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A painter and glazier who rose to Mayor and member of Parliament, SS Goold was also a deeply religious man.

Originally a rocky island used as a place of punishment for convicts, Fort Denison was built over and renamed when fortifications were constructed there in the mid-nineteenth century in an attempt to protect the city from seaborne invasion. Though the fort was never used for…

Originally known as Flagstaff Steps, Agar Steps are located on the western side of Observatory Hill and connect Kent Street and Upper Fort Street.

Convict, carpenter, miller, trader and family man, Nathaniel Lucas made good in the colony and founded a large family.

Playfair Stairs in The Rocks was an unusually shaped stairway, which did not fit neatly into the typical stairway typologies of the city. The stairway bent around the corner into Cambridge Street like an elbow.

After training in Europe, child prodigy Iris de Cairos-Rego returned to Australia to a career as a musician and teacher.