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Kathleen Hackett is the photo librarian at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney

Peter Reynolds OAM is an architectural historian and author in Balmain, Sydney

On the night of 31 May 1942, three midget submarines, each with a two-member crew, entered Sydney Harbour, avoided the partially constructed Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net, and attempted unsuccessfully to sink Allied warships anchored near Garden Island.

River that runs for 120 kilometres from the confluence of the Nepean and Grose rivers west of Sydney to Broken Bay north of Sydney. The Darug and Darkinjung people who lived along the river called it Dyarubbin.

British army regiment also called the South Staffordshire Volunteers which arrived in Sydney on 1 October 1834, and served as garrison and convict guards in Sydney and New South Wales until it was moved to India in 1844.

Early settler in North Sydney and director of the Australian Gas Light Company.

English actor  who appeared in Sydney on several occasions between 1903 and 1913.

One of the first women active in the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.

Nineteenth century photographer who captured many images of Sydney and the Blue Mountains.

Wife of early Sydney mayor Thomas Broughton, with whom she had 15 children.

Pastoralist and politician with extensive landholdings and investment properties in and around Sydney.

Circus proprietor and horse breeder who toured remote areas around Sydney and interstate.

Television series based in a Sydney apartment block which ran from 1972 to 1977.

Free settler who was granted land on Sydney's upper north shore in 1823.

Writer and broadcaster who helped foster Australian drama in Sydney from the 1930s.

Painter who recorded the rapidly changing landscape of the inner suburbs of Sydney.

Ship's officer and privateer who was based in Sydney from 1798 to 1802.

Ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who established the first marine research station in Sydney.

Irish-born draper and businessman who became Mayor of Sydney and a member of parliament.

Publican who managed several hotels in central Sydney late in the nineteenth century.