GALLERY — Pyrmont History Group

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The First People

First People Gallery

Aborigines spearing fish, Joseph Lycett 1817

National Library of Australia

Distant view of Sydney harbour, Joseph Lycett watercolour c1817

National Library of Australia

A Native Camp near Cockle Bay 1812. In Absalom West, Views in New South Wales, 1812/14.

State Library of New South Wales

Harbour west from Millers Point 1798. J. Heath, By water to Parramatta.

State Library of New South Wales

Local Aboriginal people in bark canoes on Sydney Harbour, depicted by the Port Jackson painter c1790

(image courtesy Thomas Watling Watling Collection, Natural History Museum, London – 012643)

Events

Bubonic plague

HMT Dunera

Shark caught in Pyrmont, 1928

Fire at the Wool Store, 1935

Wentworth Park Games

Industry

Abattoirs

Packing dry ice

Packing dry ice

Quarrying

Shipbuilding

Wool stores

Locations

Jacksons Landing

Jacksons Landing

Pirrama Park

Pyrmont Bridge

Sydney Fish Market

Sydney Fish Market

Union Square

Personalities

Ed Ginzburg

Margaret Harris

Margaret Harris

Phillip O'Toole

Phillip O'Toole

Charles Saunders

Charles Saunders

Virginia Spate

Representatives

John Armstrong

Matthew Harris

Billy Hughes

Michael Matthews

Michael Matthews

Frank Sartor

Society

Churches

Leisure

Pyrmont Community Centre

Pyrmont Community Centre

Pyrmont Sings!

Schools