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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.

Established by creative artist, Mike Mullins, as a space to explore and present 'new forms' of theatre. Performance Space was created by and for artists as an affordable, permanent space for contemporary performance makers in Sydney to explore a practice driven by ideas and…

Renowned horse trainer and employee of the pastoralist James White. Along with White, he owned and operated the Newmarket Stables in Randwick. He also won many horse racing cups including the Sydney Cup in 1878, Victoria Derby and Melbourne Cup in 1883 and Maribyrnong Plate…

Policewoman who was serving in the police force during the time of Sydney's razor gangs and was described by author Larry Writer as Lillian Armfield's 'right-hand woman'. Baker's true identity is not known as she adopted a pseudonym when describing…

Eddie Ward was a trade unionist and Australian Labor Party politician who entered Federal Parliament in 1931. He was the member for East Sydney until 1960. Ward had taken an active role as a young man in the Great Strike in 1917, losing his job at the Eveleigh Railway…

Endowed with the estate of Thomas Moore, who died in 1840, the college began operation in 1856, in Moore's house at Liverpool. By the end of the nineteenth century it had moved to Newtown, near the University of Sydney, and had trained 199 ministers.

In nineteenth-century Sydney, charity protected poor people from starvation and homelessness. The introduction of benefits and pensions in the early and mid-twentieth century made it less crucial, though still important. In recent times, as government outsourced many…

The spectacular Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in 1983 had its origins in the brutal police response to a much smaller parade in 1978. The subsequent public furore and political activism caused draconian laws to be changed and eventual acceptance of the special place the Mardi…

Inner southern suburb, named for the British prime minister the Earl of Rosebery who visited Sydney in 1883-84. Planned by John Sulman as a model suburb for both housing and industry in 1911-1920, it was the site of an early racecourse, then an industrial area, it is now…

Swedish born political organiser, feminist and suffragist. After emigrating to Sydney, she became a ward-sister at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She joined the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales in 1897, becoming one of its eight vice-presidents and then in 1902,…

Sawyer and groom who was tried at the Northampton Assizes in England on 4 March 1833 for housebreaking and transported for life to New South Wales. Watts later owned Randwick's Newmarket Precinct during its early days and became a prominent citizen of the Sydney suburb…

Police magistrate at Wilcannia, Queanbeyan and the Richard River in the mid-19th century. As the Commissioner for Lands he selected the site for the township of Wilcannia in 1863.  Between 1889 and 1903 he was the City Coroner. He died at his home Tallandra in North Sydney in…

Hospital established in Glebe in 1880 as The Sydney Hospital for Sick Children, which remained there until 1906 when it moved to new premises at Camperdown as the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children. The hospital moved to Westmead in 1995 and is now known as The Children…

Founded in 1923 as part of a worldwide wave of concern about newborn health, Karitane provided care and education to generations of Sydney mothers and nurses.

Dharawal country south west of Sydney that was taken and granted to Europeans who established country estates. Later development included a golf club and racing circuit. In the twenty-first century, suburban development has overtaken the area.

A sandy swampy tract of land, skirted by roads based on Aboriginal tracks, the land that became Centennial Park was set aside as a common by Macquarie in 1811. Later the swamps in the park supplied Sydney's water, first by card and later via Busby's Bore. In 1888 the area was…

Completed in 1859, Crown Street reservoir is the oldest working reservoir in Australia. Built from special bricks imported from England with wooden columns and a fire-proof jack-arch roof, it was part of the early Botany Swamps water scheme and still supplies water, now from…

Area governed by Randwick City Council 6 kilometres south east of Sydney. The second oldest local government area in New South Wales, it includes the coastal beach strip from Clovelly to La Perouse. Its Indigenous population includes those who can trace their ancestors back…