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Founded in Sydney as The Australasian Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, it aims to foster an interest in the railways, and record and preserve many facets of railway operations.

Petty criminal and illegal bookmaker who operated in Sydney's underworld at the beginning of the twentieth century. He was born in Tumut to a Chinese father and Australian born mother.

Woolbroker who built a large and successful business in Melbourne before expanding into Sydney in 1882. By 1888 his business had amalgamated with Mort & Co to form Goldsbrough Mort & Co.

Association formed in 1905 to protect public access to the foreshores of Sydney Harbour and to lobby for the resumption of areas of private land to create public reserves. 

Professional association of nurses founded in Sydney in 1899, which later became part of the Australian Nurses Federation in 1924. It sought to improve nurses' training, registration and status.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of St Patrick's Roman Catholic church between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Merchant, parliamentarian and Jewish community leader who emigrated to Sydney and managed his father's wholesale grocery firm on George Street. He moved to Melbourne in 1842 and became an auctioneer and then moved to Sydney before returning to Melbourne again. In the…

By the late 1840s, a strong political movement to end the convict system had formed in Sydney. Large pastoralists fought to keep their supply of cheap labour, but by 1850 the tide had turned, and no more convicts were transported to Sydney.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of George Allen's house in Elizabeth Street between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan sailed from Sydney to North America in 1793. Highly regarded by all he met, he played a significant role in Australia's early maritime history.

From the new European diseases that devastated Sydney's Aboriginal people in the eighteenth century, through subsequent epidemics of measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, influenza and HIV, Sydney has faced major threats from epidemic disease. Religion, media, and public health…

Hall for formal ceremonies constructed as part of the eastern front of the Main Quadrangle at the University of Sydney, designed by Edmund Blacket in the Gothic Revival style.

Suburb built on the peninsula between Shell Cove and Mosman Bay, on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour. Its foreshore was preserved when Cremorne Reserve was gazetted in 1905.

Former butchers' shop on the corner of Pitt and Park Streets, Sydney, which became the Butchers' Arms and was later renamed the Volunteer Hotel before its demolition in 1882.

Watercourse, now confined to a channel about 1.5 kilometres long, flowing into Rushcutters Bay. The creek's original course formed the municipal boundary between Paddington and the City of Sydney Council.

Semi-autobiographical novel by Sumner Locke Elliott about a young boy caught up in a custody battle between his aunts in Depression era Sydney.  The book was made into a film in 1983.

Known to its Cadigal traditional owners as Ta-Ra, the land that became Dawes Point was Sydney's first observatory and weather station, run by William Dawes. It was fortified to a Greenway design and remained government land. In 1925 part of the fort was demolished for the…

Church built in 1893 on land donated by Robert Farlow. It was relocated to the University of Western Sydney Hawkesbury Campus in 1991 as the Owen Carter Memorial Chapel.

Branch of Sydney Observatory built in 1890 on Red Hill at the corner of Beecroft and Pennant Hills Roads, Pennant Hills. The site is now known as Observatory Park.

Railway station at Mortdale in Sydney's south on the Illawarra line. Originally opened in 1897 but in 1922, station was relocated slightly further north and new platforms were built.