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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. 

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…

Suffrage campaigner and activist who emigrated to Australia in 1914, moving to Sydney in 1918, where she had a long and erratic career as a political campaigner for a range of causes.

Transgender Australian cabaret performer and entertainer who became the most famous member of the Les Girls show, in Sydney's Kings Cross. Carlotta is the stage name of Carol Spencer.

Brig constructed of ironbark and stringybark in Sydney. It capsized on the Hunter River in 1816 but was raised and continued carrying convicts and goods to Newcastle until 1825.

A comedy in three acts that premiered at Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney. It was notable for its local colour and for integrating familiar colonial types into a comedy of Australian manners.

Matron and superintendent of reformatories Biloela and then Shaftesbury. She arrived in New South Wales in 1862 and established the reformatory for girls at Newcastle before coming to Sydney.

Former convict who joined Sydney's early police force in 1796. He was murdered in 1803, the first police officer killed in the line of duty in New South Wales. 

Sculptor who worked in Sydney during the 1870s to 1890s producing several public works including three figures for the General Post Office facade and a statue of John Dunmore Lang.

Convict transported on HMS Supply who was granted a conditional pardon in 1794 and appointed Constable in 1800, ultimately becoming Chief Constable of Sydney and later Keeper of the Gaol.

Architect who was one of the most successful in nineteenth-century Sydney, with buildings all over the city and in many country towns, but was ruined by the 1890s depression.

Urban design architect and sport planning enthusiast who was head of planning for the Sydney Olympics and who designed five venues for each for the Athens and Beijing Olympics.

Administration for the peninsula at the northern end of Sydney's Northern Beaches, established in 1992. It was merged with Warringah and Manly to form Northern Beaches Council in 2016.

Principal Surgeon at the Sydney Hospital between 1819 and 1836. He became a large landowner after marrying into the Macarthur family. Lyndhurst at Glebe was built for him in 1837.

Businessman, born in China to White Russian parents, who was educated in Sydney and worked in textiles in South Africa and Israel, before establishing a property development company in 1963.

Two storey stone Victorian Regency house at 48 and 56 Alfred Street South, Milsons Point. It is one of the earliest stone houses still standing in North Sydney.

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.