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Old Kings School, Parramatta

Locality: Parramatta, New South Wales

Address: 24A O'Connell Street 2150 Parramatta, NSW, Australia

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23.01.2022 Highlighting that good old fashioned White Male privilege in Parramatta - no seriously - nice compilation thanks to Storybox. Next up the mostly untold female histories ...?!

22.01.2022 FURY ESCALATES OVER #WILLOWGROVE "To establish a new museum, you have to destroy what’s already here. We have history, we have culture, we have science. It’s he...re and you need to look at it, not destroy it to put up something that’s going to be cold and stale" Michelle Locke, Dharug Strategic Management Group Making the weekend papers is more disturbing news, with Linda Morris in today's SMH reporting that 'Infrastructure NSW, the agency driving the museum project, is poised to recommend that Planning Minister Rob Stokes green-light the Parramatta Powerhouse project, with some amendments. But the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union has slapped a green ban on the two heritage-listed sites amid growing public calls to have them saved and incorporated into the museum’s design.' In the interim in the Australian, reporter Anton Nilsson writes 'Officials opposed to the NSW Government’s planned destruction of a heritage-listed villa in Parramatta were furious on Friday over the alleged secrecy surrounding the project.' after the media was refused entry in Willow Grove yesterday, with David Shoebridge, the Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee quoted as saying is because they [the government] don’t want you to see what’s behind these locked gates. Because behind these locked gates is a critical piece of NSW history and the Chair of the Committee, Robert Borsak quoted "I think it’s completely stupid" in response to the government's plans. Viewing #WillowGrove for the first time yesterday, were Upper House Members of the Select Committee who are inquiring into 'the Government's management of the Powerhouse Museum and other museums and cultural projects in NSW'. Joining the Committee's Chair and Deputy Chair were Labor's Walt Second and Rose Jackson, as well as Liberal's Martin Taylor. Nationals Trevor Khan and Ben Franklin did not attend. Community advocates Suzette Meade and Kylie Winkworth along with Darren Greenfield from the CFMEU and Michelle Locke and Julie Jones from the Dharug Strategic Management Group also attended.

18.01.2022 NSW is the only State without a Museum - Australia needs the Museum of NSW in a Parramatta, yet the demolitions continue ...

16.01.2022 Yarn Bombing street art for Parramatta’s living heritage

16.01.2022 For the Record: Early Morning Completion photos by LIPMAN of the new Bayanami Public School installed into the State Heritage Site, complete with award-winning design restorations by TZG Architects. MORE PHOTOS HERE https://www.tzg.com.au/proje/oconnell-street-public-school/ The NSW Govt gazumped the proposed first ever Parramatta State Cultural industries Arts Hub that was previously intended to enrich the City's 'Tourist Welcoming' experience as a public site and connect ...with Riverside Theatres. PHOTOS thanks to http://lipman.com.au//oconnell-street-public-school-curre/

16.01.2022 PARRAMATTA COUNCIL NEW HOME AT WILLOW GROVE In March 2016 Parramatta City Councillors resolved to relocate the council chambers to Willow Grove while the new C...ouncil building was constructed at Parramatta Square. There was a budget of $580,000 for works to existing bathrooms and modifications to the existing rear auditorium. Councillors were removed by the Baird government in May 2016 and replaced with a state government appointed administrator - the same week this DA was approved. Amanda Chadwick then swiftly went about signing a deal to sell this and other rate payer owned assets on Phillip Street in a deal with Minister Arts and Heritage Don Harwin - to tear down. This was all despite the previous elected Councillor’s motions against the museum project on the riverbank and without the community’s consent to destroy the last remaining heritage along Parramatta River. There has always been a grand future planned for Willow Grove by Western Sydney but now we have Macquarie Street telling us what is important to us, and what we need! Drop Don a line, tell him he doesn't speak for us - time to stop making decisions for Western Sydney and let us choose what we want Send your DEAR DON email this week [email protected]

14.01.2022 What do you think about new lights proposed around the School fence for the shared pathway?

11.01.2022 I am often asked where the Parramatta Powerhouse Museum would be built if not on the rubble of heritage icon Willow Grove. One option is here, in the surrounds of the Parramatta Female Factory.

11.01.2022 Does Parramatta need a shiny new museum? I say the City of Parramatta itself is already a vast outdoor museum with ready-made exhibits in the form of a long lis...t of genuine heritage sites (within walking distance from each other) that people can visit and come in direct contact with the history itself not just a decontextualised display of artefacts behind a glass window. But those authentic ‘exhibits,’ the existing heritage sites, are being neglected. All heritage sites need funding for conservation, ongoing maintenance, and interpretation so that they can continue to exist for generations to come. With that support, and with the right marketing, people would identify Parramatta as a heritage tourism destination; they would not come to Parramatta just to visit one museum and hop back on the train or the ferry, but they would make a day of it by visiting multiple heritage sites and discovering the countless connections between them all: the Parramatta Female Factory, Old Government House - National Trust of Australia NSW, St John's Cemetery, the Dairy Cottage, the Colonial Hospital site, Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum, St John's Anglican Cathedral Parramatta, Experiment Farm Cottage - National Trust of Australia NSW, Sydney Living Museums Elizabeth Farm, Hambledon Cottage, Harrisford, The Kings School, the list goes on and on. Sites like Willow Grove, Parramatta, St George's Terrace, Parramatta and The Roxy (Roxy Theatre Action Group - Parramatta Save the Roxy Theatre) are part of that collection of interconnected heritage sites and could be (and should be) part of that complete heritage tourism experience. My latest publication, "LOST LANDMARK," [see previous posts] was written to argue for the importance of history and heritage in context, to make abundantly clear just how much we have therefore irrevocably lost, and to serve as a cautionary tale for what we may yet lose. Heed the warning. All Parramatta heritage is at risk. Don't take ANY of the sites we currently have for granted. I am not saying there is no place for new, modern buildings within the vast outdoor museum that is Parramatta; merely that those new builds do not need to be at the expense of what is left of Old Parramatta. There are so many ways you can help support Parramatta’s heritage. I know Australia’s oldest surviving European cemetery, St John's Cemetery, which is especially dear to my heart, is crying out for support. Consider making a donation (of any amount) to the Friends of St John's Cemetery, Parramatta for some urgent repair work that needs to be done to the cemetery’s convict-built sandstock wall, and / or become a member of the Friends for $5, as these funds also go towards maintaining St John's Cemetery: https://friendsofstjohnscemetery.wordpress.com/ Even sharing the stories published on here on your own Facebook pages is an easy way to keep the value of our history and heritage in everyone’s minds! Thank you, The Old Parramattan #oldparramatta #savewillowgrove #weepingwillow #stgeorgesterrace #parramatta #parramattahistory #parramattaheritage

07.01.2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/CGBzLEWoTRX/ Where It's At Parramatta

07.01.2022 Awesome people enriching our awesome heritage surviving on Phillip Street. #SaveWillowGrove Pls Share! https://youtu.be/90IHvBQ91rQ

05.01.2022 Marsden Street Weir, built by Gov. Macquarie in 1818. Kings School Parramatta, c.1870 from an album by Beaufoy Merlin (SLNSW).