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Built as the library, hall and rooms for the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, and long a centre of cultural life in Sydney, the Arthouse Hotel was converted into a pub in the 1990s.

Festival event created by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority between 12 April and 12 May 2013 in a temporary four storey timber windmill in Rocks Square on the site of an early Sydney mill. The windmill acted as an educational workshop and performance venue over the…

Southern suburb of Sydney south of the Georges River and to the west of the Woronora River

Suburb located 14 kilometres from Sydney, between the suburbs of Lindfield and Gordon in Ku-ring-gai Council area.

British aviation company founded by aircraft designer Sir Alliott Verdon Roe which established an agency in Sydney.

Mining company established by the employees of Sydney Collieries to operate the mine at Balmain under agreement.

One of the Japanese submarines which launched midget submarines to attack Sydney Harbour on 31 May 1942.

One of the Japanese submarines which launched midget submarines to attack Sydney Harbour on 31 May 1942.

Pro conscription organisation in Sydney in World War I that was modelled on the British National Service League.

Company that popularised the rotary mower, just in time for the postwar expansion of backyards in Sydney.

Hotelier, sportsman and racecourse owner who was also Lord Mayor of Sydney and publisher of Smith's Weekly.

Harriett Biffin was a pioneer Sydney woman doctor. One of the second group of women to graduate in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1898, she was the first to establish a women’s joint medical practice in Sydney and a suburban general medical practice, and founded both…

Locality between Petersham and Leichhardt in Sydney's inner west, where Parramatta Road slopes down to the west.

Vaudeville company formed by New Zealand brothers John and Benjamin Fuller which performed in Sydney in 1901.

Legislation to provide for the union of the University Dental Hospital and the Dental Hospital of Sydney.

Bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, west of Darling Harbour and east of Rozelle Bay.

Cooperative organisation formed by Aboriginal artists, central to the development of Sydney's modern urban Aboriginal art scene.

1920 film by Franklyn Barrett contrasting the hardships of rural drought with the excitements of Sydney life.

Two performance spaces on the Wharf in Walsh Bay that are occupied by the Sydney Theatre Company.

Nursing museum and archives at Sydney Hospital housed in the Nightingale Wing, the oldest remaining building on the hospital site. The building originally housed Australia's first school of nursing and was run by Lucy Osburn who arrived in Sydney in 1868 and was a protegee of…