Strathfield was home to Australia’s first free settlers who called the area Liberty Plains. In 1825, Samuel Terry acquired a large chunk of the suburb and called it Redmire after the town in Yorkshire close to which he was born. For reasons none too clear, the suburb’s name was changed to Strathfield at the time of the arrival of rail in 1877. Around this time, development boomed and Strathfield became a genteel suburb, full of fine mansions and substantial terrace homes, many of which are still...