Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

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Green Lights on Calm Waters
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au August 29, 2016March 5, 2024

A favourite pastime of residents is to walk along the waterfront to enjoy the peaceful vista. Not many of us know that between the “green lights” opposite the cove is a monument to one of Australia’s greatest rowing athletes, Henry Ernest Searle. Little is known of his childhood except that he came to Sydney when…

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Frederick Cavill and his Amazing Baths
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au August 20, 2017

Cavill migrated to Australia, reaching Melbourne with his family in February 1879. He soon moved to Sydney and set up as a ‘professor of swimming’ at his Lavender Bay Baths. In 1884 he published a pamphlet How to Learn to Swim which outlined his theories on ‘natations’. Cavill’s name looms large in the history of Australian swimming. …

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Mortlake in the 1890s
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au July 4, 2017

Mortlake was originally 30 hectares of land granted to John Miller, John Robertson and Benjamin Butcher in July 1795. This land was subsequently acquired by John Ward and then by his adopted heir, Alexander MacDonald. The area was originally called Bottle Point, the name used to designate the point at the head of the peninsula….

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Oh, How Things Have Changed
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au May 18, 2018

Municipality of Concord – Population 1901 – 2,800; 1911 – 4,076; 1921 – 11,013; 1933 – 23,213; 1947 – 29,401; 1954 – 28,326; 1961 – 27,750 From 1947 there is a falling off in the population because the people are growing older, but as young people come to the district the population figures will rise….

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Who Remembers Wattle Day?
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au August 19, 2019March 7, 2024

The first day of spring is the little-known but uniquely Australian celebration – National Wattle Day. Wattles have always been part of our country’s landscape and the lives of its people. For Indigenous Australians, wattle trees were a source of food, medicines and wood for many different utensils and weapons. Indigenous peoples of Australia soaked the gum…

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Federation Pavilion in Centennial Park
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au February 9, 2020March 7, 2024

About the Pavilion As many who come to the Parklands may know, the Federation Pavilion sits on one of the most important historical locations in Australia – the birthplace of our nation! What visitors may not know however, is that the Pavilion contains many clues to the site’s glorious past that can help you understand…

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Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

Green Lights on Calm Waters

Frederick Cavill and his Amazing Baths

Mortlake in the 1890s

Oh, How Things Have Changed

Who Remembers Wattle Day?

Federation Pavilion in Centennial Park

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