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Photographer who worked for the NSW Department of Public Works and son of pioneering Australian photographer and printer John Degotardi. Degotardi Jnr produced, among other things, the photographic documentation of the cleansing operations and slum clearances in inner Sydney…

One of two volunteer corps of 50 men formed in 1800 to assist British troops and reformed in 1803 as a part time militia, taking part in suppressing the Irish convict rebellion in 1804 before being disbanded in 1810 by Governor Macquarie. The other corps was the Sydney Loyal…

Iris Webber was a busker and petty criminal active in Sydney from the early 1930s until her death in 1953. She gained notoriety for her fierceness on the streets and in the courtroom, and for her relationships with women.

Parsley Bay is an inlet of Sydney Harbour bordered by Point Seymour and Village Point, and is the traditional land of the Birrabirragal people. In 1907 the bay and immediate surrounds became a public reserve, and it has remained ‘one of the people’s playgrounds’ ever since.…

Built on the site of the Prince of Wales Theatre, which had been destroyed by fire in 1872, the Theatre Royal opened in 1875 and was central to Sydney's theatrical world for nearly a century.

Chief town of the Blue Mountains with a name which means 'falling together of many streams' or 'waters tumble over hill'. It grew after the construction of the western railway from Sydney enabled a prosperous coal and shale mining industry and brought tourists to see the…

Street running south-east from Sydney's centre as far as Bondi Junction, along the line of a Aboriginal walking track, which became an important commercial area and was renamed after the famous London shopping street. Originally part of South Head Road built in 1811, this…

Far western suburb lying on the eastern bank of the Nepean River at the foot of the Blue Mountains, named by Governor Macquarie after a town in England's Lake District. Developing rapidly in the 1970s, it is now one of the major commercial centres in the Greater Western…

Former court building constructed by builder CC Coleman of Petersham for 9555 pounds. It was soon overcrowded and outdated with a reputation for violence and was closed when the boys were transferred to Lidcombe in 1983. It has since been used by the Sydney City Mission and…

Commercial office building constructed as part of property development that also includes Governor Macquarie Tower and the Museum of Sydney. The development incorporates heritage listed buildings and remnants of the footings of the first Government House. Governor Phillip…

The original pub on this site, popular with wharf workers,was built around 1880 near the palisade fence that ran from Munn Street to Bettington Street. The current seven storey Federation Free style hotel built by the Sydney Harbour Trust operated for over eighty years before…

A branch of the Attorney General's department that kept details and statistics for the City Coroner for the Sydney Metropolitan coroners and incumbents in other country New South Wales districts from the 1830s until the late 1930s or early 1940s when the branch was absorbed…

The Society of Australian Black and White Artists was the first association of newspaper artists in the world. From 1924 to 1946, it hosted over 20 Black and White Artists' balls around Sydney, raising money and causing public scandal. The Black and White Artists' Club or the…

Wallumedegal land in the area that became Epping was granted to European settlers from 1794, and provided timber, fruit and vegetables to Sydney Town. When the railway came though in 1886, the name Epping was chosen, and subdivision of the rural properties began the process…

Marie Byles overcame formal and informal obstacles in order to become Sydney's first practicing woman lawyer. She mentored other women in law, and became an advocate for women's rights in other fields, as well as an environmental activist and a writer about Buddhism.

Area in Sydney's inner west along the southern shore of the Parramatta River, traditional lands of the Wangal people, governed since the merger of Concord and Drummoyne in 2000 by City of Canada Bay Council. The name honours French-Canadian rebels who were transported to…

Darrienne Wyndham is a heritage consultant at Artefact Heritage Services specialising in the interpretation of historic sites, buildings and railway stations. Her research has spanned a wide range of time periods and locations across Sydney, from nineteenth century roads in…

One of Sydney City Council's big projects in the late nineteenth century, ostensibly built to replace the old central markets, the Queen Victoria Building was never really intended to be used as markets, and contained 200 shops under one roof. Later used as council offices…

Mineralogist, palaeontologist and museum director, Anderson was an important figure in Sydney's scientific and educational development in the first half of the twentieth century.

The last theatre built in Sydney before World War I, called the Adelphi until 1916 and Grand Opera House until 1932, the 'Tiv' as it became known was a venue for melodrama, vaudeville, pantomime and more, until the 1960s.