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Administrative division of the Anglican church that covers Sydney, Wollongong and the south coast of New South Wales and includes around half of Australian Anglicans, led by an archbishop since 1897.

One of a number of privately owned transport companies operating in Sydney during the 1870s. The company ran horse buses from the city to Woolloomooloo, Darlinghurst, Redfern, Petersham, Cooks River, Double Bay, Darling Point, Glebe and Newtown.

The striking Dental Hospital of Sydney, designed by Stephenson & Turner and built in 1939 on a wedge-shaped block next to Central Station, is a modernist building that is internationally acclaimed for its world-class design and oral hygiene services.

Public boys' high school established in 1883 to provide a complete education and qualification for entry to the University of Sydney. First housed in Elizabeth Street, the school moved to Ultimo in 1892 and to Moore Park in 1928.

Memorial replica of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the grounds of Callan Park Hospital to honour servicemen of World War I. It was designed and constructed with the help of veterans residing in the repatriation wards at Callan Park.

Surveying the depths of Sydney Harbour was essential for safe navigation and effective transport. From 1788 until the formation of the Sydney Harbour Trust in 1901, the depths of the Harbour were charted by officers of the Royal Navy, with some help from French explorers.

Public girls' high school established in 1883 to provide a complete education and qualification for entry to the University of Sydney. First housed in Elizabeth Street on the current site of David Jones, the school moved to Moore Park in 1921.

Part of the Sydney markets which were largely demolished in 1985 for the construction of new university buildings. On one of the old cart openings on Quay Street you can still see the painted name of A Yee, a firm of produce agents.

One of the first racing clubs established in the colony, with Vice-Regal support, to improve horse breeding and organise race meetings. Race meetings were conducted initially at Bellevue Hill near the South Head toll gate, Hyde Park and Grose Farm, near Sydney University.

Statutory authority set up to manage and redevelop The Rocks area, and given most of the state-owned property in the area. Its plans for redevelopment were successfully resisted by heritage enthusiasts and the Builders Labourers Federation Green Bans. Much of its work was…

Known worldwide for its beauty, Sydney Harbour has been a source of inspiration for thousands of years. First Aboriginal, then European peoples settled the shores, naming and renaming the coves, headlands and points. Artists and writers have explored the harbour's people,…

With colonisation came numerous acts of violence inflicted upon the First Nations people, including murder. It was several years, however, before murders were committed in Sydney by the colonists upon each other. Identifying Australia’s oldest case of unsolved murder in this…

Sydney Harbour once had 14 islands. These were outcrops and the peaks of steep hills left uncovered as the sea level rose, between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago, flooding an ancient river valley and forming the harbour that exists today

Duelling, a form of mannered and regulated violence, was a ritual the gentlemen of colonial Sydney used to uphold their honour and reputation. It was illegal to duel or throw down such challenges but because reputations were hard-won in the precarious colonial environment,…

The Metropolitan Goods Lines, which spread throughout the Sydney suburbs from 1916 onwards, have played a key role in the industrialization of the city and the development of many suburbs. While some of these lines have become disused, others have been repurposed as light…

Building on lower George Street that housed the offices of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, between 1810 and 1824. The newspaper was founded in 1803 by publisher and printer George Howe. The building on lower George Street (then numbered 96) was a warehouse…