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Hopital is 10 min drive. Close to Hurstville and easy access by train to he city, makes Allawah a sort after suburb for university students and first home apartment buyers. Not great for Parking. Who lives here? Reviews of Allawah, NSW. Professionals Families with kids. The opinions expressed within this review are those of the individual and not those of Homely. Looking for a home in Allawah? Search Allawah, NSW properties for sale. Families with kids. Not great for No good eating options. Rentals in Allawah.

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Compare all real estate agents in Allawah, NSW. Allawah formed part of a grant of acres hectares made to Captain John Townson by Major George Johnston after he had briefly deposed Governor Bligh in Later, when Townson complained that acres hectares of this grant in what was later to become Bexley, Carlton and Allawah was 'so bad as to be completely useless', he was granted an additional acres hectares to the north of his acres and to the west of Mrs Laycock's farm.

In Townson had also received 50 acres Governor Macquarie visited him in December Macquarie found 'a neat, clean cottage As Townson sold his Botany Bay land to Simeon Lord in and had been in ill health for some time it would appear that he did little to develop the larger grant.

For many years the area was also known locally as Struggletown. This was because in the early days of development, just before World War I, many of the people buying land there built houses of only one or two rooms. Many were British migrants who came to Australia in large numbers just before the outbreak of the war. One of these was Mark Gosling, who went on to represent the area in the New South Wales parliament and was chief secretary in Jack Lang's government of — Another was Sir Ian Potter, a stockbroker, underwriter and company director who came from Britain with his parents in and attended Hurstville School.

The opening of the railway station in sparked a housing boom in the area. Estate agents gave subdivisions enticing names and people flocked to the suburb during this period. Modest California bungalows and single-storey Federation-style houses were built throughout the area. The suburb's most notable example of interwar classical architecture is the Allawah Hotel.

It was built in by Jack Shaw, who also built the Astra Hotel then called the International at Bondi the same year. Shaw was born in Gorky, Russia, in The fourth child of nine in a deeply religious Jewish family, young Jack, appalled at the horror and fear engendered in his home by two pogroms, decided to emigrate.