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Giles, Billy
Gill, Samuel Thomas
Gillard, Julia
Gillespie, Dizzy
Gilligaloola House
Gilmore, Mary
Gilpin, David
Gilroy, Norman
Giltinan, James J
Ginahgulla House
Gingie House
Ginn, Henry
Giornale Italiano Newspaper
Giorza, Paolo
Gipps Street Push Gang
Gipps, George
Girard's steam mill Mill
Girard's wharf Wharf or dock
Girard's windmill, Woolloomooloo Mill
Girard, François
Giraud, Albert Jules Alexis
Girraween Suburb
Gittoes, George
Giurgola, Romaldo
Glaciarium Sporting venue
Glade, John
Glades Bay Bay or cove
Gladesville Suburb
Gladesville bridge Bridge
Gladesville Hospital Hospital or other health organisation
Gladesville Hotel Hotel
Gladesville Macquarie Hospital Hospital or other health organisation
Gladesville Progress Association Community organisation
Gladesville Public School Educational institution
Gladesville punt Punt
Gladstone Colliery Commercial organisation
Gladstone Hall House
Gladstone park and reservoir Park or open space
Gladswood House House
Glancey, Clement
Glancey, Clement junior
Glanville, Edith May
Glanville, Leigh George John
Glanworth House
Glasgow Arms Hotel Hotel
Glass, Gregory Charles
Glasscock, Tom
Glasser, Neil
Glebe Suburb
Glebe boundary marker Survey marker

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Giles, Billy

English settler who married an Aboriginal woman and settled in Dharawal land on the south side of the Georges River.

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Gill, Samuel Thomas

Watercolour and oil painter who published many lithographs of the Victorian goldfields and was thought to have visited New South Wales in 1856 and 1861.

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Gillard, Julia

Welsh-born lawyer who moved into politics and became the 27th Prime Minister of Australia in June 2010.

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Gillespie, Dizzy

American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and singer.

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Gilligaloola

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House in Normanhurst, designed by Norman Selfe for his family in the early 1890s, which is still a local landmark.

House

Gilmore, Mary

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Poet, prose writer and pacifist who campaigned for social and economic reform, particularly that involving Aborigines, the poor and the aged.

Gilpin, David

Merchant and local politician who served as Lord Mayor of Sydney 1923-24.

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Gilroy, Norman

First Australian born cardinal of the Roman Catholic church.

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Giltinan, James J

Sporting entrepreneur who founded rugby league football in Australia and led the first Kangaroo tour to England in 1908.

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Ginahgulla

Victorian Free Gothic brick and stone house which now forms part of Scots College.

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Gingie

Single storey brick house with hipped and gabled roof of terracotta tiles designed in the Federation Queen Anne style.

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Ginn, Henry

Early architect.

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Giornale Italiano

Italian weekly newspaper published between 1932 and 1942.

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Newspaper

Giorza, Paolo

Composer and conductor who was director of music for the International Exhibition of 1879.

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Gipps Street Push

Larrikin gang which operated from Gipps (now Reservoir) street Surry Hills.

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Gang

Gipps, George

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Governor during the depression of the 1840s, who presided over the end of transportation of convicts.

Girard's steam mill

Steam flour mill and warehouse at Darling Harbour built by Francois Girard in 1833. It was taken over by Sydney Flour Company in 1841.

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Mill

Girard's wharf

Commercial wharf at Cockle Bay.

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Wharf or dock

Girard's windmill, Woolloomooloo

Stone windmill built for Francois Girard on South Head Road, close to Thomas Barker's windmill.

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Girard, François

French emancipist who became a baker, trader and mill owner in early Sydney.

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Giraud, Albert Jules Alexis

Mauritian born agronomist.

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Girraween

Western residential suburb, with an Aboriginal name meaning 'place where the flowers grow'. Initially part of D'Arcy Wentworth's estate (1799), it was subdivided in 1910 and now has a large Tamil community.

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Suburb

Gittoes, George

Artist who works in a variety of media to portray the effects on the environment of war, industry and disasters around the world.

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Giurgola, Romaldo

Internationally acclaimed architect and academic who designed the new Parliament House Canberra.

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Glaciarium

Ice rink run by the nearby Sydney Cold Stores which attracted skaters from all over Sydney until the run-down facility was closed in the 1950s. The site had previously been the Cyclorama.

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Sporting venue

Glade, John

Emancipist who purchased land in the Kissing Point district and after whom the area was named Gladesville by the succeeding landowner W Billyard when he subdivided it in 1855.

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Glades Bay

Bay on the Parramatta River at Gladesville.

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Bay or cove

Gladesville

Residential suburb located on the northern banks of the Parramatta River, named after ex-convict John Glade who had a farm in the area from about 1806. The original Gladesville Bridge, completed in 1881, was replaced in 1964.

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Gladesville bridge

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Concrete-arch bridge across the Parramatta River between Drummoyne and Huntleys Point. Until 1980, at 305 metres, it was the longest concrete arch span in the world and it was the first large bridge to be designed by computer.
It was designed by Tony Gee at Maunsell and Partners together with construction by Stuart Brothers jointly with Reed and Mallik of the UK, it was opened by HRH Princess Marina of Kent in 1964. In 2015 it was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

Bridge

Gladesville Hospital

Psychiatric hospital complex that grew out of the Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum established in 1838. Patients were treated there until the 1990s.

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Hospital or other health organisation

Gladesville Hotel

Hotel first licenced in 1864

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Hotel

Gladesville Macquarie Hospital

Mental health facility formed by the amalgamation of Gladesville Mental Hospital and Macquarie Hospital in 1993.

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Gladesville Progress Association

Established in the 1890s to lobby for improved community services and infrastructure for the suburb of Gladesville

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Community organisation

Gladesville Public School

Public school established in 1879

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Educational institution

Gladesville punt

Punt which began operating in 1832 between Abbotsford and Bedlam Point.

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Punt

Gladstone Colliery

Colliery in the Jamison Valley below the Fairmont Resort at Leura. Engineering difficulties meant it was never very successful. The coal was hauled by a ropeway up the cliff and via aerial ropeway across the Valley of the Waters and on to a siding on the main railway.

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Commercial organisation

Gladstone Hall

House built by William Starkey in 1870 in Ewart Street, Dulwich Hill.

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Gladstone park and reservoir

Park in Balmain which covers Balmain Reservoir

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Park or open space

Gladswood House

House built on part of the original Point Piper Estate for Samuel Deane Gordon in 1860.

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Glancey, Clement

Architect whose practice specialised in Catholic churches and schools, mainly in the Romanesque style.

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Glancey, Clement junior

Architect who continued the practice established by his father.

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Glanville, Edith May

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A strong and opinionated woman, Edith was a highly talented activist, feminist and lecturer who travelled extensively in the Middle East, was involved in the formation of the League of Nations and fought throughout her life for the poor and oppressed.

Glanville, Leigh George John

Dental mechanic and son of social welfare worker, feminist and philanthropist, Edith Glanville. He enlisted as a sergeant in the 1st Battalion, D Company of the AIF and was killed in action during the landing at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Turkey.

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Glanworth

House at 5 Lindsay Avenue, Darling Point which was built c1915-1916 in the North American Ante-Bellum, or American 'Plantation style'.

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Glasgow Arms Hotel

Hotel in Church St Parramatta.

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Glass, Gregory Charles

Public servant, magistrate and coroner who was the City Coroner before becoming the NSW State Coroner in 1992. The inquests he conducted included those into the murders of Christopher Flannery and Sallie Anne Huckstepp. The inquest into the death of Sallie Anne Huckstepp began in January 1987 and the 19 sitting days were spread over four years until 1991. With former State Coroner Kevin Waller, Glass was on the Steering Committee established to found the Homicide Victims Support Group in 1993.

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Glasscock, Tom

Town clerk of Glebe Municipal Council.

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Glasser, Neil

Promotions director during the restoration of the Queen Victoria Building.

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Glebe

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Inner-city suburb named for its original status as Anglican church land granted to Richard Johnson, chaplain of the first fleet in 1790. The Glebe Point area became fashionable in the nineteenth century, while the southern part of Glebe became a working class district.

Glebe boundary marker

Boundary stone originally erected in Glebe to delineate the boundary of Sydney Town. After several moves the remnant has been incorporated into Jubilee Fountain Square.

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Survey marker