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Undertaker who promoted mourning grandeur for the wealthy in Sydney in the 1840s by his use of black draped horses, extravagant coffins and mutes and porters to accompany the hearse.

Anglican Bishop of South Sydney between 2000-2015. At St Barnabas Anglican Church prior to that he continued the tradition of pithy sayings and responses across Broadway with the Broadway Hotel.

Prolific architect who designed many of Sydney's well known pubs for Tooth and Company during the 1920s and 1930s. Throughout his career, he designed or made alterations to 392 hotels.

Melbourne born furniture and interior designer who was the design consultant for the Reserve Bank of Australia building interiors in the 1960s. He also designed furniture for Admiralty House, Sydney.

Midwife and Theosophist whose daughter Harriett became one of the first women doctors in Sydney, and with her was one of the founders of the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women.

Officer of marines with the First Fleet, who set up an observatory, explored the Nepean, and became an authority on the Sydney language during his three years in the colony.

Private school established by Reverend Arthur Aspinall and the Presbyterian Church at Brighton-le-Sands in 1893. It subsequently moved to Bellevue Hill, where it remains one of Sydney's more exclusive schools.

Alderman on City of Sydney Council from 1984 to 2003 and Mayor from 1991 to 2003 when he was elected Member for Rockdale in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

Carpenter and convict who established the first functional flour mill in Sydney in 1793. The mill worked on a treadmill or walking mill model and was operated by his fellow convicts.

Sewerage vent modeled on Cleopatra's Needle on the banks of the Thames River in London. It was one of the earliest monuments recording the good works of a Sydney mayor.

Redoubt built at Obelisk Point near Middle Head in 1801, the first of Sydney's headland harbour batteries. It remained one of the main points of colonial defence until 1839.  

House built for John and Elizabeth Macarthur on their estate at Parramatta, and later enlarged into a comfortable country house, which is now a house museum run by Sydney Living Museums.

The oldest civic building in Marrickville, and one of the oldest surviving town hall buildings in Sydney, Marrickville's first Town Hall was sold to the State government in 1920.

Shelter and soup kitchen established in 1868 at The Judge's House, in Kent Street by a group of businessmen. It was taken over by the Sydney City Mission in 1945.

There are three main geological layers in the Georges River catchment that can be seen along the river's route through south western Sydney. 

One of the large Lindsay family of artists and writers, Lionel Lindsay settled in Sydney from 1903, and became a well known art writer as well as a noted watercolourist and printmaker.

Built in the mid-nineteenth century and containing one of Sydney's most significant church organs, St Benedict's was shortened in the 1930s when George Street West was widened to become Broadway.

Offering some of the most beautiful views of the city, this small enclave, just north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, has a long and intimate link with the Harbour and the ways people have travelled across it.

Established in Oxford Street in the 1880s, Mark Foy's became one of Sydney's leading stores, with a grand store in Liverpool Street and a wide range of departments.

By the 1840s, Sydney's Devonshire Street cemetery was nearing capacity so planning commenced for a new cemetery at Haslems Creek. From 1867 through to 1948, a branch from the Parramatta to Sydney line brought mourners and coffins into the Rookwood Necropolis, with grand…