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Cricket match, Gladesville Mental Hospital in b...

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.

Cricket

Hospitals

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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