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Carangarang, of the Wangal clan of the southern shore of the Parramatta River, was the wife of Corrangie and the best known of Bennelong's siblings. She was a presence in Sydney and Kissing Point until the late 1830s.

The Hawkesbury River, or Dyarubbin, in Sydney's north and west, was an important transport route for Aboriginal people and colonists. Its use changed as first ferry, then road and rail bridges opened up land to the north and west.

The Liverpool Internment Camp at Moorebank commenced on 15 October 1939 under the direct control of the Australian Army Base at Victoria Barracks, Sydney. When larger camps were built at Orange and Hay in 1940 the camp was closed, however, after eight months it was re-opened…

Transported to Sydney as a convict with a young daughter, Esther Abrahams rose to prominence in colonial society. She held land at Georges River, and was mistress of Annandale House until conflict with her son Robert led to her being declared unable to administer her estates…

George Caleb Hedgeland was a colonist who successfully turned his hand to several different professions during his lifetime. A surveyor who undertook alignment surveyors of streets across Sydney in the late…

Windmill erected by Nathaniel Lucas at the Domain in 1805 and later leased for a period to Henry Kable. It was the first post mill constructed in the Sydney Cove area, and was capable of grinding more than six bushels per hour. It stood approximately where the Shakespeare…

The earliest recorded excavation of an Aboriginal archaeological site in Sydney which was conducted during the construction of the Alexandra Canal by Robert Etheridge Jnr, Professor TW Edgeworth David and HW Grimshaw. Artefacts included incised skeletal remains of a dugong…

Pumphouse built for the Sydney and Suburban Hydraulic Power Company which from 1891 to 1975 supplied water under pressure to power machinery in the city including wharf cranes and heavy bank doors. As late as the 1970s, lifts and doors in some city buildings were still using…

Garry Darby is an art historian who has lectured extensively at the University of Sydney in the Continuing Education program. He has toured internationally lecturing on his specialist topic, The Art of Aboriginal Australia. Garry is now concentrating on writing local history…

Engraved copper plate laid by Governor Phillip in May 1788 with the foundation stone of the first Government House building. In 1899 it was was unearthed beneath the Bridge Street footpath by a man working on the telephone tunnel system. lt is now on display in the Museum of…

An active pile lighthouse off Georges Head in Sydney Harbour marking the western end of Sow and Pigs Reef. A white timber and concrete structure with a copper dome, it was designed to match the existing Eastern Channel Pile Light. It was constructed in 1924 to replace an…

The Benevolent Society, and the asylum (and later hospitals, clinics and aged care centres) it ran, provided care and sustenance to Sydney's poorest from the 1820s. Although it was founded under the auspices of the Colonial Auxiliary Bible Society, it gradually became a…

TITLE: Sport and recreation - Tennis - These young tennis players at a coaching school are practicing serving. This school is at Victor A Edwards' coaching school at Roseville, a Sydney suburb More than 15000 pupils, mainly school children, living within a five mile…

McElhone Stairs in Woollomooloo is one of three stairways that connect Brougham Street to Victoria Street the others being Hordern Stairs and Butler Stairs). The wide variety of experiences encountered on the stairs, from the arduous nature of the climb,  the vibrant and…

Son of a French nobleman and anatomist, Pierre Lalouette de Vernicourt was a captain in the French Army in India at the time of the French Revolution, before seeking asylum in England. He came to Sydney and farmed 100 acres at Castle Hill, keeping largely to himself, until…

After George Street West was widened in the 1930s, the name Broadway soon caught on, though the road had been the gateway to Sydney since early colonial days. A microscosm of the city, this place has seen industry, poverty, religion, commerce and redevelopment and repurposing…

The Charlotte was one of six transports among the 11 ships of the First Fleet that arrived at Sydney Cove on the 26 January 1788 under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip. She left Sydney Cove bound for Canton on 8 May 1788, arriving back in England in June 1789.

Hugh Tranter is a history graduate from the University of Sydney with an ongoing interest in researching the early years of European settlement in Australia. He is researching the communication that took place between NSW and England and the way news was conveyed both ways…

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of Horbury Terrace between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.The text of the plaque read 'These houses, once part of a terrace of eight, were built in 1842 for Ouseley Condell.  Their…