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Kingston Farm Entity
Kingston, Beverley Entity
Kingston, Peter Entity
Kingswood Entity
Kingswood Park Entity
Kinloch, John Entity
Kinnear Entity
Kinoshita, Satoshi Contributor
Kinsela, Charles Entity
Kinselas Entity
Kippax, H G (Harry) Entity
Kipske, Egil Entity
Kirby, Michael Entity
Kirchner, Wilhelm Entity
Kirk, Patrick Entity
Kirk, Rupert Entity
Kirkbride Entity
Kirkham Entry
Kirkham Entity
Kirkham Country Golf Club Entity
Kirkham Estate Entity
Kirkham mill Entity
Kirkham railway station Entity
Kirkham Stables Entity
Kirkman, John Entity
Kirkman, Thomas Entity
Kirkpatrick, John Entity
Kirkpatrick, Peter Entity
Kirkwood, Joe Entity
Kirrawee Entity
Kirribilli Entry
Kirribilli Entity
Kirribilli 2009 Media
Kirribilli Club Entity
Kirribilli House Entity
Kirribilli Point 2007 Media
Kisch, Egon Entity
Kismet Theatre Pty Ltd Entity
Kiss, George Entity
Kissing Point Entity
Kissing Point Entity
Kissing Point Park Entity
Kissing Point Progress Association Entity
Kissing the altar, Midnight Mass at the Russian Orthodox Church, Cabramatta 2007 Media
Kit Kat Club Entity
Kitamura, Toranosuke Entity
Kitty Entity
Kittys Creek Entity
Kiwis Revue Company Entity
Klaphake, Alice Entity

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Kingston Farm

Part of land grant to Thomas Rowley in 1793 in the vicinity of Australia Street Camperdown.

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Kingston, Beverley

Author and historian.

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Kingston, Peter

Printmaker, illustrator and artist.

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Kingswood

Western semi-rural residential suburb, named for Governor Phillip Gidley King. Developed since the 1960s, it is now the location of New South Wales State Records' Western Sydney Records Centre, and Western Sydney University's Kingswood Campus.

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Kingswood Park

Park in Kingswood

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Kinloch, John

Founder of Hurlstone College which gave its name to Hurlstone Park.

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Kinnear

A barque of 370 tons which bought the first bounty migrants from Germany.

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Kinoshita, Satoshi

Kinsela, Charles

Funeral director who prospered through a combination of service and respectability using modern equipment and tasteful parlours. He continued the profession of his father and grandfather, both also Charles, and established a successful business which prospered until 1981.

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Kinselas

Former drapers which was converted to a funeral chapel by architect C Bruce Dellit. The foyer contains a sculpture by Raymond Hoff and the whole was considered one of the finest Art Deco style funerary spaces in Sydney. The building is now used as a bar and function rooms.

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Kippax, H G (Harry)

One of the most authoritative theatre critics Australia has ever produced. He was a foreign correspondent and war correspondent and theatre and music critic at the Sydney Morning Herald for over 40 years.

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Kipske, Egil

Theatre casting director and teacher.

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Kirby, Michael

Jurist, judge and academic.

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Kirchner, Wilhelm

Businessman, diplomat and immigration agent who organised passage for German immigrants to Sydney and was later Sydney consul for Hamburg and Prussia.

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Kirk, Patrick

Early landowner in the Parramatta district.

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Kirk, Rupert

Early settler at Longueville who established one of the first soap and candlemaking factories in the area.

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Kirkbride

First purpose built hospital for moral therapy treatment of the insane. It became part of Callan park Hospital and is now occupied by Sydney College of the Arts.

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Kirkham

A picturesque, semi-rural locality on Sydney's rural-urban fringe, Kirkham's identity has been shaped and reshaped by successive generations who have created their own stories, heroes and icons in an ever-evolving landscape.

Kirkham

South-western semi-rural suburb, named for John Oxley's birthplace. It is the location of James White's house Camelot, designed by John Horbury Hunt in 1888.

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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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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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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.

Kirkham railway station

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

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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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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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Kirribilli

Part of the traditional lands of the Cammeraygal people, Kirribilli was granted to an ex-convict, Samuel Lightfoot, while the Cammeraygal still lived there, and despite later grants and leases, there was still a band of Aboriginal people living there in the 1820s, including Bungaree. From the 1840s Kirribilli was subdivided and large villas built, taking advantage of proximity to the city. Small scale waterfront industry continued into the twentieth century, when flats replaced many villas, making Kirribilli one of Sydney's densest suburbs.

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 2009

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By
Sam Ilić
Contributed By
Flickr
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/stage88/3899523379]
CC BY-SA 2.0

Kirribilli Club

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

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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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Kirribilli Point 2007

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Image courtesy of
Airview
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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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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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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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Kissing Point Park

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

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Kissing Point Progress Association

Community organisation which formed after World War II.

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Kissing the altar, Midnight Mass at the Russian Orthodox Church, Cabramatta 2007

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By
Danny Huynh
© Danny Huynh
Danny Huynh Photography
(In the collection of the Fairfield Museum & Gallery)

Kit Kat Club

Nightclub in Kings Cross.

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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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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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