Walking tour of the historic Federal Fyle Heritage Conservation Area

Exactly half-way between Summer Hill & Ashfield Stations.

Start location = The Bruce Street Reserve at the corner of Elizabeth St and Liverpool Road.

This event for March 22 has been fully booked but we will be repeating the walk on April 12.. Please register for this event.

Members, especially those who attended Kerry’s presentation at the AGM of her book “Early Settlers, Speculators and Houses” will have the opportunity of visiting this fascinating small Heritage Conservation Area under guidance of the author, a resident and passionate advocate of its history. Blocks from the sale of part of the Canterbury Estate in 1841 were eagerly bought up by a mix of characters, many with interesting pasts, several with significant futures. Erected on these blocks were some of the earliest houses, over a decade before the railway was constructed.

The buildings remaining from this early activity are complemented by a mostly harmonious group of well-designed and built properties, some sympathetically maintained by proud owners.

A fascinating enclave in the middle of bustling modern Ashfield.