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Girard's wharf
French-born ex-convict and entrepreneur François Girard had a range of business interests, all centred on his Cockle Bay wharf which received goods and raw materials from the colonies and the world.
FBi Radio's All the Best
All the Best is a weekly radio show produced at FBi Radio in Sydney and broadcast nationally via the Community Radio Network. They've been telling stories in a variety of different forms since 2010, picking a theme each week and using short form documentary, personal…
Coyle, James Edmund Fitzgerald
Civil engineer who, with Professor William H Warren, designed the suspension bridge at Northbridge. Born in Ireland about 1844, he was a Member of the Institute of Civil engineers and worked in coal mining in Scotland before migrating to New Zealand in the early 1870s. He…
Execution of Thomas Barrett 27 February 1788
Convict Thomas Barrett was the first person to be executed in the new colony. The forger, believed to be the artist responsible for the Charlotte Medal, was convicted on 17 February 1788, with three others, of stealing food from the government stores, and sentenced to death.…
Wax impression of obverse of the first Great Seal of New South Wales 1792
The colony's first territorial seal was approved by King George III on 4 August 1790 and arrived in Sydney in September 1791. The Royal Warrant describes the design on the obverse as:
Convicts landed at Botany Bay; their fetters taken off and received by Industry,…