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It is interesting what you discover about Parramatta if you stroll around the shopping area looking up rather than down. Many of the facades and parapets of the commercial buildings bear some…
Sometime between 1820 and 1830 Reverend Samuel Marsden (1795-1838)[i] decided to build a house for his third daughter Mary Marsden (1806-1885) on his 36 acre property known as ‘…
The Memorial to Parramatta’s involvement in the South African Boer War was unveiled 30 April 1904, by the Colonel James Burns, and Alderman William Noller along with J. Arundel and Walter Gates.…
The following blow-by-blow description of a boxing match at Baulkham Hills, near Parramatta, was taken from ‘The Australian’ and gives us an insight into the popularity of boxing in Colonial…
Mayor for the year 1974. Alderman 1973, 1975 – 1977
Brian Wood was born at Haberfield and educated at Trinity Grammar School and the University of New South Wales, gaining an MSc degree. He and…
Blairgowrie, Burnside, Parramatta. Digital Order Number: a106153
The opening of Blairgowrie, No. 1 Cottage and first of the Burnside Presbyterian Orphan Homes
Saturday 17 June 1911 was a fine…
Cumbrae, Burnside, Parramatta. Digital Order Number: a106154
The opening of Cumbrae, No. 2 Cottage and second of the Burnside Presbyterian Orphan Homes
Lady Gertrude Denman, affectionately as…
Dunkeld, Burnside, Parramatta. Digital Order No.: a106152
The opening of Dunkeld, No. 3 Cottage and third of the Burnside Presbyterian Orphan Homes
A crowd of over 1000 gathered at around 3 o’…
Bushrangers’ Camp by S T Gill artist, (1818-1880), c. 1871
From the time of the establishment of the European settlement at Sydney Cove in January 1788, members of the largely convict population…
Bushranger’s flight by artist S T Gill (1818-1880) published by James J. Blundell & Co. Melbourne Victoria [1856]
Throughout the first half of the 19th century bushrangers roamed the…