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Blue, Billy Entity
Blue, Catherine Entity
Blue, Mary Entity
Blues Point Entity
Blues Point Entity
Blues Point Tower Entity
Bluett, Frederick George Entity
Bluff Head Entity
Blyth, William Entity
Bo Moon Sa temple Woodford Entity
Boake, Barcroft Entity
Boan, Harry Entity
Board of Denominational Education Entity
Board of Health Entity
Board of National Education Entity
Board of Technical Education Entity
Board, Peter Entity
Boatswain Maroot Entity
Bobart, Elizabeth Mary Entity
Bobart, Henry Hodgkinson Entity
Bobbin Head Entity
Bobbin Inn Entity
Bochsa, Nicholas Entity
Bockelmann, Thomas Paul Entity
Bocking, James Entity
Boddingtons Entity
Bodenweiser Ballet Entity
Boelke, Grace Fairley Entity
Boer War Entity
Bohemians in the Bush Entity
Boio Entity
Boland, Eugenie Entity
Bolot, Aaron Entity
Bomera Entity
Bon Accord Bridge Entity
Bon Marche Entity
Bonachela, Rafael Entity
Bond Corporation Entity
Bond Street Entity
Bond, Alan Entity
Bond, William Entity
Bondi Entity
Bondi Amateur Swimming Club Entity
Bondi Aquarium Entity
Bondi Baths Entity
Bondi Beach Entity
Bondi Charley Entity
Bondi Icebergs Entity
Bondi Junction Entity
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Blue, Billy

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Early ferry operator on North Shore.

Blue, Catherine

Irish woman who was the daughter in law of Billy Blue.

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Blue, Mary

Daughter of Billy Blue, who married early Balgowlah settler Robert Tiffen.

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Blues Point

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Locality on Sydney Harbour named for mariner Billy Blue.

Blues Point

Headland on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour, named for boatman Billy Blue who was granted 80 acres there in 1817.

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Blues Point Tower

Apartment block which was the only element of a high density development plan for the area which was built. Often criticised, it is now listed on the North Sydney heritage register. It contains 144 apartments over 25 levels and is 83 metres high.

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Bluett, Frederick George

Vaudevillian whose talent for wisecracks and burlesque made him a hugely popular performer for over 3 decades.

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Bluff Head

Headland in Middle Harbour named for the steep cliff face on the foreshore.

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Blyth, William

Confectionery and pastry cook who was the proprietor of popular refreshment rooms in Pitt Street between 1843 and 1850. Born in England around 1805, he arrived in Sydney in 1833 with confectioner Thomas Dunsdon and his family, and managed their business opposite the Bank of Australia on lower George Street. Blyth married Dunsdon's sister Hephzibah in 1839 and took over the business in his own right in 1840. In 1843 he opened the new store on Pitt Street next to the Victoria Theatre. He sold the business in 1850 and established an Italian grocery at Haymarket. They moved to Victoria after this, where Hepzibah died in 1880. Blyth returned to Sydney and was living with his son Alfred in Marrickville at the time of his death in 1895.

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Bo Moon Sa temple Woodford

Korean Buddhist temple in the lower Blue Mountains.

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Boake, Barcroft

Poet who rejected the city for the bush.

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Boan, Harry

Perth retailer who married Sophie Bebarfald, daughter of Barnet Bebarfald, in 1896.

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Board of Denominational Education

Board appointed by Governor FitzRoy in 1848 to manage government subsidies to church schools.

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Board of Health

Regulatory board for private hospitals.

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Board of National Education

Board appointed by Governor FitzRoy in 1848 to establish a system of public schools in New South Wales.

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Board of Technical Education

Independent body formed to administer technical education in the colony.

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Board, Peter

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Director of education who revolutionised public schooling in New South Wales in the early twentieth century.

Boatswain Maroot

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Boatswain Maroot was born at the Cooks River near Botany about 1793, the son of Maroot and Grang Grang. Nicknamed Boatswain or Bosun, he was a sailor and one of the first sealers put ashore at Macquarie Island in the sub-Antarctic ocean in 1810 where he was stranded for 18 months without food rations, later petitioning Governor Macquarie for unpaid wages. He had land at Botany Bay where he lived with his wife, and had several white tenants. He gave evidence to the Select Committee on the Condition of the Aborigines in 1845 where he spoke frankly about his life, his family, his Country and the impact on Indigenous people since 1788. His name is also often spelt as Mahroot.

Bobart, Elizabeth Mary

Parramatta pioneer.

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Bobart, Henry Hodgkinson

Anglican minister of St John's Parramatta for 18 years.

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Bobbin Head

Headland in Ku-ring-gai National Park where the Hawkesbury River meets the sea.

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Bobbin Inn

Hotel that provided meals, refreshments and entertainment to visitors to Bobbin Head.

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Bochsa, Nicholas

Harpist and composer who died in Sydney on concert tour in 1856.

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Bockelmann, Thomas Paul

Composer of 'Como Waltz'.

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Bocking, James

Businessman who took over Bradbury district's first steam flour mill in 1870s.

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Boddingtons

Merchantman who spent her first decade on the West Indies run before use as a convict ship in 1792.

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Bodenweiser Ballet

Dance-drama company established by Gertrud Bodenweiser in Europe in the 1920s before war caused her to resettle in Kings Cross in 1939. The company, then composed of predominantly Australian dancers, toured extensively within the country between 1940 and 1954.

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Boelke, Grace Fairley

Medical doctor who was one of the first two women medical graduates of the University of Sydney. 

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Boer War

Second war between the British rulers of Cape Colony in South Africa and Dutch-Afrikaner setters, known as Boers. The first, in 1880-1881, saw the British experience significant losses and when a second conflict broke out in 1889, the Australian colonies offered to send troops to assist. The first Australians arrived in December 1899. About 16,000 Australians fought in the Boer War, mostly in mounted contingents, of whom 282 died in action or from wounds and 324 from disease or accidents. Six Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross.

 

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Bohemians in the Bush

Exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1991 celebrating the artists' camps that flourished around Sydney Harbour in the 1880s and 1890s.

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Boio

Son of Bungaree and Queen Gooseberry.

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Boland, Eugenie

Contralto who achieved some recognition in London in the 1900s.

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Bolot, Aaron

Architect who helped bring modernist design to Sydney.

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Bomera

Marine villa of two storeys at Potts Point built to take advantage of the harbour views. It was acquired by the government in 1910 and used as a boarding house until 1941 when it was acquired by the Navy. It reverted to private ownership in 2001 and has now been converted to 3 apartments.

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Bon Accord Bridge

Privately owned timber footbridge across the mudflats of the Tank Stream estuary in Sydney Cove. Built in the mid 1840s, soon after the construction of Semi-Circular Quay, by the owners of the nearby Bon Accord wharf, Robert Morehead and Matthew Young. Also allegedly known as the Halfpenny Bridge as this was the fare charged to cross. In 1853 the bridge was purchased by the government who removed the fee. When the Quay was expanded in 1854 and the gap in the semi-circle at the Tank Stream was closed, the bridge was demolished.

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Bon Marche

Named after the French department store, the retail emporium built in 1909 for Marcus Clark & Co was on the site of an earlier Marcus Clark store at the corner of Harris Street and Broadway. In 1959 the building was sold to the NSW Department of Technical Education and forms part of the University of Technology's Broadway campus, occupied by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

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Bonachela, Rafael

Dancer and choreographer.

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Bond Corporation

Property development company started by Alan Bond in 1967.

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Bond Street

Now a small street limited by the Australia Square development it was once lined with shops, printing and publishing businesses which were swept away during the reconstruction of the area in the 1960s.

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Bond, Alan

Businessman and criminal.

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Bond, William

Landholder who received one of the first grants, 50 acres, along Salt Pan Creek in 1809.

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Bondi

Inner-eastern suburb adjacent to Bondi Beach, largely a working class suburb for much of the twentieth century and also home to a large population of Jewish immigrants. Its name comes from an Aboriginal word for 'sound of waves breaking on a beach'.

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Bondi Amateur Swimming Club

Swimming club founded in 1892 in the natural rock pool which preceded the current baths. In 1969 it amalgamated with the Bondi Ladies Amateur Swimming Club.

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Bondi Aquarium

Aquarium and amusement park in the valley of Fletcher's Glen at Tamarama beach.

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Bondi Baths

Swimming baths built by Waverley Council at the southern end of Bondi Beach in the 1880s and home to the Icebergs Club since 1929.

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Bondi Beach

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Iconic eastern beach suburb. Its name comes from an Aboriginal word for 'sound of waves breaking on a beach'.

Bondi Charley

Aboriginal man who lived in the Double Bay area in the 1850s.

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Bondi Icebergs

Swimming club established by local lifesavers in 1929 to maintain their fitness during the winter months.

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Bondi Junction

Busy eastern suburbs commercial centre, with a rail and bus interchange and high rise development. Known as 'Tea Gardens' until the construction of the tram line from Darlinghurst in the 1880s.

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Bondi Mizrachi synagogue

Modern Orthodox synagogue in Bondi.

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