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Harry Rickards c1867-72

Harry Rickards c1867-72

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William Davies & Co

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State Library of New South Wales

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William Davies & Co

State Library of New South Wales

Rickards, Harry

A printer's son from London, Harry Rickards became Sydney's best known vaudeville entrepreneur, and founder of the the Tivoli circuit.

Rickards, Kate

Gymnast, singer and actress, Kate Rickards was a pillar of Sydney's theatrical establishment, along with her husband Harry Rickards.

McKell Park

McKell Park occupies the site of the 1904 gothic-style residence Canonbury, which was a convalescent home for soldiers, a naval hospital and an annexe of Crown Street Women's Hospital. It, in turn, occupied the site of an 1840s cottage, Landsdowne.

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Rickards, Harry

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Theatre owner and comedian who built a theatre circuit in Australia and brought many legendary variety artists to Australia.