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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Blacktown Suburb
Blacktown City Council Local government
Blacktown local government area Region
Blacktown Native Institute site Archaeological site
Blacktown School of Arts hall School of Arts hall
Blackwall wool stores Warehouse or bond store
Blackwattle Bay Bay or cove
Blackwattle Creek River or creek
Blackwattle Swamp Swamp
Blackwood, William
Bladders, William
Blair Athol Suburb
Blair Park Reserve
Blair, Gorrie McLeish
Blairmount Suburb
Blake's quarry Quarry
Blake, Edward
Blake, Thomas
Blake, William George
Blakehurst Suburb
Blakehurst Progress Association Community organisation
Blakehurst Public School Educational institution
Blamire, Anthony
Blanch, James
Blanchett, Cate
Blanco, Raymond
Bland, William
Blanket, John
Blanks, Fred
Blaxcell Locality
Blaxcell, Garnham
Blaxland Suburb
Blaxland's Hermitage Estate No 2 Estate
Blaxland, Audrey
Blaxland, Charles
Blaxland, Elizabeth
Blaxland, Gregory
Blaxland, John
Blaxlands Ridge Locality
Bleak House, Balmain House
Blenheim Ship
Blenheim Carlingford House
Blenheim House Randwick House
Blenheim II Ship
Blessing of the Fleet Ceremony
Blevins, Jim
Blewit
Bligh Park Suburb
Bligh, Henry Hocken
Bligh, William

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Blacktown

Western suburb on the country of the Darug people, which as 'Blacks' Town' became the site of the short-lived Native Institution in 1823. It was a separate town until suburban development joined it to Sydney in the mid-twentieth century.

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Suburb

Blacktown City Council

Council formed to govern the Blacktown Shire in 1906, which became a Municipality in 1961 and a City in 1979.

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Local government

Blacktown local government area

Area in Sydney's west governed by Blacktown City Council. Part of the traditional lands of the Darug people, it became known as 'The Blacks Town' in the 1820s when the Native Institution moved there from Parramatta. It is the most populous local government area in NSW and one of the fastest growing.

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Region

Blacktown Native Institute site

Site of a large Native Institution Mission House and chapel, six small cottages and some outbuildings erected in 1823 at Black Town.

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Archaeological site

Blacktown School of Arts hall

Community hall built on land donated by Charlotte Augusta Bowman, and licensed for public entertainment in 1910. It served the community as the School of Arts until Blacktown Council took over in 1960, when the building was demolished.

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School of Arts hall

Blackwall wool stores

Wool storage and pressing warehouse constructed at Circular Quay in the 1860s.

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Warehouse or bond store

Blackwattle Bay

Bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, west of Darling Harbour and east of Rozelle Bay.

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Bay or cove

Blackwattle Creek

Tidal watercourse that flowed through a valley thick with the wattle that gave the area its name.

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River or creek

Blackwattle Swamp

Mangrove swamp at the head of the Blackwattle Bay filled partly by tides and Blackwattle creek running from Surry Hills.

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Swamp

Blackwood, William

Photographer.

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Bladders, William

Former convict who had been transported for burglary but became a constable in Sydney's early police force. He was one of several suspects in the murder of another police officer, Joseph Luker, in August 1803 but was found not guilty due to lack of evidence. He was also known as William Hambridge, Ambridge or Embridge. 

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Blair Athol

South-western residential suburb, named after the 1879 homestead of John Kidd. Formerly industrial, it was zoned as residential in 1992.

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Blair Park

Public park which was once the estate Evandale owned by Captain Henry Fox.

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Reserve

Blair, Gorrie McLeish

Scottish architect in the Government Architect's Office who was responsible for the design of the Mitchell Library building.

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Blairmount

South-western residential suburb. Its streets are named after horse breeds, in recognition of the Blairmount horse stud which once stood on the site.

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Blake's quarry

Quarry near present-day Blakesley Rd Allawah.

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Quarry

Blake, Edward

Early alderman of Kogarah municipality.

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Blake, Thomas

First postmaster at Kogarah post office in 1863.

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Blake, William George

Landholder, quarryman and and postmaster for Cooks River.

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Blakehurst

Southern residential suburb on the northern bank of the Georges River in Kogarah local government area. In the nineteenth century it was a centre for market gardens and boatbuilding.

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Blakehurst Progress Association

Community association formed in 1921, with the aim of persuading the state government to purchase Carss Estate as a public park.

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Community organisation

Blakehurst Public School

Government primary school in a bushland setting which specialises in the performing arts.

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Educational institution

Blamire, Anthony

Brickmaker in Hurlstone Park in the late nineteenth century.

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Blanch, James

Former convict, mathematical instrument maker and foundry owner who established his business in George Street about 1822.

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Blanchett, Cate

Actor, director and artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company.

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Blanco, Raymond

Dancer and the first Indigenous artistic director in Australia.

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Bland, William

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Medical doctor, philanthropist and politician who arrived in Sydney as a convict.

Blanket, John

Māori man who was one of the early harbour pilots and then worked for many years as a servant and part of the household of the politician John Robertson at his property Clovelly at Watsons Bay. On 8 Feburary 1874 Blanket and three other men from Watsons Bay were on a fishing expedition outside the heads. A storm blew in on their return journey and the boat was swamped near DeeWhy and sank. One of the men, a Portuguese sailor named Emmanuel Jacinto (or Jesson) was drowned, while the other three eventually managed to swim. Blanket was described as tattooed and as a Maori chief.

Blanket died in late 1889, aged about 82, and was buried at South Head Cemetery. In 1899 his remains were removed to be placed beside those of John Robertson.

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Blanks, Fred

Industrial chemist and music critic born in Germany in 1925, died in Sydney 2011.

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Blaxcell

Locality in the Granville area named for early settler Garnham Blaxcell.

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Locality

Blaxcell, Garnham

Trader and merchant whose unsuccessful speculation in trade undid early commercial success and involvement with the building of Sydney Hospital.

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Blaxland

Lower Blue Mountains bushland town. It was originally named after John Wascoe, proprietor of the Pilgrim Inn.

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Blaxland's Hermitage Estate No 2

Last part of estate originally belonging to John Blaxland, sold in 1922 and subdivided for residential allotments..

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Estate

Blaxland, Audrey

Actress and drama teacher.

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Blaxland, Charles

Pastoralist and landowner in the Ryde district.

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Blaxland, Elizabeth

Wife of Gregory Blaxland and an early settler in the Ryde district.

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Blaxland, Gregory

Farmer, speculator and explorer who crossed the Blue Mountains with Lawson and Wentworth in 1813.

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Blaxland, John

Merchant of independent means who lived at the Hermitage in Ryde and served on the New South Wales Legislative Council as well as holding other prominent positions in the banking sector.

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Blaxlands Ridge

A western suburb in the City of Hawkesbury north of East Kurrajong.

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Bleak House, Balmain

Sandstone house in Balmain built in 1850 by Samuel Crook on land overlooking Johnston's Bay, now the site of White Bay Container Facility. The property was named Bleak House by Crook after the book by Dickens due to lengthy legal settlements concerning the land. The house had fallen into disrepair and been demolished by 1902.

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House

Blenheim

Wooden sailing ship of 375 tons which was one of fourteen convict ships to arrive in 1834 bringing over 200 Irish male convicts. Inn 1837 it transported 210 male convicts to Hobart and in 1839 returned to Sydney again with 200 males.

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Ship

Blenheim Carlingford

House of Frederick Cox, local politician, butcher and orchardist, in Carlingford.

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Blenheim House Randwick

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The sandstone and cedar two storey house was built by Simeon Pearce on 1.6 hectares of land overlooking what is today Randwick Racecourse. The first Anglican church service was held at Blenheim House during Pearce's residency and it was also allegedly the site for the last foxhunt in Sydney. It was purchased by Randwick Council in 1984 and in 1989, a 'Friends of Blenheim House' group formed to help aid its restoration. The group leased the building from the council for 25 years in 1993.

Blenheim II

Wooden ship of 808 tons used for convict transport to Hobart and Sydney.

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Blessing of the Fleet

Ceremony held annually at Darling Harbour by local fishermen of Sicilian and Calabrian background.

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Ceremony

Blevins, Jim

Australian jazz musician.

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Blewit

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Aboriginal man who killed Musquito in retaliation for the wounding with a tomahawk of a boy named Pigeon in January 1806. He was also known as Ploge, or Blewett. 

Bligh Park

North-western residential suburb on southern outskirts of Windsor.

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Bligh, Henry Hocken

Inspector of Police at Albury and later Mayor of Willoughby, he was an early settler in Northbridge first purchasing land there in 1856.

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Bligh, William

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Governor of New South Wales who was overthrown in the Rum Rebellion of 1808.