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The former harbor of the Australasian Sugar Company Mill on the Cooks River 2005

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Mervyn Bishop
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Marrickville Council Library and History Services
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Urban growth in the Cooks River valley
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Cooks River
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Bishop, Mervyn

Marrickville Council Library and History Services

Marrickville Library and History Services maintains and provides access to Marrickville Council's research collections and cultural heritage material. The research collection includes books, microforms, research files, newspapers, and databases. The cultural heritage collection includes objects, community archives, photographs and oral histories.

Urban growth in the Cooks River valley

Urbanisation, industry and pollution transformed the once lush Aboriginal hunting grounds and picturesque locale of the Cooks River valley into the inner city suburban sprawl we know today

Parks

Rivers and Catchments

Cooks River

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River that flows through south-west Sydney, starting at Graf Park, Yagoona, through to Botany Bay at Kyeemagh. The river was extensively polluted by industry and its course was changed to accommodate the runways of Sydney Airport.

Earlwood

Southern residential suburb which grew from a logging camp in the 1820s to a closely settled residential area with the advent of electric trams early in the twentieth century. 'Earl' commemorates a former mayor of Canterbury and 'Wood' two brothers who had a poultry and pig farm on Wolli Creek.

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