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Waiting outside Grace Bros. shop at Church Street to see Miss Australia Tania Verstak, 1961
During the Centenary Celebrations of Parramatta as a municipality, from 25 November to 2 December,…
Foreword from A Grand Type of Citizen
Alan A. Hyam
OAM, Barrister-at-Law,
LFAPI, Dip PA
I am indeed privileged and humbled to be included amongst the “Grand type of Citizens” whose civic…
This post is about the shocking murder of two innocent men during the botched robbery of the local local toll-gate at Parramatta in 1814. In addition to the two deaths another two men were almost…
John Henry Murray (1819-1903) came to Australia in 1856 and ten years later was teaching at the National School in Parramatta.
Old headmaster J. H. Murray and three of his five sons of…
In 1889, five years after the brothers’ amalgamation, a towering new edifice arose, at a cost of 10,000 pounds, on the site of the Murray Bros store, signalling the arrival of the town’s first…
An early exhibition in a now defunct Parramatta department store illustrates the pleasure and excitement of seeing objects that represented significant periods in our history. In October 1933,…
The 1933 exhibition seems to have been very comprehensive with an amazing array of interesting objects. Part Two of this blog post continues to describe some of these objects which, I am sure…
The Heritage Centre recently acquired a richly detailed etching depicting an afternoon lawn bowling game at one of Parramatta’s oldest pubs – the Woolpack Hotel.
This etching was completed in 1939…
Currently we are installing a new World War One touch table which contains the names of 1500 soldiers and nurses from the Parramatta region of Western Sydney. It is being done as a part of the…
The North Parramatta Cumberland Hospital Precinct area was the site of the earliest land grant made in North Parramatta. This was made on 29 November 1792, to Charles Smith who was granted 30…