SYDNEY SUBURBS

 

Bondi

• Sharks at Bondi:
  Sharks in the surf. No good to me.
  For though you may account me dippy
  I must admit they make the sea
  Suddenly seem a deal too nippy.
      The Sunday News November 14, 1926:
      (included in the Weekend in Rhyme by The Ruminating Rhymster)
  

Bunnerong

• At Bunnerong there's going to be,
  A big refinery I find.
  And that will be okay by me,
  I yearn to be refined.
       - "Burt" from Smith's Weekly, page 14, May 18, 1946:

Chatswood

• Named after wife of early settler R Harnett ñ first to sub divide about 1879. His wife was Charlotte or Chat for short ie Chats wood.

Paddington

• It was the custom in 1820/30 that each night at 6pm a bell was tolled on College St and Head St (now Oxford) advising females were not allowed to enter the area at night.
• Old Horse-drawn buses of Paddington, Sydney, (they travelled to the city and back to the terminal at Glenmore Road) were gaily painted and given names. The Cricketer, the Lottery, Hit or Miss, The Florence, The Violet, The beeswing.
     From The Truth Newspaper 1914

St Leonard's

• Tombstone
  Here stands St Leonard's built of stone
  Ungraved impersonal and alone
  To show how people can exist
  Without a doctor or a priest
     St Leonards Sydney 1840