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22.01.2022 Some old photographs of St Bartholowmew’s Church Prospect or commonly referred to as ‘the Church on the hill’.

21.01.2022 One of the World worst level crossing - in NSW. Peak hours are fantastic experience for drivers heading through Seven Hills Road across the Railway crossing at Seven Hills. Thousands' of cars in jam, railway gates going down every 2 to 3 minutes for passing. Click the 2 links below to see the crossing in colour & from different views https://www.facebook.com//a.14309814037/1937592263138702/... Click here https://www.facebook.com//a.14309814037/1937593079805287/ Photo Courtesy: Getty Images.

18.01.2022 Remembrance Day We Will Remember Them Lest We Forget Why is this day special to Australians?...Continue reading

16.01.2022 Nice day to cool off at an Ice Skating Rink. Did you know It’s has been 13 years since Blacktown Ice Arena closed its doors. Located on First Avenue, Blacktown Ice Arena was opened in May 1979 and closed on Sunday 28th October 2007. Click the YouTube link to see the Channel 7 report https://youtu.be/gU3Kye_p9Iw It was demolished in 2008-2009, now Centrelink. Click the link below to see a then & now ... https://www.facebook.com//a.14300270738/1656265517938046/ Please share, tag & comment on your memories. Photo Courtesy / Copyright: Blacktown City Libraries. Photographer: Les Tod collection

16.01.2022 Recently completed houses in Lalor Park, in a yet to be identified street. 19th May 1958. How many of you grew up in a suburb with mostly fibro houses & which suburb? Click the 2 links below to see other Blacktown fibro suburb pics from the 1960’s https://www.facebook.com//a.14309814037/1823613444536585/... https://www.facebook.com//a.14309814037/1958397991058129/ Photo Courtesy: Getty Images

14.01.2022 All Stations to..... Who remembers the good old indicator board? These are the departure ones above the entry barriers at Wynyard Railway Station, 27th August 1948. Click the link below to see close up in colour the old platform destination boards https://www.facebook.com//a.14300270738/2249447531953172/... Photo Courtesy: NSW State Archives

13.01.2022 Historic 1790s military barracks found during construction of the Parramatta light rail.

12.01.2022 Frank Gardner @ the Mt Druitt sprints in the late 50’s. Photo Courtesy: Frank Bartlett - Old Motor Racing Photographs Australia.

12.01.2022 Parramatta Station c1985. Southern entrance. Click the link below to see Argyle Street looking west c1980s https://www.facebook.com/1429052020659398/posts/2518874091677180/... Photo Courtesy: Geoff Lloyd.

11.01.2022 This cold weather has got me thinking about how we use to keep warm. Check out this advert courtesy Woolworths from 1974. Any memories? Please comment, share & tag!

10.01.2022 21st SEPTEMBER 1817 . . . On this day, 21st September 1817, in an official dispatch, Governor Lachlan Macquarie advocates the adoption of the name Australia for... the continent, as suggested by Matthew Flinders. Australia was previously named New Holland by the Dutch sea explorers who landed on the western coast in the early 1600s. James Cook claimed the eastern coast of the continent for England in 1770, naming it New South Wales. After the First Fleet arrived in 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip was given orders to extend the claim further west. The western half of the continent continued to be known as New Holland, and the eastern half was New South Wales. Matthew Flinders became the first explorer to circumnavigate the entire continent, doing so between 1801 and 1803. After being wrongly imprisoned by the French for seven years, accused of being a spy, Flinders returned to England. In 1810 he wrote an account of his expeditions, 'A Voyage to Terra Australis'. It was in this account that Flinders proposed the name 'Terra Australis' or 'Australia' be adopted for the southern continent. There were many supporters of his proposal in England, but wealthy sponsor Sir Joseph Banks did not support his suggestion. Flinders died before the new name of the continent could be decided upon. It was Governor Lachlan Macquarie who, impressed by Flinders’ arguments, advocated that the name ‘Australia’ be adopted, and began to use this term regularly. In an official dispatch dated 21 September 1817, Macquarie stated: 'I hope [Australia] will be the Name given to this Country in future, instead of the very erroneous and misapplied name hitherto given to it of New Holland which properly speaking only applies to a part of this immense Continent.' Pictured: Lachlan Macquarie. portrait, ca.1805-1824 attributed to John Opie. State Library of NSW. #australianhistory #sharinghistory #rtpa

08.01.2022 Blacktown Main Street c1986 Photo taken from the pedestrian bridge looking east. Any memories? Click the link below to see an image of the old pedestrian bridge https://www.facebook.com//a.14300270738/2471746969723226/... Courtesy: Channel 7

07.01.2022 The Highway Inn Wentworthville. It was located on the corner of the Great Western Highway & Lane Street on the same site that Woolworths now occupies. It was commonly known as the Igloo, Millers or the Highway Hotel. Do you have any memories? Please comment, tag someone & share! Photo Copyright & Courtesy: Australian National University - Open Research Library.

06.01.2022 Parramatta, Church Street c1955 Photographer: Frank Hurley Courtesy: State Library NSW

01.01.2022 Below is a newspaper advertisement promoting new homes for sale at Blacktown from 1966. A deposit of350 pounds bought one their own home. Note that products could be sold in pounds, shillings and pence for a two year period following the introduction of decimal currency in 1966. Click the links below to see house & land prices.... 1962 house & land deposit https://www.facebook.com//a.14300270738/2308628629368395/ 1992 house prices https://www.facebook.com//a.14300270738/2123233077907952/ Courtesy: Fabian Amuso @ Fab Sydney Flashbacks Source: Harry Leftwich & Co. Pty. Ltd. 1966. Untitled (Advertisement). The Sun, October 14th 1966

01.01.2022 Blacktown Railway Station. Click below to see another pic https://www.facebook.com//a.14300270738/2361129630784961/... Photo Courtesy: Australian Railway Historical Society