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Les Girls Performing group
Lesbian Network Magazine or periodical
Lesbian Space Project Political organisation
Lesbians on the Loose Magazine or periodical
Leslie, Fred
Lesson, René-Primavére
Lesueur, Charles-Alexandre
Lethbridge Park Suburb
Lethbridge, Mary Gidley
Lethbridge, Robert Copland
Lett, Stafford Squire
Lette, Kathy
Lettish Association of Sydney Community organisation
Leumeah Suburb
Leumeah railway station Railway station
Leura Suburb
Leura Coffee Palace Hotel
Leura Falls River or creek
Leura Gardens Festival Festival
Leura House House
Leura Literary Institute building School of Arts hall
Leura Village Fair Market
Leuralla House
Levarrier, Ivonne
Lever Brothers Commercial organisation
Lever Brothers Factory, Balmain Industrial site
Lever, William
Levey, Barnett
Levey, Sarah Emma
Levey, Solomon
Leviņš, Jānis
Levy, Daniel
Levy, Gerry
Levy, Jock
Lewers, Gerald
Lewers, Margo
Lewin, John William
Lewin, Mary
Lewis & Sanders Commercial organisation
Lewis Wolfe Levy Fountain Fountain
Lewis, Biddy
Lewis, Essington
Lewis, H
Lewis, Jack
Lewis, Jeannie
Lewis, John
Lewis, John (d 1794)
Lewis, Mortimer
Lewis, Thomas Lancelot
Lewisham Suburb

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Les Girls

Legendary Kings Cross 'drag' show. The Carousel Club was purpose built by underworld figure Abe Saffron to house the show.

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Performing group

Lesbian Network

Lesbian periodical published in Rozelle.

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Magazine or periodical

Lesbian Space Project

Collective formed in 1986 to raise funds to allow community grants for lesbian projects.

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Political organisation

Lesbians on the Loose

Monthly magazine first published in 1989 by Avalon Media.

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Leslie, Fred

English actor  who appeared in Sydney on several occasions between 1903 and 1913.

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Lesson, René-Primavére

French naturalist and surgeon who visited Sydney in 1824 as part of Duperrey's round-the-world voyage on La Coquille.

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Lesueur, Charles-Alexandre

Artist and naturalist on the French naval and scientific expedition to Australia under Baudin on Le Géographe and Le Naturaliste in 1800-1804.

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Lethbridge Park

Western residential suburb, part of the 1960s Mount Druitt development. It is named after Robert Copeland Lethbridge, son-in-law of Governor King, who settled in the area in 1806.

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Suburb

Lethbridge, Mary Gidley

Daughter of Philip Gidley and Anna King and wife of the landowner and magistrate, Robert Copland Lethbridge.

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Lethbridge, Robert Copland

English attorney who was connected to the family of Philip Gidley King by marriage and built and owned Werrington House in Western Sydney.

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Lett, Stafford Squire

Emancipist publican in the Rocks who had been transported for stealing a coat.

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Lette, Kathy

Author and columnist who lives in London.

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Lettish Association of Sydney

Latvian community association and library.

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Community organisation

Leumeah

South-western residential suburb bordering Campbelltown. Its name, from a Tharawal word meaning 'here I rest', was originally given to a farm established in 1876.

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Leumeah railway station

Station which has been in use since 1886 on the main south line through Campbelltown local government area.

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Railway station

Leura

Upper Blue Mountains residential suburb adjacent to Katoomba. It is known as a 'garden village' with a largely intact early twentieth century shopping centre along Leura Mall.

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Leura Coffee Palace

Grand guesthouse on Leura Mall which was built in 1892 for travellers arriving at the newly built train platform. In 1968 it was converted to a nursing home.

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Hotel

Leura Falls

Waterfall on Leura Falls Creek 1.6 kilometres south of the railway station.

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River or creek

Leura Gardens Festival

Open garden festival held in spring to raise funds for the Blue Mountains Hospital.

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Festival

Leura House

Country retreat built in the 1880s which became an elegant guesthouse. convent and school boarding house and again a guesthouse.

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House

Leura Literary Institute building

Home to the Leura Literary Institute in 1915, the building later became a bed and breakfast hotel.

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School of Arts hall

Leura Village Fair

Street market with performers and music held in spring.

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Market

Leuralla

Two storey house in Federation style built on the site of another imposing residence destroyed by bushfire in 1909.

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Levarrier, Ivonne

Pianist and teacher.

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Lever Brothers

Commercial soap manufacturer with factory at Balmain.

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Commercial organisation

Lever Brothers Factory, Balmain

Soap factory at White Bay founded by Lever Brothers Ltd. After closure it was redeveloped as a housing estate.

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Industrial site

Lever, William

British co-founder of Lever Brothers soap manufacturers, who constructed a factory in Rozelle and visited Sydney in 1914.

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Levey, Barnett

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Levey, or Levy, was a merchant and theatre owner who was the first Jewish free settler in the colony, and ran Sydney's first commercial theatre.

Levey, Sarah Emma

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Wife of Barnett Levey (or Levy), and the stepdaughter of Jacob Josephson.

Levey, Solomon

Convict who became a successful businessman after his pardon, and one of the richest men in the colony.

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Leviņš, Jānis

Latvian resident of Millers Point.

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Levy, Daniel

Lawyer and politician who was active in Jewish affairs.

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Levy, Gerry

Active member of many Jewish community organizations.

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Levy, Jock

Wharf labourer who brought his film and theatre experience to union films of workers rights and conditions.

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Lewers, Gerald

Sculptor and construction engineer who often worked on joint commissions with his wife Margo.

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Lewers, Margo

Artist and designer who worked in a variety of mediums including painting, textiles, sculpture and mosaic. She often worked on commissions with her husband Gerald. After their deaths, their home in Emu Plains was given to the Penrity City Council and became the Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest.

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Lewin, John William

Australia's first professional artist. A talented artist with an interest in scientific studies, Lewin decided to travel to Australia to paint its natural history. He arrived in Sydney in 1800 and was encouraged by patrons including Governor Philip Gidley King, Governor Lachlan Macquarie, William Paterson and Sir Joseph Banks. He published Australia's first illustrated book 'Birds of New South Wales' in 1813. In 1810 Governor Lachlan Macquarie appointed him to the role of coroner in the town of Sydney and of the County of Cumberland, which he held until his death in 1819. The headstone to his grave was moved from the Devonshire Street Cemetery to Pioneer Memorial Park in Botany Cemetery in 1976.

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Lewin, Mary

One of the first grant holders at Botany.

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Lewis & Sanders

Building company in Auburn which declared bankruptcy in 1899

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Lewis Wolfe Levy Fountain

Drinking fountain in the Royal Botanic Gardens, with a red granite base with Art Nouveau bronze statue of a young girl standing amid reeds, a heron and frogs. The fountain was a gift to the people of Sydney  in 1889from the Levy family in memory of Lewis Wofle Levy (1815–85), politician and businessman. The statue, by C B Birch (1832–93), is an important example of aestheticism in Sydney.

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Fountain

Lewis, Biddy

Aboriginal woman who lived on her own land at Marramarra Creek from the 1830s.

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Lewis, Essington

Industrialist, primarily with BHP and associated companies. Born 1881, died 1961.

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Lewis, H

Teacher with the New South Wales Department of Public Instruction Technical Education Branch who was manager of the Erskineville Bootmaking School from its inception.

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Lewis, Jack

Performer who specialised in dangerous stunts.

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Lewis, Jeannie

Singer, songwriter and political activist.

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Lewis, John

Convict settler on the Hawkesbury.

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Lewis, John (d 1794)

Elderly convict who was murdered in 1794 at Parramatta. No charges were ever laid.

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Lewis, Mortimer

Surveyor and architect whose work as Colonial Architect had a huge influence on Sydney's public buildings.

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Lewis, Thomas Lancelot

Soldier, farmer and politician who became Premier in 1975.

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Lewisham

Inner-western residential and commercial suburb named after the estate of emancipist jeweller Jacob Josephson. It developed with the construction of the Redfern-Parramatta railway line in the 1850s.

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