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Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, Macquarie shaped Sydney's built environment, social structure, financial development and public morals.

Inara Walden is a curator at the Museum of Sydney who has worked with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales since 1997.

Peter Bolt is Head of the Department of New Testament and Greek, Moore College, Sydney, and has an interest in Australian colonial history

Paul Ashton is Associate Professor of Public History and Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney

John Ramsland is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, with major interests in the cultural and social history of Sydney

Butcher, businessman and politician who rose from a humble convict background to become a rich and influential citizen. He served as Mayor of Sydney in 1850.

Professional golfer who won the Australian Open in Sydney in 1920 and becoming a top ranked player in the United States by the mid-1920s.

Mariner and steamboat proprietor who was a pioneer of steam-ferry transport on Sydney Harbour. His sons Henry and Stephen Perdriau founded the Perdriau Rubber company.

Firework company which has helped celebrate the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, numerous Royal visits, the Bicentennial celebrations and many New Year's Eves.

Draper, auctioneer and alderman who successfully championed improvements to Sydney's water supply including covering the Tank Stream and improving the capacity of Botany Swamps.

Scottish born farm manager who acquired extensive holdings in the Hunter Valley and Sydney before the financial depression of the 1840s forced their sale.

Architectural practice established by Varney Parkes and Charles Blackman in the 1880s which designed over 110 buildings in Sydney and country New South Wales.

Complex of film and television production studios, craft shops and independent businesses opened in 1998 on the site of Royal Agricultural Society's Sydney Showground.

Three thousand acre (1214 ha) estate in western Sydney that was granted to James Erskine soon after his arrival in the colony in 1818.

Steam flour mill and warehouse at Darling Harbour built by Francois Girard in 1833. It was taken over by Sydney Flour Company in 1841.

Professional speed skater who later owned a number of gay and lesbian venues across Sydney and was a major figure in the gay and lesbian scene.

Levey, or Levy, was a merchant and theatre owner who was the first Jewish free settler in the colony, and ran Sydney's first commercial theatre.

Commemorative plaque that was installed in 1985 on the site of Mort's Wool store as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Sydney's pre-industrial culture was comprehensive and public, and most European inhabitants were players, performers or spectators. After 1850, distinct but overlapping cultures emerged, imported and adapted from Europe and America. New forms of cultural transmission after…

Two musicians by the name of Ernesto Spagnoletti, father and son, were prominent in the musical life of Sydney in the 1850s.