DK Travel : Sydney : History & Culture

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Hambledon Cottage

Close by Elizabeth Farm, this cottage was named after a village in Hampshire, England. The Macarthurs built this cottage in 1824 as a retirement home for their governess, Penelope Lucas. The furnishings of the rendered sandstone cottage reflect the 1820s to the 1850s.
Henry Lawson (1867–1922)

Lawson’s writing is often humorous and inspired by romantic notions of the Australian “character”. In stories such as 1892′s The Drover’s Wife he exalted the “mateship” of rural Australians surviving the harsh and isolated environment. He often led an itinerant life and struggled with alcoholism. He was the first Australian writer granted a state funeral.
Hugo Weaving

Despite roles in The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings , the modest Weaving still calls Sydney home.
Ita Buttrose

Indomitable media doyen and former editor-in-chief of the Australian Womens Weekly during the 1970s and 1980s.
Jack Mundey

Secretary of the Builders’ Labourers Federation, Mundey led the Green Bans (see Victoria Street) movement in the 1970s.
John & Elizabeth Macarthur

The resourceful Macarthurs established Australia’s agricultural industry in 1790.
Judy Davis

One of Australia’s most respected actors, Davis has taken some of film’s top honours; she lives in Balmain.
Kenneth Slessor (1901–71)

Poet Kenneth Slessor will always be remembered for his 1939 elegy “Five Bells”, written for a friend who drowned. Another poem, “Beach Burial” (1944), written while serving as a war correspondent near El Alamein, describes the burial of sailors washed up on shore after battles in the Mediterranean.
Kylie Tennant (1912–88)

Best known for her 1943 novel Ride on Stranger , Kylie Tennant often presented life from the perspective of the disposessed. Despite her later success as an author, reviewer and lecturer, Tennant also experienced life on the other side of the tracks, including a short stint in jail in the 1930s.
Lars Halvorsen

This boatbuilder arrived from Norway in 1921 to establish Sydney’s most famous boatbuilding dynasty.