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Buddhist temple at Leumeah founded by Sydney's Thai community, which also has a strong Lao constituency.

Water filtration plant completed in 1996 which provides drinking water to 85% of Sydney's population.

Society of amateur photographers formed in 1872, the first of three such organisations in Sydney.

Railway station opened in 1887 to improve facilities for transport of farm produce to Sydney

Sydney photographer who specialises in documentation of and work for scientific, art and cultural collections.

Now one of Sydney's favourite public occasions, New Year's Eve was hardly celebrated before the late nineteenth century, when reliable lighting made outdoor night time revelry safer and more inviting. Sydney's celebrations have moved about the city and taken different forms…

Ship part-built in the Kidman and Mayoh shipyard, but eventually burnt at sea, off Sydney Heads.

Convict ship which arrived in Sydney in 1814 with some free settlers and 199 male convicts.

Aboriginal man from the Botany Bay area who lived close to Sydney Town in the 1820s.

Schooner approximately 27 metres long which traded between New Zealand, Sydney, India and Tasmania from 1814.

Rock band formed in Auckland New Zealand in 1872 which then relocated to Sydney in 1975.

Music composed by Paolo Giorza for the Sydney International Exhibition 1879-80 with words by Henry Kendall.

DIY rainbow is a protest movement that emerged in Sydney in 2013. The campaign involves members of the community creating rainbow pedestrian crossings in chalk to protest the removal of a temporary rainbow crossing from Oxford Street in Sydney, New South Wales. The temporary…

Andrew Wilson is a historical archaeologist in the Arts eResearch unit at the University of Sydney

Margaret Betteridge is a heritage consultant and curator of the Civic Collection at Sydney Town Hall

Exhibition of applied arts, science and technology held by the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.

Residential building for members of the Association to provide accommodation and services whilst visiting Sydney.

Craig Campbell is Associate Professor in the History of Education at the University of Sydney

Stephanie Ho is a Singaporean public historian who completed a PhD at the University of Technology, Sydney

Descendant of Alice Flitcroft who has contributed photos and information to the Dictionary of Sydney