Peat Island
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Peat Island is an island in the village of Mooney Mooney located in the Hawkesbury River on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. The Island has approximately eight hectares of land and is
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Peat Island c. 1900 before the hospital was built. Photo courtesy State Library of NSW
This series of five ladders provided access to the dam in the gully above the cliffs. Photographed in 1983.
The two walls of the Cascade Creek dam supplied water for Peat and Milson Island. Photographed in 1991.
Brooklyn, New South Wales
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Brooklyn is a small suburb of Sydney along the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the Pacific Highway in the local government area of the Hornsby Shire. Brooklyn is the n
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…deaths of young men and boys, with at least 300 patients died during their time there who were interred in unmarked paupers' graves at the nearby Brooklyn cemetery. As social attitudes to mental illness and people with developmental disabilities changed over time, the facilities and amenities improved. A…
Main street of Brooklyn in 2007
The Hawkesbury River was named by Governor Phillip in 1789
Viewing NW over Hawkesbury River railway station showing moored vessels in Sandrook Inlet and Long Island (nature reserve) beyond
General view showing Hawkesbury River and densely wooded ridges in the background