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Inner western residential, commercial and industrial suburb, named after the Anglican church around which it developed. It is recognisable by the iconic chimneys of the former brickworks, now part of Sydney Park, built to take advantage of vast deposits of clay.

Abattoirs developed at Lidcombe to replace the public abattoir at Glebe which featured prominently in the Royal Commission into Noxious and Offensive Trades in 1882. They were closed in 1988 and much of the site was redeveloped as Sydney Olympic Park.

North shore harbourside suburb immediately to the west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, named for Michael McMahon, a brush and comb manufacturer who settled there in the 1860s. Before the bridge was built, ferries from Circular Quay would meet trams there.

Area in Sydney's south, traditonal lands of the Gameygal people, formerly governed by Kogarah City Council until being merged with Hurstville to form Georges River local government area in 2016. It was bordered to the south by the Georges River.

House built by Alexander Berry in the 1840s on his Crows Nest Estate. From the 1890s the surrounding land was subdivided and sold and the house was demolished in 1933. Its site is now occupied by North Sydney Demonstration School.

State government authority set up to manage and run the railways, tramways, and buses. This authority began the process of electrifying the railway and tram lines in Sydney. In 1930 responsibility for trams and buses was shifted to a Road Transport Commissioner.

City building erected in 1924-25 for Bennett and Wood Ltd, manufacturers and importers of bicycles and motorbikes, at 280 Pitt Street, a site owned by the company since 1910. The building was purchased by the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts in 1996.

Farm established in Parramatta by John and Elizabeth Macarthur, on land granted to them in the 1790s. The estate was subdivided in 1880 as Rosehill. The Macarthur's residence on the property, Elizabeth Farm House, is now part of Sydney Living Museums.

Urban garden and cultural precinct within the former water reservoir chambers. Once an integral part of Sydney's first water supply system it was decommissioned in late nineteenth century and used for storage and as a garage before conversion to a cultural precinct.

Statue of leading Sydney businessman in auctioneering and pastoral finance, owner of the largest commercial dry dock in Australia, a pioneer of frozen meat exports and a founder of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. It was created by sculptor Pierce Francis Connelly.…

Post War International style office building which at 25 storeys was the first to officially break the 1912 Sydney height of Buildings Limit of 150 feet and thus become the tallest building in Australia at the time of its construction.

Area in Sydney's south-west, part of the traditional lands of the Cadigal, Wangal and Bediagal clans of the Dharug tribe, governed by Canterbury-Bankstown Council. It was formed in 2016 by the merger of the Canterbury and Bankstown local government areas. 

Drowned river valley that forms Sydney Harbour and includes North Harbour and Middle Harbour. Long inhabited by the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Wangal and Eora people, Port Jackson was renamed by Captain Cook in 1770, although his ship did not enter the Heads.

The Garcia School of Music trained many of Sydney's best musicians for four decades after its founding by the Sisters of Charity in 1897.

From an accidental city without a plan, Sydney has become a city with many plans. The early town grew without controls, but later governments tried to regulate building and development, and keep up with necessary services and infrastructure. From 1900, resumptions, zoning and…

Opened in 1886, the Criterion Theatre was a Victorian baroque theatre seating about 1000 people. Many of Sydney's famous actors and visiting companies played there, until it was demolished in 1936 for the widening of Park Street.

A gathering place for Sydney's entertainers, actors and performers for decades, Poverty Point was where theatre managers found players for city theatres and for country tours.

An early focus for the Irish Catholic community in Sydney, St Patrick's became a symbol of Irish pride. Thousands of worshippers, carrying green flags, marched through the city to its foundation stone-laying ceremony in 1840.

Stairways such as Butler Stairs were part of the Sydney City Council’s Victorian infrastructure boom, and the sophisticated level to which these stairways are detailed shows a level of civic pride and financial investment in pedestrian infrastructure that had not been…

The Minerva Theatre, and inter-war functionalist theatre opened in 1939 and renamed the Metro Kings Cross in 1952, has a long association with the nightlife of Kings Cross and Sydney's stage and screen history.