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This watercolour came into the possession of the New South Wales Government, and then to the Mitchell Library, from the descendants of Lieutenant Colonel George Johnston. As senior officer of the N.S.W. Corps, Johnston ordered the arrest of Governor Bligh. It is likely that this watercolour was the one commissioned to an unknown artist by Sergeant Thomas Whittle, a soldier in the N.S.W. Corps who participated in the arrest. Whittle displayed this image in his house, enshrined between two candlesticks, a couple of days after Bligh's arrest. For further information on the arrest and the circumstances surrounding the creation and public display of this image see: Neville, R. " The Arrest of Governor Bligh - Pictures and Politics", Australiana, June 1991, and PXn 762.Digital order no: a128113 Artist unknown. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales        You are invited to a Script Reading of the 1952 play The House That Jack Built: A drama in fou...

I rely on the 370 to help me carry shopping from Leichhardt Market Place to Annandale, to attend the Newtheatre in Newtown and get home afterwards and most recently to get home from Bankstown to Annandale. Many a time, I have caught the 370 home from Glebe Point Road after checking stocks of Annandale Short Walk books at Gleebooks I even once went on a Joy Ride on the Light Rail to Randwick but decided to return on the 370 as the Tram was so slow. Another time we went to a wedding at Coogee - sadly there were no buses to get us home! The pottery studio at UNSW and a lecture have also been a reason to catch the 370. It connects the Newtown Performing Arts School to NIDA.  A weekend 370 bus service from Annandale to Coogee Beach was introduced in the 1940s. Buses ran every 20 minutes via Newtown and St Peter's Station to Beach Street, Coogee. The full fare was 8d (shillings) and child fare was capped at 3d.- 1940 'NEW BUS SERVICE.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 19...

A full Saturday, setting out about 9.15am. Waiting for the 461 on Parramatta Road, opposite Nelson Street I noticed the trucks hurtling past. Guess they were going to and from the Annandale dive site a little further east. The speed limit is 60kmph and the trucks seemed to be doing that and then some. Caught the tail end of the 8am " show of displeasure " at the opening of the M4 East Tunnels at Ashfield and Haberfield. Observed t rucks avoiding the tunnel . Continued along Parramatta Road on Foot along the Westconnex constructed shared path to Bland Street and the Pedestrian Bridge, where another group were packing up after showing their displeasure at the opening of westconnex.   Continuing along Parramatta Road, to Frederick St, through Hammond Park to  Church Street to Croydon Road and Edwin Lane, to attend the smoking ceremony for the new mural in Edwin Lane Croydon . Then stumbled across a little laneway along the railway tracks before checking ...