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Church architecture in Sydney has at times been the most significant and exceptional in the architecture of Sydney. At other times, church denominations have settled on continuing a successful type, seeking to make a noticeable character across the region. As immigrants…

Community hall and library built for the Glebe School of Arts, transferred to Sydney City Council in 1955 and used as the Glebe library for some years.

Uprising by Irish prisoners at Castle Hill, north-west of Sydney, that was put down by the New South Wales Corps with 12 rebels killed and 9 later executed.

Southern residential suburb west of the Royal National Park. Named after Lord Augustus Loftus, Governor of New South Wales 1878-1885, it is home to the Sydney Tramway Museum.

Organisation established to address the material and practical needs of prisoners and their families. First formed in Melbourne in 1872 it was established in Sydney two years later.

First purpose built hospital for moral therapy treatment of the insane. It became part of Callan park Hospital and is now occupied by Sydney College of the Arts.

By the early twentieth century many of Sydney's old estates were subdivided. Their large grounds were too expensive to maintain and as Sydney expanded, land became a premium. Clairvaux House, a grand Victorian house, was built on land purchased from the Wentworth Estate c…

Expression referring to someone who was thought to be "nuts", or a bit crazy, the reference being to the nuts and bolts used in building the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Art gallery at 59 Macleay Street that was transformed into an innovative multimedia space and artist's cooperative which nurtured many of Sydney's emerging artists, filmmakers, performers and musicians.

Organisation of members of the volunteer brigades in Sydney which comprised over 2033 members in 1881. They met with opposition from the members of the metropolitan insurance brigades.

Curving sandstone steps in Forest Lodge between Parramatta Road and Arundel Street opposite the University of Sydney. Terrace houses above them are known as the Chapman Steps Terraces.

Liberal, humanitarian Christian church at 15 Francis Street, East Sydney that opened in 1940 after the original Unitarian Church in Liverpool Street was destroyed by fire in 1935. 

Michael Flynn is a Sydney historian working on the early colonial and Aboriginal history of NSW, and the city and suburbs of Sydney. His MA thesis for the University of Sydney was published as 'The Second Fleet: Britain's grim convict armada of 1790' (1993/2001). He is also…

Coroners court and morgue building at 102-104 George Street in The Rocks. The second permanent coroner’s court and morgue in Sydney, it was located on the site of the earlier North Sydney Morgue, or Dead House. The building opened in 1908 sported all the modern conveniences…

A member of the first trading expedition from Mauritius to Sydney in 1802, Cogswell was officer in charge of the cargo of wine and spirits. He was rescued from the wreck of the Entreprise and later traded sugar, tea and Chinese wares to Sydney.

Area south of early Sydney which was used for brickmaking from the start of settlement and subsequently developed into a commercial area. It remained a distinct locality until the 1970s.

Eight span stone arch viaduct over Long Cove Creek built in 1855 for the Sydney to Parramatta Railway. It was replaced in 1886 by a Whipple truss railway bridge.

Sulman designed church in the Victorian Academic Classical style which was a radical departure from the usual Gothic ecclesiastical architecture, attempting to respond to the climatic conditions of Sydney.

Possibly John James Martyr, a surveyor and draughtsman. He worked in the City of Sydney Surveyor's office in the 1840s, and lived in Goulburn until his death in 1882. 

Artist who with his wife Jeanne-Claude created new ways of seeing familiar landscapes, often by wrapping them in fabric as they did at Little Bay in Sydney in 1968-69.