Mayoral minute: Tribute to Lois Michel

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World War One: “Out with the German Names”
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au January 27, 2019

There is no doubt that almost every Australian family was affected by World War One in some way or another. One sad fact that came out of the war was the intense hatred of Germans that emerged together with all things German. The German families who emigrated to Australia and were happily living their lives,…

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Crossing the Parramatta River (part 2)
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au February 13, 2017March 5, 2024

As previously explained, the Bailey and Cashman families took over the crossing service from about 1832 or soon after – both families competed for customers, each having a boat ready at any time. Old timers tell us that when a boat was required on the northern side, a hurricane lamp would be lit and slowly…

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From Our Collection
BySally Jerapetritis November 15, 2021November 18, 2021

The Wattle Brooch – fit for a Queen In 1954 Queen Elizabeth made her Coronation Tour of Australia. To celebrate the visit it was decided to present her with a very special gift – something uniquely Australian. And what better choice could there be than the country’s native flora represented in a spray of precious…

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The Rocks, Early Sydney
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au December 16, 2016March 5, 2024

The Rocks is really a most extraordinary place! A small district of Sydney, without the distinction of its own postcode, it stands on the high ground west of Sydney Cove, nudging at the edges of the city, its highways and byways running above and below and around the giant turrets and ramparts of Hawkesbury sandstone,…

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A Coffined Corpse in an Omnibus
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au October 20, 2019

Sir – last Wednesday afternoon something quite of a novel character might have been witnessed at the Sydney Mortuary. At the time fixed for the dispatch of the funeral train for Rookwood, an omnibus marked “Woolloomooloo” and numbered “32” was driven up, and from it emerged several mourners; a coffin was next taken out of…

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Eugene D. Nicolle, Inventor
BySally Jerapetritis December 8, 2022December 26, 2022

After the 1848 revolution, Eugène Dominique Nicolle (1823 – 1909) came to Australia to pursue his career as an engineer. Arriving in Sydney in 1853 with his first wife, Nicolle registered his initial patent for an ice-making machine jointly with Richard Dawson in 1861. Nicolle eventually secured the financial backing of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort for his experiments, which…

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Mayoral minute: Tribute to Lois Michel

World War One: “Out with the German Names”

Crossing the Parramatta River (part 2)

From Our Collection

The Rocks, Early Sydney

A Coffined Corpse in an Omnibus

Eugene D. Nicolle, Inventor

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