Showing posts with label Marickville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marickville. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Link to image, State Library NSW: 'Uncle Billy' Meek, Newtown toll keeper for 30 years

Library of NSW Search - Manuscripts, Oral History, and Pictures Catalogue - State Library of New South Wales
"Toll bar gates at Newtown ...? Uncle Billy Meek / Brother of James" -- on reverse

"General Note
From a collection of 19 photographs of the Meek family, Marrickville and Sydney (see P1/Meek Family, Mitchell Library)
Tollgate keeper, Billy Meek lived in the small gatehouse for 30 years."


Sunday, January 17, 2010

Another reference to Newtown Congregational Church, now the Greek Orthodox Church

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"Newtown Congregational Church, now the Greek Orthodox Church, opened in 1856 was built on land donated by Hon. J. Fairfax, founder of the Sydney Morning Herald. The first pastor was Rev. S. C. Kent, also principal of nearby Camden College. The school which adjoined the church was intended to provide a basic education for students who would proceed to the College for theological training."