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The Robert Brough Memorial Fountain 7 January 2021

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The Robert Brough Memorial Fountain 7 January 2021

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Hanna, Kim

Kim Hanna is a former Executive Officer of the Dictionary of Sydney and has an ongoing interest in local history.

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Robert Brough Memorial Fountain

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Fountain in the courtyard of Sydney Hospital with a distinctly Australian design, comprising a group of brolgas surmounted by black swans displaying their crimson beaks. It was erected in 1907 in memory of the actor Robert Brough who had died in Sydney in 1906. The fountain was imported from the Colebrookdale Factory in England.

Sydney Hospital

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Hospital founded by Lachlan Macquarie and housed in a number of buildings in Macquarie Street.

Lucy Osburn - Nightingale Foundation Museum

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Nursing museum and archives at Sydney Hospital housed in the Nightingale Wing, the oldest remaining building on the hospital site. The building originally housed Australia's first school of nursing and was run by Lucy Osburn who arrived in Sydney in 1868 and was a protegee of Florence Nightingale,