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Bates, Smart and McCutcheon Entity
Bates, Thomas Entity
Bateson, Charles Entity
Batey, Peter Entity
Bath House Parramatta Park Entity
Batson and Company Entity
Batten, Bronwyn Entity
Batten, John Entity
Battle Bridge Entity
Battle of The Rocks Entity
Battlers for Kelly's Bush Entity
Baudin, Nicolas Entity
Baughan, John Entity
Baulkham Hills Entity
Baume, Eric Entity
Baur, George Entity
Bavin, Thomas Entity
Baxter, Alexander Entity
Baxter, Emily Entity
Baxter, Frederick Entity
Baxter, William Entity
Bayliss, Joseph Entity
Bayly, Nicholas Entity
Bayside Council Entity
Bayside local government area Entity
Bayswater Hotel Entity
Bayview Entity
Bayview Heights Entity
Bayview House Entity
Baywatch Entity
Bērziņš, Valdis Entity
Be Ready with Bells and Drums Entity
Beach, William (Bill) Entity
Beachley, Layne Entity
Beacon Hill Entity
Beaconsfield Entity
Beale Piano Company Entity
Beale, William Henry Entity
Beaman Park Entity
Bean, William Herbert Entity
Bear Cottage Entity
Beard Watson Limited Entity
Beard Watson Warehouse Entity
Beard, William Henry Entity
Beatle Village Entity
Beattie, Minnie Entity
Beaufort bomber Entity
Beaumont Hills Entity
Beaumont Road Public School Entity
Beaumont, Armes Entity

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Bates, Smart and McCutcheon

Australian architectural partnership formed in 1926 by Edward Bates, Charles Smart and Osborn McCutcheon.

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Bates, Thomas

Early landholder in Auburn.

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Bateson, Charles

New Zealand-born writer and maritime historian.

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Batey, Peter

Playwright, director and producer who has had a major influence on comedy and satire in Australia for over 50 years.

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Bath House Parramatta Park

Constructed in 1823 for Governor Brisbane, water was pumped through lead pipes from the nearby river, while used water was run off through drains of tunnelled brickwork and into a nearby duck pond. In 1886, Park Trustees converted the Bath House into a pavilion.

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Batson and Company

Printing company which operated in Clarence Street in the 1880s.

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Batten, Bronwyn

Academic and public servant with a special interest in shared history and Aboriginal affairs.

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Batten, John

Friend of Joseph Fowles who drowned in a boating accident on Sydney Harbour in 1843.

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Battle Bridge

Bridge built of sandstone in 1873 across Hawthorne Canal. The bridge was widened c1937 by the addition of steel beams and a concrete deck which obscures the original arch.

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Battle of The Rocks

Protest campaign conducted by The Rocks Residents Action Group against the redevelopment of the Rocks area between 1971 and 1974.

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Battlers for Kelly's Bush

Group of 13 women from Hunters Hill who enlisted the help of the Builders Labourers' Federation to prevent construction work by AV Jennings on the last remaining area of native bushland on the foreshore of the Parramatta River in 1971. The BLF applied a Green Ban to the area.

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Baudin, Nicolas

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French hydrographer and naturalist who surveyed much of the Australian coast between 1801 and 1803.

Baughan, John

Millwright and carpenter who arrived in Sydney as a convict on the Friendship in the First Fleet. He designed and built a successful functional grinding mill, using a treadmill model operated by 9 men in March 1794. 

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Baulkham Hills

North-western residential suburb in the Hills District, originally home to the Bidjigal people. The name is believed to come from Buckholm Hills in the Scottish county of Roxburgh, home of early settler Andrew McDougall.

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Baume, Eric

Journalist, radio commentator and television host.

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Baur, George

Bavarian doctor who supervised the baths at the Hydro Majestic, offering treatment for neurotic, rheumatic and digestive complaints.

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Bavin, Thomas

Lawyer, writer and politician who became Premier of New South Wales.

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Baxter, Alexander

Early landholder in the Kings Cross area.

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Baxter, Emily

Teacher who opened a fashionable school for young ladies in Surry Hills in 1872.

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Baxter, Frederick

Soldier who became the first resident of a War Service home in Belmore in 1919.

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Baxter, William

Marine private with the 32nd Portsmouth Company who received land grants at the Field of Mars, Bankstown and Evans but died a pauper.

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Bayliss, Joseph

Bayliss who enlisted in the 37th Regiment before joining the NSW Corp. Despite a land grant in 1803 he sold up within 3 years and returned to army life.

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Bayly, Nicholas

Participant in the Rum Rebellion who was a landholder at Ryde, Cabramatta and Haberfield.

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Bayside Council

Council formed in 2016 by the merger of the Botany Bay and Rockdale Councils.

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Bayside local government area

Area around Botany Bay, part of the traditional lands of the Cadigal, Gweagal and Bidjigal peoples, governed by Bayside Council. It was formed in 2016 by the merger of the Botany Bay and Rockdale local government areas. 

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Bayswater Hotel

Hotel in Ocean Street Double Bay.

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Bayview

Northern residential suburb on the southern shore of Pittwater. The name dates from 1882 when a post office was opened.

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Bayview Heights

Bayview is a northern suburb on the southern shore of Pittwater. The inland portion, on a plateau, is known as Bayview Heights.
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Bayview House

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Situated near the Cooks River near Tempe, the building was a private residence before it operated as a 'private lunatic asylum' with its first patient admitted on 8 November 1865. The asylum was owned by Dr George Tucker and was opened as an alternative for those who considered confinement in a government asylum 'repulsive to their feelings'. Initially it was licensed for 35 patients and one newspaper article notes that many of its patients 'owed their derangement' to the consumption of absinthe.

Baywatch

American television program which was intended to be produced at Avalon from 1999, but was stopped by resident objections.

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Bērziņš, Valdis

First Australian diplomatic representative in independent Latvia.

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Be Ready with Bells and Drums

The story of a blind girl and her friendship with a Black American in New York, it achieved international success after it was published as A Patch of Blue and was produced as a film.

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Beach, William (Bill)

Champion sculler and local government councillor who was unbeaten as World Sculling Champion from 1884 to 1887.

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Beachley, Layne

Champion surfer who learned to surf on Sydney's northern beaches.

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Beacon Hill

North-eastern residential suburb standing on high ground. The New South Wales Department of Lands built a trigonometric beacon here in 1881.

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Beaconsfield

Industrial and medium density residential suburb 5 kilometres south of Sydney, officially named in 1977 after British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, later Lord Beaconsfield. It is part of the Green Square district which is currently undergoing gentrification.

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Beale Piano Company

Australia's first piano factory established in 1893 which became the largest piano manufacturer in the British Empire. It closed in 1975.

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Beale, William Henry

Methodist minister who deplored the way the war was justified and defended from the pulpit.

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Beaman Park

Reserve bounded by Wardell Rd, Vera Ave, Flinders Rd and Cooks River, Undercliffe.

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Bean, William Herbert

Landowner in Ryde district.

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Bear Cottage

Children's hospice in Manly where children with terminal illnesses and their families can rest and receive medical care in a home-like environment.

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Beard Watson Limited

Furniture manufacturer and retailer with a large store in George Street for much of the twentieth century.

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Beard Watson Warehouse

Four storey office block and warehouse in Victorian Romanesque style which had originally been the warehouse for the Beard Watson furniture emporium. The original sandstone façade has florid detailing and forms part of the so-called York Street Wall which retains many fine 19th and early 20th century buildings.

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Beard, William Henry

Furniture retailer and partner in retailing and manufacturing company Beard Watson Ltd.

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Beatle Village

Nightclub and live music venue at 124 Oxford Street in the 1960s where bands like the Easybeats and the Missing Links played.

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Beattie, Minnie

Milliner who worked in her mother's business in Pitt Street.

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Beaufort bomber

Twin-engined bomber constructed in Australia between 1939 and 1944.

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Beaumont Hills

A western suburb, formerly part of Kellyville, which was created as a separate suburb in 2001.

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Beaumont Road Public School

Infant school established in 1953 which was granted public school status in 1954.

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Beaumont, Armes

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Tenor who made his first operatic appearance in Sydney in November 1863 and subsequently joined Fred Lyster's opera company. He joined WS Lyster's opera company in 1870.