Leadlight of Inner Western Sydney

Trevenar Street, originally known as Goodlet Street, was described as a carriage road lined with pine trees led to Ashfield railway station in the 1860’s. It was the main entrance to Canterbury House which went on to become the Goodlet Estate. Part of Goodlet Street became known as Trevenar Lane. The name Trevenar appears to have come from the family of Walter James and Elizabeth Jane Trevenar had five children who immigrated to Australia with their four youngest children in 1879. William (aged 21) and Edward (aged 18) were both bricklayers. The family settled in Hardy Street, Ashbury in a cottage. The eldest son, James Trevenar married Sarah and when they arrived in Australia Sarah set up a dairy farm that became a significant feature of the area around what we know as Trevenar Street. In the 1884 subdivision of Woodlands Ashfield Heights the street was Goodlet Street. It was still shown as Goodlet Street in the 1913 subdivisions of the Queen’s Grove Estate. By 1920 it had become Trevenar Street. In 1910 The South Ashfield Brick and Tile Company operated the South Ashfield Brickworks (later called the Ashbury Brickyard) on the site of the present Peace Park that fronts Trevenar Street. Most of the houses in Trevenar Street were built after 1920 and as such the remaining leadlight reflects the fashions and designs of the interwar years.