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Cricket club formed from a group of players who practised at Hyde Park, which predated any formal competition in Sydney, and provided most of the players for the civilian-military matches held during the 1830s.

Suburban railway line constructed in the 1880s that runs from the city to Sydney's southern suburbs and then on to Wollongong and Kiama. The Cronulla branch line from Sutherland was opened in 1939.

Merchant who was Mayor of Sydney in 1857 and first chairman of Woollahra Borough Council in 1860. A member of Parliament and director of many companies, he was appointed protector of Aborigines in 1880.

Vic 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.

Land agent and businessman who went into partnership as a publisher with JR Clarke between 1851 and 1856. His brother CH Woolcott was an artist and Town Clerk at the City of Sydney.

Organ built in 1796 by Robert and William Gray of London, for the Hon Spencer Perceval. The organ was lent to the Emperor
Napoleon, and after his fall in 1815 was brought to England in 1817 by Lady Perceval, who later ordered it to be sold.
In 1829 it was in the…

The Sydney Branch of the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) was founded with a democratic structure that enabled it to thrive in the postwar era and meet shifting community and government expectations of adult and continuing education, while remaining relevant and…

Gweagal man in western Sydney in the 19th century. Goodall and Cadzow suggest he may be the man identified as Kourban in PHF Phelps drawing of Aboriginal people in Liverpool c1840.

Extending like a long finger into the harbour, Bradleys Head was known as Borogegy to its first people, the Borogegal clan. Long a military and naval site for the colonial and later the Australian government, it became a popular park and an important part of Sydney Harbour…

Commemorative plaque that was installed between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project on the site of the fire in October 1890 that destroyed a city block.

Goat Island stands tall and proud in the centre of Sydney Harbour. It has many traces of heritage left over from the convict and industrial past.

Devised as a publicity event, and to raise funds for the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, the Industrial Exhibition of 1861 revealed Sydneysiders' interest in science, technology and self-education when it attracted over 500 visitors per day for nearly six weeks.…

Rugby league ground which is home of the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league club. It adjoins Redfern Park and was originally established as a sportsground as part of the park design in the 1880s.

Suburb on the outermost shore of the southern side of Sydney harbour which, since colonial times, has been an important naval and civil maritime precinct, as well as a destination for Sydneysiders and tourists.

Local market established on the site of the Sydney Omnibus company which sold everything from fruit and vegetables to second hand clothes and furniture. Markets were held regularly between the 1880s and 1950s.

Section of The Domain which provided a public venue for Sydney people to voice their opinions on the social and political issues of the day to the amusement and entertainment of the Sunday crowd.

Global Roman Catholic congregation, founded by Bishop Daniel Delany in Ireland on 1 February 1807. Six Brigidine Sisters first arrived in Coonamble, New South Wales in 1883 and branches were then opened in Sydney.

Small cove on western side of Sydney Cove between the Overseas Passenger Terminal and Dawes Point, named for the merchant Robert Campbell, who built his wharf and warehouses and an Indian-style bungalow there.

Coffee grew in the garden at the first Government House but Sydney remained predominantly a tea-drinking colony. Despite the efforts of temperance campaigners to replace alcohol with coffee, coffee drinking remained a minority pleasure until after World War II, when coffee-…

Passenger on the Edward Lombe who was killed when the ship was wrecked in Sydney Harbour in 1834. He had a brother in Sydney, Stephen Greenhill.  He was named in all reports as being a passenger and had made other trips to Tasmania and Sydney prior to this voyage,…