MHS member Gayle Adams reflects on history lessons.
Stories
A Hidden Life
"For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who faithfully lived a hidden life." - Middlemarch, George Eliot.
Purple Reign
It’s jacaranda time and Sydneysiders have been in rhapsody over the lavender flowered trees as they blossomed.
Meet the Smidmores
The Marrickville Metro is about to expand across Smidmore Street. "Who were the Smidmores?"
Pay your rates!
The Fall… and sad end of Thomas Chalder.
Death casts a shadow
One of the foundational events, if not the foundational event, of European history in the Inner West is surely a murder.
Building roads to the south
Poor roads, tolls, and the destruction of properties are constantly in today’s news. Was it any different in the past?
Marrickville’s first hipster?
Not only could we call Thomas Chalder a hipster, we could say founding father, community leader, developer and 10-pound Pom.
The beginning
If you trace your family back to the First Fleet then your family has been here for about 9 generations. But scientific evidence of human occupation in Australia shows that First Nations people have been here for at least 2600 generations.
Marrickville Cottage Hospital
The Marrickville Cottage Hospital was designed by Morgan and Josephson Architects with the foundation stone laid by Governor Hampden in April 1897. Consisting of two buildings, one fronting Lilydale Street and another behind, the hospital opened 10 June, 1899. In 1902 an isolation wing was added to the rear block (possibly resulting from the bubonic… Continue reading Marrickville Cottage Hospital
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