Catalogue of Archives
This catalogue includes paper records such as donated histories, reports, a history of the BA and their activities personalities, industries, streets and houses including photographs and press clippings.
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| BALMAIN ASSOCIATION PROTESTS | 1.1 |
| Petition – Unfair Toll on Road to Balmain | |
| Clontarf Park Action Group – Clontarf Cottage | |
| Snails Bay Residents Action Group | |
| Bridge Action Group | |
| Anti Expressway Campaign | |
| Ballast Point Action Group | |
| Protests on Chemical Storage | |
| Rates Protest | |
| Shipping Container Terminal Protest | |
| Telstra Telephone Exchange Petition | |
| WestConnex | |
| BALMAIN ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES | 1.2 |
| Garden Walks | |
| House Inspections | |
| Tree Planting 1973 | |
| Year of the Tree 1982 | |
| Village Fair 1975 | |
| Fundraising Activities | |
| Children's Paint In – Gladstone Park 1975 | |
| Children's Library at WH | |
| Good Neighbourhood Council | |
| BALMAIN ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES | 1.3 |
| Bicentennial Commemorative Plaques and Trail | |
| 50th Anniversary Cruise 2015, Cruise 2010, Cruise 2007, Cruise 2006 | |
| Balmain Association Dinner 1989, 1990, 1991, 2005 | |
| Oral History Applications | |
| Bi-Centenary Committee | |
| Heritage Week 2007 | |
| Grants: RAHS 1991-1992 | |
| National Estate 1987-88 | |
| Australia Council Literature Board 1985 | |
| POLITICS | 1.4 |
| Election 1976 | |
| Balmain Council | |
| Balmain Councilors 1860-1894 | |
| Municipal Jubilee Balmain 1860-1910 | |
| Balmain 75th Anniversary 1860-1935 | |
| Leichhardt Council | |
| Australian Labor Party | |
| BALLAST POINT PARK | 1.6 |
| Ballast Point Park Birchgrove (old Caltex Site/Texaco) | |
| PARKS AND WHARVES | 1.5 |
| Wharves: Simmons Point, Stephen Street, Long Nose Point | |
| Parks: Peacock Point, Propeller Park, Gladstone Park, Longnose Point Park | |
| BALMAIN PLANNING HISTORY | 3.14 |
|
REPORTS (Environment and Planning History) Amalgamation of Councils 1977 |
1.7 |
| Container Shipping Schemes for Sydney 1967 | |
| Balmain Study 1974, White Bay Study [2012 ?] | |
| Planning, Parking Code 1984 | |
| East Balmain Study 1974 | |
| Sydney Harbour Waterside Zoning Plan 1975, Sydney Harbour Tunnel 2000 | |
| Environmental & Town Plan 1981 | |
| Industry Report Leichhardt 1985 | |
| Main Street Study 1994, Rozelle & Balmain | |
| Parking Code 1984, Rozelle Bay Marine (Leichhardt Council) 1989 | |
| Submission to Committee of Inquiry Sydney Foreshore 1978 | |
| CEMETERIES(Balmain) | 4.24 |
| CHURCHES | 4.23 |
| CLUBS | 1.8 |
| Sporting Clubs – Balmain Rugby League(Tigers) | |
| Balmain sailing clubs | |
| Sydney Regatta | |
| Balmain Swimming Club (Dawn Fraser Pool) | |
| Birchgrove Tennis Club | |
| Other Clubs – Social | |
| Rotary | |
| RSL | |
| (see also Freemasons, Druids, Excelsior and Royal Oak Lodge etc) | 4.27 |
| FAMILY HISTORIES go here | 4.5 |
| FERRIES | 1.11 |
| FERRIES - Books and Reports | 1.12 |
| HOUSES AND STREETS – Darling St Balmain and Rozelle | 4.8 |
| A-D | 4.9 |
| E-I | 4.10 |
| J-N | 4.11 |
| O-T | 4.12 |
| U-Z | 4.21 |
| REAL ESTATE | 4.6 |
| Boundaries of Balmain c 1850 ,Title Deeds (see separate list) | |
| Naming of Streets 1881 | |
| Merton Estate | |
| Houses of Balmain | |
| Restoring Heritage Houses | |
| Federation Houses | |
| REAL ESTATE – advertisements (3 volumes) | 4.15 |
| Clubb Real Estate | 4.13 |
| IRON LACE | 3.15 |
| IRON LACE | 3.16 |
| INDUSTRIES | 1.9 |
| Storey & Keers (shipbuilding and repairs) | |
| Caltex Oil Refinery (see separate boxes (Ballast Point) | |
| EH Brett & Sons (sail making) | |
| TNT at Beattie Street | |
| Garages – Bills; Chemist – Soul Pattinsons | |
| Union Box and Packing Case Company | |
| Shipping – Vessels, Boatsheds, Coastal Patrols | |
| Sharps Furniture Store | |
| Milk Bar – Cnr Rowntree & Darling Sts | |
| Balmain Gasworks | |
| Bakery (Gold Cob, St Leonards) | |
| INDUSTRIES | 1.10 |
| Balmain Coal Loader, Balmain Coal Mine | |
| Balmain Power Station (and White Bay) | |
| Mort Bay(Dock and Engineering Co (see Mort Bay separate boxes) | |
| Elliott Bros (later Drug Houses of Aust)/Monsanto Chemical Works | |
| Aberdeen Steam Laundry | |
| MORT BAY | 3.18 |
| COLGATE PALMOLIVE | 3.19 |
| UNILEVER | 3.20/23 |
| ISLANDS AND BAYS | 4.1 |
| Cockatoo Island | |
| Glebe Island | |
| Goat Island | |
| Johnston’s Bay | |
| Water Police - Camerons Cove | |
| Foreshore Open Space/ Foreshore Aerial Views | |
| Iron Cove Bridge | |
| White Bay Development Nov 1966 | 4.14 |
| MUSIC | 1.13 |
| PERSONALITIES go here | 4.16 |
| PUBLIC BUILDINGS | 4.7 |
| Entertainment : Bands, Theatres, Balmain Choral Society | |
| Fire Station | |
| Public Buildings: Court House, Police Station, Post Offices, Balmain Town Hall | |
| Workingman’s Institute, Balmain Volunteer | |
| Bells Store | |
| INSTITUTIONS | 4.25 |
| Public Schools - Balmain Teachers College | |
| Hospitals – Cottage Hospital, Balmain Hospital, Callan Park Hospital | |
| POLICE Station, Police History, Mr Gray – Sergeant at Watch House | 4.26 |
| PUBS | 4.2 |