Hi All There was apparently a Shepherd's Bush in Sydney.Have a look at Banjo Patterson's poem "Uncle Bill", which is on-line. He talks about the gangs of Surrey Hills and Shepherd's Bush. I'd never heard of it before, I must admit. You learn something new every day. It must have been somewhere around Central Railway. Jean _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

At 02:09 PM 14/11/00 GMT, jean pearce wrote: >There was apparently a Shepherd's Bush in Sydney.Have a look at Banjo >Patterson's poem "Uncle Bill", which is on-line. He talks about the gangs of >Surrey Hills and Shepherd's Bush. I'd never heard of it before, I must >admit. You learn something new every day. It must have been somewhere around >Central Railway. Maybe ..... William Shepherd had a grant in the Darlington area. He established a flower and fruit growing farm known as "Shepherd's Darling Nursery", possibly named in honour of Gov Darling, so the district came to be known as Darlington. It would have been fairly close to the first central station which was near Cleveland St in the 1850s. Some of the streets are named for his nursery - Shepherd St, Pine, Myrtle, Rose, Vine, and Ivy Streets. If Shepherd's Bush was in the inner Sydney belt, the Sydney City Archives would have information, mainly council records from about the 1860s to the 1940s. Gary =================== Gary Luke feraltek@zeta.org.au fax +61-2-9519-9907 Sydney, Australia