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Parramatta Female Factory Friends
Address: 5 Fleet Street 2150 Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Website: http://www.parramattafemalefactoryfriends.com.au
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25.01.2022 The day through a creative eye
25.01.2022 Tom and Meg Keneally take a moment - father and daughter but also our two wonderful patrons
24.01.2022 Wow made it thanks people.
24.01.2022 The view of the studio waiting to go on the show.
24.01.2022 The Parramatta Female Factory Friends will be running the annual Its a Riot on Saturday 26th October. Keynote Speaker Babette Smith with talks by Cate Whitaker and a number of descendants. To book in go to the link https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/its-a-riot-2019-tickets-714
22.01.2022 Thankyou for your support for the female factory through our previous post. In responses there were some of you descended from the female factory women. If you would like to share the stories or have your ancestors on our list you can use messenger on this page or email our research group with research group in the subject to [email protected]
22.01.2022 Augustus Earle's 1820s image of the factory as seen not far from Factory Road looking towards the river. To the far right is th third class sleeping quarters.
22.01.2022 Some of our amazing speakers (photos by Lona Logan): Tom Keneally, John Pilger and Professor Bashir. Also a link to John Pilger's most moving speech: https://consortiumnews.com//the-hidden-history-of-the-wom/
21.01.2022 Here is a link to the ABC Breakfast Show featuring the Parramatta Female Factory story. It starts at 2:20:11 if you would like to listen http://www.abc.net.au//programs/breakfast/breakfast/9926914
20.01.2022 View of the Parramatta Female Factory Hospital building. Earliest women's dedicated health service in Australia. Share you phtos of the factory or your ancestor and a snippet o their story.
20.01.2022 The original Francis Greenway plan for the factory has never been found. This is the Standish Harris plan , a part of his record of public buildings in the 1820s.
18.01.2022 Some of our honoured guests. Senator Payne whose speech acknowledged so well the importance of the Parramatta Female Factory, Scott Farlow MP who shared a how important the history was and the Lord Mayor who described how significant the factory was in Parramatta. Also present were Parramatta Councillors and the Labor candidate who also has a female factory ancestor!
18.01.2022 As well as the heartfelt and serious. Tom Keneally also managed to bring some humour to the day!
17.01.2022 Augustus Earles 1820s image of the factory as seen not far from Factory Road looking towards the river. To the far right is th third class sleeping quarters.
17.01.2022 Some of the many activities
16.01.2022 We are waiting holding our breaths for an announcement from the Minister.
16.01.2022 Flowers being laid at the memorial and other moments
16.01.2022 A piece of history. The Parramatta Female Factory Friends started as advocacy to prevent the third class sleeping quarters from being turned into a computer data room. We have come a long way. National Heritage listing and now the bicentennial celebration
15.01.2022 It's working now! For the first time for a long time the familiar factory clock has not been working! This was a royal gift to the Colony..... though of course the greatest "gifts'' were the transported women who really did become the mothers, sisters, daughters of Australia.
15.01.2022 The State Library of NSW is celbratingthe PArramatta Female FActory with an article in their latest magazine and a talk. To book in go to https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/talk-history-her-story-our-
14.01.2022 Fondly known as Alices wall after a female factory woman.
13.01.2022 The Parramatta Female Factory Friends will be running the annual 'Its a Riot' on Saturday 26th October. Keynote Speaker Babette Smith with talks by Cate Whitaker and a number of descendants. To book in go to the link https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/its-a-riot-2019-tickets-714
13.01.2022 Fondly known as Alice's wall after a female factory woman.
13.01.2022 Our first event International Women's Day 2011. This photograph taken in the third class sleeping quarters
13.01.2022 Meet Constance Trudgett, female factory woman. Want to know more Come visit the Parramatta Female Factory Bicentennial 7th July.
12.01.2022 Our first event International Womens Day 2011. This photograph taken in the third class sleeping quarters
12.01.2022 met Anne Dunne, female factory woman. Want to know more about here then come on the 7th July to the Bicentennial celebrations
10.01.2022 Great to see interest from State Politicians in the Parramatta Female Factory. Factory Friends vision of a museum interpretation and research centre and world heritage was shared with Julia Finn MP and Kate Washington MP.
09.01.2022 To celebrate 200 years We thought we would share some photographs through time of the PArramatta Female Factory! The front gates. if you were here October 27th 1827 you may have been one of the female factory women described as Amazonian Banditti.
09.01.2022 The Parramatta Female Factory Friends are doing a very special event - History Her Story Our Story. This is marking the bicentennial of the female factory. it will be a dedication, commemoration and celebration on the 7th July. it will be led by Professor Hon Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO. it will be a great day including talks by Tom and Meg Keneally,Babette Smith, Gail Davis and Patrick Dodd. Descendants will be sharing their tores, re-enactments, family activities, exhibition and more. Follow this link to book in: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/history-her-story-our-story
08.01.2022 Well today is the actual bicentennial for the laying of the first stone by Governor Macquarie. By now he would also have share the dram of rum with the Convict workers! Saturday was our celebration and it was a deeply moving experience for so many. Here are just some of the great photos from the day: gathering where the dedication took place, Some of the speakers - Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally, Gay Hendriksen, Professor Bashir. Also two of the honoured guests Jack and Judy Mundey (photos by Bob Cook)
07.01.2022 Recent heritage festival was great for the Friends and included tour and information stall. here are friends Ronda and Gay with Carol Liston and Julie Owens celebrating the launch.
06.01.2022 Our Garden Party with our Patrons Tom and Meg Keneally Photographs by Wal Phelps.
06.01.2022 A familiar image for the factory story but not in the factory. It's the wonderful Elizabeth Fry at Newgate. She corresponded with Marsden and her reforms informed the shape and activities in the factory. Reflection, work and providing opportunities for trades were a part of her approach.
06.01.2022 Visit by Parramatta Female Factory Friends long time supporter the retired CFMEU and CRUMA.
05.01.2022 Meet Susannah Watson, a female factory woman. Want to know more. come and listen to her descendant, Babette Smith talk about her at the Parramatta Female Factory Bicentennial 7th July.
05.01.2022 North Parramatta: 2,500 new homes to built on the grounds of the old Cumberland Hospital, orphan school, lunatic asylum & jail. Story: https://yhoo.it/2pKhR3i #NorthParramatta #7News
04.01.2022 Jo, descendant of Constance de la Sablonaire, perhaps the youngest female convict gave a most moving account of her connection as part of the dedication. ((photo by Lona Logan)
02.01.2022 View of the Parramatta Female Factory Hospital building. Earliest womens dedicated health service in Australia. Share you phtos of the factory or your ancestor and a snippet o their story.
01.01.2022 Julie Owens gave a wonderful account if the meaning of the site and the women to us all.
