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Cricket match, Gladesville Mental Hospital in background c1870s

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Gladesville

Established on traditional Wallumedegal land, Gladesville's farms and dairies supplied Sydney. Better transport and postwar housing demand later resulted in rapid expansion.

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Gladesville Hospital

Psychiatric hospital complex that grew out of the Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum established in 1838. Patients were treated there until the 1990s.

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Gladesville

Residential suburb located on the northern banks of the Parramatta River, named after ex-convict John Glade who had a farm in the area from about 1806. The original Gladesville Bridge, completed in 1881, was replaced in 1964.

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