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Sydney Kings
Basketball team established in 1988
James, Sydney
Theatre entrepreneur who toured Australia 1914-1919
Sydney Steel
Steel manufacturing company constructed on reclaimed swampland.
Rigpa Sydney
Centre for Tibetan Buddhist in George Street, Haymarket.
Baggs, Sydney A
Architect who specialized in the environmental impact of buildings.
Ancher, Sydney
Architect who was a pioneer of modern domestic architecture in Australia.
Sydney Roosters
Professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern suburbs.
Sydney Aquarium
Aquarium and tourism complex at Darling Harbour.
Sydney College
Early independent secondary school founded in 1835 under William Timothy Cape.
Communicare Sydney
Charity organsiation which provides marriage counselling, financial assistance and school holiday programs.
Artspace Sydney
International residency-based contemporary art centre which operates education and cultural programs and exhibitions.
Sydney Hospital
Hospital founded by Lachlan Macquarie and housed in a number of buildings in Macquarie Street.
Sydney Stadium
Sporting and entertainment venue in Rushcutters Bay that was demolished to make way for the Eastern Suburbs railway.
Sydney Arcade
Retail arcade between George and King streets, one of six constructed during the building boom of the 1880s.
Sydney Metro
Automated rapid transit network planned to supplement the existing public railway network. Initially proposed to the New South Wales government in 2001.
East Sydney
Small inner-city suburb immediately east of Hyde Park whose predominantly Italian community in the 1960s and 1970s has shaped the restaurant culture today.
HMAS Sydney I
Warship commissioned in Scotland in 1913 which saw action in Australian waters, the Pacific and the Atlantic before being decommissioned in 1928 and broken up at Cockatoo Island.
Sydney Harbour
The largest arm of Port Jackson, which extends west from the Heads past Balmain and meets the estuaries of the Lane Cove and Parramatta rivers.