Our area of Pittwater was a place of coasters sailing down the seaboard to take goods to Sydney Town or, from the later 's, steamers that would bring excursionists in their thousands to visit and disembark at jetties for a few hours recreation in the country - Newport Wharf and Careel Bay Wharf being good early examples of these being built for those purposes. These jetties were also used as places to load produce, and later, as tons of produce was grown, or fish caught that needed transportation at Bayview , Church Point , the need for steamers to transport these, or later subdivisions at Coasters Retreat , Great Mackeral and Currawong , and schools for offshore children , resulted in jetties and dedicated local ferries for transport at these locations too.
What we today call the ' Mona Vale Road ' came after the Jenkins Road- Pittwater Road as woodcutters in Warriewood, Church Point, Bayview, Lovett Bay, needing to transport whole trees via waggon tracks to places where they could be taken into town, did not eventuate until the early 's on , while what we today call the Wakehurst Parkway was expanded from its original as a track to Oxford Falls during the later 's and 's for Soldiers Settlements or work connections and not completed until the 's and after World War II rationing of building materials eased, while the building of a bridge across The Spit did allow more access, this was essentially to fulfil public transport aspirations and connections, and funnelled more along the Pittwater Road.
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The roads and street developments record a shift from naming streets to honour the then ruling Monarchs and their children , as occurred at Careel Bay to streets named to honour the efforts of local people who built the community or worked to ensure it had what it needed. Roche avenue in Bayview , for example, honours a family who worked with other residents to ensure there was a wharf at Bayview , that worked to see a series of The Basin and then Pittwater Regattas bring people to the area so an existence that survived on farming and fishing could be extended to becoming a place to holiday, and were also among the many who gave sections of their land to be invested for the public good as places to permanently access the estuary or beaches and have a place to play — for recreation.
What the largest initial Narrabeen subdivision, that of John Wetherill's in October , and Careel Bay in , have in common is a core of stemming from 'co-operative communities' ideals, reflecting the places, circumstances, experiences and expressed beliefs of those behind the subdivisions and what had been happening in the United Kingdom.
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One of many wills he wrote illustrates his plans for his farm here:. Other documents state he planned to call the whole district Josephton and Avalon was to be named 'Brighton' - while the first jetty at Careel Bay was named 'Clareville' and this name was extended to Avalon Beach for a while too. St Joseph is the Catholic patron saint for workers.
