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The Prout's Bridge Incident
Prout's Bridge
Illegal Tolls, Cooks River - letter to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald 4 December 1843
Toll gate and the new poor house on the Parramatta Road c1821-3
Traffic flowing smoothly on the Sydney Harbour Bridge after two new lanes were opened, July 1959

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Tollways

The Prout's Bridge Incident

Canterbury residents' delight at the new bridge constructed across the Cooks River to shorten their journey to markets in Sydney quickly turned to anger and complaint as Cornelius Prout set about imposing a toll

Prout's Bridge

Contentious bridge constructed across the Cooks River at Canterbury to enable easy access to Sydney markets. The imposition of a toll however was to divide the community.

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Illegal Tolls, Cooks River - letter to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald 4 December 1843

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[nla.news-article12414948 via Trove]
(Sydney Morning Herald, 4 December 1843, p4)

Toll gate and the new poor house on the Parramatta Road c1821-3

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By
Edward Mason
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1080017 / PXC 459/7]

Traffic flowing smoothly on the Sydney Harbour Bridge after two new lanes were opened, July 1959

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By
William (Bill) Brindle
Contributed By
National Archives of Australia
[A1200, L32700]

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