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Plan of 16 allotments forming a portion of the ...

Plan of 16 allotments forming a portion of the Brighton Estate for sale by auction by Mr Stubbs 1840

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Clint, Raphael

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Bark huts and country estates

In their drive to establish country estates and thriving industries in the Cooks River valley during the nineteenth century, European settlers exploited the water, timber and fertile soils of the Cooks River with little appreciation of the impact of their 'improvements'

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

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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.

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Inner-western residential suburb characterised by a large number of public parks. It was named after the town in Massachusetts by Lieutenant-Governor Francis Grose, who had served there during the American War of Independence.