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Friday, 25 September 2015
Saving Souls
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A small pamphlet recently unearthed (see below) announces the “United Tent Mission” - opening in Campbelltown on the 15 th August 1...
Friday, 18 September 2015
Happy 40th Birthday Glenquarie Library!
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The Glenquarie Shopping Centre (Stage 1) was officially opened on September 29 th , 1975. Built at a cost of $2.75 million, the centre ...
Thursday, 10 September 2015
The Murder of Ellen Hyndes
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On the afternoon of Friday January 22, 1847 a man by the name of James Fitzgerald was walking towards a house on the Campbellfields Estate a...
Friday, 4 September 2015
Queen Street in the Late 1960s
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Time for a walk down memory lane. This photograph would've been taken from the roof of the old Macquarie Cinema on the corner of Que...
Saturday, 29 August 2015
St Peter's Cemetery Stonemason
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Few of us today have the luxury of living close to work. Most of us waste long hours on clogged freeways endlessly staring at bumper sticker...
Friday, 28 August 2015
The Perfectionist Architect
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Geoffrey Hamilton Gore's obituary described him as having a 'reputation as being an honest and articulate architect, a perfectionist...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Where was our first racecourse?
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A few weeks ago I met up with author and racing enthusiast Bob Charley to see if we could locate where the area's first recorded rac...
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