Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

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Coming Ready or Not
BySally Jerapetritis May 7, 2024May 26, 2024

Japanese Midget Submarines enter Sydney Harbour. The boom safety net protection across Sydney Harbour was designed in January of 1942 and its construction began that month. It was located at the narrowest point of the inner harbour entrance, between George’s Head on Middle Harbour, and Green Point on Inner South Head. This protective net was…

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Sydney’s First Harbour Tunnel
BySite Admin January 24, 2021

The “first” Sydney Harbour tunnel built about a century ago has been largely forgotten. The tunnel, dug under Sydney’s harbour at its narrowest point between Greenwich in the north and Birchgrove in the inner west, was a technical feat involving the sort of hard physical labour almost impossible to contemplate today. It was built for…

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“Do Not Forget Australia”
BySite Admin April 25, 2018March 5, 2024

These words, emblazoned on banners and blackboards, are found in the French school at Villers-Bretonneux, a small village lying among green fields just south of the river Some. This Anzac Day marks the centenary of a battle so bravely fought that one British officer called the victory at Villers-Bretonneux “perhaps the greatest individual feat” of…

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My mother used to say . . .
BySite Admin December 8, 2017

If you cut too many corners you’ll just keep going around in circles Your problems are only as big as you make them The trouble with living alone is that it is always your turn to do the dishes. The problem with trouble is it always starts out as fun. Experience is the name everyone…

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Parramatta Female Factory – The earliest convict women’s site in Australia.
BySite Admin May 25, 2018

In December 1799 Parramatta’s log and thatch gaol burnt down and was replaced by a stone gaol under the direction of the Reverend Samuel Marsden, acting as Superintendant of Public Works. The building commenced in 1802 and sometime in 1803 it was decided to add a second storey as a linen and woollen manufactory. This…

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Sir Douglas Mawson OBE
BySite Admin October 8, 2019March 7, 2024

One of Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorers, Douglas Mawson was responsible for one of the most extreme survival stories of all time. A scientist before all else, he sought information and knowledge rather than fame, fortune or ‘firsts’. Born in England on 5 May 1882, Mawson migrated to Australia at the age of two. An outstanding…

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Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

Coming Ready or Not

Sydney’s First Harbour Tunnel

“Do Not Forget Australia”

My mother used to say . . .

Parramatta Female Factory – The earliest convict women’s site in Australia.

Sir Douglas Mawson OBE

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