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Sara Dell, Petersham c1909

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Sara Dell, Petersham c1909

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Edwards, John

John Edwards is a Sydney-based historian and poet who has published books about Henry Louis Bertrand, Edward Baker Boulton and the Ryrie family.

Marrickville

Once the site of a vast swampland, Marrickville became a significant industrial area in the nineteenth century. Today, the industry has largely gone but its multicultural legacy still flourishes in this inner west suburb.

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Sara Dell

Residence of Robert Wardell on Parramatta Road Petersham, now the site of Fort Street High School. Named after his de facto wife Sarah Rowe

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Petersham

Inner-west residential suburb on the southern side of Parramatta Road, named in 1794 by Lieutenant-Governor Francis Grose after his home village in Surrey, England. Developed after the railway station opened in 1857, it is now a centre of Sydney's Portuguese community.

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