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Kirkham Country Golf Club Sporting club or association
Kirkham Estate Estate
Kirkham mill Mill
Kirkham railway station Railway station
Kirkham Stables Stables
Kirkman, John
Kirkman, Thomas
Kirkpatrick, John
Kirkpatrick, Peter
Kirkwood, Joe
Kirrawee Suburb
Kirribilli Suburb
Kirribilli Club Club
Kirribilli House House
Kisch, Egon
Kismet Theatre Pty Ltd Performing group
Kiss, George
Kissing Point Headland or point
Kissing Point Locality
Kissing Point Park Park or open space
Kissing Point Progress Association Community organisation
Kit Kat Club Entertainment venue
Kitamura, Toranosuke
Kitty
Kittys Creek River or creek
Kiwis Revue Company Performing group
Klaphake, Alice
Klippel, Robert
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Commercial organisation
Knapsack Viaduct Viaduct
Knatchbull, John
Knibbs, George
Knight, Austin
Knight, Elizabeth
Knight, James
Knight, Julius
Knight, Robert
Knight, William
Knightly, Phillip George
Knitis, Christophoros
Knowles, Conrad Theodore
Knowles, Craig
Knox College (North Sydney) Educational institution
Knox Grammar School Educational institution
Knox, D Broughton
Knox, Edward
Koala Park Sanctuary Zoo
Kogarah Suburb
Kogarah Bay Bay or cove
Kogarah Bay Suburb

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Kirkham Country Golf Club

Private golf club established primarily for the gentry at Camden on land that had been part of the Kirkham estate. It closed achieving notoriety when raided by the Vice Squad.

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Sporting club or association

Kirkham Estate

Land grant to John Oxley in 1815 named for his birthplace in Yorkshire. The stables are all that remain of the original country estate.

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Estate

Kirkham mill

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Flour mill constructed in 1828 as a windmill and converted to a steam driven mill by the 1830s. It operated until rust destroyed local wheat crops in 1863 and was demolished in the 1880s.

Mill

Kirkham railway station

Station constructed on the small branch line between Campbelltown and Camden. Now closed.

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Railway station

Kirkham Stables

Colonial Georgian style stables built on John Oxley's land grant of 1815 and all that remains of his country estate.

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Stables

Kirkman, John

Curator and arts administrator.

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Kirkman, Thomas

Publican of the Hero of Waterloo from 1845-1849 who was the child of convict John Kirkham and his wife Martha.

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Kirkpatrick, John

Architect who worked for a time with Edmund Blacket before he established his own practice in 1880. He designed many well known buildings of Sydney and surrounds including the Carrington Hotel in Katoomba and the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York building in Martin Place. He replaced the architect Thomas Rowe completing the Sydney Hospital in 1891, and constructed the original five stands at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

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Kirkpatrick, Peter

Writer, poet and lecturer.

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Kirkwood, Joe

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Professional golfer who won the Australian Open in Sydney in 1920 and becoming a top ranked player in the United States by the mid-1920s.

Kirrawee

Southern residential suburb. Its name, from an Aboriginal word meaning 'lengthy', was adopted in 1939 when its railway station was opened.

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Suburb

Kirribilli

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North Shore residential suburb built on Cammeraygal land in North Sydney local government area. Now containing the residences of the Prime Minister (Kirribilli House) and the Governor-General (Admiralty House), its uninterrupted views across the Harbour make it one of Sydney's most desirable suburbs.

Kirribilli Club

Returned services club also incorporating the North Sydney Anzac Memorial Club.

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Club

Kirribilli House

Gothic mansion with commanding views of the harbour which was associated with prominent colonial merchants before being bought in 1920 by the Governnment. It was refurbished for use as Prime Ministerial residence in 1958.

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House

Kisch, Egon

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Czech journalist and communist who came to Australia in November 1934 as an anti-war and anti-fascism campaigner and spoke to large crowds at the Domain. Charged with being a 'prohibited immigrant', he was made to undertake the infamous 'dictation' test under the Immigration Restriction Act in Scottish Gaelic, which was not among the many languages he spoke, and he failed. His experiences here and eventual deportation in March 1935 lead to challenges to the Act. 

Kismet Theatre Pty Ltd

Theatre and entertainment company established in Sydney in 1921 by the pastoralist, entrepreneur and theatre producer, Sir Rupert Turner Havelock Clarke. The main order of business was the building of theatres, establishing the Kismet (later Odeon) Theatre in Randwick and the Kismet Theatre in Drummoyne.

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Performing group

Kiss, George

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Auctioneer who established a business on Pitt Street in Sydney and later became an alderman and mayor of Randwick Council.

Kissing Point

Point on the Parramatta River about 2 kilometres south of Ryde.

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Headland or point

Kissing Point

Area on the Parramatta River, originally inhabited by the Wallumedegal people, where 10 emancipated convicts, including brewer James Squire, were granted land in 1792.

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Locality

Kissing Point Park

Park at Kissing Point in Putney, on the Parramatta River.

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Park or open space

Kissing Point Progress Association

Community organisation which formed after World War II.

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Community organisation

Kit Kat Club

Nightclub in Kings Cross.

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Entertainment venue

Kitamura, Toranosuke

Japanese merchant who came to Australia in 1890 with Fusajiro Kanematsu to establish and manage the Australian offices of new Kanematsu's export and import business. He and his family lived at Woodford and on Blues Point Road in North Sydney.

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Kitty

Aboriginal woman from Broken Bay who found work as a servant.

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Kittys Creek

Small creek which flows from near Denistone railway station into the Lane Cove River.

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River or creek

Kiwis Revue Company

All-male revue group comprising ex-members of the New Zealand Army division which fought in the Middle East during World War II.

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Klaphake, Alice

Casula resident who in 1976 founded The Modern Art Gallery.

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Klippel, Robert

Prolific sculptor committed to construction as a method who produced totally abstract sculptures often using junk objects.

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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

International airline which operated to Sydney in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Commercial organisation

Knapsack Viaduct

Sandstone railway viaduct across Jamison Creek, Lapstone.

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Viaduct

Knatchbull, John

Naval officer and convict who was eventually hanged for murder at Darlinghurst Gaol.

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Knibbs, George

Statistician, academic and public servant who was a major influence on education in New South Wales, and on the development of Australian statistics.

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Knight, Austin

Hairdresser who was a passenger on the Edward Lombe and died when it was wrecked in Sydney Harbour in August 1834. When the crew were taking the passengers up on deck in the hope of rescue he refused to leave his cabin and was never seen again.

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Knight, Elizabeth

Poulterer.

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Knight, James

Glebe resident.

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Knight, Julius

Scottish actor who toured with JC Williamson's between 1897 and 1916, and became a popular idol with audiences.

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Knight, Robert

Resident of 10 Union Street in 1855.

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Knight, William

Convict who escaped very soon after his arrival and became a bushranger.

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Knightly, Phillip George

Journalist and author.

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Knitis, Christophoros

First Bishop of the Greek Orthodox congregation in Australia whose position became untenable because of divisions within the church.

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Knowles, Conrad Theodore

Theatrical manager considered one of the most talented and only educated actors in early Sydney theatre. Knowles was Sydney's first Romeo, Othello and Shylock.

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Knowles, Craig

Alderman and Mayor of Liverpool City Council who moved into State politics in 1990 as a member of the Australian Labor Party.

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Knox College (North Sydney)

Private school in North Sydney in the early years of the twentieth century

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Educational institution

Knox Grammar School

Uniting Church day and boarding school for boys in Wahroonga, on Sydney's upper north shore.

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Knox, D Broughton

Principal of Moore Theological College 1959-1985

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Knox, Edward

Danish born sugar refiner and banker.

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Koala Park Sanctuary

Wildlife sanctuary founded by Noel Burnet at West Pennant Hills in the 1920s and still managed by the family.

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Zoo

Kogarah

Southern residential suburb considered to be the centre of the St George area. Its named is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning 'place where the rushes grow'.

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Kogarah Bay

Long inlet on the north bank of the Georges River, between Blakehurst and Sans Souci.

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Bay or cove

Kogarah Bay

Southern residential suburb. It was separated from Kogarah in 1993.

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