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Temperance hotel and coffee palace established before 1895 on the corner of Bridge and George streets, Sydney.

Built on the site where Dorman and Long were based during the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, North Sydney Pool was the swimming venue for the 1938 Empire Games, and remains in use. Many world records have been set in the Olympic-length pool.

Established in 1954, the University Archives is responsible for the care and preservation of those records of the University which have been appraised as having permanent value. The Archives include the records of the Senate, the Academic Board and of the many administrative…

Set up in 1982 to organise super 8 film festivals in Sydney and elsewhere with funding from the Australian Film Commission.

One of Sydney's newer universities, but with roots that go back to the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts in the 1830s, UTS occupies a campus at the southern end of the central business district.

Steamship of 735 tons which plied the coast from Sydney to Melbourne and was wrecked off the south coast in 1862.

Originally an annexe to Sydney Technical College, it operated independently between 1955 and 1996 when it became the National Art School.

National park proclaimed in 1975 and expanded in 1979 and 1995, which protects part of Sydney Harbour's foreshores and islands from development.

Inquiry into the possible options to connect North Sydney and Sydney, with 66 witnesses including north shore residents, engineers, representatives of transport interests and politicians. The Commission recommended a tunnel, but this was not built until decades after the…

Established about 1850 by Thomas Breillat it endeavours to promote Sydney as a business centre and to represent the business community in policy issues.

Organisation of town planners and others which unsuccessfully lobbied the state government in the 1920s on the need for a metropolitan plan for Sydney.

University formed in 1989 from an amalgamation of existing teachers' colleges and Colleges of Advanced Education, located on six campuses in Western Sydney.

Statutory authority formed in 1999 to administer government property in foreshore areas from Sydney Cove to Darling Harbour, including heritage conservation, urban renewal and policy.

Public school in Waverton which is linked to the Faculty of Education at the University of Sydney and serves as a model school for student teachers.

The Sydney Day Nursery Association was established in Woolloomooloo in 1905 as a child care service for infant children of working class mothers. It extended its services to preschool-aged children in 1937, when it changed its name to the Sydney Day Nursery and Nursery…

Spanning multiple venues from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cockatoo Island and the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Biennale of Sydney embraces the city as physical space and cultural landscape. As sites to be celebrated, explored and…

SUMS is the representative body for all medical students enrolled in the University of Sydney Medical Program. Founded in 1886, it is Australia's oldest medical student society.

The colony's first major line connecting six stations at Sydney, Newtown, Ashfield, Burwood, Homebush, and Parramatta Junction near Granville. It was extended to the current Parramatta station on 4 July 1860.

The Beatles visit to Sydney in 1964 was a cultural phenomenon. Greeted at the airport by adoring fans, they went on parade in the city and entertained the media, before touring Adelaide and Melbourne. On their return they performed six concerts at the Sydney Stadium in…

Curved building on the corner of Pitt, Hunter and O'Connell Streets in the city that was built by the Fairfax family to house the offices of their newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail, in the 1920s, on the site of the former Sydney Morning Herald building.…