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Who are we? We are The National Archives, the UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history with records ranging from parchment and paper scrolls through to digital files and archived websites. We are also at the heart of government information policy, to ensure the survival of today´s information for the future.

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CO 1069-447-01

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  • Bridget Yu said:
    I think the area is Central, the upper photo from the right is Bonham Strand East, Jervois Street, Queen's Road Central.
  • Paed Ortho said:
    Bridget Yu I agree about the streets. The decoration over Bonham Strand East very much resembled that seen for the royal visit of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, in 1890. Ref The Hong Kong Album 香港歷史圖片 3rd ed 1986 p.57
  • Kwan W said:
    The arched verandas and neoclassical colonial architecture are characteristic of the city's main commercial district (such as Queen’s Road Central) in that period.
    The tall, elaborate bamboo structure spanning the street is a Pai-lau (Ceremonial Arch) or Bamboo Pavilion.
    The figures depicted on the pai-lau seem to be characters from a classical Chinese opera or historical legend.

Extract from Sarah Parker Remond’s application to become a British citizen

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  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    It is my understanding that the whole document wasn't actually 'written' by Sarah. Her signature is quite unlike the 'flowing, elegant script' of the petition. An amanuensis or scribe skilled in this sort of flowery expression and presentation work would have written it under her instructions and no doubt for payment.
  • Merryjack said:
    Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies
    I'm thinking a solicitor's clerk may have been the actual 'writer' of the document.
    Doctor's handwriting was probably as poor then as now, although it wasn't until two years later in 1867 that Sarah went to Italy to pursue medical training in Florence, where she became a physician. She practiced medicine for nearly 20 years in Italy and never returned to the United States, dying in Rome at the age of 68. See a lovely portrait of her here with more details of her life - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Parker_Remond
  • Jock Livre said:
    Sarah's brother Charles Lenox Remond was a firebrand orator who told a meeting in 1857 which Sarah also attended, "When the world shall learn that 'mind makes the man'-- that goodness; moral worth, and integrity of soul, are the true tests of Character, then prejudice against caste and color, will cease to be."
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lenox_Remond
  • Merryjack said:
    It is interesting that when Charles Lenox Remond married Elizabeth Magee, a native of Virginia, in Newton on July 5, 1858. The abolitionist preacher, Rev. Theodore Parker, officiated. Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Parker
  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    Merryjack
    And the great Frederick Douglass, "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century", so admired Charles that he named one of his sons for him: Charles Remond Douglass.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lenox_Remond
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

CO 1069-597-10

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  • Aussie~mobs said:
    Most likely the Jenolan Caves.
  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    More Jenolan Caves, the Lucas Cave centre - www.viator.com/en-AU/tours/Jenolan-Caves/Jenolan-Caves-Lu...

    Jenolan Caves are known to the local Gundungurra people as Binoomeal, "Dark places".
    Colonial exploration of the area began in 1838, with the first recorded discovery by a local pastoralist, James Whalan. Whalan was not the first European to set eyes on the caves. That honour goes to James McKeown, an ex-convict and possibly an outlaw, reputed to have been using the valleys as a hideout.

    Over the succeeding years, James Whalan and his brother Charles discovered several openings. The Elder cave was discovered in 1848. It was the first ‘dark cave’ explored. In 1860, the Lucas cave was discovered by Nicholas Irwin and George Whiting. Then known as the ‘New Cave’, it is the largest of the show caves. It was not until 1866 that the caves were brought under direct government control.
    In 1867, Jeremiah Wilson was appointed as 'Keeper' of the 'Binda', or 'Fish River' Caves. The Aboriginal word 'Jenolan' (high mountain) was not adopted until 1884.
    www.jenolancaves.org.au/jenolans-history#:~:text=In%20186....
  • Peter Hill said:
    Aussie~mobs Actually is Jenolan Caves.
  • Peter Hill said:
    The initials "J.P." tell me the photographer was John Paine. Originally from the UK, he had a studio in Sydney. Some of his Jenolan Caves albumen prints were published in "Sun Pictures of New South Wales - Volume 2" circa 1890.
  • Aussie~mobs said:
    Peter Hill Thanks Peter, they sure seemed to be the Jenolan Caves.

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