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The Miranda Satire 1924

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[TN206]
('Burlesques in Stone', Construction and Local Government Journal, 30 January 1924 p8)

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War Memorials for World War I

The shocking losses of Australian servicemen and women in the Great War prompted communities across Australia to find ways to memorialise those who died, and honour those who served. As no centralised authority drove or coordinated this task, the form of each memorial reflects the community that raised the funds to build it. Balmain was the first suburb in Australia to erect a war memorial, but in time, the towns, suburbs, workplaces and institutions of Sydney found a way to fulfil the covenant 'we will remember them.'

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Miranda

Southern commercial and residential suburb, named in the nineteenth century after the character in Shakespeare's play ˜The Tempest'. It became a fruit growing and poultry farming area, with settlements of returned First World War soldiers being established there in the 1920s.

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Miranda War Memorial

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Sandstone memorial commemorating Australian servicemen and women who have served in all wars, erected to commemorate those from the area who served in World War I. It originally stood in the grounds of the old Miranda Public School but was moved in 1968 and again in May 2014. A contentious statue on top was removed soon after it was first unveiled.