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Madden, Brian

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Madden, Brian

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Brian Madden was a Sydney historian. He died in 2015.

Belmore as Author

Canterbury Park Racecourse as Author

Canterbury Sugarworks as Author

Hurlstone Park as Author

The Prout's Bridge Incident as Author

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Belmore

Traditional land of the Bediagal people, Belmore was once all forest. Early European settlers cut the timber for firewood and later for railway sleepers, and farmed crops and poultry. In 1869 the district was named Belmore in honour of the new governor of New South Wales. When the railway came through in 1895, subdivision accelerated and after World War I surburban development was rapid. Migration and home units have changed Belmore since the 1960s.

Canterbury Park Racecourse

From the 1840s horseracing provided entertainment for pub patrons and workers in the Sugarworks village before more permanent facilities were constructed in the 1880s and related industries, both legal and illegal, boosted the local economy.

Canterbury Sugarworks

As the earliest surviving element of the Australian sugar industry, the Sugarworks has endured a variety of industrial uses to become an intrinsic part of Canterbury's heritage.

Hurlstone Park

Originally comprising small farm blocks subdivided by Sophia Campbell, Hurlstone Park was to see a building boom with the development of both rail and tram lines through the area around the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Prout's Bridge Incident

Canterbury residents' delight at the new bridge constructed across the Cooks River to shorten their journey to markets in Sydney quickly turned to anger and complaint as Cornelius Prout set about imposing a toll