Local real estate office, Chambers Fleming Professionals Padstow, have just launched a fantastic community initiative.  They have set up and launched a new Local Area Community website: www.ilovepadstowtopicnicpoint.com.  This new website is all about our local community, where they will be sharing lots of interesting local area information - including local suburb information, details on upcoming local events, as well as features on local busi...read more

History The suburb of Picnic Point is situated within the original 640 acre land grant of Thomas Graham, which was made to him on 6th December 1928.  The grant was called Horsehoe Bend, later changed to Bononton Park. In 1888 Charles Tompson purchased the land and it was known as Ferndale. In the flatter area south of Tompson Road, the family operated a market garden, and the remainder of the whole of modern day Picnic Point was their backyar...read more

History Revesby Heights is entirely located on a land grant made to Lewis Gordon in 1840.  In 1848 the land was subdivided into 15 streets and was called George Town. However no settlement took place, and the land remained unsettled. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, a few families built shacks down near Little Salt Pan Creek. During World War 2, the top soil was removed from the entire site leaving it as barren as the moon. In the...read more

History Padstow Heights refers generally to all land south of Courtney Road bounded by Salt Pan Creek, Georges River and Little Salt Pan Creek. It is the close boundaries of the land grant of 640 acres to John Rickards and Lewis Samuel in 1840.  The suburb was originally settled in the early 1900s with weekenders and boatsheds at the end of Villiers Road, in the precinct east of Queensbury Road, known still today as One Tree Point. After t...read more

History East Hills takes its name from the East Hills Park Estate, a residential development comprising riverfront blocks of 1000 square metres and more. The estate included a park - originally more than twice the size of today's East Hills Park. All this land was based upon James Watson's 1838 land grant of 50 acres.  The large water front blocks some of which still exist today, for example those in the middle of the two sections of Burbank ...read more

History The first land grant in the modern day Milperra area was made to William Heath in 1799. This was in the north western part of Milperra - east along Henry Lawson Drive and up to and including the Vale of Ah. This was settled as early as the 1850s and was originally referred to as Heathfield, then later Thorn's Bush after the family who owned this from the 1870s. Two families were settled here in 1891 and during the Boer War horses were ...read more

History Revesby is named after the Lincolnshire, England estate of Sir Joseph Banks.  Banks was the Botanist on Captain Cook's exploration of Australia in 1770, and he is the person whom Bankstown (Banks' town) was named after.  The first grant was made to George Johnston Junior on 23 April 1804. Cattle was grazed in the area as early as the 1830s, however it was not until the early 1880s when speculation of a railway line linking St Pet...read more

History The first land grant in the modern day Panania was made in 1804 to George Johnston Junior.  This grant had the modern day boundaries of Bransgrove Road, south down The River Road, west along Tompson Road, to a position between Malvern Street and Hinemoa Street, then across at an angle to join Bransgrove Road, in the vicinity of Horsley Road. The area was split into 5 acre farms when the Weston Estate was marketed in 1893. At this t...read more

History The first land grant in the Padstow area was given in 1819, however the first established homestead at Padstow Park was not established until the 1850’s.  In the 1880s Sydney property boom, there was speculation of a rail line from Sydenham to Liverpool cutting through the district. The large land grants were cut up into various farmlet estates, typically of 5 acres. However the line did not eventuate, and in 1897 there was less...read more