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Leading Sydney department store that closed in the 1960s. The store's landmark Piazza building on Liverpool Street later became the Downing Centre court complex.

Company director and successful merchant who brought his entrepreneurial and managerial skills to civic administration. He served as Lord Mayor of Sydney 1905-06 and 1909-12.

Western residential suburb, named after the estate that was granted to Mary King, daughter of the Governor, in 1806. Western Sydney University has a campus there.

Darlinghurst villa built of Sydney sandstone later used as the first St Vincent's Hospital, and then St Vincent's College until it was demolished in 1966.

South-eastern residential suburb in Botany Bay local government area. It was formerly the site of Botany Swamps, Sydney's third source of fresh water from 1859.

North-eastern bushland suburb. Named after the house of controversial explosives expert Carl Von Bieren, it is now the home of Sydney's Baha'i House of Worship.

Tour of England by an Aboriginal cricket team between May and October 1868. It was organised after the success of games in Melbourne and Sydney.

Independent bakery in Stanmore which was founded in 1870 and closed in 1967. It was for many years the largest family owned bakery in Sydney.

Patron of science whose study of insects, geology and botany was to form the basis of the Macleay Museum collection at the University of Sydney.

Sydney's transport has been shaped by the geography of the city, changing economic and social needs, technological limitations and advances, and political considerations. From walking tracks and animal haulage to the commuting city of today, transport has also shaped the city…

Set aside for public recreation since 1875, Green Park has long been significant for Sydney's gay men.

Built as an access road to the farmland south of Sydney town, the road south gradually pushed far beyond Cooks River to the Georges River ferry.

Publican of the Hollywood Hotel in Surry Hills from 1977 until her death in 2019. Doris Goddard grew up in Glebe with her mother Essie. In 1952 she left Sydney for London in order to have an operation on a heart defect and to follow her theatrical and musical career. After a…

Graeme Murphy's Tivoli, a coproduction of Sydney Dance Company and the Australian Ballet, reflected Murphy's love of the nation's theatrical past and his constant commitment to portray Australia and Australians on stage. A tribute to the vaudeville circuit, the Tivoli…

Librarian, historian, Australiana collector and author who was appointed as the first librarian of the Sydney Municipal Library in 1909. In 1918 he established within the Municipal Library the first public lending library for children in Australia. An active member of the…

Soldier who was transferred to the New South Wales Corps. Shortly after arriving in Sydney he was sent to Norfolk Island, where he was eventually promoted to acting lieutenant-governor in Philip Gidley King's absence. He was an efficient administrator and returned to England…

Georgian style warehouse buildings built to service the commerce and international shipping transport hub of Sydney until the late nineteenth century. Now occupied by restaurants.

Bay on Sydney Harbour south of Georges Head. Named for the preferred food of the American whalers who used the area in the nineteenth century.

Small bay in Darling Harbour to the west of central Sydney. The bay was an important site for shipping and industry during the nineteenth century.

In 1868, Henry O'Farrell tried to shoot the visiting Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Alfred, second son of Queen Victoria. Although the prince was only slightly wounded, the event set off a rash of anti-Irish feeling in Sydney, and O'Farrell was hanged in record time. Sydney's…