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Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Judge's House between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Australia Hotel between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Tramway Depot between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the AWA building between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Legislation that established the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children as the official body in charge of orphaned and neglected children in Sydney.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Tivoli Theatre between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project. The text on the plaque read 'Opened as The Adelphi in 1911 and later known as the Grand Opera House, a theatre, renamed…

Peninsula at Birchgrove. An imaginary line from this to Manns Point at Greenwich marks the transition of the waterway from Sydney Harbour to the Parramatta river.

Greek community organisation founded to build a church in the late nineteenth century, and subsequently developing welfare and education functions. It is Sydney's oldest Greek community organisation.

Body established to oppose penal settlement to Australia. Although transportation had ceased to Sydney in 1840, fears it would be reinstated meant lobbying continued until 1852.

Suffrage and women's rights advocate in Sydney and later in England, who became an outspoken socialist, and represented the Communist Party of Australia in Moscow in 1924.

Public servant who was one of the city commissioners after the sacking of the City of Sydney council in 1854. He was later Auditor-General of Queensland 1867-77.

Engineering company that grew from small beginnings in Redfern to employing more than 1000 men in works around Sydney, before succumbing to the depression of the 1890s.

Boxer who became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion, winning the title from Canadian Tommy Burns on Boxing Day 1908 at a fight at Sydney Stadium.

Visual artist, curator and writer who has represented Australia at important international exhibitions since 1975. He also created two key sculptures for Sydney Olympic Park in 2002.

Merchant, politician and pastoralist with extensive land holdings in northern New South Wales though well known in Sydney through his involvement in businesses which promoted the region.

Actress who began performing in pantomimes at five and sprang to musical-comedy fame in Sydney 1911. She was a star of Harry Rickards's Tivoli circuit for seven years.

Estuarine and river sands and gravels laid down by flood or wind in the Sydney basin over the last two million years, during the current Quaternary period.

Deputy commissary general who was in charge of the Commissariat between 1813 and 1819, when he left the colony. He returned to live in Sydney in 1829.

Council established in 1871 to govern what was then the Borough of Ashfield, in Sydney's inner south-west. It was merged with Leichhardt and Marrickville councils in 2016.

The wife of Major CT Smeathman who arrived with her husband and son Henry in Sydney in 1827. After her husband's death she married surgeon William Bland.