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The Australian Government's Your Community Heritage Program supported the 'Fine Stream Fine Meadow: Cooks River' project to include additional material about the Cooks River in the Dictionary of Sydney in 2013.

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.

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.

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 road north from Sydney had to traverse forest, hills and deep river valleys, and a number of routes were developed before the Pacific Highway became the main northern road.

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.

Adopting the role of mediator between the Aboriginal people and the English colonists, Bungaree became one of the best known elders in Sydney town, after circumnavigating the continent with Matthew Flinders.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

Theatre company which became known in the 1960s for its prolific lunchtime program at the AMP Building in Circular Quay, Sydney. In 2005, it moved to the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in Penrith.

Three albums of sketches and watercolours by Captain P H F Phelps of scenes in Sydney and New South Wales were sold at auction in London in 1924 during a sale of John Calvert's collection. Phelps was the son of Lieutenant Colonel JH Phelps who arrived in Sydney in 1835 and…

Steel truss bridge across Sydney Harbour from Rozelle to Drummoyne constructed by Hornibrook McKenzie Clarke Pty Ltd. The original bridge was opened in 1882 but replaced by 1955. A duplicate bridge opened in 2011.

International order of Brothers and Priests within the Catholic Church. Initially established in France, it came to Sydney in 1885. Its sister congregation is the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.