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Peak body for the banking industry in Australia, founded in the 1940s, with headquarters in Sydney.

Samuel Lees, printer and politician, was Mayor of Sydney in 1895 and Lord Mayor in 1904

Cricket ground within Rushcutters Bay Park, commemorating Reginald Bartley, Lord Mayor of Sydney 1943-44 and 1946-48.

Jam manufacturer established in Hobart in 1867 by George Peacock and moved to Sydney in 1880.

Nobel Prize-winning novelist, essayist and playwright whose work was frequently set in Sydney and its suburbs.

Carrier whose became a prominent community member in Manly and served as Mayor of Sydney in 1865.

Builder, sportsman and politician who built up a pastoral empire, and was Mayor of Sydney in 1849.

Journalist and newspaper proprietor who found success in rural New South Wales before relocating to Sydney.

Area on Sydney's south-west edge, traditional lands of the Dharawal people, governed by Campbelltown City Council. Named in 1820 after Elizabeth Macquarie née Campbell, wife of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, it has developed since the 1960s from a rural area to a regional…

Renowned portrait artist who ran his family's Rousel Studios and exhibited in Sydney, London and Paris.

Masquerade ball for Sydney high society that is used as a fund raising event for Vision Australia.

Pastoralist, politician and company director who became the first provost (chancellor) of the University of Sydney.

Organisation formed by business owners in Chinatown to negotiate refurbishment with the City of Sydney Council.

Theatre company that produced highly successful plays in Sydney and Melbourne in the 1880s and 1890s.

Temperance hotel and restaurant established in Erskine Street Sydney, by 1890, and still trading in 1915

Zoo opened at Billy Goat Swamp in Moore Park, now the site of Sydney Boys and Sydney Girls high schools. When the site became too small the government granted land north of the harbour. The original bear pit can still be seen beside Anzac Parade.

Racecourse where punters watched unregistered proprietary horse racing. The site is now part of Sydney airport.

Western residential suburb, named after John Brown Bossley. It is now a centre of Sydney's Assyrian community.

Headland and surrounds in Collaroy, in Sydney's Northern Beaches area, named by Governor Phillip in 1789.

House in Mosman which was used as the headquarters of Theosophy in Sydney from the 1920s.