悉尼的西区（不包括内西区）一般是中东人，印度人，巴基斯坦人等聚集的地方。为什么西区房子便宜？很简单的道理。体味不是唯一问题 （这一点大家都知道），中东人由于信仰，性格的问题，比较容易冲动，比较容易闹事，而且”群居“，一个家庭通常情况下都有7-8个孩子。女人结婚之后的主要任务之一就是生孩子，然后开始每1-2年就生一个孩子。生孩子的任务完成后就是带孩子。男人出去赚钱。通常，一旦该区被中东人占领，很多当地白人开始向其他地方移居。 为什么西区的房价上不上去？因为利息一旦上升，还贷压力增加，第一个受影响的就是偿还能力有限的家庭，所以很多西区的房子由于无法偿还银行的贷款而被迫进行拍卖。当然，西区的房价便宜，生活费也很便宜，比如Auburn有方便的交通又有shopping centre，所以成为部分华人喜欢购买投资房的一个区 （许多不住在那里，因为治安问题）。

悉尼的内西区（比如strathfield, burwood），由于交通方便，2007年的涨幅不错。虽然没有东海岸涨幅那么快，但是也属于涨幅不错的一个区了。内西区比较拥挤，人口密度相对比较高。即便是house,6-700平方米已经算大地了。因为其交通便利，许多中国人，韩国人纷纷入住，华人超市，亚洲食品比比皆是。但是由于人口密度大，流动性高，所以犯罪率也高。Ashfield等地盗窃，入室抢劫/盗窃的比例很高。房价也已经不便宜了。

悉尼的南区，由于hurstville 这个南方重镇，越来越多华人入住。导致整个ST George地区华人比例非常高。南区oatley以南华人比例急剧下跌，因为靠海，房价贵，加上传统上白人聚集地。（当时发生种族歧视的海滩事件就发生在哪里）。不过种族歧视，主要针对中东人。华人影响不大。如果坚持南区，建议住Kogragh,，学校好，又有tafe,还有很大的公立医院。相对又比较安静，不像hurstville那样吵闹，三教九流都有。即便住在有保安系统的appartment偷窃也有发生。

悉尼的西北区，比如carlingford， castle hill.  由于carlingford有全悉尼第一的high school，以教育为重的华人自然不会错过，该区华人比例很高。房价适合第一次买房的人群。dundas在更西，房价也是相当合理。但是交通不是很方便。Castle hill环境优美，现在华人的比例较小。该区有很大的购物中心，房价也不贵，50万上下就能买到house,由于该区新房较多，中等价位在60多万。如果不介意老式砖房，50多万就能买上600平方的3居室的house，同样的，交通相对不是很便利，有公交车直接开到CBD的Wynyard火车站附近，单程大约45-60分钟，取决于路面交通状况。Eastwood基本上被亚洲人占领了。一边是韩国人，一边是中国人。物价很便宜，品种也丰富，但是因为学生较多，有些杂乱。Epping由于即将开通至chatswood的火车线，交通极为方便，升值潜力大，是个不错的区。总的来说，西北区推荐，因为房价相对不贵，环境和治安都较好

悉尼的北区（northshore），lower northshore的房价是挺贵了。普通的2房的unit/appartment就要60多万。Upper northshore 一直到hornsby前面都是很好的。Killara由于有个好的公立学校，半年的涨幅已经超过20% （包括unit）。 Hornsby并非不好，只是当时造了太多地unit/appartment，导致供求比例失衡，最近几年的涨幅不理想。但是居住是很不错的，设施都很完备，也有很大的购物中心，交通也方便，还有全纽省Top 5 的 high school,是传统意义上得不错的区。Northshore line沿线有许多好的学校，是为什么北区的房价较贵的原因之一。当然，环境人文是另外的重要因素。加上north Sydney也在北线，许多工作机会（特别是IT），导致许多人想在北区居住。RYDE附近新建许多办公楼，以后会有许多工作机会放出来。建议有米的同学可以考虑Lindfield,Killara,Gordon, Turramurra,Wahroonga去买豪宅！那些N英亩的豪宅，每次只能在开车经过的时候YY一下。整个北区的感觉是绿化好，安静整洁。

悉尼的东区其实分两部分，一部分是靠海的，比如Bondi, Manly,  Rose Bay,这些都是毋庸置疑的富人区，凡是靠水靠海的house，区别就是多少个million了。有些几个，有些几十个。对于平民百姓来说都是有些遥远的。更多人想融入那些个区，就租房在那里。许多日本人租在那个区，导致如果在渡船上，常常被人认为日本人。东区本来就相对于其他3区来说面积较小，加上靠海，人们愿意居住在那里，所以房价是最高的。有许多local，为了靠海，但是又不想要承担太高的房费，就居住在French Forest等地。那里属于东北区了。

其余那部分也是东区。比如靠近跑马场，UNSW的Kesington, Randwick 和 Kingsford. 这些区都是不错的，Kingsford有许多饭馆，价格也公道。Randwick 有个shopping centre但是华人超市只有一个。属于东区，但是房价比较便宜的区有Eastlakes & Moscot. 一个也不推荐，因为治安相对东区的其他区来说比较差。整个东区的治安算是比较好的。

Burwood Road和旁边的3号公路横贯南北，Parramatta Road连同东西。Burwood距离其它高速公路车程均很短，交通非常方便，堪称中部咽喉，公路火车四通八达。搭火车从Burwood到悉尼市中心快车只需10分钟。 Burwood是一个大站，无论慢车和快车均停靠这个车站。

Burwood的一个显著的特点是其多元性。从人口构成看，其很大一部分（49%）的人口是出生在海外，42%的是出生在澳洲。自1991年起，人口组成越来越多元化。居住在该区，但出生在海外的人口大多数是出生在中国大陆（12%），印度（5%），韩国（4%），意大利（4%），黎巴嫩（2%）和香港（2%）。而出生在以下国家的居民在该区的比例最小，伊拉克，马其顿和荷兰（都是占0.5%）。该区只有很小的人口（0.4）是土著人以及托雷斯海峡的岛民。

占最多年龄群体的是20-24岁的人，紧跟其后的是25-29岁的人。

大多数人口（56%）在家里讲非英语的语言。在该区五种最常用的社区语言是汉语（20%），意大利语（7%）, 阿拉伯语（5%），韩语（5%），和希腊语（4%）。

很有意思的一点是最常用的语言（除英语外）与最多居民的出生地（不算澳洲）是不一致的。 居民出生地最多的国家前五位依次为：澳洲，中国，印度，韩国，意大利。

Burwood最大最强的地方就是吃。

Burwood Park

        如果你喜欢自己做饭，在Burwood Plaza和Westfield两个购物中心都有大型超市Woolworth，在一个区有两家Woolworth，这种情况似乎很少见，当然对我们来说是更方便。 有趣的是，这段时间我注意到，这两家相距不到800米的超市为了避免自相残杀， 似乎要在价格和商品等级上形成区分。

        Plaza的Woolworth 有些食品和水果会比Westfield的那家Woolworth价格上便宜一些, 当然在新鲜度和品质上也会稍差一些. 中国的超市和菜店肉店都集中在Burwood Plaza附近, Plaza的2楼半就是大名鼎鼎的通利超市, (不是国内的通利家电) 呵呵.各类调味品, 干货, 冷冻速食, 包子, 馒头, 葱油饼, 豆腐, 腊肠, 松花蛋, 各类零食, 说应有尽有不算夸张。

        Plaza的2楼 有家Fresh world, 卖各类水果, 蔬菜和一楼的Woolworth有重叠, 也有互补. 对面是家华人面包房, 我爱吃那的麻团和肉松面包. 在Burwood Road上还有一家菜店, 一家肉店, 一家鱼店. 如果Wooworth满足不了您的需要, 可与去看看。

        如果你喜欢下馆子, 也有很多选择，仅在Burwood Road 的主街500-600米一段, 大小中餐馆就有10多家, 还有不少西餐。

        要吃川菜，去水井仿。推荐：烧白(就是红烧肉)、干煸四季豆、毛血旺(看个人爱好) 。中发混沌和油条不错，不要吃山东骨。

        Fish&Chips  Westfield 进门左转那家西餐厅 &17 一份，但是比一般鱼店买的好吃的多。

        Burwood Road 过了烧腊店继续往上走， 有一家湘菜馆，推荐红烧狮子头。

        水井仿隔壁的日餐 ，火锅不错。

        大三元（在Strathfield，离Burwood不远)）的下午茶不错。

        火车站边上是类似BurgerKing的快餐HungryJack, 在Westfield的二楼有麦当劳, KFC, Subway。

王国忠副市长（下简称王）：非常乐意.Burwood以最早的登陆者Thomas Rowley船长位于家乡英国Cornwall的一处农场命名，Burwood市的Rowley Street则以该船长命名.Burwood地处悉尼人口集中的内西区，面积仅为7.26平方公里，是新州排名第二的最小地方政府，人口密度相对较大.Wangal部落的土著是该地区原住民，欧洲人于18世纪末期登陆.宝活于1874年3月27日成为自治市.最近，宝活被评为中等规模城市.澳洲的城市规模一般按人口和面积划分，因此，尽管Burwood市已经有了187年的历史，但她只有7平方公里的面积和3万7千的常住人口，所以只能算是一个小城市.

记者：既然如此，为什么Burwood会被评为中等城市呢？

王：那是因为Burwood独特的地理位置和日见繁荣的商业活动.

记者：地理位置有何优势？

王：Burwood距离悉尼市中心只有20分钟的车程，是大悉尼内西区的中心.Burwood Road和旁边的3号公路横贯南北，Parramatta Road连同东西，距离其它高速公路车程均很短，交通非常方便，堪称中部咽喉，公路火车四通八达.

记者：商业情况和物价如何？

王：Burwood市商业活动十分繁荣，光是大型购物中心就有两个，其中包括内西区最大的购物中心，产品覆盖各个生活领域.另外，房屋中介、通讯电器、中西餐馆等各类店铺均相当齐备和丰富，全市各类商家数字接近2000.宝活虽然地处中心，但日常生活开支在悉尼范围内仅为中等略微偏上，相比其它地段并非如此便捷的地区，则十分合理.只是房价因增值空间大而略嫌昂贵，一般600-800平方米的房子要在100万的样子；两房的新公寓单元要在40万左右.

记者：Burwood市的居民情况如何？

王：因为商业繁荣，人口集中，所以州政府的很多部门和机构都在宝活建了服务中心，比如警察部门、法庭等.这一切使得她的流动人口达10万之众.Burwood是一个多元文化城市，其中46%是移民，分别来自中国、香港、韩国、黎巴嫩、希腊和意大利等国.其中华裔人口占8.5%到10%.韩国和意大利移民均占5%上下.

记者：学生择校就读情况如何？

王：Burwood市的学校构成包括私校、新州公立学校、新州公立高中，以及TAFE开放式教学系统（OTEN）.其中几所私校的教学质量及口碑尤其突出.

记者：Burwood市议会的基本情况如何？有无照顾华裔移民的政策？

王：Burwood市议会所管辖的区域包括Enfield、Croydon、Croydon Park，以及Strathfield和Ashfield的一部分.市议会的主要负责城市规划、城市建设、道路维护以及卫生管理等日常生活细节.

Burwood市议会共有7个市议员，每四年改选一次.宝活市议会每月的第二和第四个星期二都举办公开市政会议，欢迎广大市民踊跃参加.有一些华人因为来澳时间比较短，英语口语不够流利，也不习惯在大庭广众面前讲话，所以很少有华人参加市议会的市政会议.为了能及时听到华裔市民的意见和心声，现在Burwood市议会又给英语不是很好的新移民提供了方便条件，允许他们在会议正式开始之前，仅向市议员反映他们的想法.希望华人能充分利用这个机会.有意前往反映情况的华人请注意，要在一周前致电市议会打招呼，市议会的电话是9911 9911.

另外，政府为少数民族提供很多服务，如果你在面对政府服务有语言问题，可致电13 14 50，安排口语翻译.如果仅仅一贯翻译还不能解决的问题，可以与我联系.我的电话是：0412 923 838.

记者：该区有哪些公共设施？

王：Burwood市议会一直以来，为了丰富居民的业余生活，除了修建绿地和街区公园外，另修造了很多公共设施，比如设在Enfield区的刚刚翻修加了盖子的公共游泳池（地址是在Portland路上，联系电话是：9747 4319），还有Burwood的地标Burwood公园（在Parramatta和Burwood路交界处，里面有两个著名的纪念碑，一个是马来亚山打根纪念碑，一个是澳纽军团纪念碑）、公共图书馆、网球场等.另外，Burwood市许多建筑都是典型的维多利亚女王时代、联邦及战时的代表作，并且被作为文化遗产很好的保存，很有欣赏和艺术价值.

记者：其它的娱乐休闲方式有哪些？

王：鉴于个人兴趣爱好而不同.本市还有许多大型俱乐部，如Burwood市退伍军人俱乐部（RSL）、Burwood Sports Club等.另外，Burwood市的餐饮业非常繁荣，中国各地风味的餐馆几乎都有，可以满足华裔移民的需要.至于Ashfield，则被称之为悉尼“小上海”，离宝活市中心仅一箭之遥.

记者：Burwood市的多元文化氛围如何？治安怎样？

王：治安情况属于中上，多元文化氛围十分浓郁.我曾多年出任宝活市长和副市长之职，在我任市长时，组建了多元文化委员会以及为加强宝活治安而展开的和警察的合作项目.我们宝活还和意大利、韩国及中国的五个城市建立了姐妹城市，发展和海外的联系.宝活每年有两个大型节日纪念活动，一个是中国新年庆典，一个是在9月份举行的“宝活节”.每年的活动都吸引了很多居民.

记者：市议会目前有无新的规划？

王：不仅有，而且都是很重要的大手笔.Burwood市议会目前的重要城市建设规划包括：

第一，关于Burwood火车站.Burwood市议会公布重建Burwood火车站计划已经有一年多了，可是宝活火车站至今没有任何改变.主要因为宝活火车站是州政府的产业，到底能否重建宝活火车站，以及什么时候重建，最终还是要由州政府来做决定.州政府限于财政问题，一直不能把Burwood火车站的重建列入计划.为了敦促州政府早日把宝活火车站的重建列入计划，宝活市议会才提出一个联合发展宝活火车站的方案，也就是和州政府携手合作，联合开发宝活火车站.我们建议州政府允许我们发展Burwood火车站周边地区，这样，我们会把Burwood火车站周边地区开发所赚得的利润反过来投入到Burwood火车站重建计划中去.我们已经在一年前和州政府签署了一份共同开发宝活火车站的备忘录.

说实在话，这是个很好的计划.但是，这个计划的实施，还是需要州政府的支持的.

现在，我们想的是，既然州政府暂时没有能力重建宝活火车站，我们也不能遥遥无期地等下去，我们希望州政府能先解决宝活火车站的电梯问题.宝活火车站没有电梯，这对于老人和病残人士是非常不方便的.我们希望州政府能先拨出一小笔钱，解决电梯问题.我相信，至少在2005年，Burwood火车站会有一个电梯.

第二，Burwood市刚刚建立了一个25年的城市规划，这在整个新州都是超前的.Burwood的目标是建成一个现代化的城市.这个规划因为某些因素被州政府耽搁了下来.为了促进这个项目的尽快实行.最近，Burwood市议会决定把其中的图书馆项目抽出来，单设一个项目.这样做的想法是，把一个大项目划整为零.因为小项目是比较容易获得州政府通过的.

记者：谢谢您的宝贵信息.

王：不必客气，希望更多的华人朋友关注Burwood，并在Burwood开始自己全新的移民生活.有其它需要，请随时与我联系.

Burwood市议会联络方式：

地址：2 Conder Street, Burwood NSW 2134

邮寄地址：PO Box 240, Burwood NSW 1805

电话：(02) 9911 9911

传真：(02) 9911 9900

网址：www.burwood.nsw.gov.au

办公时间：Monday – Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm

电子邮件：council@burwood.nsw.gov.au

Burwood市图书馆

查询电邮：library@burwood.nsw.gov.au

传真：(02) 9744-5104

电话：(02) 9911-9999

地址：4 Marmaduke Street, Burwood, N.S.W. 2134

Medicare宝活市办事处

地址：Shop 334，Westfield Shopping Centre，

100 Burwood Road，Burwood NSW 2134

办公时间：周一–周五 9:00am–4:30pm，周六9:00am–12:30pm

The Aboriginals in Sydney belonged to two tribes; the ‘Kuringal’ or ‘Eora’ tribe who were coastal dwellers, and the ‘Dharug’ tribe who lived further inland to the foothills of the Great Dividing Range . Within these two tribes were specific clans or extended family groups.

The Aboriginals who lived in our neighbourhood, were known as the Wangal people. The Aboriginal leader Bennelong was a member of the Wangal clan.

Although the Wangal travelled about to trade and search for food, their territory was the land on the southern bank of the Parramatta River. Their boundaries extended to the west of Iron Cove to as far as Homebush Bay, with a southern boundary along the watershed between Cooks River and Sydney Harbour

The British First Lieutenant William Bradley writes in his journal about seeing a number of Wangal people along the banks of the river around Mortlake in 1788. When his exploration party stopped for breakfast on the opposite bank, a group of seven Wangals came over in canoes to meet them. “They left their spears in the canoes and came to us” wrote Lieutenant Bradley. When the Europeans had left, the Wangal people used the Europeans’ fire to cook mussels they had gathered from surrounding rocks.

European invasion forced the retreat of the Wangal into alien territory, depriving them both of their source of food and spiritual connection with their country. The small pox epidemic of 1788 also proved to be the bane of this tribe. No Wangal people survive today. Now Burwood is home to 200-300 of the 10,000 Aboriginal residents who live in Sydney .

The next chapter in a historical analysis would be the very first years of the convict colony.

Governor Phillip’s settlement was mainly clustered around Sydney Cove, but he also founded a small farming community at Parramatta, or ‘Rose Hill’, as it was called then. Communication between the two settlements was essential, so a rough bush track was established through heavily timbered country. The track, in 1791, more or less followed what is now Parramatta Road. In 1793, the building of this road gave Burwood its humble beginnings as a settlement.

The earliest recorded settler in Burwood was Sarah Nelson, a free settler who arranged her own passage to Sydney in 1791 after her husband, Isaac Nelson, was convicted and sentenced to seven years penal servitude. Sarah’s tiny farm was situated on the spot now called Malvern Hill. It must have been a lonely place in those days because there was no Liverpool Road and the only access to Sydney was a bush track leading out onto Parramatta Road, a little to the east of Cheltenham Road.

Sarah’s fate is not recorded, but the 1828 muster shows that Isaac had remarried and had his own farm at Lower Minto.

Sarah Nelson’s earliest neighbour was James Brackenrig, a private soldier in the New South Wales Corps. In 1794, he received a grant in an area then called York Place. His land was bounded by Parramatta Road and the present day streets of Queen, Lang and Acton. Brackenrig did not occupy his farm for long. He had moved to Parramatta by 1806 and his land was eventually absorbed into Joseph Underwood’s huge estate of Ashfield Park.

Another early settler was a convict named Denis Connor who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Exeter in 1788. His sentence was later reduced and he received a grant of land at York Place in 1796. Two years later he married Mary Anne Hill, another convict. Connor’s farm included the present Blair Park and Acton Street and extended to Parramatta Road.

Burwood derived its name from a grant of 250 acres made by Governor Hunter on 3 August 1799, to Captain Thomas Rowley of the New South Wales Corps, who named the land after the Burwood Farm on which he had lived in his native Cornwell, England.

Along with John MacArthur and Reverend Samuel Marsden, Rowley was one of the men who purchased merinos from the original flock brought to Australia by Captain Waterhouse in 1797. Although Rowley had another farm at Newtown, where he lived, he undoubtedly would have pastured some of his sheep at Burwood. His name is remembered at Rowley Street. Captain Rowley’s tomb was originally laid at Kingston Farm but has since been re-erected in Waverley Cemetery.

In 1812, the land was bought by a well-known Sydney businessman, Alexander Riley, who built the first house in the district, ‘Burwood Villa’ in 1814. The house stood on a site approximately 400 metres west of the Coronation Club and a small granite obelisk was erected on the western side of Burwood Park to permanently mark the position of the original villa when it was demolished in 1937. The villa is embodied in the official crest of Burwood.

Mr Riley cleared and cultivated 500 acres of this land and he successfully introduced into the colony the orange, lemon, pomegranate, loquat, grape, peach, nectarine, apricot, apple, pear, cherry, plum, fig, chestnut, almond, mediar, quince, raspberry, strawberry and melon.

Enfield was granted to William Faithful who arrived in Australia in 1792 as a Private in the New South Wales Corps. The land was later owned by the farmer/convict, Simeon Lord, who became one of Sydney’s wealthiest merchants. In 1824, it was bought by W.H. Moore, who cleared much of the heavily timbered area for farming. The name Enfield clearly came from the Middlesex market near London, but we do not know when or why it was adopted. Its earliest known use was in 1853 when the first Enfield Post Office opened in Richard Fulljames’ store near St Thomas’ Church.

The Longbottom Government Farm was another early establishment in the Burwood area. In 1821, 110 convicts were working on the farm. They were housed in wooden barracks with shingle roofs, near the present pavilion in Concord Oval. The farm consisted of the barracks, the mess room and a house for the Overseer (also a convict).

The Longbottom Government Farm eventually grew into a considerable establishment covering more than 700 acres of heavily timbered flat land, sloping down to the extensive mangrove swamps along the foreshores of Hen and Chicken Bay. Timber was cut and sawn on the spot and conveyed to Sydney in boats via the Parramatta River.

A stagecoach began running to Parramatta in 1814 and during the 1820s inns were built at staging posts where the coaches changed horses at 10 kilometre intervals along the road. The journey from Sydney took a good two hours and in bad weather, coaches were often bogged or overturned on the muddy road. The most famous and long-lived coaching inn on Parramatta Road was the Bath Arms at the corner of Burwood Road.

This was the era when bushrangers became the scourge of Parramatta and Liverpool Roads, hiding out in the undeveloped lands around Cooks River and Liverpool Road and making roads and highways unsafe. Justice was swift and punishment, death by hanging, was handed out quickly to those guilty of highway robbery. In 1826, Burwood House was robbed and later that year the men responsible were hanged at Burwood Farm in front of assembled convicts, as a deterrent to any future misdeeds.

In about 1833, the owners of a number of grants commenced to subdivide and sell their lands and thus commenced the growth of the suburb of Burwood.

The earliest commercial activity in the area was the Enfield lumber trade. Thomas Hyndes, a young Londoner who arrived in Sydney in 1803, received an early grant in Enfield which was not recognised by Governor Macquarie. Hyndes returned to Enfield in 1823. By this time he had become a prosperous timber merchant with a mill and a house in Sussex Street and properties on the North Shore and in the Illawarra district. In 1842, he set up his country home on the Punchbowl Road, naming it Adelaide Park after his daughter. By the mid 1840s, wood cutters, gardeners, innkeepers, storekeepers and blacksmiths were forming the nucleus of a village along Parramatta Road, and Hyndes was something of a village squire.

Hyndes built a substantial stone schoolhouse which opened in 1847 as the Adelaide Park Free School. This was used as a church before the opening of St Thomas’ in 1848.

Hyndes is said to have commissioned a prominent Sydney architect, John Frederick Hilly, to design a typical English village church, such as he had known as a boy. The portrait of Thomas Hyndes and his wife are preserved in St Thomas’ Church porch.

The Municipality of Burwood was incorporated by proclamation in the Government Gazette on 27 March, 1874. The first Council was elected on 9 June of that year. Burwood, as we have described, was a quiet little village with a mere 1,200 people and only about 300 buildings. Its southern boundary was Liverpool Road, beyond which lay the even more sparsely populated village of Enfield. Fifteen years later, this too became a Municipality, which was quite separate from Burwood until 1949, when its Council was abolished and two of its wards were added to Burwood.

The railway was opened from Sydney to Parramatta in 1855. There were four stations – Newtown, Ashfield, Burwood and Homebush. In 1874, Five Dock Station was opened and in 1876 it was renamed Croydon Station, supposedly because the suburb was about the same distance from the old Homebush racecourse as the London suburb of Croydon was from another racecourse. In the same year, Concord Station was opened, renamed Redmyre in 1877 and finally changed to Strathfield in 1885.

In 1860, the number of trains daily to and from Sydney was six each way. One hundred years later, the number of trains daily was 255 to Sydney and 259 from Sydney. In 1860, 29 868 passengers made the trip to or from Sydney. In 1960, over two million passengers made the trip over the year. Two level crossings at Burwood Road were replaced by overhead bridges in 1892. The third bridge and set of lines were built in 1926.

The opening of the railway was a momentous event for Burwood as it made the suburb easily accessible to the city and brought a number of wealthy merchants and industrialists who built spacious country houses. One of the oldest surviving members of this class of gentlemen’s residences is Henry Webb’s ‘Cicado’ (1863), 74 Queen Street, Croydon.

Anthony Horden’s magnificent ‘Shubra Hall’ (1869) near Croydon Station, is typical of the elaborate homes built by wealthy merchants in Burwood during this period. Anthony Horden was one of the people who signed a petition in 1873 urging the Governor to establish a municipality. Leading the petition was Richard Wynne, another merchant who eventually became Burwood’s first Mayor. Wynne’s name is memorialised in Wynne Avenue.

William Archer, another member of the first Council, also has a street named after him. Archer began his working life as a pageboy at Kensington Palace. He later joined the Navy, fought in the Crimean War and migrated to Australia in 1857, where he became a businessman involved in a variety of projects from horses and real estate to coal mines and railway construction. He settled in Burwood when it was still a village and became known as ‘the grand old man of Burwood’ because of his service as a member of the council and his work for the municipality. He lived in the same house in Railway Parade until his death in 1925 at age 94. The story is often told about how he once helped out the School of the Arts Building Committee by producing 100 pounds from his own pocket to settle a contractor’s advance payment. At that time, 100 pounds represented a year’s wages to most working people.

The population of Burwood rose from 7,400 in 1900 to over 20, 000 by 1930. In 1912, the old steam trams were replaced by electric trams. The steam tram from Ashfield to Enfield was extended to Burwood and Mortlake in 1899 and to Cabarita in 1907.

In 1948, the trams were taken off the road and replaced with the diesel buses you see today. The motor bus service was begun by F.H. Stewart from Chullora (Enfield) to Sydney in 1915. Burwood’s streets were lit by gas until the change was made to electricity in 1921.

The 1920s were a great period for brick houses in Burwood. Two huge brick pits supplied the building materials for the site. One operated between 1879 and 1930 in Webb Street. The other began production in Cheltenham Road in 1913.

Undaunted by the fact that they could raise only $256 revenue in rates from the 1,200 inhabitants in that first year, the Council of 1874 set about its task with determination and vigour. Its work, with that of successive Councils, has given us the Burwood we know today.

Burwood Girls’ High School is a public, comprehensive, secondary, day school for girls, located in Croydon, an inner western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1929 and operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, the school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,060 students from Years 7 to 12. The schools catchment area includes the suburbs of Croydon, Burwood, Croydon Park, Ashfield, Summer Hill, Haberfield, and Five Dock.The school community is diverse in terms of ethnicity, culture and socio-economic mix.

In the 2006 Higher School Certificate, the National Education Directory of Australia named Burwood Girls High School the sixth best performing school, and the best non-selective public school in Sydney’s Inner-West.

  Curriculum

Burwood Girls High School is registered and accredited with the New South Wales Board of Studies, and therefore follows the mandated curriculum for all years. Year 11 and 12 students are prepared for the New South Wales Higher School Certificate (HSC) through study of up to 13 units of Board of Studies approved subjects. Students may also choose from a select number of Vocational Education and Training (VET) subjects through TAFE NSW and additional languages through The Open High School.

The school is a comprehensive high school, and typically performs well in the HSC, outperforming some public selective schools In the 2006 HSC, the National Education Directory of Australia named Burwood Girls the sixth best performing school, and the best non-selective public school in Sydney’s Inner-West.

 Notable alumnae

• Margaret Nita Allars – Professor of Law (Personal Chair), Faculty of Law, at the University of Sydney; Barrister
• Lorraine Daphne Bayly AM – Actress; Founding Member of the Ensemble Theatre Company; Named as one of 100 Variety Entertainers of the Century, recipient of 3 Logie Awards
• Lee Da Hae – South Korean Actress
• Jennie George – Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Throsby
• Dale Spender AM – Feminist; Researcher and Writer; International Keynote Speaker; Online Author and Content Creator
• Lynne Spender – Former Acting Executive Director of the Australian Society of Authors; CEO of the Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association; Senior Corruption Prevention Officer of the NSW Independent Commission against Corruption
• Her Hon. Judge Robyn Tupman – Judge of the District Court of New South Wales

Burwood, 悉尼内西区著名华人聚集地，东连韩国城Strathfield，西接上海同胞的第二故乡Ashfield，南面清静但不通火车的Enfield,，北临风景优美但房价颇高的Canada Bay。

沿着Burwood Road，临近Burwood火车站的一片区域是其主要商业带。Westfiled Burwood 是一个大型的地区性购物中心，位于铁路线的北面，在Burwood公园斜对面的Burwood Road上。

Westfield Burwood 占据三层楼，内有David Jones、Coles、 Kmart,、Target 以及Woolworths等商场。而其中美食店（food court）拥有座位800个，12-宽频电影院 Union cinema complex可容纳大约2500名顾客。整个商场有大概250家特色商店，占地面积大约为65，000平方米。

Westfield Burwood is owned by Westfield Trust.Westfield Burwood is centrally located in the inner west of Sydney, approx 25 minutes drive from the Sydney CBD. The area is well serviced by public transport and its proximity to Burwood railway station is a major benefit.

Westfield Burwood features a David Jones covering three levels, plus Target, Kmart, Coles and Woolworths. The food court seats 800 people and the Greater Union 12 screen cinema complex seats around 2,500 people. There are approximately 230 specialty shops and services with a combined gross lettable area (GLA) of approximately 63,000 square metres.

With three retail levels and no side malls, Westfield Burwood has been carefully designed to maximise customer satisfaction and convenience. The location of car parks, vehicle ingress and egress and the placement of travelators assist with complete vertical integration of the centre. There are over 3,000 car spaces at Westfield Burwood.