People in the Park

        
                                                      
A photographic exhibition of visitors to Pioneers Memorial Park by Mick Scott, the Park’s maintenance officer. Wednesday, 2 April 2008 6.30pm. Bookings for opening: localhistory@lmc.nsw.gov.au or 93679266. Free event.  Exhibition 2 – 30 April 2008. Leichhardt Library

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Women at Work

An international event, International Women’s Day was conceived in 1908 when many women were officially cast as second class citizens. Women in NSW only received the right to vote in 1907 – just a little over 100 years ago! (and women in many other places waited much longer) As well as being denied their democratic [...]

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Birchgrove Public School

The Class of 69 (& friends) reunite!

 
FROM Frances Peters-Little: On 22nd March 2008, the Class of 69 hosted a Birchgrove School Reunion at the Town Hall Hotel on the corner of Darling and Mullens Sts, Balmain. Over 20 people and their friends attended, including Neil Perkins, Michael Russell, Denise Hunt and Jimmy Little. Former pupils who [...]

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Sydney Journal

On 12 March 2008, the first issue of Sydney Journal was published, online at UTS ePress. Sydney Journal is an academic history journal which forms a part of the Dictionary of Sydney project. It contains essays and entries written for the Dictionary, in a more academic format and with the quality guaranteed by the full [...]

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ScreenSound Australia

We were recently contacted – through Leichhardt Council’s Recreation team- by ScreenSound Australia – the national film and sound archive. ScreenSound are keen to know any details about these photos, knowing no more than they are stills from a film shot at O’Connor Reserve, Rozelle. They think the film was shot in the early 1980s, [...]

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Father Therry and the Balmain Catholic Cemetery

 As Australia’s pioneer priest, Father John Joseph Therry stepped ashore in Sydney in May 1820, little would he have imaged that thirty seven years later, as parish priest of the parish of St. Augustine at Balmain in Sydney’s inner west, he would ‘do a deal’ with one of Sydney’s leading Protestants to acquire four acres [...]

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A French picnic in Balmain 1886

A recent research project for the team – Stephane, a Frenchman who has made Balmain home, came to see us with this original framed photo under his arm.

Stephane’s parents had come across the framed picture in a junk shop in the south of France. The inscription at the foot of the pic reads “Pic-nick [...]

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Citizens TB League, Rozelle

Any information on the TB (tuberculosis) rehabilitation unit that operated at 64 Victoria Road, Rozelle between 1956 and the early 1980s is sought by researcher Brian Craven.Contact: Brian Craven,
19 Bellevue Road,
Wentworth Falls, 2782
tel. 02 47 57 34 33

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