Great Great Grandmas’s Special Fruit Cake
Get ready for Christmas now - it’s closer than you think. (Read instructions carefully) 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar 4 large eggs …
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Great Great Grandmas’s Special Fruit Cake
Origins of North Strathfield Station
North Strathfield Railway Station, c1933
The struggle for a station at North Strathfield was very much a people's struggle. In the early 1900s there had been a general acknowledgment of the need for a station…
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Origins of North Strathfield Station
They Don’t Make ’em Like They Used To…Thank God!
You hear this argument all the time these days. Everything is made of plastic. It’s never built to last. It breaks when you sneeze on it or drop it once.…
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They Don’t Make ’em Like They Used To…Thank God!
Holy Trinity Church, Concord West
Illuminated Address presented to Dame Eadith Walker
Memorial gates erected by parishioners and friends commemorate philanthropist Dame Eadith Walker. Dame Eadith Campbell Walker (1861-1937), philanthropist, was born on 18 September 1861 at The Rocks, Sydney, only child…
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Holy Trinity Church, Concord West
Dame Eadith Walker: An Appreciation
Hearse carrying Dame Eadith Walker's body, proceeding down The Drive on the way to Rookwood
The passing of Dame Eadith Walker has left a great blank in the life of the community. From the earliest days of the colony her father was connected with its…
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Dame Eadith Walker: An Appreciation
