Summer Hill ~ Walking Through The Neighbourhood To Haberfield - Inner West Sydney.

[@billyeyeball7725]

Summer Hill is A Suburb/ Neighbourhood in the inner west of Sydney about 7kms from the Sydney Central Business District, in the local government area of the inner west council. The first land grant was made to former convict Henry Kable in 1794 . The suburb began to grow following the opening of the train station on the main suburban railway line in 1879. By the 1920s the suburb had become relatively upper class with large estates and mansions built throughout the suburb of which a few still remain. Following a transition to a working class neighbourhood in the mid 20th century when most of the wealthy moved to the north shore many of the mansions and estates were demolished and subdivided making way for apartment blocks . The original people of the area were of the Wangal and Cadigal Nations. Over the past few years Summer hill has gone through a bit of an upgrade around the shopping village including pathing and street scraping as well as upgrades to the park and skate park. I have done other Summer Hill videos that show more parts of the neighbourhood , you can find them on my inner west playlist.

[@craigbrown9029]

Hi Billy, Summer Hill is another place I use to frequent because of its great shopping strip and also it was in between Ashfield and Petersham where I used to live. Notice that Summer Hill still has all its great architecture, there's not many new buildings or high rises there. Still it's been over 20 years since I visited the area. Nice to see a lot of people go there still. The train station still hasn't been updated. I find it amusing how one side of the train station all the shops are busy, and the other side is quite sleepy, it was like that 20 years ago as well. Anyway I think its a very well established suburb, close to all public transport, thats what II liked about it. Cheers till the next one.

[@billyeyeball7725]

Hi Craig - Surry Hills sure does have some amazing old buildings , it’s great how it has kept its original village relatively intact. Definitely some of the best old architecture out of Sydney villages for sure. Yep there’s not much going on with the other side of the village but still good to see the old buildings have survived. The suburb has pretty much everything you need from supermarket , bottle store, pub and bars , cafes and restaurants, bakeries , laundromat , butcher, fruit and veg , retail etc and a great park - all round decent place. I went to the pub a few times years ago - very cool old interior on the bottom part. Thanks again Craig Stay well🙂

[@smantle11]

Nice walk. Wonderful old homes and buildings. I really enjoy these walks but hate all the graffiti.

[@billyeyeball7725]

Hi , thank you - there definitely is some amazing old buildings and homes in Summer hill , great place for looking at old architecture. I hear what you’re saying about the graffiti - personally without going into to much detail I think for me there is good stuff in the right places and bad stuff in the wrong places, as far as filming it goes I try to film all aspects of every area I go to and graffiti is one thing that shows changes - for example the graffiti in this video probably won’t be here next time I video summer hill as some of the shops that have been empty for a long time are now being done up - so it will be cool to see how it has changed next time I walk there. A lot of the graffiti that is done on the more public spots is just tagging and throw ups as it’s done fast for obvious reasons but there is graffiti done in areas that businesses and home owners alike agree to such as in certain laneways in Newtown, Marrickville, Enmore, St Peter’s ,Sydenham Camperdown and others as well as home owners that commission graffiti artist to do side walls. These pieces can be amazing because they have the time to do something creative. But yes - there is also loads of garbage out there done on places that shouldn’t be touched ( I could go on about that but best to leave it). Any way I appreciate the feed back. Stay well and thanks for watching🙂

[@smantle11]

@@billyeyeball7725 Hi Billy, thanks for your reply! I don't mind the murals at all. Some of them are awesome. I make a distinction between the murals and graffiti, tags, vandalism etc. We are slowly making our way through your videos. The inner west particularly interests us as we are originally 'westies' from Arthur Street, Strathfield (subsequently called Strathfield West, then a brief stint as Homebush, and lastly reverting back to Strathfield!). Life revolved around the shopping strips along Rochester Street and opposite Homebush Station. We're living up the mid north coast now. I watch on our big TV with my very elderly parents so they can see all the old haunts; Burwood, Homebush, Flemington, Croydon, Ashfield, Summer Hill and Haberfield. Love all the old shop facades and homes. Did you know that the Flemington Markets are on the site of the old Homebush Saleyards? As a child I'd watch the trains arrive and see the cattle offloaded into the yards. Thanks again for your videos! Cheers, Steve

[@billyeyeball7725]

Glad to hear you are enjoying the videos , funnily enough I was just telling someone the other day about the Homebush cattle yards and abattoir . I have seen photos of it and it was huge. Great to hear from someone who had first hand accounts of the place, always good to hear from someone with local knowledge . Yes it seems as if Homebush has had a few name changes and border line changes over the years. Thanks for the information and feel free to inform us of any history you may know. Stay well🙂

[@willmc6728]

sweet azz

[@billyeyeball7725]

Sweet azz indeed - the funny thing is that I say that about 20 times a day and have done so for decades 🙂🙂 Stay well