Rivers and Catchments Subject Aboriginal people of the Cooks River valley Bark huts and country estates Berowra Waters Cowan Creek Damming the Cooks River Fishers Ghost Creek Frere's Vineyard on the Georges River From Sheas Creek to Alexandra Canal From a fine stream to an industrial watercourse Geology and geography of the Georges River Georges River: Flooding the City Hawkesbury River Industry in the Cooks River valley Jew Fish Bay and Oatley Park Baths Living with sharks on the Georges River Managing the Cooks River today Mapping the Georges River McGarvie’s list and Aboriginal Dyarubbin Milsons Passage Neverfail Bay, Oatley River Cycles - A History of the Parramatta River The Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River The Tank Stream Transcript: Miss Elizabeth Killinger talks about her father's tannery on the Georges River Transcript: Mr Charles Wilson recalls fishing in the Georges River in the early twentieth century Transcript: Mr Fred Scott remembers his grandfather's work as a wool classer in Liverpool Transcript: Mr Jack Healy recalls boyhood swimming rituals in the Georges River Transcript: Mr Pat Cullen recalls the life saving club that patrolled the Georges River in the early 1930s Transcript: Mr Walter John Ferguson recalls the dangers of swimming in the Georges River in the late 1920s Transcript: Mrs Dorothy Colburn recalls hazards associated with the Georges River Transcript: Mrs Enid and Mr Carl Borowsky recall learning to swim in the Georges River in the 1920s Working the Tides By tranquil waters 1894 Clean Waters Act 1970 Cooks River Environment Survey and Landscape Design: report of the Cooks River Project Cooks River Improvement Act 1897 Cooks River Improvement Act 1946 Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project Rev John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829 Saccostrea glomerata (Sydney rock oyster ) Tankstream - into the head of the Cove... Waterholes 2018 by Leanne Mulgo Watson Hawkesbury River flood 1867 Apple Tree Bay Apple Tree Bay Creek Archer Creek Bardenarang Creek (Bardo Narang) Bardwell Creek Berowra Creek Big Boree Creek Blackbutt Creek Blackwattle Creek Boree Arm Boree Swamp in 1831 Bow Bowing Creek Bringelly Creek Buffalo Creek Cabramatta Creek Calabash Creek Cataract River Cattai Creek Chipping Norton Lakes Clay Cliff Creek Clear Paddock Creek Cobay lagoon Cockle Creek Colo River Cooks River Cowan Creek Coxs Creek Cup and Saucer Creek Darling Mills Creek Devlins Creek Du Faur Creek Duck River Flat Rock Creek Fortress Creek Freshwater Creek Gambling Creek Georges River Gordon Creek Gorricks Creek Govetts Leap Greendale Creek Grose River Hacking River Hackings Creek Harris Creek Haslams Creek Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin) Hunts Creek Iron Cove Creek Jamison Creek Johnstons Creek Kedumba River Kelso Creek Kittys Creek Lane Cove River Leura Falls Little Blue Gum Creek Little Boree Creek Little Cattai Creek Loftus Creek Lovers Jump Creek Lovers Leap, Maroota Macdonald River (Gunanday) Mangrove Creek Mareh-Mareh lagoon Marramarra Creek Matahil Creek Mill Creek Mount Hunter Rivulet Muddy Creek Mullet Creek Narellan Creek Narrabeen Creek Nepean River Parramatta River Peter Meadows Creek Ponds Creek Portland Head Rock Portland Reach Powells Creek Prospect Creek Pughs Lagoon Punchbowl Creek Quarry Creek Ridge Creek Rushcutters Creek Salt Pan Creek Sheas Creek Sickles Creek Smiths Creek South Creek Spring Creek Still Creek Strangers Creek Sydney Coastal River Flat Forest Tank Stream Tarban Creek Terrys Creek Thompson Creek Toongabbie Creek West's Creek Wheeler Creek Whites Creek Williams Creek Wolli Creek Woronora River Yengo Creek Yurong Creek Cooks River Alliance Cooks River Improvement League Homebush Bay Development Corporation Sydney Catchment Authority Gurangatty Kemp, Michael Waway Bandi Bandi Fishers Ghost Creek Freres Crossing Guldulo Karemooloomooloo Milsons Passage Mitchell Park Tank Stream Way Thompson's farm, Gununday Wowawme Alexandra canal Camden Weir Cooks River dam Fullers Bridge weir Hawkesbury River railway bridge Hawthorne Canal Lake Parramatta Dam Liverpool Weir Lord's Mill Marsden's mill Singleton's Water Mill Sugarworks dam Warragamba dam Woronora Mill 'Dugga', dense Riverflat forest, still standing in Mitchell Park at Cattai November 2011 A Grand Sanitary Work - Reclamation of Mud Flats at Cooks River, Botany Bay 1888 A View of Hawkesbury, and the Blue Mountains c1817-1819 A creek, National Park 1886 A shady nook, Hawkesbury River 1886 A surviving lagoon on Tizzana Road at Sackville 2018 A view in Parramatta N S Wales looking East 1825-1828 A view of part of Parramatta Port Jackson c1809 Aerial view of Cooks River Entrance and Mascot Airport 1973 Aerial view over Como and the Georges River towards Botany Bay May 2004 Alexandra Canal 21 June 2011 Alexandra Canal 27 August 2011 Alfords Point 2007 Appin Falls (Cataract River) c1905 Apple Tree Bay, Bobbin Head Aqueduct across the Cooks River, Marrickville 22 April 2012 Awaiting a helper engine before the Cowan Bank at Hawkesbury River 1940 Balmain Regatta, November 30 1867 Bend in Port Hacking River 1886 Berowra Waters 2006 Blue Lake and De Burghs Bridge, Lane Cove National Park 1908 Boating, Cooks River c1910 Bob Drake working in Neverfail Bay 1999 Bob Drake's oyster lease, Georges River, Oatley 26 March 1960 Bonnet Bay 2004 Boree Swamp and Thompson's farm on the Macdonald River 1831 Botany Bay c1789 Botany Heads c1865 Bridge over the tank stream at Sydney Cove 1794-1796 Bringing the brush fascines across the river, reclamation of mud flats at Cooks River 1888 Brooklyn and Peats Ferry Bridge 2005 Brooklyn boat harbour 2006 Building up the embankment, reclamation of mud flats at Cooks River 1888 By tranquil waters 1894 Camp scene on the Hawkesbury 1886 Canterbury & Prout's Bridge on Cooks River, 2 July 1859 Canterbury Bridge, Cooks River c1915 Captain Waterhouse's house, Sidney [sic], the Vineyard, about 1798 Cattai Creek NSW 1870 Children on the banks of Salt Pan Creek in the mid 1920s Chipping Norton Lakes 2015 Como 1921-25 Como Bridge June 2007 Como from new station 1921-25 Como pier November 2007 Como railway bridge and station c1905 Como railway bridge c1905 Como, Georges River c1905 Constructing floodgates, reclamation of mud flats at Cooks River 1888 Construction of Kingsford Smith airport in progress 1958 Construction of suspension bridge to carry water pipe across Lane Cove River c1900s Construction of the suspension bridge carrying water pipes across the Lane Cove River 1890 Construction of the suspension bridge carrying water pipes across the Lane Cove River 1890 Cooks River - old dam at River Street, Earlwood 1946 Cooks River Bridge, Tempe c1890 Cooks River Dam c1871 Cooks River Sydney c1860 Cooks River from Undercliffe 2005 showing section of the Cooks River where it is believed Bidjigal Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy crossed to evade capture by Marine Captain Watkin Tench early in the 19th century Cooks River from the old Sugar Works, 12th September 1864 Cooks River, Botany, October 17 1868 Cooks River, taken from Undercliffe, looking at the golf course 1936 Cowan Creek 2007 Cowan Creek 2007 Cowan Creek, Ku-ring-ai Chase, NSW 1939 Cowan Creek, Ku-ring-gai Chase c1900-1910 Cross section and longitudinal section of Shea's Creek Canal shewing position of submerged forest, remains of dugong, stone tomahawks etc 1896 Dam, Cooks River 1866 Dangar Island and the Hawkesbury River 2006 Darug Land 2019 Darug woman Jasmine Seymour with the paperbark scar trees beside Cattai Creek June 2020 Darug women Leanne Watson, Rhiannon Wright and Jasmine Seymour at Dorumbolooa/ Sackville October 2020 Detail of Plan of 42 allotments of land in the parish of Petersham and county of Cumberland December 1836 Detail of TL Mitchell's map of the colony of New South Wales showing Botany Bay, Port Jackson and rivers 1834 Detail of TL Mitchell's map of the colony of New South Wales showing the Georges River 1834 Detail of map showing land holdings of Daniel Judd, O Riley and Ann Prosser on the Macdonald River 1831 Detail of plan of the City of Sydney showing the wooden bridge over the Tank Stream 1855 Detail shewing position of stone tomahawks in longitudinal section of Shea's Creek Canal 1896 Detail showing the Tank Stream from 'Plan of the town and suburbs of Sydney, August 1822' Dorumbolooa, Sackville Reach June 2018 Duck Creek, Richmond River, northern NSW 1886 Dyarubbin at Dorumbolooa, where the river turns spectacularly into Kent Reach June 2020 Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River: catchment and surrounding regions 2020 Entrance of Cooks River Botany Bay November 1840 Fall of the Weatherboard c1874-76 Falls, Mossman's Bay 1886 Far from the Madding Crowd (National Park) 1886 Female Orphan School, Paramatta [sic], N.S. Wales c1825 Female Orphan School, Parramatta c1820s Fifth page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829 Fig Tree Bridge under construction, Lane Cove River c1874-75 Fig Tree House and wharf, Hunters Hill c1900-10 First page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829 Fishing boats, Hawkesbury River, Sydney 1888 Fishing on Wolli Creek c1900 Floating span into position c1888 Floods at Milperra-Moorebank on the Georges River 2 September 1963 Fourth page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829 From Dangars Island, the Hawkesbury, 17 April 1870 From Mud Bank Botany Bay - mouth of Cooks River 1830 From the Warren, Botany in distance, 8 August 1883 Gang of navvies discharging mud from the punts on to the embankment, reclamation of mud flats at Cooks River 1888 General view of Botany Sewage Farm from inlet house 1892 General view of Cooks River, with the Illawarra railway bridge 1888 Geological sketch map of the locality of the estuarine beds, Shea's Creek Canal Sydney NSW 1896 Georges River 1921-25 Georges River in Flood: residents leave their homes, June 1950 Georges River in flood: volunteers unload a rowing boat from Le Tourneau 'Rock Buggy' before loading furniture from evacuated homes into the machine for higher ground, Milperra 16 June 1950 Georges River near its source, Cataract Scout Camp 2015 Georges River, Ingleburn Reserve 2015 Georges River, looking downstream from East Hills Park across flat floodplain 2014 Gladesville Bridge at the time of its official opening, October 1964 Government Record Section, Sheas Creek Stores, May 1957 Greenwich Pier 1880s Grose Valley 1875 HC Sleigh's Sheas Creek depot, Alexandria 26 October 1944 Hawkesbury River including Kangaroo Point and Sanitorium Hotel c1900-1910 Hawkesbury flood, in 1816 taken from [?]rofton Cottage Windsor No 4 Head of Port Hacking River 1886 Henley 2007 Hordern's suburban delivery depots, Cook River c1921 Hunters Hill 2008 Landscape, Tempe House c1845 Lane Cove River, Hunters Hill c1875-1885 Lime kiln, Cooks River Dam c1870s Liverpool Weir 2014 Luncheon Creek, National Park 1886 Making the new sewer in Pitt Street 1857 Man prising oysters off rocks in the river bed in Ku-ring-ai Chase National Park 1893-1896 Map showing First Branch or Macdonald River, with land holdings 1831 Meadowbank Railway Bridge 2004 Mermaid at anchor, Endeavour River East Coast 1819 Moorebank, near Liverpool - The Residence of Thos Moore Esqre 1819 Mortlake Gasworks c1900-27 Mortlake Gasworks on the Parramatta River 1956 Native camp near Cockle Bay 1813 Near Pennant Hills Wharf - Parramatta River - My House 1854 Nepean Tunnel inlet c1885 Neverfail Bay from the estate 1880s Oatley Park Baths, Sandy Beach 1928 Old Great North Road, Wisemans Ferry in background 1890 Old Tank Stream Sydney c1852 On Berowra Creek, Hawkesbury River 1886 On Georges River near Liverpool, from Sophienburg, 21 November 1857 On the Hawkesbury 1886 On the Nepean, New South Wales 1881 Opening of bridge over Cooks River 17 December 1927 Oyster farmer Bob Drake working on his oyster lease, Georges River, Oatley 26 March 1960 Oyster farmer tending the oyster beds, New South Wales, Hawkesbury River 1960 Parish of Willoughby, County of Cumberland c1846 Parramatta River c1885 Parramatta River from Pennant Hills 1886 Parramatta River, 26 December 1867 Parramatta River, Abbotsford c1920 Passage of the River Hawkesbury at Wisemans Ferry 1820 Pearl Bay c1880 Peats Ferry wharf and steamers, decorated for the opening of the Hawkesbury Railway Bridge 1 May 1889 Peats Ferry, Hawkesbury River c1880s Pitt Town 1826 Pitt Town ferry, Hawkesbury River c1890 Plan of portions 1 to 11 at Shea's Creek, Cook's River, Parish of Petersham, Co Cumberland 1859 Port Hacking River 1886 Portland Head Rock and Portland Head Reach July 2012 Prout's Bridge looking west 1864 Railway bridge, Como 1886 Railway bridge, Como c1905 Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project team members (l to r) Leanne Watson, Grace Karskens, Erin Wilkins and Jasmine Seymour above Dyarubbin at Sackville June 2018 Reclamation at Cooks River 1888 Reconnaissance map of the Como Railway Bridge and adjacent country 1894 Regatta on Parramatta River from Searle's Monument c1925 Remains of the old bridge at Freres Crossing, Georges River 18 August 2005 Report of flooding at Georges River, June 1809 Rodd Island c1916 Rowing match between Trickett and Rush for the Championship of the World, Parramatta River 30 June 1877 Sandstone cliffs on Dyarubbin at Koorea August 2012 Sandy Beach, Georges River, Oatley 2012 Scene of the Milperra flood, where the Georges River broke its banks June 1950 Scotland Island 2003 Screenshot of website 'Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales' 2021 Second page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829 Shea's Creek Canal, sketch plan shewing position of submerged forest, remains of dugong, stone tomahawks &c 1896 Simmos Beach, Macquarie Fields, a popular bathing spot on the Georges River 2015 Singleton's Mill - Hawkesbury River 1879 Sixth page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829 Sketch shewing the neccessity for connecting the East and West sides of Pitt Street by a temporary bridge March-April 1853 South western outfall siphon and Mascot Pumping Station at the mouth of Cooks River, Botany Bay 1916 Spectacle and Snapper Islands from Balmain 1870-75 Spectacle and Snapper Islands from Balmain 1870-75 Squire's Brewery, Kissing Point St Albans, MacDonald River 1879 St Ignatius College regatta on Lane Cove River Steel Park River Patrol Lifesaving Club 1932 Suspension bridge across Lane Cove River carrying water pipe 1890 Suspension bridge carrying water pipes across the Lane Cove River 1890 Swimmers on Puck's Wharf c1925 Swimming lesson at Oatley Park Baths 1928 Sydney St Phillip - Land applied for by the Bank of NSW Bridge Street 8 August 1853 Tank Stream 1842 Taoura May 2019 Tempe - Cooks River, January 22 1838 Tempe House, Cooks River c1845 Tempe on the Cooks River 1840s The Channel to Rose Hill from the beginning of the flats at the head of Port Jackson from the wharf where Stores are landed for Rose Hill: Survey'd 1 Jany 1790 The Great Weatherboard Falls 1880-1890 The Great Weatherboard Falls 1880-1890 (2) The Harbours and Rivers Branch of the NSW Public Works Department March 1898 The Macdonald River, Wiseman’s Road 1840 The Parramatta River with Searle's monument c1915 The Priestman steam dredge at work during the reclamation of mud flats at Cooks River September 1888 The Pumping House, Botany c1885 The Rocks, with Bark hut, on George's River, New South Wales c1850 The Settlement on the Green Hills, Hawksburgh [ie Hawkesbury] River N.S.Wales, 1809 The Valley of the Grose c1880 The afterglow, Foulweather Reach, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales 1884 The end of the Alexandra Canal 13 May 2012 The former harbor of the Australasian Sugar Company Mill on the Cooks River 2005 The landing place at Parramatta, Port Jackson c1809 The mouth of the Tank Stream in Sydney Cove c1803 The old Parramatta Gaol and Gaol Bridge over the Parramatta River c1809 The old Ricketty Street bridge over Alexandra Canal, St Peters November 1936 The punt at Tom Ugly's, Wednesday 30 September 1903 The purple noon's transparent might 1896 The site of Hordern's sports ground on Cooks River at Wardell Road, Dulwich Hill before construction, c1921 The site of Hordern's sports ground on Cooks River at Wardell Road, Dulwich Hill before construction, c1921 The site of the Crescent, Parramatta Park March 2014 The waterfall, National Park 1886 Third page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829 Thomson's Bridge, Cooks River - looking E, little North, Friday 9 October 1863 Tiered rockpools in the Maroota area October 2020 Toongabbie Creek, Winston Hills 2006 Tourist map of the lake district between Sydney and Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 1917 Tracing shewing the boundaries of Brown's 35 acres at Wilberforce 1844 Tracing showing the land which George Peat wishes to have measured with the 20 acres already marked out at Upper Portland Head March 1836 Tranquility, Berowra Creek 1886 Undercliffe, Cooks River 1857 Unidentified bush scene 1886 Unwin's Bridge, Cooks River 1874 Upper Falls, Willoughby 1886 View - Berowra Creek 1886 View - Berowra Creek 1886 View - Port Hacking River 1886 View - Port Hacking River 1886 View - Still Creek, Hawkesbury River 1886 View down river from Webster’s Lookout, Oatley Park, towards Como Railway Bridge 2014 View from below the Dam, National Park 1886 View from below the Dam, National Park 1886 View of Berowra Waters c1930 View of Como c1905 View of George's River New South Wales c1850 View of Georges River near Liverpool New South Wales, the property of G Johnston Esqre 1819 View of Rodd Island, Leichhardt Bay 1891 View of Tempe on Cooks River 1845 View of Wilberforce 1825 View of Windsor upon the River Hawkesbury, 1824 View of mangroves in Oyster Bay from Sylvania November 2013 View of part of the River of Sydney in New South Wales, taken from St Phillips Church yard Views in New South Wales 1813 View of the Government House Parramatta from the bridge over the river 1833 View of the River Hawkesbury - above Raymonds Terrace, above Windsor and part of the Blue Mountains. New South Wales c1822-23 View of the bridge over the Tank Stream c1803 View of the dam over the river at Liverpool c1857 View upon the Nepean River, at the Cow Pastures New South Wales 1824-1825 View, National Park 1886 View, Port Hacking River 1886 View, Port Hacking River 1886 Volunteers from the Milperra district in response to an urgent broadcast appeal. work in blinding rain to sandbag a point in the Georges River where flooding was imminent, 16 June 1950 Walumbine Swamp and Boree Arm in 1831 Wanstead; Stephen Marsh Esq, April 30 1853 Warinora River 1886 Warragamba weir under construction 1939 Waterholes 2018 Weeping Rock, Wentworth Falls c1880 Wests Creek 1843 Wharf at Peats Ferry c1885 White hand stencils in a rock shelter in the Macdonald Valley May 2019 Willoughby Falls, Middle Harbour 1886 Windsor 1883 Windsor, Head of navigation Hawksbury [sic] River c1808 Wolli Creek c1900 Women of Dyarubbin 2020 Woolwich 2008 Wowawme, the monster fish Waway’s lookout place June 2017 Hawkesbury River, view no 6 1802 Miss Elizabeth Killinger talks about her father's tannery on the Georges River, interviewed 1986 Mr Charles Wilson recalls fishing in the Georges River in the early twentieth century, interviewed in 1986 Mr Fred Scott remembers his grandfather's work as a wool classer in Liverpool, interviewed in 1986 Mr Jack Healy recalls boyhood swimming rituals in the Georges River, interviewed in 1986 Mr Pat Cullen recalls the life saving club that patrolled the Georges River in the early 1930s, interviewed in 1986 Mr Walter John Ferguson recalls the dangers of swimming in the Georges River in the late 1920s, interviewed in 1986 Mrs Dorothy Colburn, interviewed in 1986, recalls hazards associated with the Georges River in the 1930s Mrs Enid and Mr Carl Borowsky recall learning to swim in the Georges River in the 1920s, interviewed 1986
