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Weavers, James
Webb and Co Commercial organisation
Webb's Grant Locality
Webb, Bernard Linden
Webb, Edmund
Webb, Francis
Webb, Henry Richard
Webb, Mike
Webb, Thomas
Webber, Iris
Webber, William
Webby, Elizabeth
Weber, Mark
Webster, John
Webster, Robert James
Wedderburn Suburb
Wedgewood, James Ingall
Weekes, Cora Ann
Weekes, Norman
Weekly Times Newspaper
Weeney Bay Bay or cove
Weigand, Auguste
Weil Park Park or open space
Weir, Peter
Weir, Thomas Michael
Weitzel, Ernest Richard
Welch, Bettina
Welcome Magazine or periodical
Weldon, Sid
Wellesley, Arthur Valerian
Wellings Reserve Reserve
Wellings, Les
Wells, Richard Macdonald Seymour
Wells, William Henry
Wenberg, Vincent
Wenden, Michael
Wenham, David
Wenona School Educational institution
Wentworth Bay Bay or cove
Wentworth Falls Suburb
Wentworth Falls railway station Railway station
Wentworth Hotel Church Hill Hotel
Wentworth Hotel, Chifley Square
Wentworth Masonic Lodge Political organisation
Wentworth Mausoleum Cemetery or crematorium
Wentworth Memorial Anglican church Vaucluse Place of worship
Wentworth Park Park or open space
Wentworth Park Sporting Complex Sporting venue
Wentworth Point Suburb
Wentworth, D'Arcy

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Weavers, James

Emancipist who received one of the first land grants at Ryde.

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Webb and Co

Millinery business run by Mary Webb in Pitt Street.

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Commercial organisation

Webb's Grant

Tongue shaped tract of land on the southern side of the Cooks River perceived to be isolated from the suburbs and unlikely to cause pollution in the river.

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Locality

Webb, Bernard Linden

Methodist minister who felt compelled to resign because his pacifist ideals were in conflict with those of the church.

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Webb, Edmund

Emigrant whose ill health left him unable to claim his inheritance from his childless aunt and uncle.

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Webb, Francis

Poet who wrote prodigiously despite a lifetime battle with mental illness.

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Webb, Henry Richard

Businessman who created a gentleman's mansion in 3.8 hectares of grounds at Croydon as the suburb opened up with the coming of the railway.

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Webb, Mike

Founding director of radio station 2WS.

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Webb, Thomas

One of the earliest settlers in the Liberty Plains area

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Webber, Iris

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Lesbian criminal figure who achieved notoriety between the 1930s and 1950s and became known for her dramatic courtroom appearances.

Webber, William

Convict, sentenced to 7 years, who escaped during 1830 and was arresated in 1831 for highway robbery.

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Webby, Elizabeth

Scholar and expert in nineteenth-century Australian literature. She is Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.

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Weber, Mark

Australian Formula 1 racing driver now based in England.

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Webster, John

Orator who spoke regularly at Speaker's Corner in the Domain.

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Webster, Robert James

Grazier, company director and former New South Wales parliamentarian.

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Wedderburn

Far south-western rural suburb. It is the site of a small airport for light aircraft.

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Suburb

Wedgewood, James Ingall

Freemason, theosophist and bishop of the Liberal Catholic church who despite numerous scandals, travelled the world as a missionary bishop.

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Weekes, Cora Ann

Publisher and writer whose dubious business practices in America were to cause the rapid demise of her journal 'The Spectator' here. Her feminist credentials were seen in her journalism and lecture on female heroism at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts.

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Weekes, Norman

Town planner and architect.

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Weekly Times

North Shore newspaper which began publication in 1858.

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Newspaper

Weeney Bay

Mangrove swamp and bay wrapped by Towra Point Nature Reserve north of Cronulla.

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Bay or cove

Weigand, Auguste

Sydney's City Organist during the 1890s.

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Weil Park

Park in Hunters Hill adjacent to Kelly's Bush, which was purchased by the council in 1956, although it had long been in public use.

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Park or open space

Weir, Peter

Director who helped shape the Australian New Wave cinema before achieving international success and many box office hits.

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Weir, Thomas Michael

Magistrate and coroner who conducted the inquest into the Granville rail disaster in 1977.

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Weitzel, Ernest Richard

German born architect who travelled to Melbourne as part of the German commission to the Melbourne Exhibition before moving to Sydney. He operated his architectual practice from 8 Bridge Street.

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Welch, Bettina

Actress who performed in lead or featured roles, mainly in commercial theatre, for more than 50 years.

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Welcome

Monthly bulletin of the All Nations Club.

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Magazine or periodical

Weldon, Sid

Tugboat captain injured when the tug Hero was sunk in 1940.

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Wellesley, Arthur Valerian

Eighth Duke of Wellington who visited Sydney in 1990.

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Wellings Reserve

Parkland on North Harbour at Balgowlah.

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Reserve

Wellings, Les

Town Clerk of Manly 1930s and 1940s

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Wells, Richard Macdonald Seymour

Architect who was appointed Government Architect in 1927, the first Australian-born person to hold that post.

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Wells, William Henry

City surveyor in the 1840s.

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Wenberg, Vincent

Aboriginal man who was removed from his home with his siblings and raised in a number of welfare institutions.

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Wenden, Michael

Sprinter who won gold medals at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

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Wenham, David

Actor who has been successful on stage and screen.

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Wenona School

An independent school for girls in North Sydney established in 1913.

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Educational institution

Wentworth Bay

Inlet on the western shore of Homebush Bay which was reclaimed for industrial development.

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Wentworth Falls

Blue Mountains residential suburb. William Cox erected a "weatherboard hut" as a supply depot there in 1815 while building a road over the mountains.

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Wentworth Falls railway station

Station on the main western line across the Blue Mountains.

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Railway station

Wentworth Hotel Church Hill

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Hotel on Church Hill near Wynyard Square which evolved from a row of terrace houses in Lang Street built in 1824. It was destroyed in a fatal fire on Christmas Day in 1888 and a new building was erected and reopened in July 1890. In 1950 the 185 room hotel was purchased by Qantas Empire Airways as accommodation for passengers and an air terminal opened next door in 1951. The hotel closed on 13 December 1966, the day before the company's new Wentworth Hotel in Phillip Street opened.

Hotel

Wentworth Hotel, Chifley Square

Distinctive semi-circular brick Post War Minimalist Style hotel building that runs between Bligh and Phillip Streets on the block next door to Qantas House. Designed by American architects, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, it was built by Qantas as a replacement for the original Wentworth Hotel on Church Hill. It was originally known as Qantas Wentworth and opened on 14 December 1966. It was the largest of five international hotels built in Sydney in the 1960s and the largest brick structure in the southern hemisphere. In 2002 it was rebranded as the Sofitel Wentworth.

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Wentworth Masonic Lodge

One of the inner city lodges of freemasonry which were established from the early years of the nineteenth century. This one met monthly at Currency Lass Hotel in Glebe.

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Political organisation

Wentworth Mausoleum

Private family mausoleum at Vaucluse where William Charles Wentworth was buried after his remains were returned to Australia after his death in England. The mausolem was commissioned by Sarah Wentworth at her husband's request. Originally part of the Vaucluse estate, it is now physically separated from Vaucluse House but is still considered part of the property.

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Cemetery or crematorium

Wentworth Memorial Anglican church Vaucluse

Sophisticated Modern building designed by Clarke, Gazzard and Yeomans and built in 1965, as a memorial to those who died in World War II, on land bequeathed for a church by the Wentworth family.

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Place of worship

Wentworth Park

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Recreational area at the head of Blackwattle Bay on what was originally tidal swamps. Its foreshores were used for abattoirs and boiling down works from the 1830s to the 1860s but in 1876, the swamp was filled in to eliminate noxious smells. Beginning in 1882, Wentworth Park was built on the land that had been reclaimed.

Wentworth Park Sporting Complex

Sporting complex developed for greyhound racing in the 1930s which is now utilised by a variety of sporting clubs and community organisations.

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Sporting venue

Wentworth Point

Western residential suburb built on a reclaimed industrial site on the southern shore of Parramatta River. It became a suburb in 2009 when the suburb of Homebush Bay was divided between Sydney Olympic Park and Wentworth Point.

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Wentworth, D'Arcy

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Irish-born soldier and doctor who became a well-regarded public servant and one of the early colony's richest men, despite his unconventional private life.