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  • Newtown’s Forgotten Theatres

    Photo: Alec Smart History of St Peter’s Theatre St Peter’s Theatre at 672 King Street, diagonally opposite St Peters Station, was one of Sydney’s first cinemas, opening around 1913 when the Newtown district In 1927, construction of a new three-storey building, St Peters Theatre, with 2 levels of seating – comprising St Peters Theatre, 672 King St, Erskineville, 1959 In 2002, Development Application U/02/1165 allowed The former St Peters Theatre, 672 King St, Erskineville. Photo: Alec Smart =======================

  • Newtown Record Fair

    Read more on Newtown   From the minds of My Vinyl Revolution , Erica Olson and Peter Pasqual, Newtown

  • Misunderstood Magpies on the North Shore

    on the National News, they have inspired the creation of a residents’ action group who have lodged a petition As we go to press, a petition has been launched on the campaign website Change.org to “Save the magpies

  • Hope and Glory - The Hopetoun Hotel

    there and feel safe and there were a lot of mixed-gender bands thanks to bookers like Darcy Condon and Peter A 5000-signature petition was unsuccessful in getting the closure reversed.

  • Free Entertainment and Services for Ku-ring-gai’s Teens

    Mayor Jeff Pettett had this to say: “This will be a free and confidential service to our young residents

  • Eccleston Du Faur

    He had little support in government for his initiative, unsuccessfully petitioning the Minister for Lands

  • History of the Balmain Tigers

    Feneley, as well as Labor politician Henry Hoyle, c ricketer Victor Trumper, and players Alex Burdon and Peter

  • Mudcrabs: the famous Cooks River clean-up crew

    We caught up with long-time Mudcrab Peter Munro to learn more.   established 13 bush regeneration sites along the river that are maintained at monthly working bees,” Peter “The community response has been fantastic,” Peter said. “We also run a bird survey every month,” Peter revealed, “and we’ve built up 5 years of valuable data

  • The Sunflower Program in Kur-Ring-Gai

    Mayor Jeff Pettett said, “Residents with a hidden disability or health condition can now be confident

  • Diverse Voices For Women’s Ku-Ring-Gai Committee

    made to form a Women’s Advisory Committee; after Council fielded applications in 2022, then Mayor Jeff Pettett Ku-ring-gai businesswoman and former local government candidate Adrienne McLean began a petition to reinstate

  • Cronulla History Part 1: The Gweagal

    and many succumbed to the deadly 1789 smallpox epidemic, their legacy is still with us in the form of petroglyphs In the former Gweagal territory, there is a wealth of petroglyphs, charcoal and ochre paintings and hand on the south side of the entrance to Port Hacking, near Bundeena, there is a collection of ancient petroglyphs

  • Balls Head and the bays beside

    However, a petroglyph of a whale, 7m long, with a man inside, by its tail, is carved into a rock surface

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