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Abutment Aqueduct near Campbelltown c1890

Abutment Aqueduct near Campbelltown c1890

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Harold Arthur Blomfield

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(Courtesy of Charles Blomfield, Wagga Wagga)

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Blomfield, Harold Arthur

Private collection

Water supply

Sydney Water

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Organisation responsible for the maintenance and extension of Sydney's water supply, formed in 1880 when these functions were taken from the Sydney City Council. Reformed a number of times by legislation, the organisation was corporatised in 1995 but remains state-owned.

Campbelltown

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Suburb on Sydney's south-western fringes which grew from a township founded in 1820 by Governor Macquarie that commemorates his wife Elizabeth's maiden name. Rural in nature until the 1960s, the suburb has since grown into a major population centre.