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Glenhaven Public School Educational institution
Glenhurst House
Glenlee Locality
Glenlee Estate Estate
Glenmire House
Glenmore Park Suburb
Glenorie Suburb
Glenorie Progress Association Community organisation
Glenorie School of Arts Educational institution
Glenorie School of Arts hall School of Arts hall
Glenorie Volunteer Bushfire Brigade Community organisation
Glenrock House
Glenrock Estate Estate
Glenwood Suburb
Glenwood Nursing Home Residential block
Globe Mills Residential block
Glossodia Suburb
Glossop, Ann
Glover Cottages, Kent Street HouseOffice block
Glue, John
Glue, Mary Ann
Glue, Susan
Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan
Goat Island Island
Goat Island Social Club Community organisation
Goatcher, Philip W
Gockson, William
Godber, Andrew John
Goddard, Doris
Goddard, Henry A
Goderich Lodge House
Godfrey, Ann
Godson, Craig
Godson, Damien
Godson, Jennifer
Godson, John
Godspell Performance
Goethe Institute Cultural organisation
Goffredo Mameli Ship
Goggey, Jackey
Goggey, Jonathon
Gogi
Gold Fields House Office block
Goldberg Advertising Agency Ltd Commercial organisation
Golden Gloves Gymnasium Sporting venue
Golden Grove Ship
Golden Grove ferry Ferry
Golden Lion Hotel Hotel
Golden Times Hotel Hotel
Golden Water Mouth Tree Sculpture

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Glenhaven Public School

Public school established in 1889

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Educational institution

Glenhurst

Victorian style house built on the Glenhurst Estate allotments by the solicitor, George Evans.

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House

Glenlee

Residential suburb within Campbelltown local government area.

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Locality

Glenlee Estate

Land grant by Lachlan Macquarie to William Howe in 1818 at Minto.

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Estate

Glenmire

Italianate three storey sandstone mansion built for Edwin Stanley.

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Glenmore Park

Western residential suburb on southern side of M4 Motorway, named after the homestead built by Henry Cox for his bride Frances and completed in 1825. Glenmore Park estate was officially opened in 1990 and is one of Penrith City's largest and most rapidly developing housing estates.

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Suburb

Glenorie

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Northern rural suburb which was a major fruit-growing area until well into the twentieth century.

Glenorie Progress Association

Community group established in the 1890s to lobby for improved community services and infrastructure for the suburb of Glenorie

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Community organisation

Glenorie School of Arts

School of Arts established in 1902

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Glenorie School of Arts hall

Community hall opened in 1902, with a brick memorial hall built in 1932 and opened in 1933.

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School of Arts hall

Glenorie Volunteer Bushfire Brigade

Volunteer bush fire brigade established in 1947

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Glenrock

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Grand gentleman's residence at Edgecliff. The house was eventually demolished and rebuilt in the 1870s. The second house of the same name was built on the site by merchant John Marks in the 1870s.

Glenrock Estate

Vast waterfront estate purchased by Thomas Smith in 1835 at Darling Point. The estate was subdivided in 1859 to provide new home sites after the death of his son who had inherited the property.

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Glenwood

North-western residential suburb named after 'Glenwood Park' homestead, originally known as 'Norfolk Vale' when built by James Samuel Staff in 1853. Formally recognised as a suburb in 1996, it is the site of Parklea Markets and Parklea Sikh Temple.

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Glenwood Nursing Home

Victorian style mansion, Airlie, in Greenwich, which has since been converted to a nursing home.

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Residential block

Globe Mills

Four storey mill which conducted all processes from wool scouring to garment construction before closing after World War II. Recently converted to apartments.

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Glossodia

North-western semi-rural suburb. It was named in 2004 after the native Australian orchid.

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Glossop, Ann

Convict who became common-law wife of William Broughton, but died in the attack on the Boyd in New Zealand in 1809.

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Glover Cottages, Kent Street

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Two stone Georgian cottages at 120-124 Kent Street in Millers Point that were part of a group of buildings built by stonemason and former convict Thomas Glover in the 1820s. Between 1967 and 1974 the buildings were used by Fort Street High School. An addition to the back of the building was built in 1979 and the buildings restored for non-residential use.

Office block

Glue, John

Labour registry owner and shopkeeper.

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Glue, Mary Ann

Boarding house manager and second wife of John Glue.

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Glue, Susan

Labour registry manager and coffee house proprietor.

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Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan

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Aboriginal adventurer who became a friend and informant of David Collins, and travelled the Pacific on a British ship.

Goat Island

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Referred to as 'Me-mel' ('eye') by Aboriginal people, Goat Island stands at the entrance to Darling Harbour.

Island

Goat Island Social Club

Club which organised social functions for the 86 Island residents, members of the Harbour Fire Brigade.

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Goatcher, Philip W

Internationally famous theatrical designer who was brought to Sydney by JC Williamsons in 1892.

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Gockson, William

Entrepreneur who established the Wing On department store with his family and was one of the founders of the China-Australia Mail Steamship Line.

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Godber, Andrew John

Soldier in the AIF who was injured fighting in France during World War I. He was treated by Dr Harriett Biffin in Lindfield on his return to Australia. He had grown up in Delegate, near Monaro in regional New South Wales.

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Goddard, Doris

Publican of the Hollywood Hotel in Surry Hills from 1977 until her death in 2019. Doris Goddard grew up in Glebe with her mother Essie. In 1952 she left Sydney for London in order to have an operation on a heart defect and to follow her theatrical and musical career. After a successful film, television and musical career, she returned to Sydney in 1958 to visit family and stayed, entering the hotel business with her mother. The Hollywood Hotel became an iconic destination in inner city Sydney, with a diverse and colourful clientele who were welcomed and entertained by Doris until her death at 89 in 2019.

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Goddard, Henry A

Builder and inventor who patented a concrete product which was used to build a unique collection of concrete houses in Croydon before World War I.

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Goderich Lodge

Two-storey villa with wide verandah and shuttered sash windows built on Woolloomooloo Hill for Thomas Macquoid.

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Godfrey, Ann

Shopkeeper at Lidcombe.

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Godson, Craig

Five year old boy who, with his father John and brother Damien, died  in the Luna Park Ghost Train fire on 9 June 1979, as his mother Jennifer waited outside the ride for them,

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Godson, Damien

Six year old boy who, with his father John and little brother Craig, died  in the Luna Park Ghost Train fire on 9 June 1979, as his mother Jennifer waited outside the ride for them,

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Godson, Jennifer

Woman whose husband John and two young sons Damien and Craig died in the Luna Park Ghost Train fire on 9 June 1979 as she waited outside the ride for them with ice creams.

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Godson, John

Man who was killed, with his two young sons, Damien and Craig, in the Luna Park Ghost Train fire on 9 June 1979, as his wife Jennifer waited outside the ride for them.

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Godspell

Musical based on the gospel of Matthew which was seen around the world in various productions throughout the 1970s. Its Australian debut was in Melbourne in 1971. It was performed in Sydney in the Richbrooke Theatre in Elizabeth Street in 1972-1973 and has been revived several times since.

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Performance

Goethe Institute

German cultural institution to promotes the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange.

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Cultural organisation

Goffredo Mameli

Italian trading ship, named for the Italian poet and patriot, which sailed from Genoa in 1855.

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Ship

Goggey, Jackey

Aboriginal man who lived with his family at Voyager Point on the Georges Rives.

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Goggey, Jonathon

Aboriginal man who lived with his family at Voyager Point in the mid nineteenth century.

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Gogi

Aboriginal leader from the Dharawal clan who tried to negotiate with the white settlers and was known to have met with Macquarie in the Cowpastures.

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Gold Fields House

Office building in Alfred Street at Circular Quay built in 1966. It was sold in 2014 and is to be converted into a hotel and apartments.

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Goldberg Advertising Agency Ltd

Advertising agency established by Frank Goldberg in New Zealand before relocating to Sydney in 1927.

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Commercial organisation

Golden Gloves Gymnasium

Boxing gymnasium at 49 Glebe Point Road which trained many of the best Indigenous boxers.

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Sporting venue

Golden Grove

Store ship of the First Fleet which carried 22 crew and 4 passengers and tools to enable settlement in the new colony. Anvils, axes, tents, flour, chickens and Reverend Johnson's cats were amongst the varied cargo.

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Golden Grove ferry

Sydney harbour ferry which entered service in 1986.

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Ferry

Golden Lion Hotel

Hotel in Church Street Parramatta.

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Hotel

Golden Times Hotel

Inn in Camperdown in the 1850s.

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Golden Water Mouth Tree

Sculpture created by Lin Li from a dead Yellow Box tree with 23 carat gold leaf and terracotta tile to mark the entry to the symbolic village of Chinatown. This artwork incorporates Shui Kou elements of wood, water, earth and gold together with native Australian species. It evokes memories of the Chinese arrival in Australia—the ”New Gold Mountain.

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Sculpture