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From the Warren, Botany in distance, 8 August 1883

From the Warren, Botany in distance, 8 August 1883

By

Henry Grant Lloyd

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a5894074 / DL PX 42]

(Dixson Library)

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Lloyd, Henry Grant

State Library of New South Wales

Rivers and Catchments

Tempe House

Home built on the bank of Cooks River by Alexander Spark which became a social mecca for Sydney's merchants and bankers. It is a rare remaining example of Neo-Classical Georgian architecture in Sydney.

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The Warren

Victorian Gothic mansion with over 30 rooms on the banks of the Cooks River at Marrickville. Filled with art and sculptures the house was built of sandstone quarried on the property.

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Botany Bay

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Large bay south of the city of Sydney, into which the Cooks and Georges rivers run.

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.

Marrickville

Inner-western residential suburb with an industrial heritage on the Cooks River, named after the Marrick estate of Thomas Chalder which was subdivided in 1855. The post-Second World War period saw the influx of mainly non-English speaking people, attracted by the availability of factory work and cheap housing.

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Tempe

Inner-west suburb on the northern bank of Cooks River which grew from the workers camp established to build the Cooks River dam in 1839. By the 1850s it was also home to limeburners, woodsmen and fishermen.

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Unwin's Bridge

Bridge originally constructed by convict labour in 1836 for Frederick Wright Unwin across the Cooks River at Bayview Avenue, Tempe. It was replaced by the present bridge in 1891.

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