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Randwick tram workshop 26 August 1930

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Randwick tram workshop 26 August 1930

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State Archives & Records New South Wales

Statutory body established by the State Records Act 1998. The Act provides for the creation, management and protection of the records of public offices of the State and for public access to those records.

Based at Kingswood, State Archives and Records NSW manage and provide access to the New South Wales State archives collection, a unique and irreplaceable part of Australia's cultural heritage dating back to 1788.

Randwick

The City of Randwick in south-eastern Sydney is located on land that was once swamps and heath vegetation. Home to local Aboriginal people for thousands of years, the area remained relatively isolated to Europeans until the mid nineteenth century when Randwick village began to take shape. Little remains of this English-style village with development in post-war years dramatically changing the suburb.

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Randwick

South-eastern, primarily residential suburb. Named after the home town of Simeon Pearce in Gloucestershire, England, it is the location of the Randwick Racecourse and Prince of Wales Hospital.

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Randwick Tramway Workshops

Complex which contained some of the earliest industrial buildings of the suburb of Randwick. It was built to service the steam locomotives between the city and Randwick Racecourse before it was used as workshops for the production of heavy artillery during World War I and II. It then became the last resting place of many obsolete hulks after the final trams ran in 1961, before it was converted to a bus depot and workshops and closed in 1988.

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