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Cowan was explored by botanist George Caley in 1805, and its timber harvested for use in coach building. After the railway came through in 1901 it became a popular holiday and picnic spot, with bushland surrounding the town.

A narrow laneway, running between Pitt and Castlereagh streets, Rowe Street was small-scale, personable, cosmopolitan, and fun.

Delamere was a cottage on the Delamere Estate, which was a subdivision created in Darling Point in 1840. Other properties on the former Delamere Estate include Swifts, Queenscliff, Goomerah, Callooa and Cleveland.

Used until the 1950s, the Aboriginal camp at Narrabeen Lagoon was an important site for the Gai-mariagal people, offering shelter, fish and wetland resources.

Bobbin Head was preserved as bushland by the activism of Eccleston du Faur, who campaigned for the establishment of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. Bobbin Head has become one of the main recreation areas in the park.

McKell Park occupies the site of the 1904 gothic-style residence Canonbury, which was a convalescent home for soldiers, a naval hospital and an annexe of Crown Street Women's Hospital. It, in turn, occupied the site of an 1840s cottage, Landsdowne.

The Australian Museum building in College Street was begun in the 1840s and has been extended in stages to house the museum's growing and changing collection and staff.

The second largest of the First Fleet vessels, Scarborough carried male convicts to the penal colony of New South Wales as part of both the First and Second fleets. Scarborough was the only ship of the First Fleet whose convict passengers plotted a mutiny, albeit one that was…

From the gold rush of the 1850s to the depression of the 1930s, Australia's oldest bank, now known as Westpac, has ridden the tide of the economy to serve Sydneysiders since the colony's infancy.

Developed on the Garryowen estate built by John Brenan from the 1830s, Callan Park hospital was designed to treat insanity by the most modern methods available when it opened in 1884. During the twentieth century, overcrowding and ad hoc additions diluted the original intent…

Corrangie, called ‘Harry’ by the English settlers, was the husband of Bennelong’s sister Carangarang and known, after Bennelong’s death, as the ‘chief’ of the Burramattagal or Parramatta clan.

The Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour, now housed in the Ultimo Community Centre, lists the names of 36 men. Four of those men died as a result of their war service and were lost to their families and friends - people who openly grieved their passing. Their grief is a…

Aboriginal people were the traditional owners of Lindfield until the timber-getters of the convict camp arrived in 1810. Land grants to farmers and orchardists followed, with more development as the highway north, and later the railway, made transport easier. Suburban…

Mrs Amy Everett, interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960' project, remembers her mother's reaction to moving to Chipping Norton from Artarmon in Sydney's northern suburbs, during the…

The area that became Cowan Creek remained undisturbed by white colonists until the 1880s. Soon after, much of the catchment became part of the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, as it remains.

Formed in 1983 as a peak body for Aboriginal organisations, the Organisation for Aboriginal Unity was an early advocate for a treaty to be negotiated. In 2004 it intervened in state government plans to reacquire land at Redfern, and changed its name.

Worgan brought the first piano to the colony in 1788, and left it with Elizabeth Macarthur when he returned to England. His journal recorded his impressions of the first six months of European settlement, and is now in the State Library of New South Wales.

Known for his heroic roles and spectacular productions, actor-manager George Rignold was nicknamed 'Gorgeous George' by The Bulletin.

A Dharawal woman, Ellen Anderson married Hugh Anderson from Cumeragunja. In the 1920s they bought a block of land at Salt Pan Creek in Ellen's name. Their home became the focus of a growing community of Aboriginal people and a centre of discussion and activism for reform

Gadigal elder Allan Madden tells the story of Pemulwuy to a packed audience inside the windmill at All the Best's live event: These Walls Have Ears at the Rocks Windmill festival in May 2013. From uncertain beginnings, Pemulwuy rose to become a leader and warrior for his…