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The City of Parramatta Council has been working with historians and researchers at Western Sydney University’s Institute for Culture and Society to explore stories of people moving in, through and…
From Baths to Box Office – Riverside Theatres in Parramatta, 1993. Source: City of Parramatta Archives Photograph Collection
In 2018, Riverside Theatres will celebrate 30 years of sharing…
Emus in the zoo at Parramatta Park, c. 1930s (photograph donated to City of Parramatta Community Archives by the family of S.Davies)
In September 2017 it was announced a new world-class zoo,…
Will Didcote, a station-hand, was killed in action at Gallipoli in October 1915.He enlisted from Clyde and left at the same time as his brother, Harry, who was killed in action in 1918. Another…
Mayor for the years 1890 and 1896 Alderman 1883 – 1889, 1891, 1893 – 1895, 1897 – 1899. Died 24th April, 1917
From The Cumberland Argus, 28th April, 1917. One of the best known of the public…
Mayor for the years 1938 – 1939. Alderman 1936 – 1937, 1940 – 1947 (died in office) Died 19th October, 1947
(From The Cumberland Argus, 22nd October, 1947) Alderman William John Irwin died on…
Mayor for the years 1901, 1903 – 1906, July 1907, 1908, 1924 – 1927. Alderman 1896 – 1900, 1902, 1909 – 1914, 1917 – 1923, 1928 – 1937. Died 22nd December, 1936
(From The Cumberland Argus, 23rd…
William Sherwin was a Sergeant in the New South Wales Corps who arrived in Sydney in 1792 and by 1803 had settled in Parramatta very near the site of the old Howell’s Mill. Sherwin’s first few…
December 7, 1791, … Went to Schaeffer’s farm. [see history of this site] I found him at home, conversed with him, and walked with him over all his cultivated ground. He had one hundred and forty…
The planning for the Woodville Golf course started with the acquisition of land by Parramatta Council in the late 1950s with intentions of allocate this area for a golf course. On 20 April 1960…