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Show Pavilion at Hordern's sports ground, Wardell Road, Dulwich Hill c1921

By
Arthur Ernest Foster
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a6552052 / ON 30/Box 12, 106]
(Mitchell Library)

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Inter-War architecture Public building Recreation and Sport
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Cooks River
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Foster, Arthur Ernest

Arthur Ernest Foster was a commercial photographer at 289 Victoria Road, Gladesville between 1916 and 1947. He married Eileen Emily Hosie (d. 4 October 1977) in 1936. Arthur Foster died, aged 79, in 1958. 

State Library of New South Wales

Inter-War architecture

Public building

Recreation and Sport

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.

Anthony Hordern & Sons

Drapery business at Brickfield Hill which became Sydney's largest department store and whose motto was 'While I Live I'll Grow'.

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Dulwich Hill

Inner western residential suburb taking its name from Dulwich in London. It is now the terminus of the Inner West Light Rail.

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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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