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      • ‘Bellevue’ 8-10 Victoria Street
      • ‘Brantwood’ 77-79 Redmyre Rd
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      • ‘Halsbury’ 12-14 Albyn Rd Strathfield
      • ‘Inglemere’ Abbotsford Road Homebush
      • ‘Inglethorpe’ 95 Redmyre Road Strathfield
      • ‘Lauriston’ The Boulevarde
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      • “Stockman Manor” 91-93 Abbotsford Rd
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      • ‘Greystanes’ 101-103 Redmyre Road Strathfield
      • ‘Hawthorne’ Abbotsford Road Homebush
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      • Dr George Sly
      • Frederick Peters
      • George Sydney Jones
      • George Todman
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      • John Spencer Brunton
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      • Randolph Nott
      • Samuel Hordern
      • Sylvia Lance
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Category: Recreation

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Kessell Square 1947

Crossways Hotel, 2017. Photograph: Cathy Jones
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Crossways Hotel, Liverpool Road, Strathfield South

30/07/201730/07/2017 Cathy Jones

Birnam Wood

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Enfield to Goulburn Bicycle race

Austin Playground c.1970
09/07/201709/07/2017 Cathy Jones

Austin Park Homebush West

Union Recreation Club - Town and Country Journal Strathfield - 1888
28/06/201703/07/2017 Cathy Jones

Union Recreation Club of Strathfield

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