About Us
The Pyrmont History Group is an informal association of old and new residents recovering and sharing information about this suburb and community. The redevelopment of the Colonial Sugar Refinery industrial site built a series of highrise apartments in a previously lowrise precinct. Residents devised activities including a choir, film shows, music, painting, excursions and land care. The Pyrmont History Group crystallised in this environment. Important influences were John Harris (great-nephew of Surgeon Harris), Justice John O’Meally, Winton Higgins, Cam Seccombe and Father Colin Fowler of St Bede’s, as well as the current organisers. We settled on three sets of activities: creating and maintaining the Pyrmont History website, bringing speakers for monthly History talks, and informal meetings to discuss recovered information, ideas and activities.
In this website we identify significant places in Pyrmont and uncover and introduce evidence of the lives and careers of quarrymen and butchers, refiners and distillers, and many other occupations of a busy precinct.
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Ross Hindmarsh with Michael Matthews and Virginia Spate at the website launch, 2017
