Latty's Pleasure Grounds, the Butterfly Hall, Hollywood Park and the Lansdowne Reserve were popular ventures which fringed the river and lakes system.

The amusement parks were struggling by the time of the Great Depression and eventually the land that they occupied was acquired by the council for public reserves.

This was before the first official competition games tookplace at venues closer to the City of Sydney, and well before professional Rugby League clubs came to the further western suburbs of Sydney, such as Parramatta, Canterbury-Bankstown and Western Suburbs.

The suburb developed in the 1950s when the peripheral areas of Bankstown municipality assumed identities of their own.

Just under half of these people were born in Australia (48.0%), with the other most common countries of birth being Vietnam (24.0%), Cambodia (2.4%), Lebanon (1.7%), New Zealand (1.5%) and China (1.3%).