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Erected in 1838, the ‘Macquarie Hall’ building stood for many years near Leigh Memorial Church on Macquarie Street. For thirty-five years it was the principal place of worship for the Methodist…
Macquarie House, located at the north west corner of Macquarie and Smith Streets, was recently demolished to make way for One Parramatta Square, a 14 level A-Grade space that will be tenanted…
Macquarie Street Asylum, also known as Macquarie Barracks or Convict Barracks in Parramatta, circa 1910. Local Studies Photograph Collection LSOP 169.
This is part two of an earlier post on the…
Macquarie Street Asylum in Parramatta, circa 1880. Local Studies Photograph Collection LSOP 114
“Parramatta has another feature of interest, and it is this that brings us here to-day. It is a…
Macquarie Street Asylum in Parramatta, circa 1880. Local Studies Photograph Collection LSOP 114
Completed in 1820 this ‘convict barracks’ was later transformed into an “Imperial…
1761 Lachlan Macquarie is born on the Isle of Ulva, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Of six boys, only four survived – Hector, Donald, Lachlan and Charles – and one girl, Elizabeth.
1776 Macquarie…
Chinese migration and settlement in New South Wales has a long history. Records show that about 18 Chinese settlers had immigrated to Australia before 1848. The earliest known Chinese immigrant to…
The following excerpt from The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate provides a lovely personal description of what it was like to live in Parramatta during the years leading up to 1896,…
Excerpt from John Taylor Remembers, 1901
Where the steamers used to come in the old days. Who does not remember the old ‘Swan’ with Captain Brett, the old ‘Pelican’, and the old ‘Emu’, when…
In 1809 the next allotment west from Thomas Halfpenny’s was Michael Murphy; as Murphy had no official lease, he must have held the lot by permissive occupancy. Michael Flynn has identified…