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4578 Private Walter Potter, copy from Parramatta Soldiers, Cumberland Argus, 1920
Walter Arthur Potter (service no. 4578) was born in 1885 in Bathurst, New South Wales (NSW). and was the…
William Didcote was a station hand who was killed in action at Gallipoli. In September he was listed as missing in action in August and was pronounced missing believed killed in action in December…
William was a 22 year-old labourer when he enlisted 28 January 1915. His next of kin was listed as Henry Rotton of Queen’s Road, Westmead. He was initially taken on as a driver but received a back…
Sam Crouch was for many years caretaker of Auburn Town Hall and in 1933 published the following memories of the shops and personalities in the vicinity of what is now Parramatta and Centenary…
The first gaol in Parramatta was built “on the north bank of the river near the south boundary of the present Prince Alfred Park” and was constructed of timber and thatch. This Gaol was built…
A chronological list of events from Parramatta’s early colonial settlement to the present.
1788
24 April. Site of Parramatta chosen by Governor Phillip.
1788
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Parramatta’s Town Hall site was established when Governor Phillip set aside the land in his plan for Parramatta, thus making it the oldest town hall site in Australia. Foundations were laid for…
Sydney Woollen Mills sign, donated by Clive Hanna 2015
A recent donation from a local resident renewed our interest in an industry crucial to Parramatta and Australia in the early 1800s. …
Plan of the Australian Cream Tartar Company, Grand Avenue Camelia, 1962, Parramatta City Council Archives
Plans of industrial buildings from the 1950s to the 1980s provide a glimpse into…
Following the end of the Great War thousands of memorials were erected in suburbs and country towns across Australia. The world had witnessed death and destruction on a scale never before seen…