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Delia Falconer is the author of two novels, The Service of Clouds and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers. Her 2010 nonfiction work, Sydney, a personal history of her home town, won the CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature and was shortlisted for other major national prizes…

52 Suburbs is the name of a project created by writer and photographer Louise Hawson. Realising she was a stranger in her own city, Sydney, from September 2009 to October 2010 Louise set herself the task of exploring one new Sydney suburb a week for…

Peter Adams is a Sydney-based musician and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Communication (Film and Sound) and a Graduate Diploma in Design from the University of Technology Sydney. For the past twenty-five years he has worked in film production, digital…

Journal published in 1838 by Thomas Walker which recorded his journey from Sydney to Port Philip and discussed the state of farming and society at that time.

Central Railway Station, opened in 1906, is Sydney's main rail terminus. Built on the site of the Devonshire Street Cemetery, it replaced a nearby terminus on Devonshire Street.

Photographer who established herself as one of the first women studio portrait photographers in 1909. She became well known for her portraits of celebrities, Sydney socialites and artists.

Area surrounding the Hawkesbury River to Sydney's north and north-west, which was important in early colonial agriculture and the site of the early towns of Richmond and Windsor.

Medical practitioner who was active in the Geographical and Royal Societies and an advocate of technical education in Sydney during the 1870s. He later practised in Western Australia.

British soldier who arrived in Sydney in 1835 with his Greek-born wife and family, and served nearly 30 years as a soldier and later police magistrate in the colony.

Physicist and chemical engineer whose determination to establish a programme of research was to make the University of Sydney a major centre for research into explosives and electrical power technology.

Transport commissioner, engineer and commissioner of railways who was largely responsible for beginning the electrification of Sydney's suburban network and for the first stages of the city railway.

Iza Coghlan was one of the first two women in New South Wales to graduate in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1893. The second Australian woman doctor to register with the New South Wales Medical Board, she pioneered private medical practice in Sydney and was the first…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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