Sue will be giving a Zoom talk on the history of Anzac Parade for Randwick Council and the Randwick and District Historical Society at 6:30 on Wednesday 21 April. Celebrating the Australian Heritage Festival’s theme of ‘Our Heritage for the Future’, Sue examines the origins of ANZAC Parade as a…
Held every two years, the Randwick City Architecture and Urban Design Awards are one of Randwick City's key urban design initiatives. On Thursday 29 October, the winners of the 8th Biennial Architecture and Urban Design Awards, which celebrate exceptional design in our built environment were announced. Held every two years, the…
Recently, a part of Australia’s convict history has been memorialized by Lithgow Council’s renaming of part of the Old Western Road near Rydal as “Bloody Cutting Road”...
We are delighted at the results of a Land and Environment Court hearing that resulted in the dismissal of an appeal to have an Interim Heritage Order over 39 Dudley Street Coogee in the Randwick LGA dismissed. Commissioner Horton upheld the order on the basis that on further investigation No.…
The Catholic Cemeteries Board has after seven years of research and planning has gained approval from the Independent planning Commission for a multi-faith cemetery at Varroville, an historic property and cultural landscape on the outskirts of Sydney, near Campbelltown. The property was originally granted c.1810 to Robert Townsend who…
Join Sue Rosen at the Ku-ring-gail Historical Society, as she examines Harold Cazneaux’s life as an artist, his practice at Ambleside and our treatment of heritage sites. In 2016 Dr Sue Rosen and Dr Roy Lumby undertook a Heritage Assessment of Harold Cazneax’s (Caz ) home and studio at Roseville which was the…