| Fairfield: Evolution of a Migrant City |
Dr. Stephen Gapps |
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This history documents the story of migration and settlement in Fairfield from its Indigenous beginnings to our present day ‘city of migrant’. It outlines when different communities settled in Fairfield in the wider context of migration to NSW and the regional development of the area. The history seeks to uncover why Fairfield has been a magnet for migrants - for many more years that we might think.
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| Village Guide Book |
Fiona Starr |
$10.00 |
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Learn more about Fairfield City Museum and Gallery's Vintage Village. The Village Guide Book includes the history of each building featured in the village. Take of tour of the Museum & Gallery with the helpful background knowledge of who built the slab hut, who the former resident of Caversham Cottage was and the history of the first Council Chambers.
Includes a colourful pictorial journey that you can take home and share.
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| Fairfield - A History of the District |
Vance George |
$30.00 |
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The history of the Fairfield District does not emanate from a simple, single set of circumstances like the beginning of many settlements in the NSW colony. Vance George was born in Liverpool, NSW in 1925 and educated at Auburn North Public School and Granville Technical College. In 1978 he accepted a commission from Fairfield City Council to write the collected history of Fairfield's Local Government Area. The book is a great resource for finding information about Fairfield's development as a City. It covers a broad range of subjects from the outbreak of World War II to the Ethnic Communities of Fairfield City.
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| Fairfield: A Pictorial History |
Brenda Pittard |
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This book was written to commemorate Fairfield's first one hundred years as a municipality. The selection of photographs was made from the collection of Fairfield Central Library, from the Fairfield Advance and some from private collections and is an attempt to provide a pictorial overview of the development and character of the district from its earliest days. Obviously there are many events which were never recorded pictorially, or photographs have been lost. The aim of this book is to present as complete a record as possible from the sources available.
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| Fairfield Past & Present: Tour of Fairfield Handbook |
Graham Hinton |
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This book accompanies one of three tours of the Fairfield district which was developed by the Fairfield Regional Heritage Centre. The tours have been designed to take people beyond the museum to discover the Fairfield district as it is today, through its history.
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| Fairfield Community |
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This book tells the story of some of the people who live in Fairfield. Over one hundred nationalities are represented in Fairfield making this area the most culturally diverse in Australia. It is more than the individual stories that are presented, it is about people moving to Australia and making a contribution to our heritage. The proposed outcome of reading this book is that the reader will gain a greater appreciation of the individuals and cultures that make up the Australian community today.
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| The Life & Times of Fairfield City - DVD |
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This documentary covers the history of the city from pre-European and rural settlements, and traces its growth to today's harmonious community of cultural diversity. The DVD includes a mixture of original photographs, interviews and visual images of land and city scapes. Overall, it captures the essence of this unique Western Sydney Local Government Area.
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| Tune into Fairfield City: A Multicultural Driving Tour CD |
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Tune into Fairfield City is a multicultural driving tour that explores the stories of the many different peoples of this area - from Chinese market gardeners to Vietnamese Buddhists to the descendants of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires to the transformation of Cabramatta - as an exciting and vibrant Asian marketplace.
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| Tune into Fairfield: Research |
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$15.00 |
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'Tune into Fairfield City' is a self-drive tour by CD/audio tape of selected ethno-specific religious and community sites located in Fairfield City. The main aim is to promote the religious, architectural and cultural heritage of selected communities for use as a shared resource for the benefit of the communities, Fairfield and Cabramatta area, the state and visitors to the city region. This research text contains the detailed information that forms the basis of the audio recording and accompanying booklet.
The research for the tour focussed on architectural traditions and inherent symbolic meanings of the sites, stories of the establishment of communitites in the area, the purpose of the building and associated activities, and human interest stories.
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Rituals and Traditions (Exhibition Catalogue)
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Kim Tao |
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Rituals and Traditions explores the unique cultural beliefs and religious customs of four ethnic communitites in Fairfield as they celebrate Ramadan, Christmas, Lunar New Year and Orthodox Easter. This catalogue explores difference while simultaneously celebrating sameness, particularly through the themes of family and food, which are common to all cultural celebrations. Outstanding photographs by local photographer Danny Huynh.
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Bodgies, Westies & Homies: Growing up in Western Sydney (Exhibition Catalogue)
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Kim Tao |
$15.00 |
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The exhibition Bodgies, Westies & Homies: Growing up in Western Sydney represents a significant collaboration between Fairfield City Museum & Gallery and local youth. The exhibition has provided creative training opportunities for local young artists, thereby promoting identity development and confidence building for young people in Sydney. The exhibition and book are a component of the growing up in Western Sydney Project that aims to explore the concept of being young in 2006, with comparisons from previous generations who grew up in the 1950's and 1960's.
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| Bonnyrigg Stories |
Kim Tao |
$10.00 |
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The exhibition and book are components of the Bonnyrigg History Project - an initiative of the residents and workers of Bonnyrigg Estate in response to the NSW Government's decision to redevelop the public housing estate under the Bonnyrigg Living Communities Project. The history project provides residents with the opportunity to present real stories, share memories, recognise their achievements as a community and celebrate the good times in Bonnyrigg.
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At the Front & Home: Fairfield
Remembers
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Fiona Starr |
$10.00 |
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At the Front & Home: Fairfield Remembers is an exhibition of memories. It commemorates the involvement of local people in World War 1 and World War II, the year of the 90th anniversary of the end of World War II. The stories collected for this exhibition frame the wars according to personal experiences, some of these were experiences unique to the local area, but many were experiences shared by people around Australia and even those overseas. The memories include those of Fairfielder's who left home to serve at the Front, those who stayed at home and helped with the war effort and even some who settled into Fairfield after the wars.
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'Vicious and Rebellious?': Life at the Male Orphan School, Sydney & Liverpool, 1819-1850
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Fiona Starr &
Rebecca Wheller
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$10.00 |
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This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition '...vicious and rebellious?': Life at the Male Orphan School, Sydney & Liverpool, 1819-1850. '
'...vicious and rebellious'?: Life at the Male Orphan School, Sydney & Liverpool , 1819-1850 is an exhibition developed by Fairfield City Museum & Gallery in association with over 30 descendants of the orphans, staff and assigned convicts who lived at the Male Orphan School in Sydney and Liverpool between 1819 and 1850. Our understanding about life in the Male Orphan School comes mainly from official reports. Although some of these imply living conditions for the boys at the school, very few reports from the boys or assigned convicts are available to us. It is with this in mind that we must review the evidence provided in official reports, and be careful not to always accept these observations of the authorities at face value.
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Foundations of Faith - Christian
Churches in the Fairfield Area
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Beverley Donald |
$30.00 |
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Church services have been part of the life of the Fairfield area for almost 160 years. As Smithfield, the first town in the Fairfield area, began to grow people were quick to start church services, holding them in houses and even under gum trees. Foundations of Faith looks at the history of most of the hundred plus churches that have been established in the area over this time.
Part of the story of the churches lies in the activities carried on within the churches and this book also looks at these, taking many of us back to our younger days, when the church was often a focal point of the social life in a district.
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Pedal Power - The History of
the Development of the Bicycle
and Cycling in Fairfield
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Dianne Schultz-Tesmar |
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This is a book that accompanies the exhibition Pedal Power. The exhibition Pedal Power highlights bicycles, accessories and photographs from the important historical collection of the Whitlam Library and Fairfield City Museum and Gallery. The exhibition demonstrates the importance of the bicycle in the lives of the people of Fairfield from a time when there were no cars on the roads and the bicycle was an important means of transport to the present day when residents are urged to return to cycling as a means of health and recreation.
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Culture & Cultivation - Backyards
in Fairfield (Exhibition Catalogue)
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Fiona Starr |
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Culture and Cultivation: Backyards in Fairfield provides a rare opportunity to look over the fence into the backyards of 17 families living in our city. Backyard objects, plant stories and films and photographs created by local artists explore migrant stories and how they transplant and maintain their cultural and gardening traditions in Fairfield.
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