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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Taylor, P Gordon
Taylor, Richard
Taylor, Robert
Taylor, Samuel
Taylor, Thomas
Taylor, Thomas Edward
Taylors Bay Bay or cove
Te Aroha Performing group
Te Arohanui Carving
Te Atahoe
Te Pahi
Te Rauparaha
Te Reo Irirangi O Poihakena Radio program
Teale, Leonard
Tear Tack, Joseph
Tebbutt's tannery Commercial organisation
Tebbutt, Carmel
Tebbutt, EJ
Tebbutt, Henry
Tebbutt, William
Technical and Working Men's College Educational institution
Technical Education and New South Wales University of Technology Act 1949 Legislation
Technical Education Branch State or colonial government
Technical gazette of New South Wales Newspaper
Technological Museum building Ultimo Educational facility
Ted Noffs Ship
Ted Noffs Foundation Philanthropic organisation
Tedbury
Teen Ranch Nonprofit or charity
Tegel, Valma
Teka, Tui
Telegraph Ship
Telephone Ship
Television Counter Measures Document
Tell Morning This Book
Tellicherry Ship
Telopea Suburb
Tempe Suburb
Tempe farm Farm
Tempe House House
Temple, William
Templeton, Janet
Ten on the Town Television program
Ten, George Soo Hoo
Tenana, Mat
Tench, Watkin
Tenison-Woods, Mary Cecil
Tennant, Kylie
Tennyson Suburb
Tennyson Point Suburb

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Taylor, P Gordon

Aviator and writer who flew with Kingsford Smith and published 8 books about flying.

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Taylor, Richard

Soldier granted land in the Ryde area.

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Taylor, Robert

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Circus performer and juggler.

Taylor, Samuel

Police constable who was one of several police officers injured, and later commended for bravery, during the Bridge Street Affray in 1894. He had been on duty at the Treasury nearby when he responded to calls for assistance.

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Taylor, Thomas

Sailor who survived the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in 1834.

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Taylor, Thomas Edward

Irish auctioneer and company director who migrated to Australia in the 1880s and was an early settler in Gordon.

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Taylors Bay

Bay on Sydney's north shore east of Bradleys Head at Mosman.

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Bay or cove

Te Aroha

Māori performing arts group formed in Sydney in the early 1970s.

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Performing group

Te Arohanui

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Portable Māori village assembled for performances of Maggie Papakura's cultural troupe.

Carving

Te Atahoe

Māori woman of the Te Hikutu clan who married a former convict in New Zealand in 1806.

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Te Pahi

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Māori chief of the Te Hikutu clan, who visited Sydney in 1805-6 to explore industries in the colony which could be useful to his own people.

Te Rauparaha

Māori chief and warrior of the Ngati Toa clan, who became alarmed at white settlement in New Zealand after initially encouraging trade. He composed Ka Mate, the most common haka performed by New Zealand international sports.

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Te Reo Irirangi O Poihakena

Radio program hosted by Nellie and Koro Riki on Koori Radio.

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Radio program

Teale, Leonard

Actor of radio, television and film known for his resonant baritone voice. He became a leading radio actor in Sydney after World War II.

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Tear Tack, Joseph

Methodist minister who was a much respected member of the Wesleyan Chinese Mission.

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Tebbutt's tannery

Tannery owned by John Tebbutt where old and diseased animals were boiled down for tallow. The 26 tanpits and six lime pits were some of many which contributed to the pollution of the Cooks River.

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Commercial organisation

Tebbutt, Carmel

Local and state politician who rose to Deputy Premier in 2008.

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Tebbutt, EJ

Tannery operator at Canterbury.

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Tebbutt, Henry

Survivor of the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in 1834. A passenger on the ship, his older brother was a member of the crew and was killed in the wreck. In the 1870s he described himself as have been 'a mere lad' at the time of the disaster, and must have been about 17 years old. Tebbutt stayed in Australia, eventually settling in the country town of Mudgee. He was the editor of the local paper, the Mudgee Liberal, and also held the positions of Town Clerk, Mayor, and Justice of the Peace.

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Tebbutt, William

Sailor who died in the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in August 1834. His younger brother Henry who was travelling on the ship as a passenger survived the wreck.

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Technical and Working Men's College

Sydney's first technical college, which grew out of the lectures at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, and flourished for four years before the colonial government took over technical education.

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Educational institution

Technical Education and New South Wales University of Technology Act 1949

Act establishing a Technical Education Advisory Council to advise the Minister for Education.

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Legislation

Technical Education Branch

State government agency of the Department of Public Instruction which administered technical education for six decades.

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State or colonial government

Technical gazette of New South Wales

The official journal of the Technical Education Branch of the Department of New South Wales between 1911 and 1941.

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Newspaper

Technological Museum building Ultimo

Ornate symmetrical three storey building which, as the Technological Museum and later the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, exhibited examples of the skills and industry of the colony. Though the collection rapidly outgrew the building it was not relocated until the Powerhouse Museum was constructed in the 1980s. The building was then converted for educational purposes for the Sydney Institute of TAFE.

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Educational facility

Ted Noffs

Tugboat equipped for emergency response on Sydney waterways.

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Ship

Ted Noffs Foundation

Founded by the Reverend Ted Noffs in 1970 the foundation provides essential services for young people and their families who are experiencing drug and alcohol problems and related trauma.

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Philanthropic organisation

Tedbury

Aboriginal warrior who, like his father, led a campaign of resistance against European settlers.

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Teen Ranch

Christian camping organisation for young people founded in 1961.

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Nonprofit or charity

Tegel, Valma

Swimmer who died after being attacked by a shark at Oatley Bay in 1946.

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Teka, Tui

Member of the Māori showband Maori Troubadours.

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Telegraph

Trading vessel.

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Telephone

Paddle steamer on the Georges River

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Television Counter Measures

Internal report by Macquarie Radio Network in 1956 on the threats to radio posed by television broadcasting, and recommending promoting radio's role in entertainment so as to safeguard advertising revenue.

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Document

Tell Morning This

Novel set in Sydney's slums that describes life among the unemployed during the Great Depression.

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Book

Tellicherry

Convict ship which brought 166 Irish convicts from Cork including the 5 rebels who had been convicted after the rebellion of 1798. It was to be wrecked in the Phillipines on the return voyage.

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Telopea

North-western residential suburb, named after the botanical name for the NSW waratah. It was developed after the Second World War when the NSW Housing Commission opened up the Dundas Valley.

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Suburb

Tempe

Inner-west suburb on the northern bank of Cooks River which grew from the workers camp established to build the Cooks River dam in 1839. By the 1850s it was also home to limeburners, woodsmen and fishermen.

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Tempe farm

Farm of 100 acres on the southern side of the Cooks River at Tempe previously owned by William Packer. A cottage, garden orchard and vineyard was established in 1828 before the grand home was constructed.

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Farm

Tempe House

Home built on the bank of Cooks River by Alexander Spark which became a social mecca for Sydney's merchants and bankers. It is a rare remaining example of Neo-Classical Georgian architecture in Sydney.

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House

Temple, William

President of the English WEA (Workers' Educational Association) who visited Australia in 1910 and discussed founding a branch of the organisation with director of the New South Wales Department of Public Instruction, Peter Board. He later became the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Templeton, Janet

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Pioneering pastoralist who emigrated as a widow with nine children to establish the wool industry near Goulburn. A major landowner in Victoria, the Riverina and Sydney she retired to Melbourne where she died.

Ten on the Town

Television program on Channel 10 in the 1960s.

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Television program

Ten, George Soo Hoo

Tea merchant who became an Anglican missionary to the Chinese, beginning his work amongst the market gardeners of Botany and Waterloo.

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Tenana, Mat

Member of the showband Māori Troubadours.

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Tench, Watkin

Marine officer and writer whose accounts of the early colony were among the first published.

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Tenison-Woods, Mary Cecil

Lawyer whose personal experience and interests shaped her dedication to child welfare reform and improving the status of women.

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Tennant, Kylie

Writer whose work was based on strenuous research among working people and the unemployed, and often set in Sydney.

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Tennyson

North-western semi-rural suburb, north of Hawkesbury River and Richmond.

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Tennyson Point

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Small suburb of 10 streets on a promontory on the Parramatta River between Putney and Gladesville, where ex-convict brewer James Squire was an early landholder. It was subdivided in 1887 and named after Britain's Poet Laureate.