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The Bridge Street Affray
On 2 February 1894 three men attempted to rob the offices of the Union Steamship Company on Bridge Street in the city. Several police constables were brutally attacked and injured when they confronted the thieves. Officers of the New South Wales Police have carried firearms…
Josephson, Joshua Frey
Son of a German-born convict, JF Josephson became a successful musician, lawyer, investor, and patron of the arts, as well as a municipal and colonial politician.
Max Solling on Wentworth Park Racecourse 2009
Historian Max Solling describes the rise and fall of greyhound racing, 'sport of the masses', at Wentworth Park racecourse.
Boatswain Maroot
Boatswain Maroot was born about 1793 at the Cooks River (Gumannan) near Botany, the son of Maroot the elder (c1773-1817) of the Gameygal people that occupied the north shore of Kamay (Botany Bay), and Grang Grang. The son would lead a very different life to that of his…