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    Our region and our church, since 1838

    We are active in researching and presenting the history of people and places connected with St Peters, Sydenham and Tempe in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. | Read more »

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Marrickville – a past worth preserving

Marrickville: a past worth preserving. a collection of articles submitted to an essay competition organised by the Marrickville Heritage Society. Contents in order of publication: A fresh look at 19th century St Peters, by Robert Horton Questions about the recording of the history of St Peters. A St Peters family, by Laurel Horton Story of … Read more

Cooks River Nineteenth Century Sporting Life

Cooks River Nineteenth Century Sporting Life The recent digitisation of newspapers by the National Library of Australia, has created a greater awareness of life in the Cook’s River area in the 19th century. The term ‘Cook’s River’ has a certain flexibility regarding geographic location but textual clues indicate where an event took place. Sporting activity … Read more

New at St Peters

New colour for building

New Resources Available

Much of the work St Peters Cooks River History Group does is not featured on our web site. Information is however freely available to those who enquire, and is also used in our local area walks and talks. We have completed a nineteenth century data-base of newspaper items about our area. The database has over … Read more

Some photos from one of our history walks

This was a walk to sample the history of Tempe.

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