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An independent community-based organisation that has advocated the conservation of built, cultural and natural heritage since its foundation in Sydney in 1945.

Major department store of the first half of the twentieth century with branches in several Sydney suburbs and regional New South Wales.

Engineer and businessman Peter Nicol Russell was a force in manufacturing, importing and sales of all kinds of metal work and engineering supplies, providing components for many large projects in nineteenth-century Sydney. Although he retired to Britain, he endowed the School…

Part of the process of suburbanisation in Sydney, local newspapers helped define communities and produce local patriotism. The Suburban Herald was an important advocate for the northern suburbs of Sydney between 1925 and 1938, with a readership of over 50,000 people.

Racecourse in Sydney's south-west opened by the Warwick Farm Racing Club in 1889 and purchased by the Australian Jockey Club in 1922.

Sale yards at Homebush for sale of livestock by auction. In the early 1990s the area was incorporated into Sydney Olympic Park.

Rocky island in Sydney Harbour, colloquially known as Pinchgut, on which a Martello tower fort was built in the 1840s and 50s.

A reserve at the waters edge just off Beatty Street, Balgowlah Heights, adjacent to Reef Beach. Now incorporated into Sydney Harbour National Park..

Radio production company established in Sydney by Grace Gibson during World War II which produced and sold radio programmes locally and interstate.

Athlete and pie seller, who achieved many feats of pedestrian prowess during the 1840s and became a well known street character in Sydney.

After a short term in prison for debt in Hobart, John Deane arrived in Sydney and soon became a popular performer and composer before returning to Hobart in 1844.

The North Shore Line, which runs from Hornsby to St Leonards, opened on 1 January 1890. It was Sydney’s first purely suburban railway.

Convict transport of 579 tons which made six voyages to the new colonies at Sydney and Van Diemen's Land over a 24 year period.

Affluent area on Sydney's north shore governed by Ku-ring-gai Council. Lying on the Hornsby Plateau, it stretches from Roseville to Cowan Creek.

Gathering of scouts held in Bradfield Park, northern Sydney, in December 1938 until January 1939, attracting scouts from all over the world.

Printer and photographer who was ahead of his time in associating photography and printing and who captured some of Sydney's earliest images.

Sydney's Latvians arrived in two major flows, fleeing the aftermath of the 1905 revolution in Tsarist Russia, and later as part of the postwar immigration that changed Sydney in the 1950s. While the first group were largely leftist and later pro-Soviet, the later arrivals…

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Lord Nelson Hotel between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project. The text on the plaque read: 'This hotel was first licensed in 1841 when its landlord was William Wells, a former…

Theatre entrepreneur who fostered local talent in his Melbourne and Sydney theatres and was the owner of Wonderland City from 1906 until 1911.

Public servant and politician who was a city commissioner for Sydney in the 1850s and later a squatter and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.