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Fruit shop, Rockdale, 1941

from State Library of New South Wales

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • Peter Hill said:
    Shame we can't get context. A fruit shop doesn't normally attract a crowd.
  • Merryjack said:
    Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), Friday 17 January 1941, page 8
    Fruit Shop Pickets
    ROCKDALE CROWDS PROTEST
    Local residents yesterday picketed the fruit shop of Mr. Antonio Arena, in Princes Highway, Rockdale. This followed picketing of the fruit shops of Mr. Leo Costa and Mr. A. Rumore in Prince's Highway, Rockdale, on Wednesday. Yesterday both those shops were locked and deserted. All yesterday afternoon crowds jostled and argued outside Mr. Arena's shop, while a squad of police looked on. Few people entered the shop to buy fruit A group of residents led several dogs on leads to and fro before the shop. Mr. Arena immediately removed several cases of fruit from the doorway.
    Had Birth Certificate
    Mr. Arena showed his birth certificate to the demonstrators and said he was Australian born. A member of the A.I.F. examined the certificate and told the crowd, "He's O.K." Two elderly women had a violent argument outside the shop. One said: "Anybody with Italian blood in them is no good." The other replied: "Italian blood and Australian— It's all the same. They're all mothers' sons." A broken window of Mr. Costa's shop was boarded up with planks. On the planks was scrawled in chalk: "Down with Dagoes," "Boycott the wops," "Wop-shop," and "Dagoes are dingoes." On the closed shutters of Mr. Rumore's shop someone had written: "Have a bath."
    "Not Real Australians"
    Interviewed at his home in Bay Street, Rockdale, Mr. Costa said: "I have sold my business and will lead a gentleman's life for a while. "The people who smash my shop are not real Australians. "They wait there to see the window fall in to pick up some oranges for nothing." Mr. Costa, who is 40, said he had been in Australia for 15 years. His wife had been here 18 years. He had two children, and was a naturalised British subject. Mr. H. Trelaw, of Maltland Ave., Kensington, who was visiting Mr. Costa, said he had bought Costa's business.
    ITALIAN SELLS HIS SHOP
    MR. H. TRELAW, who yesterday purchased the greengrocery business at Rockdale from Mr. Leo Costa, naturalised British subject. Crowds demonstrated outside the premises the previous day.

    Fruit Shop Pickets (1941, January 17). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), p. 8. Retrieved August 7, 2026, from nla.gov.au
  • Michael Gschwind said:
    Glückwunsch zu Explore !
  • Francesco Dini said:
    Congrats on making Explore! 🎉✨ 👏 - Very elegant shot 🌿
  • Sigurd Krieger said:
    Congrats on Xplore!!

Henriette Lamotte hat salon, Rowe Street, Sydney, c. 1950

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Narelle Jarvis said:
    In the late 60s I loved walking down Rowe Street which was full of curious boutiques, anitque shops etc. Shame that it's not the same anymore.

Wentworth Park Panorama c. 1920

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Stephen said:
    Wow - what a fascinating panorama!! It looks west towards Glebe, with Wattle Street in the foreground. It is a shame that this precinct was spoilt by the construction of the huge greyhound racing facility in 1932. Thankfully it is now being demolished.
  • Freiburg DL said:
    SL NSW, this appears to be much earlier than 1924.
    Examining the individual photos (which are offline atm)
    - Not a single car in any of the images.
    - Gas lighting still on Wattle St.
    - Still undeveloped areas of Glebe.
  • covid convict said:
    Sydney Lead Works appears here on Wentworth Park Rd towards the Blackwattle Bay end...it evidently started operation in 1892...so that might be an earliest date...

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/112599095 - the Evening News, 14th September, 1892...item re Sydney Lead Works

    But there's no sign of the shot tower, which was evidently built in ?1902-03...

    See comments re the shot tower here...it's a Beachcomber 're-discovery'...
    www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/55207168797/

    trove.nla.gov.au/work/184714866 - jfi this ?1930s NLA Fairfax aerial pic shows something of Wentworth Park as it then was...
  • covid convict said:
    Ha! here we go!

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71389732 - the Australian Town & Country Journal, 13th October, 1900...'Progress of Pyrmont'...pics evidently by G.A. Hills studio, King St...
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    This shot-tower was built in 1902, for the ‘Sydney Lead Works’ and designed by the architects Messrs. H. E. Ross and Slatyer and Cosh. The completed factory included a two-story brick building with the 46 metre tall tower next to it. After the ‘Sydney Lead Works’ moved to Waterloo in 1930 the site was taken over by Pabco Products Pty. Ltd. which manufactured roof and floor coverings. The new owners no longer used the tower to make shot and instead used it for storing chemicals. This would have fateful consequences as on 8 October 1937, disaster struck. Late that morning an explosion started a fire and within five minutes it had engulfed both floors of the 2,000 square metre factory. It then spread to the shot-tower