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Victor Johnston was a writer and press photographer in Sydney from the 1930s through till the 1960s. He worked for the Sun, for People and for PIX. Often mistakenly credited as Vic Johnson.

Poet and journalist whose work appeared in the Bulletin and Sydney Punch, and founder of the Dawn and Dusk club of writers and artists. He often wrote under the pseudonym Creeve Roe.

Soldier and administrator in the New South Wales Corps who was in command of Norfolk Island from 1800-1804, and later took command in Sydney after the Rum Rebellion deposed Governor William Bligh.

Sydney photographer, a member of the so-called 'Merioola Group' of artists who, from the early 1940s to the early 1950s, lived and worked in Merioola, a boarding house in Woollahra converted from a Victorian-era mansion.

Whether it was juggling, comedy or a gorgeous chorus line, the Tivoli was for almost three decades the home of Harry Rickards's vaudeville entertainment in Sydney.

Regional and environment planning report sponsored by Canterbury Municipal Council, Marrickville Municipal Council, South West Sydney Regional Social Development Council, Total Environment Centre, with the support of Rockdale Municipal Council.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Governor's Bathing House in the Botanic Gardens between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Second oldest Meeting House in use by Quakers in Australia. The previous Meeting House in Sydney had been built in the Friends Burial Ground in the Devonshire Street Cemetery in 1868.

Iza Coghlan was one of the first two women in New South Wales to graduate in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1893. The second Australian woman doctor to register with the New South Wales Medical Board, she pioneered private medical practice in Sydney and was the first…

Fruit and vegetable business that operated through the markets in Sydney. Bananas were a large part of their business and they had investments in Coffs Harbour, Fiji and elsewhere in the Pacific Islands.

Teacher and lecturer who became the first professor of Economics at the University of Sydney in 1912. He also gave the first lecture in the Australian branch of the WEA in 1913.

Long demonised and persecuted, gay men have been part of Sydney life since first settlement. Two centuries have seen attitudes and perceptions change dramatically.

Author of the Digit Dick series for children, as well as journalism, travel books and an autobiography, Leslie Rees was a well-respected member of Sydney's literary community.

This interwar Gothic building, opened in 1935, became the home of Sydney's oldest Presbyterian congregation, after the extension of Martin Place to Macquarie Street led to the demolition of the previous St Stephen's in Phillip Street.

Freed from incarceration in New Caledonia for his revolutionary activities in the Paris Commune, Lucian Henry built a new life in Sydney as an artist, teacher and advocate for native Australian motifs in the decorative arts.

Aeronaut and funambulist, L'Estrange was one of the daring performers attempting unheard-of feats in Sydney during the 1870s and 1880s. Though not always successful, his exploits were usually both exciting and spectacular.

Possibly designed by Francis Greenway, Cadman's cottage housed John Cadman, government coxswain, from 1827 until 1845. It was subsequently used by the Water Police and the Sydney Sailors' Home, and is now a museum.

From convict beginnings, the General Post Office was to re-emerge in the 1860s in Italian Renaissance grandeur when James Barnet created an enduring centrepiece for Sydney.

Semi-rural north-western suburb named in 1887 after the birthplace in Scotland of local landowner Alexander Hutchison. A 1973 federal government proposal to build Sydney's second airport in the area failed to win support.

Inner-city suburb beside the University of Sydney which is fast encroaching upon it. Originally the site of Thomas Shepherd's nursery in the 1820s which is commemorated in many of the street names.