HURSTVILLE
and ST
GEORGE Page 4
Around 1890
Rocky Point
My early childhood was
spent in Ramsgate, where we wandered around Sans Souci when the punt took you across to
Taren Point, over the George's River.
Governor
Gipps ordered the Road should be cleared so as the worshipers
could get to St Peter's
Church at Tempe. Convicts did all the hard work and the road was named Rocky Point Road in
1861.
The Loop in Rocky Point Road 1925 taken at an 8 hour March looking
from the Chemist owned by Joseph Brokenshaw.
Rocky Point House was
sold to Robert Holt who then named it Sans Souci House and it was converted to a hotel.
This site is now covered by the Captain Cook Bridge.
Now the Captain Cook
Bridge replaces the punt.
Taren Point before Captain Cook Bridge was built.
The Trolley buses at the 7 ways Rockdale.
The
trolley buses took you to Kogarah and Rockdale Stations.
In 1926 a
Steam Tram accident occurred on Rocky Point Road, on the 1st hill between Ramsgate and
Kogarah.
An engine left the rails trying to accelerate up the hill and killed the driver
Jack Slater. The engine rolled over after it hit a
power pole.
