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As you drive through the gateway into the grounds of Rivendell Adolescent Unit
it is easy to believe that little has changed since last century.In the 1840s, Thomas Walker (who migrated to Sydney from Scotland in 1822) began acquiring land in the Concord area and by the late 1860s his estate
comprised 124 hectares and occupied a large portion of the present Municipality of Concord. It stretched from Napier Street in the south to Killoola Street in the north; west beyond the present railway line
and east around Brays Bay and Majors Bay. In 1860, Thomas Walker married Jane Hart at Holy Trinity Church, Sydney. On 18th September, 1861, Jane gave birth to Eadith Campbell Walker. The Walkers moved to
their country residence of Yaralla where Jane died in 1870. |
