Corporate Body

New South Wales Department of Public Works (1859 - 1936)

Colony and State of New South Wales

From
1859
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
To
1936
Functions
Advisory or Regulatory Body

Summary

The New South Wales Department of Public Works became a separate administrative agency of the New South Wales Government in 1859 when the Department of Lands and Public works was split between Lands and Public Works.

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 1856 - 1859 New South Wales Department of Lands and Public Works
       1859 - 1936 New South Wales Department of Public Works
             1941 - 1980s New South Wales Public Works Department

Related People

Published resources

Books

  • Bridges, Peter, Historic court houses of New South Wales (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1986), 104 pp. Details

Edited Books

  • Coltheart, Lenore; Fraser, Don ed., Landmarks in Public Works: Engineers and Their Works in New South Wales, 1884-1914 (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1987), 144 pp. Details

Resource Sections

See also

  • Bridges, Peter; McDonald, Don, James Barnet, colonial architect (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1988), 144 pp. Details
  • Coltheart, Leonore ed., Significant sites: History and public works in New South Wales (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1989), 192 pp. Details
  • Lee, Robert, The greatest public work : the New South Wales railways, 1848 to 1889 (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1988), 184 pp. Details
  • Raxworthy, Richard, The unreasonable man: The life and works of J. C. C. Bradfield (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1989), 152 pp. Details

Helen Cohn

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