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| Neil Rankin's Birds of Wolli Valley - new, revised version
 Wolli Creek Preservation Society, 2006.
An updated & expanded version of the 1989 guide to birdwatching in the Wolli Valley by Neil Rankin (1923-2001), 'The Birdman of Wolli Creek'.
With over 50 hectares of diverse bushland habitats, inner south-west Sydney's Wolli Creek records around 100 species of birds each year.
This new edition has 80 pages with tables, maps, photographs and sketches and includes bird observation data in taxonomic order from 1940 to 1999. There is also an analysis of the bird species present in the valley & their frequency since 1982.
This new edition includes a detailed introduction to birdwatching for beginners & local residents and details the best places to see birds.
Also visit the new interactive, online companion to the book, Wolli Birds Online, including:
- Wolli Creek bird sighting WIKI- A new WIKI created to share noteworthy bird sightings in the Wolli Valley. Follow the link to register and then add your interesting findings.
- Wolli Birds on Flickr - a growing collection of photographs of the Valley's avifauna.
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Trees of Wolli Creek
A facsimile of the original version (with corrections) produced in Les Robinson in 1987 is available now as PDF: view or download
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Wolli Creek Valley – Five historic video items
To make the history of the valley more accessible, the Society has had five videos transferred to DVD.
They provide an interesting background to the efforts of the local community to save the valley from quarrying, road construction and other developments. The videos include:
- The Battle for Nanny Goat Hill filmed by the ABC for This Day Tonight in 1967 - this struggle was one of earliest fights to protect the natural environment in urban areas, even predating the famous fight for Kelly’s Bush in Hunter’s Hill.
- Too Precious to Pave: WCPS 1993
- Wolli Valley Revisited: Friends of Wolli Creek/Disadvantaged Schools 1990
- Placid Stream; Raging Torrent: Friends of Wolli Creek
- Wolli Creek Valley: Marrickville West PS /Disadvantaged Schools 1987.
Total running time 51 minutes. Cost $15.00 ($10 to WCPS members) plus $2 p&p.
If you are ordering more than 1 DVD or combining with other items, please contact us at info@wollicreek.org.au for pricing.
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|  The
Wolli Creek Valley
A History of Survival
By Brian Madden & Lesley Muir
Wolli Creek Preservation
Society, 1996
Written by prominent local historians
Brian Madden & Lesley Muir, this lavishly illustrated
booklet is an excellent account of the historical evolution
of the Wolli Valley's greenspace and the surrounding
suburbs. It deals with the natural landscape, the traditional
Aboriginal owners, pioneer European settlers, the subdivision
of the land, the development of the surrounding suburbs,
early public transport and infrastructure, the struggle
against the proposal to route the F5 freeway (later
the M5 East motorway) through the valley and much more.
It includes an index and a glossary of local place names
and their origin.
The 41 images include portraits of early
landowners, early 19th century drawings, subdivision
maps, photos of the Wolli Valley showing it as it looked
before extensive subdivision, early 20th century farms
and infrastructure construction.
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 The
Story of Stone
By George Morgan, with special
geological section by Dr P.J. Conaghan
Wolli Creek Preservation Society, 1994,
A5 format booklet, 26 images, 42 pages. The
Wolli Creek Valley is formed from ancient sandstones
laid down over 200 million years ago during the Triassic
Period. This booklet details the geological origin of
the valley's sandstone. It shows how sandstone has influenced
the evolution of its ecosystems, Aboriginal life and
early European quarrying and building. There is an extensive
account of the Jackson quarry in Undercliffe and local
sandstone cottages.
'Reading sandstone', a special section
contributed by Dr P.J.Conaghan, one of the world's leading
experts on sandstone geology, contains an extensive
technical account of the formation of Sydney sandstone,
and of the Undercliffe 'wave rock', a formation which
may be the world's largest example of a recumbent cross-bed.
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The Place That Jackson Built
- the story behind six stone cottages
By Judy Finlason
Wolli Creek Preservation Society, 1999,
A5 format booklet, 16 images, 39 pages. Foreword by Jack
Mundey. This is the story of William
Jackson and his wife Louisa who left their native Yorkshire
and emigrated to Australia in 1884, settling in the
Wolli Creek Valley in 1890. The Jacksons developed a
quarry and market garden and built a unique street of
six stone cottages in Undercliffe, now called Jackson
Place.
William Jackson became an early member
of the Labor Party, the Single Tax League, the Undercliffe
Progress Association and the Pig and Poultry Farmers
Association.
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Creek Preservation Society membership & book order form
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