Removalist Lane Cove and Sydney North Shore

Man and His Van Movers Lane Cove

Man and His Van furniture movers are the removalists for Lane cove and the North Shore of Sydney. Man and His Van have been removalists for the Lane Cove area for the last 17 years. We move the whole spectrum from the larger Greenwich House to one bedroom units. We have storage for both long and short term storage.

Contact Man and His Van Removals on 02 99073300

Man and His Van cover the following Lane Cove suburbs:

Artarmon 2064 Blaxslands Corner 2066 Chatswood West 2067 Crows Nest 2065 Gore Hill 2065 Greenwich 2065 Greenwich Point 2065 Lane Cove 2066 Linley Point 2066 Longueville 2066 North Lane Cove 2066 Northwood 2066 Osborne Park 2066 Riverview 2066 St Leonards 2065 Tambourine Bay 2066 West Lane Cove 2066 Wollstonecraft 2065

History of Lane Cove

The first written use of the name ‘Lane Cove” occurred on 2 February 1788 , soon after the arrival of the First Fleet in Port Jackson. Lieutenant William Bradley, while surveying, referred to the river into which he sailed by this name. Several possibilities for the name have been suggested, but none have been supported by written evidence. One suggestion was that it was named after Lieutenant Michael Lane , a respected cartographer, who worked with Captain James Cook in Canadian waters. The other possibility is that the name was bestowed in honour of John Lane , son of the Lord Mayor of London , and a good friend of Governor Arthur Phillip. During much of the nineteenth century the name Lane Cove referred to a much bigger area than the Municipality of Lane Cove that we know today. The first land grants in the present area of Lane Cove were made in 1794, the majority going to privates and non-commissioned officers in the New South Wales Corp. Many of these grants were never settled by the owners, being exchanged for land elsewhere, sold or cancelled. For those who attempted to settle, life was not easy. Much of the area was steep, heavily timbered, with poor, rocky soil and few roads. The settlers were plagued with bushrangers and bushfires. From the earliest days of settlement, Lane Cove was an important source of timber for house and ship building, of grass for animal fodder, and of shells which were burnt to produce lime for building. A stockade was erected in Woodford Bay , with a permanent garrison of soldiers to protect convict workers and settlers. Throughout the 19 th century, farms and dairies were established. One of the earliest manufacturing industries was Rupert Kirk's soap and candle factory, established in 1831, in what is now Longueville. Later factories established included the Ludowici and Radke tanneries in Burns Bay in the 1860s and the Phoenix and Sydney Potteries late in the century (adjacent to the site now known as Pottery Green). These were followed by the boiling down works of the Charlish and Whatmore families in West Lane Cove, and the Australian Woodpipe Company in Burns Bay in 1912. The Chicago Cornflour Factory was opened on the Lane Cove River near Stringybark Creek in 1894, to be followed by the Cumberland Paper Mill in 1912. After the almost complete demolition of the latter plant in a fire in 1928, the site was used for a chemicals manufacturing plant, owned firstly by Robert Corbett and Sons, and later by CSR Chemicals. The largest industrial complex, the Shell Company of Australia distribution and storage depot at Greenwich , was started in 1903 as John Fell and Company Ltd, oil refiners, blenders and distributors. Local government in its present form did not extend north of the harbour until 1865, when an area of the North Shore , including the present municipality of Lane Cove , was proclaimed the Borough of North Willoughby. There were no wards until 1876, when Lane Cove formed part of the Lane Cover River Ward. After a petition from ratepayers of the area, the Governor proclaimed the Borough of Lane Cove a municipality in its own right in February 1895. Extracted from A brief history of Lane Cove by Judy Washington (revised in 1992)