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Wooden sailing ship of 375 tons which was one of fourteen convict ships to arrive in 1834 bringing over 200 Irish male convicts. Inn 1837 it transported 210 male convicts to Hobart and in 1839 returned to Sydney again with 200 males.

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.

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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…

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.

Principal cemetery for the town of Sydney between 1792 and 1820. Originally located on the outskirts of the city, by 1819 the cemetery was full and had become 'offensive to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood'. It was closed. on 28 January 1820, and replaced by the new…

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.

Sydney has been seen as an 'English' town since first European settlement, with visitors describing its English character well into the nineteenth century. Successive waves of English-born convicts, settlers, and assisted immigrants helped shape the city, and the English…

Formed in 2011 to address the complex needs of the Cooks River today, the Alliance includes representatives from Ashfield, Bankstown, Canterbury, City of Sydney, Hurstville, Marrickville, Rockdale and Strathfield councils

Commemorative plaque that was installed between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project on the site of the White Horse Hotel that had been run by boxer Larry Foley in George Street near King Street.

Council established in 1872 to administer the Prospect and Sherwood area in Sydney's west, which became Holroyd Municipality in 1927, and the City of Holroyd in 1991. It was merged with parts of Auburn and Parramatta  to form Cumberland Council in 2016.

Tobacco merchant who had a shop at 452 George Street, Sydney during the late 1850s up to his retirement in 1874. He later took an interest in public affairs and social services, serving as secretary of the Benevolent Asylum and establishing Burwood Public School.

Sports and cultural programme held on New Year's day each year by the Scottish community to raise funds for the poor. Originally held at the Albert Ground in Redfern it has also been held at the Sydney Cricket Ground and the Showgrounds.

French born publican whose hospitality extended to catering for all classes of society and even Mayoral picnics. After working in several cafes and hotels around Sydney he spent 10 years in Gundagai before leaving for Europe, later returning to work in Dubbo.

Minesweeper built during World War I which changed hands several times before operating from Sydney as a fishing trawler. Requisitioned as a minesweeper in World War II she returned to trawling in 1947 but was smashed on rocks at Little Bay and finally pounded to pieces.

Master millwright from Surrey who arrived in Sydney in early 1793. Employed by the British governement to work as a miller in the colony for three years, he and fellow millwright Thomas Allen were based at Parramatta. Thorp returned to England in 1796

First woman to study Pharmacy at the University of Sydney in 1900. In 1902 Wilson became the first academically trained woman to register as a pharmacist in New South Wales and went into business in Killara. She died in 1919 during the flu epidemic.
 

Public holiday marking the landing of the first fleet in Port Jackson, celebrated in Sydney throughout the nineteenth century as Anniversary Day, and gradually taken up by other states after Federation. The public holiday has been held on 26 January nationwide since 1994.

In 1911 a Japanese expedition bound for Antarctica was forced to turn back by bad weather. In May the expedition arrived in Sydney and set up camp in Parsley Bay.