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- For thousands of years, Indigenous people lived in what was once a land of swamps and heath vegetation in south-eastern Sydney where the City of Randwick is now located.
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Oct 25, 2022 · Read about the famous characters who've lived in the Randwick area over the past 200 years, including La Perouse, June Moore, Walter Franklyn Barrett and Des Renford. Last Updated: 25 October 2022. Back to top.
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- Walter Franklyn Barrett – Local Pioneer Film Maker
- Lionel Bowen
- Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
- June Moore
- Des Renford OAM
- Sir John See
Walter Franklyn Barrett (1873-1964), film cameraman and director, was born at Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. He moved to New Zealand around 1895 working as a clerk but in his spare time started experimenting with the new technology of moving film. He filmed documentaries in Australia and New Zealand. Among his filming assignments was the vi...
Lionel Frost Bowen was born at Ultimo in Sydney on 28th December 1922. Educated locally, he left school in 1936 aged 14. He later matriculated at night school. Lionel Bowen studied law at Sydney University and practiced as a solicitor in Sydney before becoming a Federal minister in 1972. In 1948 at the age of 25, Lionel entered local government. He...
The suburb of Kingsford and the Federal Seat of Kingsford Smith are both located within Randwick City and named after Australian aviation legend, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935) Acknowledged in his time as the world's greatest aviator, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was born on 9 February 1897 in Brisbane. When he was 18, he enlisted in the Au...
June Moore (1919-2011) was a passionate advocate for the preservation of heritage in the City of Randwick. This did not come as a surprise to those who knew her mother, Nell Pillars, the founder of the Randwick and District Historical Society. Nell's daughter June, had a long, devoted association with Randwick and was a great promoter of its histor...
Des Renford MBE (1927-1999) was a renowned Australian marathon swimmer. Des successfully swam the English Channel 19 times from 19 attempts. This feat remains an epic achievement in Australian sporting history. In the 1970s he held the title of King of the Channel. His rivalry with two Britons, Kevin Murphy and Mike Read, have become part of the fo...
John See was born in Yelling, Huntingdonshire, England on the 14th November 1845, the third son of farmer Joseph See and his wife Mary Ann Bailey. The family migrated to NSW when John was aged six and settled on a farm near Maitland. It was at nearby Hinton that John received the only formal schooling he was to have. In 1862 John and one of his bro...
Proclaimed as a Municipality in February 1859, and as a City in 1990, Randwick has a rich history and a number of heritage buildings. Another Mayor of Randwick, George Kiss, lived in the house known as Ventnor in the 1870s. [ 4 ]
The City of Randwick is a local government area in the Eastern Suburbs [3] of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1859, Randwick is the second-oldest local government area in New South Wales, after the City of Sydney .
For thousands of years, Indigenous people lived in what was once a land of swamps and heath vegetation in south-eastern Sydney where the City of Randwick is now located. This local government area – including the suburb of the same name – stretches from Centennial Park, on the edge of the Sydney CBD, to Botany Bay.
In Randwick (C), of people aged 15 years and over, 65.4% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 22.8% provided care for children and 9.4% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age.
The City of Randwick in south-eastern Sydney is located on land that was once swamps and heath vegetation. Home to local Aboriginal people for thousands of years, the area remained relatively isolated to Europeans until the mid nineteenth century when Randwick village began to take shape.
