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Blakehurst Progress Association Community organisation
Blakehurst Public School Educational institution
Blamire, Anthony
Blanch, James
Blanchett, Cate
Blanco, Raymond
Bland, Eliza
Bland, William
Blanket, John
Blanks, Fred
Blaxcell Locality
Blaxcell, Garnham
Blaxland Suburb
Blaxland's Hermitage Estate No 2 Estate
Blaxland, Audrey
Blaxland, Charles
Blaxland, Elizabeth
Blaxland, Gregory
Blaxland, John (1769-1845)
Blaxland, John (1799-1884)
Blaxlands Ridge Locality
Bleak House, Balmain House
Blenheim Ship
Blenheim Carlingford House
Blenheim House Randwick House
Blenheim II Ship
Blessing of the Fleet Ceremony
Blevins, Jim
Blewit
Bligh Park Suburb
Bligh, Henry Hocken
Bligh, William
Blissett, Ray
Blondin
Bloodsworth, James
Bloomfield, George
Bloomfield, John
Blossom Farm Farm
Blue Bell Ship
Blue Gum Forest Forest
Blue Mountain Hotel Hotel
Blue Mountain Inn Hotel
Blue Mountains Hill or mountain
Blue Mountains City Council Local government
Blue Mountains District Anzac Memorial Hospital Hospital or other health organisation
Blue Mountains Echo Newspaper
Blue Mountains local government area Region
Blue Mountains National Park National Park
Blue Mountains Shire Council Local government
Blue Ribbon Gospel Army Religious organisation

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Blakehurst Progress Association

Community association formed in 1921, with the aim of persuading the state government to purchase Carss Estate as a public park.

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Community organisation

Blakehurst Public School

Government primary school in a bushland setting which specialises in the performing arts.

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Educational institution

Blamire, Anthony

Brickmaker in Hurlstone Park in the late nineteenth century.

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Blanch, James

Former convict, mathematical instrument maker and foundry owner who established his business in George Street about 1822.

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Blanchett, Cate

Actor, director and artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company.

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Blanco, Raymond

Dancer and the first Indigenous artistic director in Australia.

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Bland, Eliza

The wife of Major CT Smeathman who arrived with her husband and son Henry in Sydney in 1827. After her husband's death she married surgeon William Bland.

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Bland, William

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Medical doctor, philanthropist and politician who arrived in Sydney as a convict.

Blanket, John

Māori man who was one of the early harbour pilots and then worked for many years as a servant and part of the household of the politician John Robertson at his property Clovelly at Watsons Bay. On 8 Feburary 1874 Blanket and three other men from Watsons Bay were on a fishing expedition outside the heads. A storm blew in on their return journey and the boat was swamped near DeeWhy and sank. One of the men, a Portuguese sailor named Emmanuel Jacinto (or Jesson) was drowned, while the other three eventually managed to swim. Blanket was described as tattooed and as a Maori chief.

Blanket died in late 1889, aged about 82, and was buried at South Head Cemetery. In 1899 his remains were removed to be placed beside those of John Robertson.

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Blanks, Fred

Industrial chemist and music critic born in Germany in 1925, died in Sydney 2011.

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Blaxcell

Locality in the Granville area named for early settler Garnham Blaxcell.

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Locality

Blaxcell, Garnham

Trader and merchant whose unsuccessful speculation in trade undid early commercial success and involvement with the building of Sydney Hospital.

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Blaxland

Lower Blue Mountains bushland town. It was originally named after John Wascoe, proprietor of the Pilgrim Inn.

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Suburb

Blaxland's Hermitage Estate No 2

Last part of estate originally belonging to John Blaxland, sold in 1922 and subdivided for residential allotments..

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Estate

Blaxland, Audrey

Actress and drama teacher.

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Blaxland, Charles

Pastoralist and landowner in the Ryde district.

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Blaxland, Elizabeth

Wife of Gregory Blaxland and an early settler in the Ryde district.

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Blaxland, Gregory

Farmer, speculator and explorer who crossed the Blue Mountains with Lawson and Wentworth in 1813.

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Blaxland, John (1769-1845)

Early settler who was persuaded by Banks to migrate with his younger brother, explorer Gregory Blaxland, to New South Wales. He became a landowner, founding the Newington estate at Homebush, and was a participant in the rebellion against Bligh. He was a member of the Legislative Council until he resigned due to ill health in 1844.

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Blaxland, John (1799-1884)

Merchant of independent means who lived at the Hermitage in Ryde and served on the New South Wales Legislative Council as well as holding other prominent positions in the banking sector.

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Blaxlands Ridge

A western suburb in the City of Hawkesbury north of East Kurrajong.

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Bleak House, Balmain

Sandstone house in Balmain built in 1850 by Samuel Crook on land overlooking Johnston's Bay, now the site of White Bay Container Facility. The property was named Bleak House by Crook after the book by Dickens due to lengthy legal settlements concerning the land. The house had fallen into disrepair and been demolished by 1902.

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House

Blenheim

Wooden sailing ship of 375 tons which was one of fourteen convict ships to arrive in 1834 bringing over 200 Irish male convicts. Inn 1837 it transported 210 male convicts to Hobart and in 1839 returned to Sydney again with 200 males.

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Ship

Blenheim Carlingford

House of Frederick Cox, local politician, butcher and orchardist, in Carlingford.

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Blenheim House Randwick

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The sandstone and cedar two storey house was built by Simeon Pearce on 1.6 hectares of land overlooking what is today Randwick Racecourse. The first Anglican church service was held at Blenheim House during Pearce's residency and it was also allegedly the site for the last foxhunt in Sydney. It was purchased by Randwick Council in 1984 and in 1989, a 'Friends of Blenheim House' group formed to help aid its restoration. The group leased the building from the council for 25 years in 1993.

Blenheim II

Wooden ship of 808 tons used for convict transport to Hobart and Sydney.

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Blessing of the Fleet

Ceremony held annually at Darling Harbour by local fishermen of Sicilian and Calabrian background.

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Ceremony

Blevins, Jim

Australian jazz musician.

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Blewit

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Aboriginal man who killed Musquito in retaliation for the wounding with a tomahawk of a boy named Pigeon in January 1806. He was also known as Ploge, or Blewett. 

Bligh Park

North-western residential suburb on southern outskirts of Windsor.

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Bligh, Henry Hocken

Inspector of Police at Albury and later Mayor of Willoughby, he was an early settler in Northbridge first purchasing land there in 1856.

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Bligh, William

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Governor of New South Wales who was overthrown in the Rum Rebellion of 1808.

Blissett, Ray

Policeman nicknamed 'The Blizzard' who started life as a bullock driver at age 14 before joining the police force in Redfern. He worked as a police officer during the violent razor gang wars of the 1930s, spending most of his career policing Glebe. On his retirement he had been superintendent and chief of the Criminal Investigation Branch.

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Blondin

French tightrope walker and acrobat.

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Bloodsworth, James

Emancipist brickmaker and builder who built many early buildings in the colony between 1788 and 1804.

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Bloomfield, George

Child who was removed from his family and placed in institutions where he experienced abuse and harsh punishment over several years. He later became a youth worker drawing on his own experiences.

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Bloomfield, John

Artist, printmaker and teacher who lived and worked in the United States of America and Canada before settling in Australia in the 1960s.

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Blossom Farm

Orchard and farm established by the Bradburn family just north west of the current Belmore railway station.

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Farm

Blue Bell

Schooner of 66 tons which conducted trade between the Torres Straits and Sydney in the 1860s.

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Blue Gum Forest

Forested area of Grose Gorge at the junction of Govetts Creek. Historically and naturally significant, the area was saved from the axe by bushwalkers in the 1930s.

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Forest

Blue Mountain Hotel

Hotel built in Douglass Square at Lawson as the focus of the village shifted south of the railway line.

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Hotel

Blue Mountain Inn

Inn built in 1843 by Henry Wilson and rebuilt twice before 1918.

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Blue Mountains

Part of the Great Dividing Range west of Sydney, reaching a height of 1100 metres. In 1829 the name for the area used by the local Aboriginal people was recorded as being Colomatta .

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Hill or mountain

Blue Mountains City Council

Formed in 1947 by the amalgamation of the Blue Mountains Shire Council and Katoomba City Council.

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Local government

Blue Mountains District Anzac Memorial Hospital

Hospital located between Leura and Katoomba which provides in and outpatient services.

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Hospital or other health organisation

Blue Mountains Echo

Weekly newspaper published between 1909 and 1928. The current paper has been published in Katoomba since 1981.

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Newspaper

Blue Mountains local government area

Area of towns and villages on far western edge of Sydney which is 70 per cent national park, governed by Blue Mountains City Council. It incorporates significant parts of the traditional lands of the Gundungarra and Darug tribal groups. Its scenery has made it a popular tourist destination since the late nineteenth century.

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Region

Blue Mountains National Park

Natural bushland and dramatic escarpments which were protected for their natural beauty and rich Aboriginal cultural significance.

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National Park

Blue Mountains Shire Council

Formed in 1906 with chambers in Lawson and combined with Katoomba City Council in 1947 to form the Blue Mountains City Council.

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Blue Ribbon Gospel Army

School of gospel temperance which had branches in Australia, England and the United States of America.

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Religious organisation