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Matron Butler (Source: Graduate Nurses’ Association of the Parramatta District Hospital) [1]
In 1918, Rose Butler joined the staff of the Parramatta District Hospital as a probationer. Butler…
Matron White (Source: Cumberland Area Health Service)[1]
“A love of children began the career of Parramatta’s “Florence Nightingale” Matron Edith White.[2]
Miss White was born in…
In 1874, Ellen Curling arrived in Parramatta, NSW. By October 1878, she began her ladies’ medical practice in the heart of the Parramatta district to provide much needed health services to the local…
(Source: Parramatta Trust Ladies’ Auxiliary)[1]
Miss Margaret Miller, B.A. was the First President of the Parramatta Business and Professional Women’s Association in 1961. She is also…
Margaret Bannister. Image: The Pulse
Margaret Bannister was a Mental Health Service nurse unit manager in the Western Sydney Local Health District’s (WSLHD) mental health service at Cumberland…
Former psychiatric nurse Mrs Avis Stretton, 1987. Image: Parramatta Advertiser
Avis Alma (nee Byron) Stretton was born in 1921 and grew up in rural NSW in Bakara, Menindee. After her schooling,…
Sister Ruby Buchanan, nursing sister at the Parramatta Hospital for the Insane, c.1907.
Source: Heritage Centre – Local Studies Photographic Collection, LSP00072
The Parramatta Lunatic Asylum…
Constitution Hill Branch Library was officially opened on Saturday 15 September 1990 at 2:30pm by the then Lord Mayor Alderman Alan Aizley Hyam. At the time, it was known as Emma Crescent Branch…
Female penitentiary or factory, Parramata , New South Wales, Augustus Earle, National Library of Australia
The First Female Factory – 1800 – 1820.
The first Female Factory, built in 1804 was…
Dundas Valley Branch Library, c.1970s. Source: City of Parramatta Council Community Archives Collection, ACC002/096/005
Dundas Branch Library was opened on Saturday 5 September 1959 by the Mayor,…