1870
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MAITLAND-NEWCASTLE
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PARISH OF ST BRIGID BRANXTON |
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FOUNDED 1870 |
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DIOCESE MAITLAND-NEWCASTLE |
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| PARISH CHURCH OF ST BRIGID | ||
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| THE HISTORIC TOWNSHIP OF BRANXTON GOES BACK TO THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT OF THE HUNTER VALLEY WHEN IT WAS CALLED BLACK CREEK AFTER THE CREEK FLOWING THROUGH THE TOWN. THE NAME WAS CHANGED IN 1848 WHEN THE LAND WAS SUBDIVIDED. BRANXTON DEVELOPED SLOWLY AS AN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE CENTRE AND LATER GREW WITH THE OPENING OF THE LOWER HUNTER COAL MINES. IT HAS SINCE REVERTED TO A SERVICE CENTRE AND IS NOW A POPULAR TRAVELLER'S PIT-STOP ALONG THE NEW ENGLAND HIGHWAY. THE PARISH OF BRANXTON ESTABLISHED IN 1870 IS ONE OF THE OLDEST IN THE DIOCESE. AT THE TIME IT COVERED A VAST AREA OF THE LOWER HUNTER STRETCHING FROM WOLLOMBI AND CESSNOCK AS FAR AS GLENDONBROOK. AS THE AREA DEVELOPED NEW PARISHES WERE FORMED AND BRANXTON WAS GRADUALLY WHITTLED DOWN TO THE TOWNS OF BRANXTON AND GRETA. IN THE 1960's THE LATTER WAS ALSO BRIEFLY FORMED INTO A PARISH BEFORE RETURNING TO BRANXTON IN THE 1970's. BRANXTON WAS THE SITE OF A CONVENT AND TWO SCHOOLS RUN BY THE SISTERS OF MERCY AND POSSESSES A HISTORIC CEMETERY IN THE CHURCHYARD. TODAY THE PARISH IS CARED FOR BY THE PARISH PRIEST OF SINGLETON. FIRST CHURCH |
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| THE FIRST CHURCH AT BRANXTON (THEN KNOWN AS BLACK CREEK) WAS BUILT IN 1840 THUS MAKING IT ONE OF THE OLDEST MASS STATIONS IN THE HUNTER VALLEY. THE CHURCH WAS OF WAS A SIMPLE WOODEN SLAB CONSTRUCTION ERECTED ON LAND DONATED BY WILLIAM BOWEN. AS CONSTRUCTED THE CHURCH CONSISTED OF A NAVE, PORCH AND SACRISTY AND WAS DESIGNED TO HOLD ABOUT 200 PEOPLE. IT WAS BUILT AT A COST OF £120. THE CEMETERY APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN OPENED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE OLDEST KNOWN HEADSTONE ALSO DATES FROM 1840. BY ITS NATURE THE CHURCH WAS ONLY A SHORT-TERM SOLUTION TO THE GROWING NEEDS OF THE AREA AND IT WAS DULY DEMOLISHED IN 1866 WHEN THE SECOND CHURCH WAS BUILT. SECOND CHURCH |
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| BY 1866 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS SUFFICIENTLY ESTABLISHED IN BRANXTON FOR THOUGHT TO BE GIVEN TO A MORE PERMANENT CHURCH STRUCTURE AND ACCORDINGLY A NEW BRICK CHURCH ON SOLID STONE FOUNDATIONS WAS BUILT ON THE SAME SITE A LITTLE FURTHER BACK FROM THE ROAD THAN THE OLD WOODEN CHURCH. THE NEW CHURCH WAS OPENED BY BISHOP JAMES MURRAY ON 28 NOVEMBER 1866 THE DAY AFTER HE HAS PERFORMED THE SAME RITE AT ST PATRICK'S CHURCH IN SINGLETON. THE CHURCH WAS BUILT IN GOTHIC STYLE WITH A CHANCEL AND NAVE AND WAS DESIGNED TO HOLD 250 PEOPLE. THIS SECOND CHURCH WAS TO LAST UNTIL 1886 AND IN 1870 BECAME THE PARISH CHURCH FOR THE NEW PARISH. AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE THIRD CHURCH IN 1886 THE SECOND CHURCH WAS USED AS PART OF ST BRIGID'S SCHOOL UNTIL IT WAS DEMOLISHED TO MAKE WAY FOR THE NEW SCHOOL IN 1960. THE OUTLINE CAN BE SEEN IN THE PHOTO LEFT TAKEN BY MRS J ROCKET. THIRD CHURCH |
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| DESPITE THE BUILDING OF THE SECOND CHURCH IN 1866 WITHIN TWENTY YEARS SPACE WAS AGAIN LIMITED AND IT WAS DECIDED TO BUILD A THIRD AND MUCH LARGER CHURCH MORE SUITABLE AS A PARISH CHURCH. BISHOP MURRAY CAME AGAIN TO LAY THE FOUNDATION STONE AND THE LOVELY CHURCH DESCIBED AS ONE OF THE PRETTIEST IN THE COLONY WAS DULY OPENED IN JUNE 1887. THE CHURCH WAS BUILT OF LIGHT COLONIAL BRICKS FROM MAITLAND WITH PRESSED RED BRICKS FOR THE ARCHES. IT HAD AN APSIDAL CHANCEL AND ATTRACTIVE WHITE-WASHED WALLS SEEN BELOW. NEXT | |
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 | THE CHURCH WAS BUILT ON A NEW SITE NEXT TO THE CEMETERY WHICH HAD BEEN PURCHASED BY FR WALSH FROM MR BAYLISS. INITIALLY THE CHURCH HAD A LARGE WEST PORCH (LEFT) BUT THIS WAS LATER EXTENDED TO BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH (BELOW LEFT). IN 1961 THE CHURCH WAS GREATLY ENLARGED BY MR J GANNON. HE RETAINED THE NAVE BUT REPLACED THE APSIDAL CHANCEL OF THE ORIGINAL CHURCH AND ADDED AN IMPOSING WEST END COMPRISING A NARTHEX AND TWO SHALLOW WESTERN TRANSEPTS. A SOUTH PORCH WAS ALSO ADDED TO ALLOW FOR FUNERALS TO PASS DIRECT FROM THE CHURCH TO THE CEMETERY. THE PHOTO BELOW RIGHT SHOWS THE CHURCH TODAY. THE PRISTINE WHITE NAVE WALLS OF THE 1886 CHURCH CAN STILL BE SEEN IN MARKED CONTRAST TO THE BRICK PORCH AND WEST-END ADDED BY THE ARCHITECT. DESPITE THE CAREFUL BLENDING OF THE TWO STAGES EACH SECTION HAS BEEN CLEARLY DEFINED IN BOTH THE MATERIALS USED AND STYLE. NEXT |
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 | THE SPARTAN CHURCH INTERIOR OF ST BRIGID'S, ESPECIALLY THE SANCTUARY OWES MUCH TO THE RENOVATION AND EXTENSIONS OF 1961 WHEN THE MURAL FILLED SANCTUARY WAS DEMOLISHED. THE STARK WHITE-PAINTED CHANCEL FOCUSES THE VIEWER'S ATTENTION ON THE ALTAR AND CRUCIFIX, SYMBOLS OF THE SAVING GRACE OF THE EUCHARIST. IN THE 1980's FURTHER CHANGES WERE MADE IN LINE WITH THE NEW LITURGY. THE SIDE ALTARS WERE REMOVED AND THE TABERNACLE AND FONT REPLACED THEM AT THE FRONT OF THE CHURCH. THE NAVE HOWEVER IS A REMINDER OF AN EARLIER TIME WITH ITS COMPLETE SET OF STAINED GLASS WINDOWS, BRIGHTLY PAINTED STATIONS OF THE CROSS AND THE STATUES OF ST BRIGID AND ST THERESE ON WALL PEDESTALS. AT THE END OF THE CHURCH SPARSE MODERNISM IS AGAIN THE DOMINANT STYLE. HERE THE GLASS FROM THE ORIGINAL WINDOWS IS INCORPORATED INTO THEIR MODERN REPLACEMENT. NEXT |
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| (RIGHT) THE ATTRACTIVELY PAINTED AND REALISTIC STATIONS OF THE CROSS ARE TYPICAL OF THE PRE-VATICAN II CATHOLIC PIETY OF THE OLD CHURCH. (BELOW) THE MENSA OF THE WHITE MARBLE ALTAR WHICH HAS BEEN MOVED FORWARD TO PERMIT THE MASS TO BE SAID FACING THE CONGREGATION. NEXT |  |
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| THE SOUTH SIDE WINDOWS FROM EAST TO WEST - THE ANNUNCIATION, THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD, THE BAPTISM OF OUR LORD, OUR LADY OF LOURDES AND OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY APPEARING TO ST DOMINIC. THE COMPARABLE NORTH SIDE WINDOWS CAN BE VIEWED HERE. NEXT | ||||
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| IN THE GALLERY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT - ST JOSEPH, THE WEST WINDOW INCORPORATING THE ORIGINAL STAINED GLASS AND ST PETER. NEXT | ||
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| THE NORTH SIDE WINDOWS GOING FROM WEST TO EAST - OUR LADY GIVING THE ROSARY TO ST DOMINIC, OUR LORD APPEARING TO ST MARGARET MARY, UNKNOWN, THE ASSUMPTION AND THE ASCENSION. THE COMPARABLE SOUTH SIDE WINDOWS CAN BE VIEWED HERE. NEXT | ||||
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| THE NAVE LOOKING WEST AND OUR LADY (R) AND THE SACRED HEART (L). TOP STATION CHURCHES |
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CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, GRETA | |
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| GRETA TO THE SOUTH OF BRANXTON ON THE NEW ENGLAND HIGHWAY OWED ITS GROWTH TO THE DISCOVERY OF COAL IN THE LOWER HUNTER. AT ONE TIME IT EXCEEDED EVEN BRANXTON IN POPULATION.TODAY IT IS A QUIET SERVICE TOWNSHIP AND VIRTUALLY A SISTER TOWN TO BRANXTON WITH WHICH IT HAS BEEN CLOSELY LINKED SINCE ITS EARLIEST BEGINNINGS. THE TOWNSHIP OF GRETA WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDATIONAL MASS STATIONS OF BRANXTON WITH A CHURCH FROM 1882 AND A SCHOOL FROM 1886. FOR TEN YEARS BETWEEN 1963 AND 1973 IT WAS A PARISH IN ITS OWN RIGHT BEFORE RETURNING TO BRANXTON. TODAY IT IS THE LOCATION OF THE PARISH INFANTS SCHOOL AND BOASTS A PARTICULARLY ACTIVE LOCAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY. ST MARY'S CHURCH | |
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| THE FIRST CHURCH IN GRETA WAS A NEAT WEATHERBOARD STRUCTURE WHICH WAS COMPLETED IN 1882 (RIGHT). IT WAS DESCRIBED IN THE CATHOLIC PRESS OF 1896 AS 'STANDING ON THE SUMMIT OF A GENTLE RISE WITH THE WHOLE TOWN LYING TO THE WEST BENEATH IT'. THE CHURCH COULD ACCOMODATE 250-300 PEOPLE AS GRETA WAS THE MOST THICKLY POPULATED AREA OF THE PARISH AT THE TIME. IT WAS ALSO CLAIMED TO HAVE THE LARGEST AND BEST-TONED BELL NORTH OF NEWCASTLE. THE CHURCH ALSO SERVED AS THE SCHOOL UNTIL 1900 BUT AFTER THE COMPLETION OF ST CATHERINE'S IN 1962 THE OLD CHURCH WAS DEMOLISHED. NONETHELESS MUCH OF THE SPIRIT OF THE OLD CHURCH REMAINS IN THE NEW AS THE CRUCIFIX, STATUES AND BAPTISMAL FONT WERE RESCUED FROM THE OLD CHURCH AND RELOCATED IN THE NEW. THOUGH THE OLD CHURCH HAS PASSED ON ITS NAME IS KEPT BY THE SCHOOL AS A REMINDER OF EARLY DAYS. ST CATHERINE'S CHURCH |
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| BY 1962 THE OLD WEATHERBOARD ST MARY'S WAS BECOMING DERELICT AND THE DECISION WAS MADE TO BUILD A REPLACEMENT CHURCH IN THAT YEAR. THE NEW CHURCH WAS DESIGNED BY MR J GANNON, UNOFFICIAL ARCHITECT TO THE DIOCESE AND WAS BUILT IN THAT MIXTURE OF MODERN STYLING AND TRADITIONAL LAYOUT SO TYPICAL OF THE LAST FLOWERING OF THE PRE-VATICAN II CHURCH. IT IS A PLAIN BRICK RECTANGLE WITH A DISTINCT CHANCEL AND NARTHEX ALONG WITH THE USUAL SIDE SACRISTIES AND CONFESSIONALS. IT WAS ALSO DECIDED TO REDEDICATE THE CHURCH TO ST CATHERINE. THIS WAS DONE TO AVOID CONFUSION WITH THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF ST MARY. NEXT |
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 | THE PLAIN HALL-LIKE STRUCTURE OF THE INTERIOR IS IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS ON ENTERING THE CHURCH. IN COMPENSATION THE CHURCH HAS RETAINED MUCH OF ITS TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC DEVOTIONAL STRUCTURE. FROM ST ANTHONY OF PADUA LOCATED IN THE NARTHEX, PAST OUR LADY OF FATIMA TO ST CATHERINE AND OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS AND ON TO THE SANCTUARY WITH ITS OLD-STYLE CRUCIFIX AND BALDACCHINO THIS IS VERY CLEARLY A CATHOLIC CHURCH. MUCH OF THE CREDIT MUST GO TO THE PARISH WHICH RESCUED MANY OF THESE ITEMS FROM THE OLD CHURCH AND THUS PASSED ON THEIR HERITAGE TO THE NEW. AT THE SAME TIME THE POST VATICAN II CHANGES HAVE BEEN HANDLED IN A MINIMAL AND SENSITIVE WAY SO THAT THE CHURCH RETAINS MUCH OF ITS ORIGINAL ATMOSPHERE. NEXT |
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| FROM LEFT TO RIGHT - ST CATHERINE, PATRON OF THE CHURCH, THE MODERNISTIC AMBO AND SHRINE OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS. NEXT | ||
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| (^^^) THE FONT FROM THE OLD CHURCH RELOCATED TO THE NAVE OF THE NEW. NEXT | (<<<) ST ANTHONY OF PADUA AND THE STATUE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA (^^^). NEXT |
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CHAPEL OF ST ANTHONY, GRETA MIGRANT CAMP | |
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| IN 1949 FR LAVERY, ASSISTANT PRIEST AT BRANXTON TOOK UP RESIDENCE IN THE PRIEST'S ROOM OF THE FORMER C.U.S.A HUT AT GRETA MIGRANT CAMP. SHORTLY AFTER THE HUT WAS DEDICATED BY BISHOP GLEESON AS ST ANTHONY'S CHAPEL. THE BUILDING WAS ALSO USED AS A SCHOOL BY THE SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH. THE CHURCH WAS CLOSED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE CAMP IN 1960. | |
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| (TOP) THE OLD CUSA HUT AND (ABOVE) THE OPENING IN 1949. | (ABOVE) THE LOVELY PAINTED SANCTUARY OF THE CHURCH. |
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THE PARISH OF BRANXTON IS TYPICAL OF MOST CATHOLIC PARISHES IN THE RANGE OF ITS BUILDINGS. TWO PRESBYTERIES HAVE SERVED AS HOMES FOR THE PARISH PRIEST AND HIS ASSISTANTS OVER THE YEARS AND ANOTHER PRESBYTERY SERVED BRIEFLY FOR GRETA PARISH BETWEEN 1963 AND 1973. IN 1886 THE SISTERS OF MERCY ARRIVED FROM SINGLETON AND ESTABLISHED ST BRIGID'S SCHOOL. LATER THEY ESTABLISHED ST MARY'S SCHOOL AT GRETA. A CONVENT WAS BUILT FOR THEM BY THE PARISH IN BRANXTON. THE PARISH ALSO PURCHASED CONSIDERABLE LAND AROUND THE CHURCH A PORTION OF WHICH WAS FOR MANY YEARS USED AS A PARK KNOWN AS ROSARY PARK. IT WAS HERE THAT THE SECOND PRESBYTERY WAS BUILT IN 1932. FROM 1840 THE CHURCH ALSO POSSESSED A CEMETERY WHICH IS STILL IN USE TODAY. DURING THE WAR YEARS A C.U.S.A. HUT OPERATED AT THE ARMY CAMP UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PARISH OF MAITLAND AND WHEN THE CAMP BECAME THE GRETA MIGRANT CAMP IN 1949 THIS BUILDING BECAME A CHAPEL AND A CONVENT SCHOOL RUN BY THE SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH FROM LOCHINVAR.
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 | THE FIRST BRANXTON PRESBYTERY WAS LOCATED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CEMETERY AND HAD BEEN BUILT IN 1864 ALTHOUGH THE LAND ONLY SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN PURCHASED IN 1880. IN 1882 A LARGE WOODEN ADDITION WAS MADE (BELOW LEFT) AND THIS SERVED AS THE PRESBYTERY FOR ANOTHER FIFTY YEARS. BY THE LATE 1920's A NEW PRESBYTERY WAS DISCUSSED AND FUND-RAISING COMMENCED. BUILT ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE OLD PRESBYTERY ON A PORTION OF ROSARY PARK, PART OF THE LAND PURCHASED BY THE CHURCH IN 1889, THE NEW PRESBYTERY (LEFT) WAS A TRULY MAGNIFICENT BUILDING DESIGNED BY MR THOMAS SILK AND OPENED FREE OF DEBT IN MAY 1932. WITH THE REDUCED NUMBER OF PRIESTS FROM THE LATE 1990's ON THE PRESBYTERY WAS NO LONGER USED AND IT IS CURRENTLY RENTED OUT PRIVATELY. NEXT |
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 | WHEN GRETA BECAME A SEPARATE PARISH IN 1963 ONE OF THE FIRST REQUIREMENTS WAS FOR A PRESBYTERY. THE HOUSE NEAR THE CHURCH WHICH HAD PREVIOUSLY BELONGED TO THE TEASEY FAMILY (LEFT) SEEMED A LOGICAL AND APPROPRIATE CHOICE, ESPECIALLY AS IT HAD BEEN A TRADITION THAT PRIESTS SAYING MASS AT GRETA WOULD HAVE BREAKFAST AT THE TEASEY HOME. THE SIMPLE WEATHERBOARD DOMESTIC BUILDING SERVED AS THE HOME OF FRS JOHN NEWTON, DENIS McALINDEN AND CORNELIUS MARTENS OVER THE TEN YEAR LIFE OF THE PARISH. WITH THE CLOSURE OF THE PARISH IN 1973 THE HOUSE WAS SUPERFLUOUS AND WAS SOLD. IT THEN BECAME A PRIVATE RESIDENCE AGAIN. TOP OTHER BUILDINGS C.U.S.A. GRETA |
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| DURING THE WAR YEARS THE ARMY OPENED A CAMP AT GRETA AND INEVITABLY AMONG THE SOLDIERS STATIONED THERE WERE MANY CATHOLICS. TO PROVIDE FOR THEM SOCIALLY AND SPIRITUALLY THE PARISH OF MAITLAND WAS ABLE TO FIND THE MONEY, BUILDING MATERIALS AND VOLUNTARY LABOR TO ERECT A WOODEN HUT FOR USE AS A RECREATION AND MASS CENTRE. MR J GANNON WAS THE HONORARY ARCHITECT FOR THE PROJECT. THE HUT WAS LARGE ENOUGH TO ACCOMODATE 500 PEOPLE AND INCLUDED A SACRISTY AND A ROOM FOR THE PRIEST'S ACCOMODATION. AFTER THE WAR IT BECAME ST ANTHONY'S CHAPEL IN THE GRETA MIGRANT CAMP. TOP OTHER BUILDINGS BRANXTON CATHOLIC CEMETERY |
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| CATHOLIC CEMETERY, BRANXTON | |
 | IN THE EARLY 19th CENTURY GRAVEYARDS WERE BOTH MORE SECTARIAN AND MORE COMMONLY ATTACHED TO CHURCHES THAN THEY ARE TODAY. BRANXTON'S CATHOLIC CEMETERY DATING BACK TO 1840 ACCORDING TO THE OLDEST EXTANT GRAVE WAS NO EXCEPTION. ONE OF THE PLUSES OF THIS SYSTEM FROM A CATHOLIC POINT OF VIEW WAS THAT THE WHOLE GRAVEYARD COULD BE CONSECRATED THUS AVOIDING THE NECESSITY OF CONSECRATING EACH INDIVIDUAL PLOT PRIOR TO BURIAL. THE GRAVEYARD HAS CONTINUED TO BE USED FOR CATHOLIC BURIALS UP TO THE PRESENT DAY. THE OLDER SECTION CAN BE SEEN LEFT WITH THE PRESBYTERY IN THE BACKGROUND WHILE THE NEWER SECTION CAN BE SEEN BELOW RIGHT. AT ONE STAGE THE ENTRANCE WAS MARKED BY A MEMORIAL ARCHWAY BUILT BY PARISHIONER JOHN PETER (BELOW LEFT) NOW SADLY DEMOLISHED. NEXT |
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| ST BRIGID'S SCHOOL BRANXTON | ST MARY'S SCHOOL GRETA | CONVENT SCHOOL GRETA MIGRANT CAMP |
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| PARISH CHURCH 44 STATION STREET BRANXTON 2335 POST: 40 QUEEN STREET SINGLETON 2330 PHONE: (02) 6578 9600 FAX: (02) 6578 9699 EMAIL: admin@sgtn.mn.catholic.edu.au | PRIMARY SCHOOLS ST BRIGID'S PRIMARY SCHOOL STATION STREET BRANXTON 2335 PHONE: (02) 4938 1541 FAX: (02) 4938 1542 EMAIL: admin@greta.mn.catholic.edu.au WEBSITE: http://greta.mn.catholic.edu.au ST MARY'S INFANTS SCHOOL BRANXTON STREET GRETA 2334 PHONE: (02) 4938 7333 FAX: (02) 4938 7411 EMAIL: admin@brxtn.mn.catholic.edu.au WEBSITE: http://brxtn.mn.catholic.edu.au |
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| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
| MUCH OF THE INFORMATION AND MANY HISTORICAL PHOTOS ON THIS PAGE WERE OBTAINED FROM THE BRANXTON JUBILEE BOOKLET PRODUCED BY THE PARISH OF BRANXTON. IT IS HERE ACKNOWLEDGED WITH GRATITUDE. |
