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Commemorative plaque that was installed over part of the Tank Stream as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project in 1985. 

Eleven shiploads of Irish girls, orphaned by the Great Famine of the 1840s, arrived in Sydney between 1848 and 1850. They were housed in the Hyde Park Barracks before going out to work and marry in Sydney and beyond. In the 1990s, a worldwide movement among the Irish diaspora…

Convict who was tried at the Warwick Assizes on 2 April 1788 for theft and sentenced to seven years transportation. During the voyage she gave birth to a daughter, Ann, who upon arrival in Sydney, was the youngest person on the ship. She was sent to Norfolk Island where she…

Marine and army officer who arrived in Sydney aboard the Second Fleet transport, Neptune. He was in charge of the first detachment of the New South Wales Corps and, until the arrival of Major Francis Grose, he was the corps' commanding officer. He quarrelled with John…

Meat supplier who migrated to Sydney as a boy with his parents after livestock disease plagued his father's business in England. He worked in his father's retail and wholesale butchering business from 1900. By World War I, the Field brothers controlled about one-…

Ship's captain who died in the wreck of his ship, the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in August 1834. His widow and three young children lived in London, and donations were taken up in Sydney after the disaster for their benefit. His wife's young brother, Henry…

English lawyer who practiced in the West Indies before arriving in Sydney in 1828 to join his father, John Stephen, and family. He practiced in Sydney and Hobart, but after a dispute with Henry Montagu, was disbarred, when he went to Victoria. After the disbarrment was…

Andrew Osborn was Librarian of the University of Sydney 1959-1962. He was instrumental in designing the new Fisher Library building which opened in 1963, and in transforming the University Library into a vital partner in the University's teaching and research. He was awarded…

Kings Cross exists in Sydney's imagination as much as it does in any physical form, and pinning down its geographical boundaries is difficult. It has loomed large in Sydney's culture since the first houses were built nearby in the 1830s, and continues to attract tourists and…

Office block designed by Ancher Mortlock and Woolley in the Brutalist style and opened in 1977 to house City of Sydney council staff.

Rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, first performed in Sydney at the Capitol Theatre in 1972.

Building in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens which hosted the spectacular International Exhibition in 1879 before its equally spectacular destruction by fire in 1882.

Dance hall at 174 City Road Darlington which was popular during the 1950s, now the site of the Wentworth Building, University of Sydney.

Constructed after two disastrous shipwrecks, Hornby lighthouse has offered safe passage into Sydney Harbour since 1858.

Sydney's Royal Easter Show is the nation's largest annual event, currently attracting more than 900,000 visitors to its site at Homebush Bay. For generations, the Show has brought 'the country to the city', and continues to be important, especially for children, in Sydney's…

Transport which embarked with 98 Irish convict women from counties across the island. After delivering them in Sydney it departed for the whale fisheries.

Reserve located adjacent to the northern shore of Botany Bay, about 1500 metres to the east of the main runway at Sydney Airport.

Inquiry into whether certain local councils should be merged into the City of Sydney, and whether other councils should be merged or re-constituted.

Sydney's Hellenic community is one of the city's largest and most influential, with a long and complex history. Greek-speaking people came from many parts of the Mediterranean, as well as Hellas itself, and have maintained their diverse cultural traditions at the same time as…

Despite medical and scientific advances, the huge hospital complexes of today face similar challenges of staffing, capacity and politics as those of Sydney's first tent hospitals.