----- Original Message ----- From: "Louise Reynolds" <louise@planetlighting.com> To: <aus-nsw-sydney@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 6:43 PM Subject: [ANS] History of house - following on Leichhardt query > > We will be up in Sydney later next week and I am trying > to make a list of > places to photograph. My great-grandfather built his > house in the > Boulevarde in the early 1890's and I am fortunate to > have his accounts book > which lists every nail and component which went into it, > together with the > payments he made on the land. > Hi Louise, Would be interesting to see that this lands title says . The Land & Property Info Office ( Was Land Titles Office) is in Queens Square immediatley behind the Hyde Park Barracks ( opp the NSW Supreme Court , Macquarie St ) ........... City Circle Line, get out at St James rail station and exit to Macquarie St Land title docs have got expensive in recent times . A copy ticket now costs about $10.30 . But its a captured market ! Bye MargM Sydney List Admin > Thinking on this, I wonder if it would be of use to the > local library to > have a copy, and perhaps even the current owner. > > Any thoughts? > > Louise > Melbourne > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Louise Reynolds" <louise@planetlighting.com> > To: <aus-nsw-sydney@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 5:25 PM > Subject: Re: [ANS] Help with address please? Leichhardt > > >> Thanks Warren, sounds good to me. >> >> Hoping someone can tell me if it is still there, or has >> it been swallowed >> up >> in freeways by now? Has someone got a recent directory >> out there please? >> Say 2004 onwards. >> >> Regards >> >> Louise >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Warren Backhouse" <backie@iinet.com.au> >> To: <aus-nsw-sydney@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 5:21 PM >> Subject: Re: [ANS] Help with address please? Leichhardt >> >> >>> G'day Louise, >>> >>> My Robinson's Street Directory dated mid 1950's >>> indicates that "The >>> Boulevarde, Lilyfield (Leichhardt)". So read >>> Lilyfield for Leichhardt. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Warren >>> >>> =================================================================== >>> >>> Warren Backhouse Phone: +61 >>> (0)2 6258 6633 >>> Canberra >>> Australia >>> >>> EmaiL: backie at iinet dot com dot au OR >>> warrenbackhouse at yahoo dot com dot au >>> >>> =================================================================== >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Louise Reynolds wrote: >>>> Hello all, >>>> >>>> Can anyone please tell me if The Boulevarde, >>>> Leichhardt still exists? >>>> >>>> Someone advised me they thought it had been swallowed >>>> up by major road >>>> works >>>> in the last year or two. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Louise Reynolds >>>> Melbourne >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> AUS-NSW-SYDNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word >>>> 'unsubscribe' without >>>> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> AUS-NSW-SYDNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word >>> 'unsubscribe' without >>> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> AUS-NSW-SYDNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word >> 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-SYDNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the > body of the message