IT WAS summed up in one of the speeches early in the night: “What a mongrel of a year it’s been.’’ That was the sentiment of many speakers and even winners at the dinner at Parramatta RSL, after a year that saw plenty of businesses fall on hard times. Yet those operators who are still [...]
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The Dairy Cottage in Parramatta is one of Sydney’s earliest buildings. It was built around 1796 on land granted to George Salter, a convict, when his sentence expired. In 1813, Governor Macquarie purchased Salter’s grant and added it to his domain; he extended the cottage and used it to accommodate his dairy workers. Later the [...]
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