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One of the earliest and most significant outbreaks of internal unrest in Sydney occurred near Parramatta in 1804. This was the convict uprising which centred around Irish convicts from Castle Hill…
“Willow Grove”, 34 Phillip St, Parramatta (2013)
Locals may be aware that ‘Willow Grove’ was once a private hospital known as ‘Estella’ or ‘Nurse Davidson’s Private Hospital’ but we thought…
The Parramatta Lancers in front of Lancer Barracks, 1899. Source: Lancer Barracks Museum
On 4 April 1900, as Corporal Ben Harkus lay feverish and seriously ill with Typhoid in Bloemfontein…
Throughout the 1870s a number of women patients were housed in the inappropriate prison cells constructed by Governor Gipps in 1838-1839.[1] Dr. Manning, the ‘Inspector of the Insane’, conducted two…
2018 marked the bicentenary of the foundation of the largest and oldest surviving convict women's site in Australia: the Parramatta Female Factory.
History
Governor Lachlan Macquarie laid the…
In December 2015 preparations were under way to begin the demolition of the multi-storey building located at 30-38 Darcy Street Parramatta. For almost 20 years this building served as the…
The two buildings at 333 to 337 Church Street stand on the South Side of the Lennox Bridge. Both are the latest in a long line of European use which dates back to the lease of William…
1791 – 60 acres allotted to Surgeon Thomas Arndell on north bank of Parramatta River, east of Rose Hill (Parramatta).
1810 – 150 acres set aside for an Orphan School at Arthur’s Hill…
By the 1870s the Asylum had grown to be the largest Government establishment in Parramatta, housing around 800 inmates. Of these 245 were housed in a new wing on land adjoining the main…
Regular visitors to Civic Place and Parramatta Library may have noticed that the clock tower that once stood at the entrance of the car park has been removed. Because of the extensive redevelopment…