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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…

Eugenia Falleni was born in Italy in 1875, the eldest daughter of 22 children. By the time he reached Sydney in 1898, he was known as Harry Crawford. Accused of murder, his identity outed, he was a public figure shrouded in mystery. Historic Houses Trust curator Nerida…

Convict sentenced to seven years transportation for theft of a bushel of wheat. On the journey she partnered with Richard Alley and had a daughter with him once she reached Sydney, but the child died a few days later. Ann formed a relationship with John Irving, whose land in…

Residential centre or holiday camp established by the Workers' Educational Association Sydney branch at Newport on Sydney's northern beaches in 1924 for summer schools. The site was described in 1924 as 'the crest of a gentle slope overlooking Newport beach and within five…

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…

School teacher and music director for the Presbyterian Church, Peter McCormick is little known in Sydney, although every Sydneysider knows his work. His song, 'Advance Australia Fair', was sung by a choir of 10,000 at the celebration of the inauguration of the…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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.…

Area of towns and villages on far western edge of Sydney which is 70 per cent national park, governed by Blue Mountains City Council. It incorporates significant parts of the traditional lands of the Gundungarra and Darug tribal groups. Its scenery has made it a popular…

Area in Sydney's south-west, part of the traditional lands of the Cadigal, Wangal and Bediagal clans of the Dharug tribe, formerly governed by Canterbury City Council until being merged with Bankstown in 2016. Named for 'Canterbury Vale', a 1793 land grant to First Fleet…