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Thomson's Bridge, Cooks River - looking E, little North, Friday 9 October 1863

By
Samuel Elyard
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a2085021 / DG D5, f21]
(Dixson Galleries)

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Cooks River
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Elyard, Samuel

State Library of New South Wales

Bridges

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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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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Turrella

Southern Sydney suburb on the banks of Wolli Creek.

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Undercliffe

Area about 2 kilometres south west of Tempe and 2 kilometres south east of Hurlstone Park. Previously named as a suburb now discontinued.

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Undercliffe bridge

Bridge constructed across the Cooks River at Marrickville. It had formally been the site of Thorp's punt.

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