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Long Cove Creek viaduct being replaced by iron railway bridge, Lewisham 1885

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State Archives & Records New South Wales

Statutory body established by the State Records Act 1998. The Act provides for the creation, management and protection of the records of public offices of the State and for public access to those records.

Based at Kingswood, State Archives and Records NSW manage and provide access to the New South Wales State archives collection, a unique and irreplaceable part of Australia's cultural heritage dating back to 1788.

Lewisham

Cadigal country until large grants were given to settlers in the early colony, Lewisham remained timbered and rural until the mid-nineteenth century. Its Catholic church, cemetery and hospital dominated one side of the suburb, and were the site of an air crash in 1946 when two staff were killed.

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Lewisham

Inner-western residential and commercial suburb named after the estate of emancipist jeweller Jacob Josephson. It developed with the construction of the Redfern-Parramatta railway line in the 1850s.

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Hawthorne Canal

Short canal, originally Long Cove Creek, which links Haberfield with Iron Cove.

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Lewisham viaduct

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Eight span stone arch viaduct over Long Cove Creek built in 1855 for the Sydney to Parramatta Railway. It was replaced in 1886 by a Whipple truss railway bridge.