Well-heeled yuppies take over many of the terraces in the now desirable location. Ruth Park’s home during her time in Surry Hills is among the terraces reduced to rubble. By 1901, Surry Hills was an established suburb on the fringe of the city. The fish, eel and birds that inhabit it are an important food source for the local Indigenous population, the Gadigal people. It was about 9 metres below the surrounding streets and approachable from 3 directions only by steep flights of stone steps. Once more, its terraces, viewed as ‘slums’, are targeted for demolition, to be replaced with large public housing blocks or factories. Ruth Park talks to Surry Hills residents, c1950s (image: Fairfax) 1980s. STC acknowledges the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation who are the traditional custodians of the land on which the company gathers. The Whitlam Government is elected, marking a change in Australia’s political consciousness, felt all the way down to a community level. Part of the site was later used as a council depot, and part as a park named Hills Reserve after Pat Hills, alderman from 1948 to 1956, Lord Mayor from 1953 to 1956 and NSW MP from 1954 to 1988. Organised outfits such as Jewey Freeman’s Riley Street gang dominate the area. The Harp in the South pt 1 & 2, 25 Aug – 6 Oct 2018, Rosyln Packer Theatre. Sydney Municipal Council is granted powers to rebuild large areas of Sydney, for street widening, and ‘cleansing’ of the inner city. Sydney weathers an economic depression. Once known as ‘one of the most depraved areas of Sydney.’ Over the years, it’s been transformed and is now home to a family friendly park. And, soon, some of Surry Hills’ most nefarious industries are flourishing. Many resident action groups are formed in Surry Hills during this decade, aiming to protect the area’s history and local culture. Frog Hollow Reserve is at 303-307 Riley Street, on the corner of Albion Street, Surry Hills. Its infamous neighbourhood, Frog Hollow, is known as “a haven for some of the most desperate and dangerous criminals that police could recall”. Between 1895 and 1904 Frog Hollow was known as ‘one of the most depraved areas of Sydney’. All images from the NSW State Library collection unless stated otherwise. Subdivision of large estates and proximity to Sydney Town attracts an increasing number of residents to the once overlooked area. By this time, Surry Hills is crammed with nearly 5,300 terrace dwellings holding almost 30,000 residents – the increase in population and housing density corresponds with a deterioration in the quality of life for residents. Wealthy ex-convicts and colonial gentry are attracted to the area and erect large homesteads and breweries. One of these was Samuel ‘Jewey’ Freeman, leader of the Riley Street Gang. Date posted: 27 Aug 2018Author: STC The park features an off-leash grassed area. So, for the next 50 years, streets are laid and relaid in haphazard, overlapping and counter-intuitive networks. Captain Joseph Foveaux (namesake of Foveaux St) is granted 105 acres, his property, known as ‘Surrey Hills Farm’ covers most of the area. In this area bounded by Anne, Albion, Riley and Little Riley streets, the houses were literally piled on top of each other. Frog Hollow Reserve is dog off-leash at all times. Seeing the show? In ten years it is upgraded to a large Gothic sandstone building. The Board of National Education establishes Surry Hills’ first school, Cleveland Street Public School, in an imported prefabricated iron building. African-American troops are barred from venues in the city, but accepted into the bars and brothels of Surry Hills, because “Riley Street knew an underdog when it saw one”. Plague is declared in Sydney, its effects exacerbated in Surry Hills due to poor living conditions. 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