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Commemorative plaque that was installed on History House on Macquarie Street in 1985 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project. The text on the plaque read 'This Victorian town house was designed in 1871 by the architect George Allen Mansfield for George Oakes…

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the colony's first execution as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project in 1985. The text on the plaque read 'Thomas Barrett, a First Fleet convict, was hanged near this place on 27 February 1788 for…

Commemorative plaque that was installed on St James' Church as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project in 1985. The text on the plaque read: 'This church, intended in 1819 as a court house, was designed by Francis Greenway and consecrated by the Rev Samuel…

Commemorative plaque that was installed outside Parliament House as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project in 1985. The text on the plaque read: 'Legislative Assembly Chamber. This chamber has been occupied by the Lower House of the New South Wales Parliament…

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the observatory as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project in 1985. The text on the plaque read 'This building, begun in 1857, was used by the Government Astronomer until 1982. The observatory played a major part in…

One of the most important towns in Sydney's hinterland, Camden was shaped by its landed gentry from the time of John Macarthur's original land grant in 1805, until the Macarthur family influence faded in the 1950s. Camden dairy products and farm produce went to the Sydney…

Attempts to mine the coal under Sydney started in the 1870s but, despite the efforts of several companies and a miners' cooperative, the Balmain Colliery was never a commercially successful producer of coal or gas and finally closed in 1950.

Used by its traditional owners, the Gadigal people, well into the 1840s, Darlinghurst was a quarry and windmill site before it became popular for the fine villas of the colony's well-to-do, in the 1830s. Subsequent booms and busts raised and lowered the suburb's fortunes,…

Area in Sydney's west governed by Blacktown City Council. Part of the traditional lands of the Darug people, it became known as 'The Blacks Town' in the 1820s when the Native Institution moved there from Parramatta. It is the most populous local government area in NSW and one…

A series of ships anchored adjacent to Sow and Pigs Reef in Sydney Harbour as an aid to navigation. The first was the Rose in 1836. She was replaced by HMS Bramble in 1856 which was in turn replaced by Bramble II in 1877. In 1912 an acetylene gas…

Rocky outcrop to the east of Sydney Cove, which was a tidal island when Europeans arrived, but was joined to the mainland with rocky rubble in 1818 to provide a basis for Fort Macquarie to be built there. The point is named for Bennelong, who lived in a house on the point in…

Rock face which derives its name from the famous rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy, from where prisoners were hurled to their deaths in ancient times. A stairway constructed in the 1880s connects the Sydney Opera House to the top of the rock and Domain and is known…

Timber huts on Bent Street opposite Phillip Street that housed government sponsored migrants on their arrival in Sydney between 1837 and the mid 1840s. Tents were also pitched to accommodate when large numbers of people arrived in ships. The Government Printing Office was…

Established in 1961, the Division of Forensic Medicine was a specially formed division within the Department of Public Health. It had previously been known as the Government Medical Officers Branch. The division was located within the Glebe Coroner’s Court along Parramatta…

Cockatoo Island has changed dramatically from the uninhabited rocky island it was when Europeans arrived. Reshaped, levelled, cleared and used for a range of social and industrial purposes, the island is now a historic landmark, administered by the Sydney Harbour Federation…

Regulations of the New South Wales Saving Bank : a depositary for the savings of the poor. To which is prefixed a plain address to the convicts on their arrival and to the small settlers, mechanics, servants and labourers of the colony / by the President, 
Sydney : G.…

Regulations of the New South Wales Saving Bank : a depositary for the savings of the poor. To which is prefixed a plain address to the convicts on their arrival and to the small settlers, mechanics, servants and labourers of the colony / by the President, 
Sydney : G.…

Regulations of the New South Wales Saving Bank : a depositary for the savings of the poor. To which is prefixed a plain address to the convicts on their arrival and to the small settlers, mechanics, servants and labourers of the colony / by the President, 
Sydney : G.…

Regulations of the New South Wales Saving Bank : a depositary for the savings of the poor. To which is prefixed a plain address to the convicts on their arrival and to the small settlers, mechanics, servants and labourers of the colony / by the President, 
Sydney : G.…

A scattering of Croatian migrants arrived in Sydney during the nineteenth century, but most Croatian Sydneysiders came here because of war and upheaval in their home country in the twentieth century. After World War II, when Yugoslavia came into being, many leftist Croatians…