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Randwick & District Historical Society has developed a list of some historical information pertaining to people, places, and buildings. They are listed on the attached document alphabetically A -Z. By Judith Neville, Secretary A-Z August 2016

During the recent re-organisation of the R&DHS library, many interesting finds were made. ‘BY THE BUNNERONG LIGHTS’ by Allan Bartlet, an autobiography, dedicated to his parents Leslie James and Elizabeth Bartlet, was one of these. The five volumes cover incidents that had happened to the family during the period before, during and after the Great …

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Nell Pillars was the first to stimulate an interest in the preservation of Randwick’s early heritage buildings. Early in 1957 she advertised, inviting any local resident interested to attend a meeting at her home, the 1854 heritage mansion Nugal Hall, in Milford Street, Randwick. At this meeting, representatives from the National Trust of Australia and …

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