Bidgee Bidgee

  Bidgee Bidgee (c1787-c 1836)[1]  First recorded as the five year old attending the funeral of his step-brother, Ballooderry, in the grounds of Government House.

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Ballooderry

Ballooderry (c 1783-1791)[1] lived around Ryde and his name is the same as the fish we know as ‘leather jacket’ – a salt water fish. His

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In Memory of the Fallen

IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN from Beecroft and Cheltenham in World War II by Tony Cunneen Beecroft War Memorial Killed 1939 -1945 R.Atkinson  J.Howard E.P.Austin 

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Roads

  Murray Farm Road (date unknown) and Murray Farm Road Bridge in the 1950s.                       

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James Sydenham

    James Sydnenham – Real Estate       James Sydenham  outside his real estate office on the corner of Wongala Crescent and Hannah street in the 1930s.  

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Noble, John

John Noble, Beecroft’s naturelover and pioneer bush regenerator  1916 – 2011 John Noble described himself as a man with ‘an ongoing interest in things of nature and

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Cheltenham Park

Initially subject to an inquiry in 1901, for public resumption this land was purchased following a meeting called at the  School of Arts in January

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