Jeffrey Street

The national Australian television station uses Jeffrey Street on an almost daily basis as their camera location or backdrop for the evening news bulletins.

Lightfoot subsequently returned to Australia on HMS Calcutta as a free settler, participating in the effort to establish a settlement at Port Phillip, near the modern city of Melbourne.

Thomas Muir of Huntershill, a Scots Martyr accused of religious subversion, acquired Lightfoot's grant in 1794, the same year in which he arrived in the colony.

[10] However, it is likely that Muir, who had studied law at Edinburgh University and had passed his bar examinations in 1787 at the age of 22, had arranged a private contract for the sale of the land.

He laboured, with his own hands, to improve and cultivate the land he had purchased, and which, till then, was in a state of native wildness; and, in remembrance of his patrimonial tide and estate in Scotland, he called it Huntershill, by which name we hope it is still known.

A good account of his escape from the colony appears in several books and Pierre François Péron chronicled Otter's voyage across the Pacific.

[32] In January 1792 Robert Ryan received a discharge from the New South Wales Marine Corps and a land grant of 60 acres (240,000 m2) located at Mount Pitt Valley, Queenborough Norfolk Island.

After some unprofitable commercial experience in Greenock, Robert at 27 went to India to join his elder brother John, a partner in the Calcutta agency house of Campbell Clarke & Co., established in 1790.

[37] In January 1805, Campbell returned to England and was involved in a famous court case in London which precipitated the breaking of the monopoly of the British East India Company.

Before leaving for England Campbell had approached Philip Gidley King with a plan for to construct a ship in Sydney of 136-tons burthen, and had identified the site of the proposed shipyard in Kirribilli.

[43] Some sources incorrectly state that North Head was the first site in Australia to be used for quarantine purposes when the Bussorah Merchant was detained in Spring Cove, Sydney, in 1828.

Twenty-three-year-old James Milson arrived in Port Jackson (Sydney) on the Albion on 19 August 1806[50] as one of the earliest free settlers in the Colony of New South Wales.

[51] Milson did well in the Colony of New South Wales, and established a number of prosperous businesses, including an orchard and a dairy in the vicinity of Jeffrey Street.

His name was mentioned frequently in the papers at the time in a professional capacity, including shipping news, customs lists and police events.

Greencliffe was one of North Sydney's former early sandstone homes, and occupied a prime position at Kirribilli possessing outstanding views of the harbour.

[77][78][79] In 1843, at the end of a severe five-year-long drought, Jeffreys purchased a property of 1,742 acres (7.05 km2), near Queanbeyan, NSW, which he named "Acton" after a town in Denbighshire, Wales.

Robert Campbell was one of the considerable pastoralists, merchants and land-owners in the early colony of NSW with significant land holdings in Kirribilli, Duntroon on the Limestone Plains, and the Canterbury Estate near Sydney, among others.

[77] He was the Elective Member of the first Legislative Council 1843 - 1856 for the Pastoral District of Maneroo [77] Jeffreys died in England 1861 and his family also returned there to live.

[82] Plans and a photograph (circa 1907) remain of the early cottage at the corner of Pitt and Jeffrey Street, the site of what is now St Aloysius' College.

In 1903 "Star of the Sea" became the chapel for St Aloysius' College, which had just moved from Surry Hills into a large house next to the church formerly owned by Dr.

The heritage listing notes that it is a large two storey Italianate house with an asymmetrical front having a projecting three-facet bay with moulded details to segmental arch windows.

[121] The present day site of St Aloysius' College was previously occupied by a small, stone church built in 1863 by Congregationalists, Wesleyans and Anglicans.

Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal Moran urged the Jesuits to move St Aloysius' College from Bourke Street to a site in Kirribilli near the church in order to give regular service to the Catholics of the area.

There are carved bargeboards, finials and a lancet ventillator to the gable ends, three-light square-headed windows and iron lace, columns and balustrades to the verandahs."

"[2][127] At its meeting of 8 March 2010, North Sydney Council's Planning and Development Committee resolved to investigate the establishment of a new heritage conservation area centred on Jeffreys Street, Kirribilli.A consultant was engaged to prepare a report.

[128] A report was subsequently completed by John Oultram Heritage & Design titled Proposed Conservation Area, Jeffreys Street, Kirribilli.

[133] The North Sydney Council website is internally inconsistent: It is widely agreed that the signs on the wharf that read "Jeffereys" Street are a mistake.

Objections raised included concerns related to the party wall, consent, noise, privacy, reduction in heritage integrity, light, and detrimental impact on the strong geometric shapes of the gable roofs on the terraces and their stepping down the hill.

[140] Jeffrey Street was mentioned in the 2005 case of Meehan v. North Sydney Council which related to a nearby property at 40 Kirribilli Avenue.

This led to the resolution of a long-running dispute between the owners in the strata scheme which had involved 10 applications to the CTTT and a reported 100 to North Sydney Council.

Sydney Harbour Bridge with the Jeffrey Street wharf visible on the right of the photo
Panorama from Kirribilli with the Jeffrey Street wharf visible at right
Picture of the city of Sydney taken from across the harbour at Jeffrey Street
View of Sydney from Jeffrey Street at dusk
Picture of Sydney Harbour taken from Jeffrey Street showing the harbour, city and Sydney Harbour Bridge
View from Jeffrey(s) Street of Sydney Harbour , the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House
Profile of Thomas Muir taken from a bust circa 1793
Thomas Muir circa 1793
1850s Map is from the 1850s but refers to earlier land grants. Caption reads "Early map published in the North Shore Times 8 May 1963 showing the boundary of the Municipality of St Leonards East, proclaimed 1860." Added to the original map are the words "Lavender Bay" which used to be called Hulk Bay, and "Milsons Point". Colours have also been added. Highlighted in yellow is the original 120 acre grant to Robert Ryan in 1800 that was purchased around 1806 by Robert Campbell; in pale blue is the 50 acre grant to James Milson in August 1824; in green is the approximate position that was marked on the map for the orchard that James Milson was still leasing from Robert Campbell in the 1840s (in the 1820s he leased the whole 120 acres); and in pink is the approximate position that was marked on the map for the farm of F.J. Hilly that was leased from Robert Campbell in the 1840s. The boundary of the Municipality of East St Leonards is marked in red.
Portrait of Robert Campbell , 1834, by Rodius
First known map of Kirribilli, a subdivision map by Robert Campbell detail showing the Jeffrey Street area
1840s map of the Jeffrey Street area in Kirribilli detailing the land that Campbell leased to Milson for Milson's Orchard & Dairy. The cottage shown on the map is near the southern end of Jeffrey Street. [ 38 ]
Newspaper article on the quarantine of the convict ship Surry in 1814
Quarantine of the convict ship Surry on the North Shore
James Milson (1785-1872) [ 49 ]
Early map of the Kirribilli area showing an area marked Milson's residence
Sketch map [ 52 ] of the Kirribilli area first published in 1955 in the book "The Life and Times of James Milson" [ 53 ] showing approximate location of Milson's residence and that of his son-in-law William Shairp who married Milson's daughter Sophia in 1827. [ 54 ] The perforated line marks the approximate boundary between Milson's 50 acres in the north and Campbell's 120 acres in the south.
First known map of Kirribilli, a subdivision map by Robert Campbell detail showing the Beulah Street area which was leased at the time to Thomas Jeffrey
First known map of Kirribilli showing an area leased to Thomas Jeffrey circa 1840 [ 38 ]
Early photo of Woodlands house circa 1858, possibly the earliest known photograph of Kirribilli
Early photograph of Woodlands on the North Shore, the home of Thomas Jeffrey, photograph circa 1858
Photograph of a cottage at the corner of Pitt and Jeffrey Streets circa 1907 since demolished
The Cottage at the corner of Pitt and Jeffrey Streets, on the site of what is now St. Aloysius' College pre-1907
Photograph of the Jeffrey Street ferry terminal with cars and horse-drawn carriages
Jeffrey Street Vehicular Ferry Docks and Road in Approach (1925)
Photograph shows construction on the foreshores of Kirribilli above Jeffrey Street circa 1930. St. Aloysius College incorporating Dr. Cox's home and the tower of Star of the Sea Church are visible on the skyline. The homes Greencliffe and Craiglea are also visible on the right hand side above M. Steel boatshed
Photograph shows construction on foreshores of Kirribilli above Jeffrey Street c.1930s. St. Aloysius College incorporating Dr. Cox's home and the tower of Star of the Sea Church on the skyline. The homes Greencliffe and Craiglea are also visible on the right hand side above M. Steel boatshed. [ 87 ]
Photo of the Greencliffe house above Jeffrey Street in 1885
Greencliffe circa 1885
Auction sales notice of the original terraces at 52–56 Jeffrey Street
Auction sales notice of the original terraces at 52-56 Jeffrey Street
Three-storey gentrified Victorian terrace houses on Jeffrey Street
Aerial view of the Jeffrey Street area showing cottages, terraces and part of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Aerial view of St Aloysius College and immediate vicinity showing the row of terraces in Jeffrey Street and the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1940s)
Circa 1905 Postcard of Jeffrey Street
Postcard of 'Jeffrey Street', North Sydney circa 1905 featuring the terraces from 34-42 Jeffrey Street
Photo of the house called Wyalla which now forms part of St Aloysius' College
Wyalla which forms part of St Aloysius' College (2007)
Postcard view of St. Aloysius College circa 1910 to 1920, these buildings have since been demolished
Postcard of St. Aloysius College, Milsons Point c. 1910 – 1920 (demolished c. 1961)
Street map of Kirribilli in 1875 showing many of the main streets
Street map of Kirribilli (1875) [ 123 ]
Earliest newspaper advertisement mentioning Jeffrey Street being for a college for girls
Early advertisement referring to Jeffrey Street (a "College for Girls" in 1884)