is currently located on Charlotte Street.
Garden
Ashfield Park on Parramatta Road is one of Sydney's best urban landscapes. It features large phoenix palms, war memorials, children's playgrounds with statues of Mary Poppins, a monument to International Mother Language Day built by former artist-in-residence Ian Marr and the Bangladesh community, the statue of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal, one of Sydney's oldest bowling clubs. The park, which extends over 6 hectares in the area, was proclaimed in 1885 when it was claimed the moment you could 'see all the way to Martin Place'.
The main sports areas in this area are Pratten Park, the home of the Western Suburbs class cricket club in the summer and used by the Canterbury District Football Football Association in the winter. There is also a tennis court and a bowling club adjacent to the main oval. Thirning Villa, located within the park, is home to the Ashfield District Historical Society and an artist at the residence sponsored by the local council.
Other sports fields in the area are at Hammond Park on Frederick Street. It precedes both Ashfield Park and Pratten Park after starting life in 1877 as a private cricket ground. In 1888, it was meant to be the setting for the first drop of a hot air parachute in Australia. Unfortunately, the jumpers (JT Williams) miss the mark and land in Homebush, about 4 km away. This park is also the location of the ice skating arena in the late 1800s.
Other note parks in this area are Yeo Park on the southern edge of the suburbs and feature a registered National Heritage rotunda band, and Explorers Park on the corner of Parramatta Road and Liverpool Road, built to commemorate the point at which many early English explorers began their journey west and south. It also features a carved image of the original inhabitants of Sydney.
Swimming pool
Ashfield Aquatic Center features 4 outdoor swimming pools. The 50m outdoor pool is open year round and is heated in winter. There is also a 25m indoor pool, a new 10m swimming pool, and a 33m polo swimming pool that was refurbished in 2009. There are also updates planned to include children's play areas (completion is scheduled for late 2017)
Government
The Ashfield suburb is within the area of ​​the local government of the Inner West Council, in western western Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
For the federal election, Ashfield is part of the electoral division of Grayndler, currently held by Anthony Albanese of the Labor Party. Since 1977, most have been in this Division even though its parts have been in the neighboring divisions of Lowe and Watson at various times. Previously, the outskirts were in the Parkes election area of ​​the Federation from 1901 to 1949. From that time until 1977, the area was now the election area of ​​Evans that was abolished.
For the state election, Ashfield is part of the Summer Hill voters. Before the 2015 state election, the suburbs were split between the electoral divisions of Strathfield and Canterbury. Before 1894, Ashfield was in a Canterbury voting country. From 1894 to 1999, there was a voter of the Ashfield state, which was abolished when the state government decided to reduce the number of voters in the state.
Politics
Ashfield is generally regarded as a safe Labor area. As the table shows, Labor has stripped all other parties in the area in the most recent federal, state, and council elections. However, the Liberals and Greens have a strong voice in the area with the Council electing Green Party members as mayors and the northern part of Ashfield being represented by a member of the Liberal Party in the NSW Parliament. Before the 1970s, the area was more conservative, generally returning members were Free Trade, Nationalist, UAP, or Liberal although not unheard of for Labor Party members to be elected during this period.
The present council consists of four Labor council members, four independent and four Liberals. The current mayor is Lucille McKenna, the first female mayor of the Council. Current local issues in the area include the rebuilding of Ashfield Mall and concerns over excessive development in general; construction of the M4 East tunnel as it may lead to an increase in traffic pollution; and the general state of the commercial area, in which one of the board members labeled 'Trashfield'. Also debated is the Ashfield Council itself. In 2003, it was described by the Daily Telegraph as one of the worst councils in Sydney after one council member issued a detention order against the other. Since then, other council members have been dismissed for not being bona fide municipal residents while other council members have made blatant remarks on issues such as the Iraq War, bird flu, Monarchy and the 30km/h speed limit in residential areas.
Population
Demographics
In the Population and Housing 2016 census, Ashfield has a population of 23,841 people, in an area of ​​3.5 square kilometers. The average age (34) is slightly younger than the national average (38) while the average household income ($ 1,632 per week) is better than the national average but lower than the Greater Sydney region.
One area where Ashfield differs significantly from the national figure is in its ethnic mix. The born Australians are a minority with only 38.7% of Ashfield residents being born in Australia. The most common common birth countries are China 14.7%, Nepal 7.0%, India 5.1%, Philippines 2.6% and the UK 1.9%. 39.6% of people only speak English at home. Other languages ​​used at home include Mandarin 14.7%, Nepal 7.2%, Canton 5.2%, Italy 2.5% and Thailand 1.8%.
The most common responses to religion are Religion No. 33.1%, Catholic 20.5% and Hinduism 11.2%.
Another area where Ashfield is different is its housing. Of the 8,540 occupied private occupations computed, 66.3% were flat (compared with national rates of 13.1%), 23.2% were detached houses, while 7.9% were semi-detached or attached houses. Ashfield also has a higher number of people than the average hire (51.3%) compared to direct owned homes (22.5%) or purchased (21.3%).
Famous citizen
The following famous people are born or live in Ashfield:
- Daphne Akhurst (1903-1933): Five-time Australian Open tennis champion, born and raised in Ashfield.
- Geraldine Brooks (1955-): author of the Prize-winning Piperzer, she grew up in Ashfield and lived there during her studies at the University.
- Robert Campbell (1769-1846): The early settlers responsible gave Ashfield his name.
- Ian Clunies Ross (1899-1959): Veterinary scientist and founder of CSIRO, he is temporarily commemorated on $ 50 Australian banknotes.
- Rev Bill Crews (1944-): As Minister of Ashfield Church Unity, he created the Exodus Foundation to help the homeless and the youth left behind.
- Mei Quong Tart (1850-1903): Leading Sydney businessman, tea shop owner, and acting consul to the Chinese Imperial government in the late 19th century. Sir Henry Parkes (1815-1896): Former NSW Premier and "Father of Federation", he lived in Ashfield in the 1870s.
- P. L. Travers (1899-1996): The author of five volumes of the Mary Poppins story, he lived at Ashfield during the final years of his school.
Culture
Events
The main community event at Ashfield every year is the Carnival of Cultures , a celebration of multiculturalism in the area. Held annually since 1996 at Ashfield Park, it includes performances, food stalls and children's entertainment. In recent years, the Sydney Writers 'Festival also held part of its program at Ashfield as part of a regular series of Writers' talks at Ashfield .
Art
The Ashfield Board has developed a community art program in the suburbs. These include an artist-in-residence funding, based at Thirning Villa in Pratten Park. The current artist is the painter Dubbo Lara Scolari. Part of his residency involves artist talk, community workshops and teaching in local schools. In front of Thirning Villa is an Ashfield version of Rosetta Stone, made by former artist at Ian Marr's residence and featuring parts of the Iliad by Homer in twelve different community languages. Another former artist is the author of Van Badham.
Sports
Ashfield has a long history with rugby league sports. The Western Suburbs Magpies rugby league team was formed at Ashfield in 1908 and played in the New South Wales Rugby League competition that year. The club won four premierships (1930, 1934, 1948 & 1952) while centering on Pratten Park. Moved west to Lidcombe in 1967, then southwest to Campbelltown in 1987. In 2000, the club joined Balmain Tigers to create a Wests Tigers that split its game between Leichhardt and Campbelltown. The Wests League club has been living at Ashfield since 1908 despite the odyssey of his native land.
Ashfield also held a cycling milestone when it hosted the world's first women's bike race in 1888. Dorothy Morrell won the two-mile (3 km) race.
References and notes
External links
- Ashfield & amp; District Historical Society.
- Ashfield City Council
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