Changing boundaries, changing names: the history behind Bayside Council

History is often associated with the distant past. In reality though, it is constantly being made in the present. On Friday 9 September 201...

SELF GUIDED TOUR:Botany's Foreshores - Then & Now

Port Botany and Sydney Airport are of huge economic importance to NSW. Their construction however has totally altered the once isolated subu...

From mud banks to jet planes: A short history of O’Riordan Street, Mascot

Corner of O'Riordan and Church Street, Mascot, looking north, c.1960s. City of Botany Bay Recently a member of the public asked us t...

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS: Lauriston Park: The Forgotten Village

The Babbington Family, in their backyard at 51 Melrose Street, Lauriston Park. Courtesy of Mabel Harris Have you heard of Lauriston Park...

T H Hicks and his marvellous machines: Fumigators, Firefighters and the Ideal Poison Cart

Thomas Henry (T H) Hicks was Mayor of North Botany in 1910, then Mayor of Mascot from 1914 to 1915 and again in 1920. You probably kne...

L'Estrange Park and the boy who walked 6,000 miles

L'Estrange Park: corner of King and Sutherland streets, Mascot. Image: City of Botany Bay From the Sydney Morning Herald 9 June 193...

Private Hector Fraser Hicks

Alderman T.H.Hicks. Image: City of Botany Bay When Private Hector Fraser Hicks, from Mascot, embarked on the HMAT A7 Medic on 2 Novemb...

Flying Boats and Botany Bay

R.A.A.F pagent seaplane testing on the Cooks River Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria http://handle.s...

EVENT: Heritage Week 2013

 Advancing Botany: the 1880s campaign for local government in Botany and Mascot. 2013 marks 125 years of local government in the Botany...

Wentworth Avenue

Can you find Wentworth Avenue on this map from the late 1920s? It isn’t as long or as vital as it is today but it does exist if you look ve...