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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Brookvale processione Ceremony
Brookvale Public School Educational institution
Brookvale Union Brewery Commercial organisation
Broomham, Rosemary
Brough Boucicault Comedy Company Performing group
Brough, Robert
Brougham Lodge House
Broughton Hall House
Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic Hospital or other health organisation
Broughton House HouseWarehouse or bond store
Broughton House School Educational institution
Broughton, Elizabeth Charlotte
Broughton, Jane
Broughton, Mary
Broughton, Thomas
Broughton, Thomas Stafford
Broughton, William
Broughton, William Grant
Brown, A Campbell
Brown, David
Brown, Gavin
Brown, Harry Percy
Brown, Ida
Brown, James
Brown, John
Brown, John Neathway
Brown, Jonathan
Brown, Keith
Brown, Keith Sigismund Macarthur
Brown, Pam
Brown, Ray
Brown, Robert
Brown, Stephen Campbell
Brown, Sylvester
Brown, Walter
Brown, Walter Sigismund
Browne, Allan
Browne, Frederick William
Browne, Henry
Browne, John Vincent
Browne, Thomas Alexander (Rolf Boldrewood)
Browne, Thomas Francis
Brownlow Hill Estate
Brownlow, R
Browns Forest Forest
Broxbornebury Ship
Bruce, George
Bruce, Joan
Bruce, Lenny
Bruce, Stanley

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Brookvale processione

Various religious festivals, celebrated with masses and processions, held by the Italian community in Brookvale since the 1960s.

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Ceremony

Brookvale Public School

Multicultural school on the northern beaches.

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Educational institution

Brookvale Union Brewery

Trade union-backed brewery that produced union pilsener and honey stout for sale to trade union clubs, but was unable to compete with market domination of Toohey's and Tooth's.

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Commercial organisation

Broomham, Rosemary

Historian and author.

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Brough Boucicault Comedy Company

Theatre company that produced highly successful plays in Sydney and Melbourne in the 1880s and 1890s.

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Performing group

Brough, Robert

Actor-manager who founded the Brough & Boucicault Comedy Company and was a mainstay of Sydney theatre at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Brougham Lodge

House constructed on a land grant given to James Dowling in 1828 on Woolloomooloo Hill near the crossroads that were to become Kings Cross.

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House

Broughton Hall

Two storey Regency residence which was modified several times during the 1880s to facilitate its use as a psychiatric clinic.

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Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic

A shell shock clinic established during World War I in a stately house in Lilyfield, Broughton Hall became a psychiatric clinic on modern principles after the war.

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Hospital or other health organisation

Broughton House

Residential building which was converted from a warehouse constructed for ironmonger John Keep and Son at the beginning of the twentieth century. It once housed rifles, cutlery, anvils, horse shoes and all manner of ironmongery for the building trade with easy access from King, Kent or Clarence streets.

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Warehouse or bond store

Broughton House School

Short lived school established at Lilyfield in the 1840s.

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Broughton, Elizabeth Charlotte

Wife of William Broughton, and landowner.

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Broughton, Jane

Wife of early Sydney mayor Thomas Broughton, with whom she had 15 children.

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Broughton, Mary

Mother of Thomas Stafford Broughton who became an early Mayor of Sydney.

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Broughton, Thomas

Father of early Sydney Mayor Thomas Stafford Broughton

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Broughton, Thomas Stafford

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Tailor who became a grazier, alderman, Mayor and member of the Legislative Assembly, and owned land in Paddington and Artarmon.

Broughton, William

Dedicated and trustworthy public servant who arrived with the First Fleet.

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Broughton, William Grant

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First Anglican Bishop in Australia.

Brown, A Campbell

Shipping agent and merchant.

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Brown, David

Free settler and early landholder in the Ryde district, trustee of the Field of Mars Common.

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Brown, Gavin

Vice-Chancellor of Sydney University 1996-2008.

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Brown, Harry Percy

Director-General PMG Department 1922-39 who introduced the world's most extensive mechanised mail handling at Sydney GPO 1930.

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Brown, Ida

Palaeontologist who lectured at the University of Sydney and continued private field-work until 1965.

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Brown, James

Teacher who was important in the foundation of Granville Technical College, and its superintendent for many years.

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Brown, John

Coal baron, ship owner and racehorse breeder who was a ruthless manager and highly antagonistic to unionism within the industry.

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Brown, John Neathway

Emancipist and publican who had a farm at Botany named Bunnerong. The land had been named Bunnerong by its former owner, another man named John Brown who was a soldier in the 102nd Regiment and had received the land grant in 1823.

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Brown, Jonathan

Publican in Millers Point in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Brown, Keith

Boatbuilder and sailmaker in Putney.

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Brown, Keith Sigismund Macarthur

Third generation doctor who served the Parramatta area.

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Brown, Pam

Poetry editor of Overland 1997-2002.

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Brown, Ray

Singer who joined the Nocturnes in 1964 to form Ray Brown and the Whispers.

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Brown, Robert

Botanist who accompanied Flinders on the Investigator and collected and described many Australian plants.

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Brown, Stephen Campbell

Solicitor and independent member of the Legislative Assembly, he was an active legislator particularly in areas of law reform.

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Brown, Sylvester

Master mariner who built Enmore House in 1835.

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Brown, Walter

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Parramatta doctor whose family home and practice operated from Brislington for 92 years. Highly esteemed in the local community, a reading desk was dedicated in his name at St John's Cathedral in Parramatta.

Brown, Walter Sigismund

Medical practioner who continued his father's practice at Parramatta.

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Browne, Allan

Jazz drummer and composer.

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Browne, Frederick William

Councillor on Hornsby Shire Council.

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Browne, Henry

English born government immigration agent who had little sympathy for the Irish orphans brought to the colony to provide cheap labour.

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Browne, John Vincent

Horse racing figure who left his birthplace, the town of Moruya in New South Wales, in his twenties for Sydney allegedly with a horse and 50 pounds 'concealed in the lining of his vest'. He settled in Randwick in 1884 and eventually acquired a block of land extending from Alison Road, Avoca Street to Albert Street. He also built and owned the Royal Hotel, Randwick before passing it to his brother Thomas, and owned and lived in the Coach and Horses Hotel, Randwick.

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Browne, Thomas Alexander (Rolf Boldrewood)

Pastoralist and public servant who wrote novels, including Robbery Under Arms, under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood. He added 'e' to his surname in the 1860s.

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Browne, Thomas Francis

Publican and prominent horse racing identity of Randwick, he owned the Royal Hotel after his brother passed it onto him and held the licence until his death.

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Brownlow Hill

Estate at Camden granted to Alexander Macleay in 1827 and later owned by generations of the Downes family. The house, outbuildings and garden are listed on the NSW Heritage Register.

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Estate

Brownlow, R

Merchant who established a business in George Street in the 1830s.

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Browns Forest

Remnant of Blue Gum High Forest reserved for conservation at St Ives in the Ku-ring-gai local government area. Part of the Dalrymple-Hay Nature Reserve

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Forest

Broxbornebury

Convict ship which arrived from England in 1814 with 118 female convicts.

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Ship

Bruce, George

Convict who travelled to New Zealand and married a Māori woman.

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Bruce, Joan

Film and television actor.

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Bruce, Lenny

American comedian whose 1962 shows were considered too risque for conservative Sydney.

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Bruce, Stanley

Eighth Prime Minister of Australia who was architect of the most powerful and durable alliance of coalition partners in Australian politics.

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