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Ludowici, Charles
Ludowici, John Charles
Luff, Ian
Lugar Brae Estate
Lugarno Suburb
Luhrmann, Baz
Luker, Joseph
Luker, Sidney
Lūks , Krišsjānis
Luland, F
Lumsdaine, Jack
Luna Park Entertainment venue
Luna Park (NSW) Ltd Commercial organisation
Luna Park Ghost Train fire 1979 Fire
Lunacy Amendment Act 1934 Legislation
Lunn, Lionel
Lupton, F
Lurline Bay Locality
Lurnea Suburb
Lustre Hosiery factory Industrial site
Luttrell, Edward
Lutyens, Mary
Lux Radio Theatre Radio program
Lycee Condorcet Educational institution
Lycett, Joseph
Lyceum Theatre Theatre
Lyell, Lottie
Lygon, William (Lord Beauchamp)
Lynch, Francis (Guy)
Lynch, Garry
Lynch, Joe
Lynch, Joseph Patrick Stanislaus
Lynch, Marge
Lyndcote House
Lyndham Hall House
Lyndhurst House
Lyndhurst College Educational institution
Lyne Park Park or open space
Lyne, William John
Lynwood Cottage House
Lynwood House, Denistone House
Lyon Cottier & Company Industrial organisation
Lyon, John Lamb
Lyons Terrace Residential block
Lyons, Joseph
Lyons, Samuel
Lyons, Thomas
Lysaght Commercial organisation
Lyster Opera Company Performing group
Lyster, William Saurin

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Ludowici, Charles

Manufacturer of industrial leather belts at Lane Cove.

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Ludowici, John Charles

Tanner from Prussia who, with his partner Albert Radke, moved their tannery from Balmain to the banks of the Lane Cove River in 1858.

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Luff, Ian

Racing car driver who used his skills to establish a driver education and training company.

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Lugar Brae

Estate with 12 room stone cottage which was situated between Bronte Road and Macpherson Street at Bronte. It was subdivided between 1875 and 1900.

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Estate

Lugarno

Southern peninsular residential suburb on northern bank of Georges River, named by Surveyor-General Major Sir Thomas Mitchell after the lake in Italy. It began to be developed when blocks were released by the crown for sale as home sites in the late 1960s.

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Suburb

Luhrmann, Baz

Film producer, screenwriter and director who has achieved international theatrical and film success .

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Luker, Joseph

Former convict who joined Sydney's early police force in 1796. He was murdered in 1803, the first police officer killed in the line of duty in New South Wales. 

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Luker, Sidney

Civil engineer and town planner who became chief planner for the Cumberland County Council from 1946 and coordinated the Cumberland Planning Scheme.

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Lūks , Krišsjānis

One of the first Latvian people to visit Sydney.

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Luland, F

Tanner who established a business in the Botany area.

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Lumsdaine, Jack

Australian singer, songwriter and radio announcer.

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Luna Park

Amusement park built on the site of the Dorman Long workshops at Milsons Point after the Sydney Harbour Bridge was completed in 1932. It closed in 1979 after a fatal fire on the Ghost Train ride, but reopened in 1982.

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Entertainment venue

Luna Park (NSW) Ltd

Company formed in 1935 by entrepreneur Herman Phillips, his brothers, Leon and Harold, and A A Abraham, to build and manage Luna Park. The brothers had formerly been running a Luna Park venue in South Australia.

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Commercial organisation

Luna Park Ghost Train fire 1979

Fire which destroyed the Luna Park Ghost Train ride on the night of 9 June 1979, killing six children and one adult. The cause of the fire has never been established.

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Fire

Lunacy Amendment Act 1934

Legislation which made provision for admission of voluntary patients to hospitals, licensed houses and reception houses,

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Legislation

Lunn, Lionel

Studio manager at 2UE.

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Lupton, F

Tanner who established a business in Botany in the 1880s.

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Lurline Bay

Bay between Coogee and Maroubra beaches.

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Locality

Lurnea

Residential suburb south-west of Liverpool, founded after the First World War as a housing scheme for ex-servicemen. Its name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning 'a resting place'.

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Lustre Hosiery factory

Clothing factory on the border of Darlinghurst and Paddington.

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Industrial site

Luttrell, Edward

Surgeon who travelled to the colony with his wife and 10 children. Quickly disillusioned with farming he proved a negligent and unfeeling surgeon and was often admonished. Given the choice of retiring or moving back to Parramatta hospital he took a position in Hobart where he was in constant trouble with the Lieutenant Governor.

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Lutyens, Mary

British author best known for her biographical works on the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.

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Lux Radio Theatre

Radio program which became a Sunday night institution as radio plays were performed in front of a live audience with actors expected to perform in glamorous evening dress.

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Radio program

Lycee Condorcet

Bilingual French school established in Maroubra in 1969, supported by the French government.

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Educational institution

Lycett, Joseph

Convict and artist transported for forgery, who, whilst re-offending in the colony, also produced a large body of work recording the Australian landscape and flora.

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Lyceum Theatre

Theatre for live performance on Pitt Street which opened in 1892. In 1928 it was venue for talking pictures before further modifications altered the structure even further.

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Theatre

Lyell, Lottie

Actress and film producer who made a unique contribution to the Australian film industry as its first female star and producer.

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Lygon, William (Lord Beauchamp)

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Governor of New South Wales 1899-1901.

Lynch, Francis (Guy)

Guy Lynch, known in Sydney as Frank Lynch, was a sculptor commissioned to do busts of several prominent Australians in the early to mid 20th century. His works include The Satyr, modelled on his brother Joe, that sits in the Botanic Gardens, and the depiction of Aboriginal people on one of the bronze panels on the doors of the Mitchell Library as well as the Pozieres diorama in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The brothers were born in Melbourne in the 1890s into a large Irish family that moved to New Zealand in the early 1900s. Both brothers enlisted with the New Zealand army in World War I and worked as artists on their discharge. Lynch's World War I memorial statue in Devonport, New Zealand, colloquially known as 'the untidy soldier', was also modelled on Joe. The brothers moved back to Australia in the 1920s, followed by their parents, and lived in a house purchased by Guy in Gladesville.

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Lynch, Garry

Parent of a murder victim who formed the Homicide Victims Support Group.

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Lynch, Joe

Cartoonist and black & white artist for Smith's Weekly and Melbourne Punch, whose death in Sydney Harbour in 1927 at the age of 29 inspired Kenneth Slessor's poem 'Five Bells'. He was the model for his brother Guy (Frank) Lynch's sculpture 'The Satyr', a bronze casting of which is in the Royal Botanic Gardens in his memory. He was also the model for his brother's statue of a New Zealand digger for the World War I memorial in Devonport, New Zealand, that is known colloquially as 'the untidy soldier'.

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Lynch, Joseph Patrick Stanislaus

Stonemason, architect and sculptor who followed his sons to Sydney.

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Lynch, Marge

Wife of sculptor Guy Lynch who worked to have her husband's statue The Satyr placed on permanent display.

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Lyndcote

House at 7 Stanley Road Hunters Hill built for CE Jeanneret in 1858.

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House

Lyndham Hall

Home constructed for businessman Joseph Davis in the 1860s. It later became the childhood home of author Christina Stead and is now a regional museum.

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Lyndhurst

Garden mansion and estate which was subdivided from 1852 and became a theological college and Catholic school, along with many other uses. Almost derelict by 1972 it was saved from demolition for a proposed freeway by community action. It was restored by the Heritage Council and Historic Houses Trust and has since been sold to private owners for use as a home.

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Lyndhurst College

Catholic school established in 1849 in Lyndhurst House, Glebe, closed in 1877

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Lyne Park

Five hectare reserve on the corner of New South Head Road and Sunderland Avenue, Rose Bay. Named in honour of Sir James Lyne, NSW Premier from 1899 to 1901, it was reclaimed from tidal sand flats in 1902 and in 1938 was the site of a flying boat base.

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Park or open space

Lyne, William John

Politician who was an ardent Protectionist and urged moderate reform of land laws and water conservation. He was Premier from 1899-1901.

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Lynwood Cottage

Californian bungalow style home at Killara. This style began to appear in Australian domestic architecture from about 1912.

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Lynwood House, Denistone

Victorian two storey house at 57 Terry Road, Denistone that was built in 1882 and demolished in 1970.

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Lyon Cottier & Company

Stained glass manufacturing company from Glasgow.

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Industrial organisation

Lyon, John Lamb

Scottish-born stained glass artist and interior decorator.

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Lyons Terrace

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Row of five elegant townhouses built in Liverpool Street opposite Hyde Park for emancipist Samuel Lyons in 1841. The initial designs in 1837 by John Verge were completed by John Bibb. The houses were gradually demolished in the early 20th century, the first in 1910 and the last in 1925. 

 

Residential block

Lyons, Joseph

Tenth Prime Minister of Australia serving from 1932 until 1939.

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Lyons, Samuel

Former convict who became a wealthy auctioneer and businessman.

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Lyons, Thomas

Police constable who was one of several officers injured, and subsequently commended for bravery, during the Bridge Street Affray in 1894. 

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Lysaght

Steel products business which is now part of BlueScope Steel since it was demerged from BHP in 2002.

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Lyster Opera Company

Formed in 1857 by WS Lyster, the company bought many international opera performers to Australia from 1861.

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Performing group

Lyster, William Saurin

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Irish theatre impresario who toured with international opera companies in Melbourne and Sydney.