Members Hour: Susannah Place

Welcome to Members Hour at Susannah Place.

Built by Irish immigrants in 1844, these four terrace houses survived largely unchanged through the slum clearances and redevelopments of the past century. Today Susannah Place tells the stories of the working families who called this place and this neighbourhood home.
Be immersed in the homes that housed more than 100 families over 150 years.

You will be led on an insightful tour of the houses by our expert onsite storytellers in a small group of 8 participants. Two tours will be available.

Members Hour is an exclusive time dedicated to Museums of History NSW members at each of our historic houses, gardens and museums. Ask our expert museum staff all your questions, as you will have them to yourselves.

Spots are strictly limited. Bookings essential.

If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please email the Members Team.

58–64 Gloucester Street, The Rocks, Sydney NSW 2000

Susannah Place

58–64 Gloucester Street, The Rocks, Sydney NSW 2000Plan your visit
  • Wednesday 21 February 9am–10am

Susannah Place stories

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Come in spinner!

Gambling in Australia is regulated by the state and some types of gambling are illegal. The game Two-up, with its catch cry of ‘Come in Spinner!’, is legal only on Anzac Day and only in some states

Ada and John Gallagher with their son Fred and daughter Girlie, probably around November 1916
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Ada Gallagher’s war

In 1914, at the outbreak of war, Ada (Adelaide) Gallagher was living with her husband, John, her daughter, Mary, usually known as Girlie, and her two younger sons, Fred and Frank, at 52 Gloucester Street in The Rocks

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Keeping time

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries watches were designed to carried on the person, attached to a waist hook, looped over a belt or as part of a chatelaine in the case of women

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Exterior of Meroogal with Jacaranda Trees in bloom
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Corner West and Worrigee streets, Nowra NSW 2541
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Door to the Police Station Charge Room, Justice & Police Museum
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Susannah Place - goods in the corner shop window re-created to circa 1915, 64 Gloucester Street, The Rocks, 1991
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Members Hour: Susannah Place

Experience Members Hour at Susannah Place

58–64 Gloucester Street, The Rocks, Sydney NSW 2000
Monday 30 June 9am–10am