Market garden, Gay family, Guildford
Date Published
: market gardening
: Sydney
: Sydney
: c.1920 to c.1950
Market Garden in Guildford belonged to the Gay family which operated between 1920s-1950s.
Guildford market garden 1943
Gay family - In the early 1920s George Louis Gay (1870-1946) bought 23 acres of scrubland at Guildford, six kilometres south of Parramatta, to create a market garden which operated up until 1950. The market garden at Guildford stretched from Boundary Road in the south to Everley Street in the north. Another Chinese family, the Longs, had a market garden on the north side of Everley Street. The 24 acres at Guildford had a timber bungalow on it. The family grew lettuce, potatoes and other vegetables. They shared a stall at the fruit and vegetable market in Sydney’s Haymarket, taking their produce there by horse and cart and later in a truck which they purchased. After Louie Gay passed away, his son Billy Gay (born c. 1920) operated the market garden up until the 1950s. The land was bought by Parramatta Council which turned it into a park.
Bill Gay at the Guildford market garden, c.1940s
House on the Guildford market garden
Louis Gay and Ada Hong
Park sign
George Louie Gay
