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Alexander Brodie Spark 1836

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Forbes Mudie
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a128475 / P2/373]
(Mitchell Library)

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Damming the Cooks River
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Mudie, Forbes

State Library of New South Wales

Damming the Cooks River

Once considered 'the greatest boon ever conferred upon the town', the Cooks River dam became an endless source of environmental blight and misery to Sydneysiders and by the turn of the century was demolished

Scots

Spark, Alexander Brodie

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Free settler who became a successful merchant and shipping agent, before facing insolvency during the financial depression of the 1840s.