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2026-05-22 10:58:20 CEST

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You remember correctly! There's an oak tree nearby where Lady Fitzroy's carriage overturned.
And for other folks reading this, here's the story:
"This monument was unveiled on Centenary Day (Australia Day) 26 January 1888 in remembrance of the accidental death on 7 December 1847 of Lady Mary Fitzroy aged 57 years, wife of the then governor of NSW Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy. Lady Fitzroy, born 1790, was the eldest child of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond.
"In August 1846 Fitzroy replaced Sir George Gipps as Governor of NSW. The Fitzroy family moved into Government House at Parramatta in April 1847 following extensive renovations to the building by James Houison.
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"The much anticipated happy occasion of attending a wedding in Sydney soon turned to tragedy. The Governor and Lady Fitzroy accompanied by aide-de-camp Lieutenant Charles Masters had set out from Government House and were travelling down the long tree-lined driveway towards the Macquarie Street entrance to the Domain.
"The four horses pulling the carriage were reportedly already skittish before leaving the stables and rather than being well trained carriage horses, were spirited and easily startled young blood stock. Shortly after leaving the house the pace of the horses surged and when nearing the Macquarie Street gateway, the horses bolted they galloped out into the street coming to a halt some distance away near the corner of Church and George Street. The carriage was overturned and the occupants were thrown violently to the ground. Lady Fitzroy and Lieutenant Masters died shortly after as a result of their injuries, however Governor Fitzroy suffered only minor wounds."
https://historyandheritage.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/blog/2016/12/22/the-monument-to-lady-fitzroy-parramatta-park
Sidenote: Old Government House in Parramatta Park is where Australia's early colonial governors lived, including Arthur Philip, William Bligh, and Lachlan Macquarie.
Governor Fitzroy was the last one. He moved out after the accident.
So for a brief period, Parramatta was /arguably/ Australia's colonial capital.

2026-05-09 13:06:19 CEST

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Ah okay. I remember we stopped in Gundagai a number of times during road trips when I was a kid.
But it was usually at the roadhouse near the dog on the tuckerbox.
I vaguely remember that one was fairly dated when I was a kid (not /that/ long ago 😁), and I don't imagine it would have seen much updating since then...

2026-01-19 04:58:33 CET

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It's also polling by News Corp.
Both the mining bosses, led by Gina and Kerry Stokes (who owns Seven and wants to buy BlueScope), and the Murdochs have decided One Nation is legitimate.
(Well, at least until Hastie and the far-right factions take over the Liberal Party. But that's another story.)
It wouldn't surprise me if there's some push polling happening.
The Teal voters that used to be the Turnbull faction were only around 7% of the primary vote nationally st the last federal election.
But.
They're concentrated on the Lower North Shore, eastern suburbs of Sydney, and Inner southeast/eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
They don't need a huge share of the national primary vote to flip 100-year Liberal seats in tree-lined suburbs.

2025-12-09 09:56:38 CET

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That's the one over the river in Parra Park, near Parra/Commbank Stadium and the flying fox colony. Not quite as far as the wisteria garden.
So he rode quite a distance on a sunny day!

2025-10-25 03:21:00 CEST

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So I decided to look it up, because the David Jones move to Westfield happened before I moved to Sydney.
https://historyandheritage.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/blog/2013/12/19/australias-retail-history-the-david-jones-building-parramatta
The short version is that David Jones moved into Westfield Parramatta in '96, during one of its extensions.
The former David Jones store building hung around for a few more years as offices and shops. But was eventually bulldozed and replaced with an apartment tower and a hotel.
And you're right about the former DJs car park being most of the new Powerhouse site.

2025-10-24 13:46:38 CEST

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I went through Google Streetview with the date set to 2020 to grab photos of what was there before they began building.
The big loss is Willow Grove.
There's also the St George's terrace buildings, but they're being preserved and restored as part of the Powerhouse facade at street level.
Then there's some tired old shops that were home to a massage parlour before they met the wrecking ball and won't be missed.
There's also an old red brick building and open air carpark that few will miss.
And they had a multistorey brutalist concrete car park right up near the river, which was an eyesore and needed to go.
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2025-10-24 10:02:16 CEST

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Here's the Philip St end of Horwood Pl as of a couple of weeks ago, looking in the direction of the river: https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/880367104112936121
And these are from the Church St bridge, facing east: https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/844872414598680265