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[Marghanita da Cruz]

Rachel Polanskis wrote:
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> Suffice to say, I have seen the Sydney trams and they are wonderful.
> 
> How they got where they did is a story for another time, unless some really 
> wants to know and I will tell it!
> 
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Hi Rachel,

This would be a good time to tell stories of the Sydney Trams.

See sad photos of Sydney's Trams at the Rozelle Tram Depot.
<http://www.sydneyarchitecture.com/GLE/GLE39.htm>

Their fate, is a current issue.
Harold Park and the former Rozelle Tram Depot site
<http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/development/UrbanRenewalProjects/HaroldPark/Default.asp>

My contribution to digging up the history of the Sydney Trams was to
discover, thanks to NLA's newspapers online, who built the network and who
it built.

A railway nipper, from Wagga Wagga, comes to Sydney, via WA, and gets a job
with  tram construction contractors. He marries the bosses daughter, goes
on, to become Mayor of Annandale circa 1895, Lord Mayor of Sydney, MLC and
built the Company Allen Taylor and Co.. Taylor Square, Sydney is named
after this guy...
<http://www.ramin.com.au/annandale/story-74b-trafalgar-street.shtml#taylor>

Act No 32 1910 An Act to sanction the construction of an Electric Tramway
from Darley-rad, Randwick to Little Coogee: and for other purposes [28th
December 1910}
<http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/sessionalview/sessional/act/1910-32.pdf>

> Sir Allen Arthur TAYLOR (1864 - 1940)
> Member of the NSW Legislative Council	23 Jul 1912	22 Apr 1934	21yr(s) 9mth(s)		Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 25 April 1912
> Member of the NSW Legislative Council	23 Apr 1934	30 Sep 1940	6yr(s) 5mth(s) 8day(s)		A Member of the indirectly elected Council 1934 - 1978. Date of Election 5 December 1933 and 1 November 1939. A Member before reconstitution.
<http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/ec78138918334ce3ca256ea200077f5d/c2db00b972c38d83ca256e7b0009f670?OpenDocument>

Marghanita
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