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Pendle Hill is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Pendle Hill is located 30 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the Holroyd and Parramatta and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.〔http://www.holroyd.nsw.gov.au/html/lcs/library/holroyd/suburbmap.htm〕 ==History== George Bond (1876–1950), an American who came to Australia in 1909,〔Karskens, Grace. Holroyd: A Social History of Western Sydney. Kensington, New South Wales: New South Wales University Press, 1991.〕 established a cotton spinning mill in the area in 1923. It was Australia's first attempt to spin and weave cotton from cotton farms that the company owned in Queensland. Lancashire was the centre of England's cotton industry, and Pendle Hill is a hill in the heart of the Lancashire cotton industry. It seems likely this is where the town gained its name. George Bond was originally in the business of importing hosiery and underwear but during World War I began manufacturing hosiery in Redfern and by 1925 was producing a quarter of Australia's output of hosiery and knitted garments. Bond Industries Limited became a public company in 1927. The railway station at Pendle Hill opened here on 12 April 1924. The first government school opened in 1955 and the first post office was opened in 1956 by Postmaster Sqn. Ldr.() Richard R. Purdie M.B.E. and his wife Elsie. Nearby "Purdie Lane" is named after these long time pioneers of Pendle Hill.〔''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8〕 The suburb is now greatly populated by EELAM TAMILS (Sri Lankan Tamils). The Tamils have called Pendle Hill home after fleeing their home land from war crimes The suburb is now known as Little Eelam, due to the large Tamil population. The Tamils bring colour and new flavour to Multicultural Australia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pendle Hill, New South Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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