Rose Hall - Forbes Street Darlinghurst
Rose Hall - House & Driveway - Carriageway - 1929
Rose Hall - Forbes Street Frontage 1929
Rose Hall Was Designed & Built by Ambrose Hallen - the Town Surveyor and Colonial Architect
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Rose Hall's Boundaries were along Forbes Street At the Bottom where Clapton Place, Farrell Avenue And Premier Lane Are. The Original Boundary Was all the way Down to William Street.
William Street had become a dirt track cutting across Woolloomooloo Valley to The Heights. Horses & Carriages were ubnable to travel through there until 1840.
Before 1840, if You wished to get to the Darlinghurst Heights, you would have to travel Via Oxford Street, to the end of Darlinghurst Gaol, and Travel down the Darlinghurst Road, to Reach Elizabeth Bay, Darlinghurst Heights & Potts Point.
William Street was first opened in 1840. It was an allignment and went across the Woolloomooloo valley and then up the steepest part of the ridge.
In this alignment it severed the ends of Barham, Rose Hall, Rosebank & Craigend Estates. this new Street also established the future boundary of Darlinghurst & Kings Cross. .
im guessing that more Land was Resumed when William Street was widened.
Sir Thomas Mitchell plotted out William Street As The Major Road to Reach Darlinghurst Heights, which is what it was called in the Beginning, after originally being named Henrietta Town. It was then named Darlinghurst Ridge after Governor Darling's Wife.
Later the general Area became known as Potts Point....
Mr Potts was a Well off Wealthy Accountant At the Bank of New South Wales, who bought the Land on the point as an investment in Prime Real Estate, and peoiple started calling it Mr Potts Point.
