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Quarrying

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Northmead quarries

Pyrmont

Blake, William George

Harrington, Austin (Dick)

Hourigan, John

Hourigan, Robert

Moxham, Robert Henry

Moxham, Thomas Robert

Moxham, William Dick

Pye, Walter

Saunders, Robert

Schwebel, Adam

Blake's quarry

Pymble quarry

Thornton Hill Quarry

Thrupp's Quarry

Ultimo Quarries

Gang of convicts working in a quarry around Millers Point c1821

Plan of the land on the east side of the northern continuation of Kent Street where the Government quarries are situated ... 1833

Pyrmont Quarry 1893

Pyrmont quarries c1900

Quarry and cottages, with horses & drays, Goat Island c1900

Unknown brickyard

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Quarrying

Northmead quarries

Northmead's sandstone houses and other structures were quarried locally, and were just part of the output of the long quarrying history of the area in the nineteenth century.

Pyrmont

Home to the Gommerigal people until the 1830s, Pyrmont peninsula remained undeveloped until the 1840s despite its proximity to Sydney Town. Quarrying the Pyrmont sandstone became a major industry, changing the natural features of the place. Wharves, factories and haulage provided work for the people who moved in, until the industry moved out, and another transformation began in the 1980s.

Blake, William George

Landholder, quarryman and and postmaster for Cooks River.

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Harrington, Austin (Dick)

Businessman who developed a shale and clay mining company.

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Hourigan, John

Quarry owner at Parramatta with his brother Robert.

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Hourigan, Robert

Quarry owner at Parramatta with his brother John.

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Moxham, Robert Henry

Stonemason and quarryman who established his business in Parramatta.

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Moxham, Thomas Robert

Quarry master, landowner and orchardist who moved from Parramatta Council to the Legislative Assembly.

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Moxham, William Dick

Quarry master and owner in the Northmead area.

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Pye, Walter

Quarry owner at Parramatta.

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Saunders, Robert

Owner of Robert Saunders & Son, quarry and stone cutting works at Pyrmont .

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Schwebel, Adam

German born stonemason who settled near Marrickville to be close to the quarries at Undercliffe.

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Blake's quarry

Quarry near present-day Blakesley Rd Allawah.

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Pymble quarry

Quarry begun by the Lofberg family in West Pymble, and later operated by Ku-ring-gai Council as a source of road building materials.

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Thornton Hill Quarry

Quarry in Fairlight on the south side of Sydney Road in the vicinity of Woods Parade, Hilltop Crescent and Bellevue Street.

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Thrupp's Quarry

Sandstone quarry at Kurraba Point, Neutral Bay.

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Ultimo Quarries

Sandstone quarries which have enriched the cultural heritage of the city and built many of Sydney's public buildings, scarring the western side Ultimo from the 1850s. Named Heaven, Hell and Purgatory by Scottish workmen, each quarry produced stone with distinctive qualities. As the Saunders family of quarry masters abandoned the quarries they were given new uses as the sites of the Ultimo Public School and numerous wool stores.

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Gang of convicts working in a quarry around Millers Point c1821

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By

Major James Taylor

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a2916001 / V1/ca.1821/4 (detail)]

(Detail of Plate 1 of 'Panoramic views of Port Jackson', c1821, drawn by Major James Taylor, engraved by R. Havell & Sons, published in London 1823) (Mitchell Library)