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Booralee fishing village
Botany fishermen and their boats, moored near the mouth of the Cooks River January 1938. Contributed by City of Botany Bay Library and Museum Services (L-R: Mr William 'Trappie' Duncan (84), Jim 'Snider' Thompson (82), Harry Jones (71) and James…
Cooks River favourites
Steel Park River Patrol Lifesaving Club, 1932. (courtesy Marrickville Library and History Services) Last week on 2SER we celebrated the launch of the Cooks River project. We've been blogging and tweeting about this great project since its launch two weeks ago.…
Inside History Expert Q&A with the Dictionary Chair, Lisa Murray
Sketch and description of the settlement at Sydney Cove Port Jackson in the County of Cumberland...16th of April, 1788, by Francis Fowkes, courtesy National Library of Australia nla.map-nk276 We hope you have your questions about Sydney ready for our Chair, Lisa…
‘Fine stream', 'fine meadow' – launching the Cooks River Project
The Cooks River Sydney c1858-1862, showing the dam across the river at Tempe, courtesy State Library of Victoria Acc No: H83.50/8 It is with great pleasure that we launch our ‘Fine stream, fine meadow’ Cooks River project. Made possible through a…
Australia's first female electrical engineer
Florence Violet McKenzie (courtesy of the Ex-Wrans Association of NSW) It's Biography Week at the State Library of NSW and so today on 2SER Breakfast with Tim Higgins we delved into the Dictionary to reveal the extraordinary life of Florence Violet McKenzie, Australia's first…
Koori Radio 20 years Live and Deadly
Trevor Dodd - Koori Radio 93.7FM presenter. (Courtesy of Gadigal Inforamtion Service Archive) Koori Radio has been going strong for 20 years, broadcasting the news and views of Aboriginal Australia from its home in Redfern. In this week's slot on 2SER…
French Suburb Names
La Perouse, 1878 (Thomas George Glover, National Library of Australia nla.pic-an4335722) Our chat last week on 2SER about the French in Sydney led to some great discussion on our facebook page about French suburb names and connections in Sydney. So this…
Bonjour Sydney
Potsdam, Hunters Hill, built by the Joubert Brothers c.1855-60 (SLNSW, PXA 970) With Bastille Day just gone, it was appropriate to chat all things French with Tim Higgins at 2SER this morning. Until the mid-nineteenth century, there were only about 400…
Australian Aborigines Progressive Association
If you tuned into our weekly slot on 2SER breakfast with Tim Higgins this morning, you would have heard me discussing the Australian Aborigines Progressive Association launched in Sydney in 1925. As a forerunner to NAIDOC, the AAPA, and the…
A unique bridge in Pyrmont
Pyrmont Bridge c1902-1917 By Kerry & Co.. Contributed by Powerhouse Museum (85/1284-2127 Tyrrell Photographic Collection) Pyrmont Bridge bustles with pedestrians and cyclists, connecting the city with the peninsula. One hundred years ago it was just as important a transport connector, but…