John Ferry Award 2008

The History Council of New South Wales invites nominations for the
John Ferry Award for 2008. The award honours the memory of John Ferry
(1949-2004), an exemplary teacher and community historian who played a
major role in practising and encouraging quality local studies during his
career as a school-teacher, and then as lecturer and senior lecturer at the
Armidale College [...]

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Ready Reference: Index to the Balmain Observer.

In our Local History collection we hold copies of the Balmain Observer dated from 1884 – 1907 on microfilm. The newspaper is being indexed by one of our wonderfully committed volunteers. Below is a link to the current Index.
balmain-observer-index-1884-89-1902-1907

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 Art class – Balmain Public School students perfecting their visual arts skills in Gladstone Park, Balmain,  ca 1955

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The Annandale Hotel and The Empire Hotel, Annandale

UTS final year communications student Maggy Lee is keen to hear from people with knowledge of Annandale’s two popular live music venues The Annandale Hotel and The Empire.
 
Maggy is undertaking
“a socio-cultural research-based task documenting the music scene of Annandale. For example, the history of the venues in the area, past events significant periods [...]

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Men on dock – Working port – White Bay waterside workers, ca 1958. Photographer Hugh Mason.

 

 

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- Leichhardt Post Office, built in 1888 and Leichhardt’s iconic Town Hall, built the same year on Norton Street were a source of great municipal pride when opened; the suburb, many thought, had truly ‘come of age’. The opening of  Leichhardt’s Town Hall drew a crowd of 5 000.
Photo ca 1907.

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