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Report by Surveyor General Thomas Mitchell in 1834 which attempted to bring order into the laying out of roads, urban growth and other town planning matters.

Colonial government authority set up to build railways for New South Wales after private companies failed to raise the necessary capital. The Commissioners oversaw the completion of the first line from Sydney to Parramatta.

A branch of French organisation Le Droit Humain, which admitted men and women equally, and came to Australia via England in 1912. The lodge had strong links with Theosophy.

Campus established close to the industrial heartland of Ultimo and Pyrmont on the edge of the city in 1891. The purpose built facility was also the headquarters for the statewide technical education system until 1959.

 The position of the encampment and buildings are as they stood 1 March 1788. The Transports are placed in the Cove as Moored on their arrival.

The lives, activities and material culture of the people who lived in the Sydney area for thousands of years before Europeans arrived are only revealed by archaeological evidence. Sydney has many diverse sites where physical evidence of the first inhabitants can be found,…

The first St. Thomas was begun in 1843 and completed in 1845. The present church was built in two stages, adjacent to and over, the old church, in which services continued during building. The current nave was built over the top of the 1843 church which was later demolished…

Exhibition of paintings of parts of Sydney which were due for demolition in the cleansing of The Rocks and Millers Point after the outbreak of plague in 1900. Organised by the Society of Artists, it was held in their rooms in Pitt Street.

By the turn of the twentieth century, Sydney’s train network was under increasing pressure from an expanding suburbia, growing patronage, slow trains and a central terminal that was isolated from the city centre that it served. To revitalise the network and meet the needs of…