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The John Doe case was a landmark missing person case for the New South Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Glebe Morgue when an unidentified body was found in the Hawkesbury River in August 1994.

The Granville rail disaster on 18 January 1977 was the worst rail accident in Australian history. Eighty three people killed, and 210 were injured.

One of Australia's oldest war memorials, the Balmain community has continually made additions to commemorate those whose lives were lost in all conflicts from World War I.

A new suburb growing along the Nepean River, Spring Farm's history is as agricultural as its name.

The Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour, now housed in the Ultimo Community Centre, lists the names of 36 men who served in World War I. We can only be sure 22 came home but their stories reveal the hardships of war service, larrikin behaviour, heroism and injuries that…

Brought to Australia by the Macarthur family, to tend the vineyards on their Camden estate, the German immigrants of 1838 were the first foreign immigrants admitted under the 'bounty' scheme. Their families prospered and spread from Camden around New South Wales.…

Part of Wallumetta, country of the Wallumedegal before the Europeans came, the area that became Denistone East was granted to settlers in the 1790s, and farmed until the 1880s when subdivision took place. Though the promised railway line did not eventuate, substantial housing…

Cocky Bennett was a remarkably long-lived cockatoo who spent his early years sailing the South Seas with his friend and keeper, Captain Ellis. At age 78, after Ellis's death, Cocky took up residence at the Sea Breeze Hotel at Tom Ugly's Point in Blakehurst where he…

Named for a large house built by Oscar Roberts, Mount Errington quickly became Hornsby's 'top end of town', home to businessmen, professionals, writers and artists.

Wallumedegal country until the Europeans came, the area that became Normanhurst was known as Hornsby until 1895 when the railway came through. Another station was named Hornsby Junction and the station at Hornsby was called Normanhurst.

Mount Adelaide, one of the early residences in Darling Point, was demolished in 1912. Its site is now occupied by Babworth House.

Mr George Bates was born in 1912 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960' oral history project. He remembers finding work at Ashcroft's Butchers in Liverpool during the Great…

The Glebe Fire Brigade began with volunteers in 1875 and became a permanent, professional brigade in 1911. Voluntarism was revived during World War II with the advent of the Women's Fire Auxiliary. Now part of the professional New South Wales Fire Brigade, the St Johns Road…

A meeting place for Tharawal, Gundungurra and Cubbitch-barta people, the area that later became Cawdor was part of John Macarthur's Camden Park estate by 1825. It was the first village in the Cowpastures, and developed as an agricultural township, based on dairying.…

Founded by young Aboriginal activists, National Black Theatre tried to tell the stories of Aboriginal life with political impact. From 1974 the group had some government funding and moved from street and sketch theatre to full productions of new plays by Aboriginal…

At one time the highest paid theatrical designer in the world, Phil W Goatcher created designs for JC Williamson Ltd that were masterpieces of illusion, painted on canvas drops.

The Lindt Café siege was a terrorist attack that took place in a restaurant in Martin Place over seventeen hours on 15–16 December 2014.

Aboriginal people who lived in this area left rock engravings along the coast and high points. The Jenkins family consolidated grants and purchases and in the 1880s Elizabeth Jenkins passed her land to the Salvation Army, delaying town development until the Salvation Army…

Australia's first female factory at Parramatta (known as the 'Factory Above the Gaol') was Governor King's attempt at finding a solution to the problem of accommodating the colony's abundance of unemployed convict women at the same time as protecting…