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Road engineering

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Cox, William

Hickson, Robert

Roberts, William

Cooks River Dam c1871

Covering the expressway cutting, 17 March 1961

Criterion Theatre being demolished, corner Park and Pitt Streets, Sydney 1936

Cross City Tunnel construction project May 2005

Looking west along Parramatta Road from about the City Boundary at Orphan School Creek showing subsided wood paved surface 1931

William Cox 1830

William Cox c1797-1798

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Road engineering

Cox, William

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New South Wales Corps officer who settled in the Windsor district and oversaw the building of the first road over the Blue Mountains.

Hickson, Robert

Civil engineer who significantly improved bridge design and road construction, extended metropolitan water supply and sewerage and vastly improved the Sydney waterfront.

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Roberts, William

Convict who established a successful farm and later built roads for the colonial government, as well as keeping an inn.

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Cooks River Dam c1871

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By

American & Australasian Photographic Company

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Covering the expressway cutting, 17 March 1961

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[SRC5479]

Criterion Theatre being demolished, corner Park and Pitt Streets, Sydney 1936

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By

Albert James Perier

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[Home and Away - 34316]

(Mitchell Library)

Cross City Tunnel construction project May 2005

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By

Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[045\045210]

(SRC15155)

Looking west along Parramatta Road from about the City Boundary at Orphan School Creek showing subsided wood paved surface 1931

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[036\036184]

(36184)

William Cox 1830

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a928934 / ML 1379]

(Mitchell Library)

William Cox c1797-1798

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a1087003 / MIN 382]

(Mitchell Library)

Engineering disciplines