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Steel Park River Patrol Lifesaving Club 1932

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Steel Park River Patrol Lifesaving Club 1932

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Marrickville Council Library and History Services

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Urban growth in the Cooks River valley

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Clubs and Societies Rivers and Catchments Swimming

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Cooks River

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Marrickville

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Steel Park River Patrol Life Saving Club

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Marrickville Council Library and History Services

Marrickville Library and History Services maintains and provides access to Marrickville Council's research collections and cultural heritage material. The research collection includes books, microforms, research files, newspapers, and databases. The cultural heritage collection includes objects, community archives, photographs and oral histories.

Urban growth in the Cooks River valley

Urbanisation, industry and pollution transformed the once lush Aboriginal hunting grounds and picturesque locale of the Cooks River valley into the inner city suburban sprawl we know today

Clubs and Societies

Rivers and Catchments

Swimming

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.

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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Steel Park River Patrol Life Saving Club

Life saving club formed in the 1920s when swimming in the Cooks River at Marrickville was a popular pastime.

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