Rosslyn Blay nee Smith, was born in Parramatta on the 13 February 1920 in Harris Street Parramatta near the Gas Works Bridge. Years later in A Living History of Parramatta she described her home…
Episode 10: J is for…
Can you guess the mystery 'person' beginning with the letter J?
The clue is: A renowned colonial agricultural and farming expert with a taste for oranges!
Tell us…
Beecroft railway station entrance from Wongala Crescent with ‘Our Place’ artwork panels by Amanda Kay and Jerome Dobinson.[1]
The suburb of Beecroft is split between the City of Parramatta and…
The suburb of Clyde is part of the City of Parramatta Local Government Area Rosehill Ward and is bounded by A’Becketts Creek to its north, Duck River to the south-east, the railway line to its…
Red Fort, Old Delhi ( Source: Neera Sahni)
India became an independent nation from the British Raj in 1947. On 15th August 2021, thousands of kilometres away from Indian shores, Indian diaspora is…
Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum (Source: Neera Sahni)
Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum is the oldest and rare existing dwelling house in the inner City of Parramatta. It has been…
Judith Brown, the niece of Brislington doctor Keith Brown has carried on the family tradition of medicine. Judith’s great grandfather is Walter Brown who was a prominent and well-respected doctor who…
Brislington was a home and a medical practise for three generations of the Brown family. The house was lived and working in from 1857 to 1949, a total of 92 years.
Over that time the world of the…
Brislington as the Parramatta District Hospital Nurses’ quarters (Source: Smith's Weekly, 4 March 1950, page 16)
In 1949, Dr. Keith Sigismund Macarthur Brown vacated Brislington House ending a 92…
Dr. Thomas Robertson was born in 1823 in Aberdeen Scotland to Robert Robertson and Helen Robertson nee Watt. Dr. Robertson became a long-term resident of Parramatta and is considered to be one of…