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Born in Mauritius, Albert McGuire became a keen volunteer soldier with the Irish Rifles during the 1910s.

The venue Surf City in the former Kings Cross Theatre on Darlinghurst Road was accused of ‘breeding delinquents’ soon after it opened in 1963. Despite its short lifetime, the venue is crucial to the musical history of Australia. For three years it served as the spiritual home…

The second fleet convict transport Lady Juliana, brought over 200 women to the new colony of New South Wales. It was the first female-only transport to arrive in Australia and the first ship to arrive after the first fleet. The women disembarked in comparative good health to…

With the exception of a small number of Quakers, Independents and Methodists, religious opposition to World War I and the issue of conscription came from a few, isolated individual voices. The Church of England whole-heartedly supported the war while for the main part, the…

First called Grose Bay, the area became known as Waterview Bay after a house built there in 1830. With the building of a dry dock in the bay in 1855, industry took over, and for a century Mort's Dock dominated the bay. When the dock closed in 1958, it passed through a number…

The area of Roseville that became known Echo Point was part of Samuel Bate's farm from the 1830s. By the 1890s the farm was a rest home for alcoholics, and Henry Lawson stayed there for a few months in 1898-99. In the 1930s, relief work projects led to stairs, walls and paths…

Originally supplying the inner-west with electricity, this icon of Balmain's industrial heritage ultimately gave way to demand for waterfront property.

Playing both the latest music and the early music of the distant past, Collegium Musicum gathered round the cellist Carl Gotsch on his return from many years in the East Indies in 1937.