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Chambers and McCarthy Commercial organisation
Chambers, Charles Henry
Chambers, David
Chambers, Hugh
Chameleons social club Club
Champion Ship
Chan, Bernard
Chance Ship
Chandler, Mrs
Chang, Arthur Gar Lock
Chang, Victor Peter
Channel 7 Commercial organisation
Channel 9 Commercial organisation
Channel Ten Commercial organisation
Chapman Steps Steps or stairs
Chapman, Anne Hale
Chapman, Catherine
Chapman, Jan
Chapman, Maryann
Chapman, Michael
Chapman, Thomas John
Chapman, William
Chapman, William 1768-1810
Chapman, William Henry
Chappell & Co Commercial organisation
Chapple, Reginald Arthur
Chapple, Roland Clyde
Chapter Hall St Mary's Cathedral Educational facilityHall
Chard Stairs Steps or stairs
Chard's Building Office block
Chard, John
Chard, William Henry
Charing Cross Suburb
Charing Cross Hotel Hotel
Charity Point Headland or point
Charkianakis, Stylianos
Charles Eaton Ship
Charles Gordon's horse mill Mill
Charles Herbert Reserve Park or open space
Charles Kerry and Company Commercial organisation
Charles Street wharf Parramatta Wharf or dock
Charles, Prince of Wales
Charlesworth, William
Charlish, Elijah
Charlotte Ship
Charlotte ferry Ferry
Charlotte Medal Object
Charlton, Andrew (Boy)
Charlton, Elizabeth
Charlton, Matthew

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Chambers and McCarthy

Legal company established by David Chambers and WG McCarthy which operated in King Street in the 1840s.

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Commercial organisation

Chambers, Charles Henry

Solicitor who was appointed Town Clerk in 1842 but resigned in 1843 after conflict with the councillors.

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Chambers, David

Solicitor.

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Chambers, Hugh

Solicitor.

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Chameleons social club

Social club for Sydney's gay community in the 1960s and 70s.

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Club

Champion

Barque of 673 tons.

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Ship

Chan, Bernard

Businessman involved in the rejuvenation of Chinatown from the 1980s.

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Chance

English yacht imported by William Walker in 1863.

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Chandler, Mrs

Teacher who moves her girls' school from Pitt Street to Goulburn Street in 1856.

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Chang, Arthur Gar Lock

Member of the Chinese Youth League in Sydney from the 1940s and organiser for the Chinese Seamen's Union.

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Chang, Victor Peter

Chinese-Australian cardiac surgeon who pioneered heart transplant surgery. He was fatally shot in a failed extortion attempt.

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Channel 7

National free-to-air television network. ATN 7 launched in Sydney in December 1956 from studios in Epping.  

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Channel 9

Television station which was the first to begin regular transmissions in September 1956 from Willoughby.

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Channel Ten

Television station which began broadcasting in 1965.

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Chapman Steps

Curving sandstone steps in Forest Lodge between Parramatta Road and Arundel Street opposite the University of Sydney. Terrace houses above them are known as the Chapman Steps Terraces.

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Steps or stairs

Chapman, Anne Hale

Biographer and daughter of portrait artist James Armstrong Wilson. Related to the Cheers family.

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Chapman, Catherine

Wife of Michael Chapman.

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Chapman, Jan

Film and television producer.

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Chapman, Maryann

Property owner in Pitt Street in the 1850s.

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Chapman, Michael

Painter and paperhanger whose civic involvement led to positions as magistrate and politician. He served as Mayor of Sydney 1871-72.

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Chapman, Thomas John

Tradesman who supplied and mixed the oils and colour pigments for house painting.

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Chapman, William

Secretary to Governor King who became his right-hand man and deputy commissary.

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Chapman, William 1768-1810

Convict who was transported for seven years for 'feloniously stealing...four hundred pounds weight of lead'. He became a plumber and glazier and married Ann Marsh, who assisted him in various business activities including a bakery, butchery and a general store. He was buried at Old Sydney Burial Ground and then his stone was later removed to Elizabeth Street Burial Ground on the site of modern day Central Station before it was moved to Bunnerong Cemetery where it did not survive the test of time.

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Chapman, William Henry

Early shipbuilder at Greenwich.

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Chappell & Co

Music publishing company founded in London in 1810 which established a branch in Sydney in 1900.

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Chapple, Reginald Arthur

Farmer who enlisted as a private in the 18th Reinforcements, 2nd Divisional Artillery Column and served in Suezl, Egypt before going to France in March 1918. He was wounded in action in August 1918 and admitted to hospital. After Armistice Day, he assisted the head gardener at Longford Castle in Salisbury, England who reported 'Chapple was attentive to his work and proved himself to be a keen and enthusiastic student of English farming methods'. He sailed to the United States of America for 'agricultural purposes' and after six months returned to Sydney via Canada.

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Chapple, Roland Clyde

Secretary for an insurance company who enlisted as a private in the 12th Reinforcement, 30th Battalion, trained in Liverpool and Rosebery Park Camp and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in August 1916. In England, he received instruction in bomb throwing at a school in Lyndhurst before proceeding to Étaples, France in April 1917. He was wounded 'accidentally' and admitted to hospital with a severe gunshot wound to his left eye. He spent two months in hospitals in England and was promoted to lieutenant in July 1917. After returning to Australia he was discharged as medically unfit.

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Chapter Hall St Mary's Cathedral

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Hall commissioned by Archbishop Polding and built to designs drawn up in England by AWN Pugin between 1843 and 1845. Initially used as a school, it was converted to a chapter hall in 1910.

Educational facility

Hall

Chard Stairs

Set of steps located in Darlinghurst that connect Forbes Street with William Street.

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Chard's Building

Commercial building at 171-175 William Street, Darlinghurst built for the wool merchant William Henry Chard. In 1916, the Sydney City Council resumed 94 properties on the southern side of William Street for road widening. Chard purchased the allotment on the corner of Forbes and William streets and commissioned the firm, Pitt and Morrow, to design a new commercial building on the site. The building was run as the 50-50 Club by Phil 'the Jew' Jeffs in the 1930s, Sydney's best known illegal casino, sly-grog nightclub and cocaine den. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation purchased the building for 21,000 pounds in 1945. The building still functions as an office block.

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Office block

Chard, John

Property owner from an early settler family in the Canterbury area who donated land for the Wesleyan church at Moorefields in 1850. By 1856 he had left the district and settled in Newtown.

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Chard, William Henry

Wool merchant and agent for an American fur company.

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Charing Cross

Planned as the commercial and retail centre of Waverley it did not develop quickly despite early tram access in 1881. It remained a village centre well into the twentieth century.

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Suburb

Charing Cross Hotel

Hotel used as Waverley Council Chambers and School of Arts hall until suitable premises could be constructed.

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Hotel

Charity Point

Point on the north shore of the Parramatta River.

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Headland or point

Charkianakis, Stylianos

Second Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox church in Australia.

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Charles Eaton

Timber barque that was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on 15 August 1834, en route from Sydney to Singapore.  Most of the survivors of the wreck were attacked and killed by Torres Strait Islanders. Four children survived, and two of these, a former cabin boy, John Ireland, and a little boy who had been travelling with his parents, William D'Oyly, returned to Sydney in 1836.

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Charles Gordon's horse mill

A horse mill for one or two horses in Upper Pitt Street owned by Charles Gordon in 1825.

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Mill

Charles Herbert Reserve

Reserve between residential properties in Whitehaven Road and Hartland Street, Northmead, previously the site of a major quarry.

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Park or open space

Charles Kerry and Company

Photographic studio opened by Charles Kerry in 1892 which produced over 2900 glass plates and many early postcards of country life and significant early events from the 1900s until its closure in 1917.

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Charles Street wharf Parramatta

Ferry wharf at Parramatta, opened in 1992.

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Wharf or dock

Charles, Prince of Wales

Member of the British royal family who is heir apparent to the throne, and who has made more than a dozen visits to Australia.

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Charlesworth, William

Ship's captain on the Royal Saxon which sailed between London and Sydney in the 1830s and 40s.

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Charlish, Elijah

Mixed farmer at Lane Cove who became Mayor of North Willoughby in 1873.

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Charlotte

Three mast square rigged ship with a crew of 30 which bought convicts and marines to the colony as part of the First Fleet.

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Charlotte ferry

Sydney harbour ferry which entered service in 1985.

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Ferry

Charlotte Medal

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Silver medallion 74mm wide which depicts the voyage of the Charlotte with the First Fleet, showing an image of the ship on the front and on the obverse a description of the journey. Thought to have been made by forger Thomas Barrett from a silver surgical dish and commissioned by Surgeon John White, it is regarded as the first colonial work of art and is now held by the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Object

Charlton, Andrew (Boy)

Champion swimmer who learnt to swim at Manly.

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Charlton, Elizabeth

Charity worker who filled the position of Mayoress of Granville while her son, James Robert Charlton, served as mayor. Her father played an instrumental role in the opening up of coal mines in the Illawarra district. She was the first president of the Granville branch of the New South Wales Red Cross.

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Charlton, Matthew

Early landholder and boat builder in the Berowra area.

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