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The Darug people
The Darug people, who are also referred to as the Dharruk, Dharung, Dharrook, Darrook, Dharug and the Broken Bay tribe, are the traditional owners of the Rydalmere area [1]. The…
HMAS Parramatta Memorial. Photo Neera Sahni
27th November 2022 marks the 81st anniversary of the tragic downfall of HMAS Parramatta II. The Grimsby class sloop was the Royal Australian Navy’s…
A less well-known community organisation that developed during World War One was the Soldiers Wives and Mothers’ Centre, which as the name suggests, looked after the wives and mothers of soldiers who…
One of the lesser known facts of the Australian and New Zealand engagement at Gallipoli is that these troops fought alongside a small contingent of soldiers from the Indian Army. Over the course of…
Recently uncovered in a box amongst a number of publications at the Heritage Centre was an 1884 minute book of the organising Committee for the Intercolonial Juvenile Industrial Exhibition,…
At 304 Pennant Hills Road Carlingford is a small reserve containing a memorial to those officers and men of the Commonwealth who gave their lives in submarines while serving the cause of…
Joseph Samuel lived a very eventful but short life. He arrived in Sydney in 1801 on the Minorca/Canada after being sentenced to seven years in England for larceny at the age of fourteen in 1795…
The men in this photograph were responsible for three seminal events in 1938. The first was the organisation of Parramatta’s sesquicentennial (150 year) celebrations. Work on this had started…
This monument was unveiled on Centenary Day (Australia Day) 26 January 1888 in remembrance of the accidental death on 7 December 1847 of Lady Mary Fitzroy aged 57 years, wife of the then…
A question often asked of the Heritage Centre research team is what is the significance of the horse statues that grace the parapets of the building on the corner of Church and Macquarie…