Removalist Willoughby

Man and His Van Removalists Willoughby

Man and His Van furniture removals are the movers for Willoughby. Man and His Van have been moving Willoughby for the last 17 years. We move the whole spectrum from the large Roseville house to one bedroom units. We have storage in the local area for both long and short term storage.

Contact Man and His Van on 02 99073300

Man and His Van are furniture removalists for all Willoughby suburbs

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History of Willoughby suburb Castlecrag

Although the lower North Shore and Middle Harbour were visited by Governor Phillip and carefully surveyed by land and sea within a few months of the landing of the First Fleet in 1788, the pressing need for survival of the colony did not encourage expansion into our inhospitable slopes. It was not until 1856 that the first land grants were made on the peninsula which is now Castlecrag. More than half of these, plus a large part of Northbridge, were made to a James William Bligh, who may or may not have been related to Captain Bligh of mutiny fame. James Bligh was later the first Chairman (or Mayor) of the Municipality of North Willoughby. In 1835, the Governor, Sir Richard Bourke, issued a proclamation dividing the County of Cumberland into Hundreds and Parishes. On the north of Port Jackson, the Hundred of Packenham was later divided into five parishes, including Willoughby. In 1856, this was to become the first municipality to be proclaimed on the North Shore, as a direct result of a petition signed by 67 of the 400 inhabitants within the municipality's boundaries. The peninsula now known as Castlecrag remained Crown Land until 1856, when some 25 lots were surveyed. Little of the land was sold initially, but by 1860 all the land was privately owned, James William Bligh being the largest of the landowners. Other land grants on the peninsula (then known as East Willoughby) were to Alfred Bradford, John Stapleton, WG Spring, Jas. Yates, Robert Phenna, JA Hunter, EM Stephen, and GR Brown. None of the pioneer landowners resided on their land. James William Bligh became the first mayor of Willoughby in 1865 and was re-elected in 1886 and 1867. Horse-drawn buses and a branch railway in 1890 gradually opened up Willoughby and Chatswood, but the peninsula remained bushland, subdivided into estates but virtually undeveloped. However, there was significant subdivision and numerous sales of the land during the 1880s as part of a city-wide land boom. A rough track along the windswept, rocky ridge, which is now Edinburgh Road, existed at that time, and the parcels of land were allocated on either side of it. By 1920 we had the Sunnyside Estate on the north, Torquay Estate on Sugarloaf Point and Farmer & Co.'s radio transmitter 2FC along Edinburgh Road. Cows from Warner's Dairy grazed on what is now Eastern Valley Way and Chinese market gardens lined the road to Northbridge. The southern side of Edinburgh Road was bought by the North Sydney Investment and Tramway Co. Ltd, and then by the Association of North Sydney Debenture Holders. In 1921 Walter Burley Griffin and the Greater Sydney Development Association purchased 90 acres of those southern slopes and Castlecrag was born. Addie Saltis, The Crag No. 45, March/April 1986; Esther Leslie, The Suburb of Castlecrag: A Community History, Willoughby Municipal Council, 1988.