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Built by convict labour in 1829, Reynolds' cottages have been used for many different purposes as the city around them changed and grew.

Built as part of the Tattersall's hotel complex, the Palace Theatre was an opulent, baroque-style theatre, with interior design by Phil Goatcher. It became known as a 'hard luck house' where shows did not prosper, and was later used as a cinema, and mini-golf course. It…

Maps of the Georges River were made from the time of Cook's visit onwards, but it was not until the maps of Dixon and of Mitchell in the 1830s that the river was accurately charted.

To the Editor of the Australian.

SIR, On the decease of almost all persons, dying in the public hospitals (I speak particularly of one) I have been galled to the heart to see (and to hear also) them borne to their last home by those unhappy (say nothing of degraded)…

Named by European settlers for its plentiful springs and ponds, Neverfail Bay in Oatley was the cultivation ground for a thriving oysters industry until increasing pollution and viral contamination took their toll in the 1990s

Built on the original site of Paddy's Market, the Capitol Theatre was originally built as the New Belmore Markets, and converted into a Hippodrome for the Wirth Bros Circus when the markets moved to Thomas Street, closer to Darling Harbour. For 10 years the building was…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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…