History - Stage and Screen Australia

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Gillian Perkins

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Crystal Palace on George St,viewed from the druveway between Regent Theatre and the Trocadero in 1939.Photo from Historic Houses Trust.A♥W

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London Bank

Lost Memories

Australian Photography

Tivoli Theatre on Castlereagh St,Sydney in 1910.Photo from State Library of NSW.A♥W

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The Spit punt in northern Sydney (year unknown).Photo from State Library of NSW.A♥W

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Oud Hollywood

Sean Flynn

Klasik Hollywood

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Portrait of Errol Flynn [picture].

Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (1909 – 1959) was an Australian film actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his playboy lifestyle. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1942.

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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. 4 May 1935

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Lost grandpa of Redgrave dynasty lies in Vaucluse

Reconnecting ... Kika Markham at Roy Redgrave's Vaucluse grave, Sydney. At historic Vaucluse Cemetery overlooking the Pacific Ocean, she has found the unkempt grave of Roy Redgrave, the grandfather of her husband Corin Redgrave, of the English acting dynasty.

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Lost grandpa of Redgrave dynasty lies in Vaucluse

Roy Redgrave.(1873 – 1922) was an English stage and silent film actor who spent much of his career in Australia, and died penniless in Darlinghurst, Sydney in 1922,. Redgrave is considered to be the first member of the Redgrave acting dynasty.

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Roy Redgrave - The Sydney Morning Herald 27 May 1922, page 14. started the famous acting dynasty. He used to live just down the hill from Tara’s Darlinghurst Public School in what was then called Woolcott Street (now a freeway just between Womerah Ave and Bayswater Rd). He died at the then Sisters of Charity Sacred Heart Hospice (Est 1890) for the dying at 170 Darlinghurst Road. Roy was buried at South Head / Vaucluse Cemetery.

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Screen

Roy Redgrave Darlinghurst Australia

Four Generations Redgrave Acting Dynasty - and the first made his name here in Australia!

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Education

1828: Extra mail routes out of Sydney to more townships were quickly established and additional postmasters were appointed. In 1828, Australia's first postmen, then known as "letter carriers" began delivering letters around towns. Learn more about Australia Post's history here: http://auspo.st/1C0gYkJ