So many questions, including “Enmore Rd Marrickville”?

Posted by DecalageVersLeRouge

8 Comments

  1. Enmore Rd goes deep into Marrickville.257 is riiiiight on the edge of the boundary really.

    I knew a bloke who lived next door, he said he lived in Enmore.

  2. Yeah down by the Pool I’d call Marrickville. This place was just south of Stanmore Rd, so not quite

  3. some of the suburb boundaries as we know today were only formalised by the Geographic Names Board in the last 30-40 years. I’m guessing this ad is from the 1940s or 1950s or something? In that era, prior to the 1949 Council Amalgamations, an area was far more likely to be referred to by the Council it was in rather than today’s suburb. 257 Enmore Road is within the boundaries of the former, pre-1949, Marrickville Council

  4. Budget_Shallan on

    Sometimes I’m annoyed by excessive safety regulations but this is not one of those times