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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.

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.

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.

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.

John James Gay was a journalist and newspaper proprietor whose ambition and business acumen took him from rural New South Wales to Sydney, where he achieved commercial success.

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.

A printer's son from London, Harry Rickards became Sydney's best known vaudeville entrepreneur, and founder of the the Tivoli circuit.

Born the illegitimate son of a convict, Edward Flood rose to be rich and successful through his own efforts in business and was both Mayor of Sydney and a minister in the colonial government.

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.  

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.

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.

Clerk of works for the Royal Engineers Department, who worked in Sydney between 1838 and 1843, and was presented by his friends with a service of silver plate upon his departure.

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.

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.