Greystanes - New South Wales

GreyStanes

Front Yard 

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Verandah

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Steps 

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Main Entrance

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Drawing Room

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Library

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Bedroom

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Back of House

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Stables 

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Coachhouse

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Back Yard Storage & Pond

Elizabeth Farm -

 

Elizabeth Farm 

The Boundary Stone 

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Crows Nest Housr - Corws Nest - New South Wales

 

Crows Nest House - Crows Nest - Sydney 

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Main Gates 

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Cantebury House

 Cantebury House



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Main Entrance 

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Drawing Room 
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Library
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Morning Room


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Stairs And Side Passage 

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Coach House 


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Stables

Campbell's Fields -

 

Campbells Fields 

Dr. William Redfern—Australia's first English-trained medical graduate and a notable emancipist—established a rural farming estate in the 1810s named Campbell Fields (sometimes referred to as Campbellfield). Located in the present-day suburb of Minto in Sydney's south-west, it is one of the region's earliest European land

Another Edmund Blackett Designed House. 

Barnstaple Manor - Five Dock

 

Barnstaple Manor - Barnstaple Road - Five Dock 

Brett Clements Rodd  (1809-1898) arrived in Australia in 1822 with his father and two brothers after the death of his mother. The young Rodd secured employment with Thomas Icely an enterprising merchant and shipping agent in Sydney.

In 1833 Rodd became a solicitor and by 1838 was prosperous enough to purchase two lots of the subdivided Five Dock Estate (previously known as Five Dock Farm) from Samuel Lyons. One piece of land was at the head of Five Dock Bay in present-day Chiswick. The other was at the head of Iron Cove, where Rodd built a house which he named Barnstaple Manor, after his birthplace in Devon.

In 1839 he married Sarah Jane Robertson and they had eight sons and four daughters. In 1859 Rodd put a deposit down to buy the island in Iron Cove known variously as Snake, Robbit or Rhode island. While the deal did not go through, Rodd nonetheless renamed the island in his own name.

The remains of Barnstaple Manor were still visible until the 1920s when it was demolished and the property subdivided. Many Five Dock streets bear the names of Sarah and Brent Rodd’s children including Brent, Burnell, Clements, Janet, Lenore, Trevanion and Undine streets. While, Barnstaple Road, Rodd Island, Rodd Point and Rodd Park also recall the family’s association with the area.

Brent Clements Rodd

Sarah Robertson