MHS member Gayle Adams reflects on history lessons.
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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.
Oral History: Harvey Hatfield "A Story of Early Marrickville"
The following is an oral history that came from the City of Canterbury Library website. It originally appeared in the Canterbury District Historical Society Journal (S1 No6) from April 1967. A STORY OF EARLY MARRICKVILLE by Mr. Harvey Hatfield Seymour's Corner once the haunt of "blackguards." As a lad of twelve I commenced work at… Continue reading Oral History: Harvey Hatfield "A Story of Early Marrickville"
Clever Theft from Seymours Store 1933
On July 18, 1933 the Sydney Morning Herald (page 9) reported: The most remarkably planned robbery in New South Wales for many years was completed at Marrickville during the week-end, when the big department store of H. T. Seymour, Ltd., at the corner of Victoria and Marrickville roads, was entered by way of an underground… Continue reading Clever Theft from Seymours Store 1933
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