A happening area once more!
Well a few short decades ago who would have thought that Enmore Road would be considered a "cool" place! It was recently officially voted the coolest Sydney Street by Time Out for 2022 - (as well as being No. 24 on the list of coolest streets in the world this year!) Enmore Road was a "happening" place from the mid 1910's through to the early 1980's after it transformed from an area of villa garden estates to a suburban landscape before it went into a gradual decline before reinventing itself. So who made this area the "place to be seen" ....Two brothers with stars in their eyes. GEORGE AND WILLIAM SZARKA George Clifton was born in Sydney in 1869 to Lucy and John Szarka, the eldest of their seven children, with William joining the family in 1880. George worked for a number of years as a compositor at the Government Printing Office and later at John Sands. Both brothers lived in the Newtown area and were heavily involved in the promotion of boxing,...