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City of Parramatta Council GIS online – Aerial Photography of North Rocks Road and Statham Avenue 1943
As a result of the 2016 New South Wales amalgamation of council areas, North Rocks is now a…
The North Rocks Catholic Cemetery was established through the generosity of orchardist Edward James Maher. Born in the colony in 1830, Maher was the son of Mary Allen and James Maher. He…
Convict Huts, Western View of Toongabbie, published by Cadell and Davies, 1798
This year we are celebrating 230 years since the establishing of Old Government Farm in 1791.
The area that is…
Let us walk, in imagination, along Church Street in it’s early convict period. Reference has already been made to the huts erected for the women and for married convicts.
They probably…
… a continuation from Part 1
Between George and Macquarie Streets stood the old Court House, the old building used as a school by John Tull, and at the Macquarie Street corner the house in…
… a continuation from Part 2
The section at the south-eastern corner of Church and Phillip Streets was granted to Captain Phillip P. King on June 30, 1823. A substantial cottage stood on this…
Joseph Smith, who was known as ‘Smashem’ because he spoke his mind, to high and low alike arrived as a convict in 1789. The following extract about his time as a convict was taken from ‘…
Plaque from City of Parramatta Council Chambers building. Date unknown. Parramatta Heritage Centre collections, 2006.146.
Parramatta was one of the first councils in Australia to depict Aboriginal…
Orthodox all-night vigil (Source: Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church)
What is the Orthodox Church?
The Orthodox stream of Christianity developed from the church’s spread across the eastern…
Like many other government institutions the change from the prison style ‘female factory‘ to a nineteenth century asylum for mental health patients was not an easy one. From 1848 through to the…