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Professional criminal and burglar who was hanged after his participation in the Bridge Street Affray in 1894. He had only recently arrived in Sydney from Melbourne where he had served time in Pentridge Prison. 

Professional criminal and burglar who was hanged after his participation in the Bridge Street Affray in 1894. He had only recently arrived in Sydney from Melbourne where he had served time in Pentridge Prison.

Children's book by Ruth Park about a girl who travels back in time from the 20th century to colonial Sydney. It won the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year in 1981.

Karoo was an Aboriginal woman who became a Sydney identity, with her trademark government issue blanket, headscarf and a clay pipe. One of Bungaree's wives. She died in 1852 and was buried in Devonshire Street Cemetery.

Architect and builder who came to Sydney as a free settler and designed and built many of the colony's grandest houses before retiring to his farm on the Macleay River in northern New South Wales.

Aboriginal people continued to live around Sydney's harbour for more than a century after Europeans arrived, adapting their traditional life to their new conditions of dispossession and displacement, and maintaining, in scattered campsites, some of their skills and culture.…

Trained under Florence Nightingale, Lucy Osburn became Lady Superintendent of Sydney Hospital in 1868, and despite controversy and ill health, began the process of remaking hospital care and professionalising nursing.

Have you ever walked along Harrington Street in The Rocks, Sydney? It used to be called Hangman's Hill. Why? Because that's where the first man in Sydney was hanged. Thomas Barrett was his name. He was a forger, a mutineer and a thief. The fact that he was the first man…

South-western suburb which began as an agricultural township. It evolved into one of Sydney's most multicultural suburbs after the Second World War when it was settled by successive waves of European and Asian migrants.

One of only three National schools opened in 1849 in Sydney, it existed in Woolloomooloo for only two years. The current school in Surry Hills of the same name did not open until 1863.

Municipality created after a petition by 64 residents. Made up of four wards - Inner Glebe, Bishopthorpe, Outer Glebe and Forest Lodge it existed until 1949 when it became a single ward within the City of Sydney.

Nurse who greatly influenced professional nursing in Australia and who worked as matron and superintendent in many hospitals in Sydney before travelling to the Boer War, and then Egypt and England during World War I.

Architect whose tenure as Government Architect from 1890 to 1911 saw the construction of some of Sydney's most famous buildings, as well as suburban fire stations and post offices in the Federation Free style.

Once a stream draining much of southern Sydney, the conversion of the Sheas Creek to an industrial canal resulted in a polluted and ugly corridor that has defied attempts at remediation

Residential suburb on the north shore of Sydney Harbour, where the Lane Cove river joins the Parramatta River, named after shipbuilder George Green's Greenwich House. The Shell oil terminal has operated there since 1901.

North-western residential and semi-rural suburb named for convict and local timber getter John Schofield. Its aerodrome was the site of the RAN training base HMAS Nirimba, now a campus of the University of Western Sydney.

Swamp area bounded by present day Epsom Road, South Dowling and Bourke streets which was dammed to provide water for the high pressure pipes which drove the first hydraulic lifts and presses in Sydney.

Installation of cast bronze discs in the granite paving which marks the natural shoreline of Sydney Cove. The first constructed shoreline, reclaimed to form Circular Quay, is mapped by a continuous band of white granite.

Dossier compiled by the superintendent (later commissioner) of police William Augustus Miles of his, and others', observations of Sydney’s underworld between about 1841 and 1846. It is held by State Records New South Wales.

Pub on the corner of Union Street and Blues Point Road in North Sydney. Known for many years as the Old Commodore, the site has been occupied by a hotel since the mid nineteenth century.