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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - Rookwood 1891-1894

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney Lidcombe

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Auburn Flemington Homebush Homebush Bay Lidcombe Newington Newington Armoury Newington Estate Rookwood Rookwood Cemetery Sydney Meat Preserving Works

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Newington Asylum Sydney Meat Preserving Company

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Lidcombe

Standing on Dharug land, Lidcombe was settled by 1828 with ex-convicts and free settlers on small grants. With the railway, stockyards and abbatoirs, and the large cemetery, prosperity came to what was then Rookwood. In the twentieth century, industrial development and decline, and new migration have changed the face of the suburb.

Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Published by commercial map makers Higinbotham, Robinson and Harrison in the late nineteenth century, the maps of the Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney provide a portrait of the city's municipalities during a period of rapid growth and suburbanisation.

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Homebush

Inner western residential and commercial suburb serviced by the metropolitan railway network, and crossed by the M4 motorway and Parramatta Road. Its name comes from the estate of D'Arcy Wentworth.

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Homebush Bay

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Residential and commercial suburb on the Parramatta River which included Sydney Olympic Park. The name was discontinued in 2009 when it was split into Wentworth Point and Sydney Olympic Park.

Rookwood

Western suburb encompassing Rookwood Cemetery located south and east of Lidcombe.

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Rookwood Cemetery

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Large cemetery established in 1868 on the railway line between Sydney and Parramatta at Haslem's Creek. It became known as the Rookwood Necropolis after the suburb in which it was located. The suburb's name was eventually changed to Lidcombe, but the cemetery retained the name of Rookwood.

Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Series of late-nineteenth-century commercial maps of municipalities created by Sydney map publishers Higinbotham, Robinson and Harrison.

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Lidcombe

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Western suburb, 14 kilometres west of central Sydney, nestled around Rookwood Cemetery, with industry and commercial development as well as residential areas. The area was known by several names, including Rookwood, Liberty Plains, and Haslams's Creek, before a new name 'Lidcombe' was created in 1914 by combining the surnames of two of the mayors of Rookwood Council, Frederick Lidbury and Alexander Larcombe.

Sydney Meat Preserving Company

Abattoirs and meat processing company established at Haslams Creek in 1869.

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Sydney Meat Preserving Works

Company established by pastoralists at Auburn in 1869 to process and can excess meat for sale. Stockyards, slaughtering, butchering, preserving and boiling down were all performed on site. It ceased operations in 1964.

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Auburn

Industrial suburb in Western Sydney which grew around the railway from the 1870s onwards. Now one of Sydney's most multicultural suburbs due to postwar immigration, it is one of the main Arabic/Middle Eastern centres in Sydney.

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Flemington

A locality within the suburb of Homebush West.

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Newington Armoury

Military magazine operated first by the army and from 1921 by the navy, it was closed in 1999 as new storage rules created operational difficulties and to accommodate the athlete's village for the 2000 Olympic Games. Remnants of the 1897 structures remain.

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Newington Asylum

Asylum for infirm and destitute women established on the former estate of John Blaxland.

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Newington

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Suburb built on former industrial land near Homebush Bay, where the Athletes' Village for the Sydney Olympics was built in 2000.

Newington Estate

Consolidation of land grants by John Blaxland to form his rural villa estate and farming community from 1808. Named after Newington in Kent, England where he was born.

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