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Dirt speedway venue at the former Sydney Showground in Moore Park.

Sporting venue in Moore Park which was demolished in 1986 in order to build the Sydney Football Stadium. The ground was located where the Sydney Football Stadium car park now sits.

Cadet training facility on Snapper Island, built as a memorial to HMAS Sydney.

Appalled by the poverty he found in Sydney when he arrived in 1860, Benjamin Short founded the Sydney City Mission in 1862. While some of the problems it addressed changed over the years, the Mission's work for Sydney's most vulnerable people continues in 2009.

Built on the site of Sydney's first Government House, where the British colonisers first met the Gadigal people, the Museum of Sydney tells the story of the city's development.

College that moved teacher training from on-the-job pupil teaching and part time training schools, to university education. Gradually integrated with the University of Sydney, the college was later dissolved into the Sydney Institute of Education.

Sailing club formed in 1899 that merged with the Sydney Flying Squadron in 1925.

For more than a century, Sydney faced recurrent and often well-founded fears of raids and even invasion. The British Empire's enemies and rivals sent warships into the Pacific to annexe territories, and Sydney was a potentially desirable conquest. Fortress Sydney grew out of…

Museum run by the Historic Houses Trust of NSW focusing on the history of Sydney.

William Dawes established the first observatory in Sydney at the western point of Sydney Cove in 1788, not far from the eventual site of Sydney Observatory on the hill above. Built in 1856, the Observatory remained an important contributor to astronomy, as well as shipping…

Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, it is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia.

Authority established in 1999 to protect the catchments and manage the dams that provide Sydney's water supply.

Coal mining company formed in 1894 that had authority to mine under certain lands under Sydney Harbour.

Sydney branch of the Triratna Buddhist Community which has run courses in Buddhism and meditation since 1981.

Just over a century ago, a unique collection of paintings opened a window to the urban life of the Rocks and Millers Point before their major transformation. No part of Sydney had been depicted so intensively. The Old Sydney Exhibition succeeded in bringing the loss of Old…

Steel through arch bridge from Sydney business district to the North Shore, constructed between 1923 and 1932.

First proposed by William Wentworth in 1848 as an expansion of Sydney College, the university was established via the passage of the University of Sydney Act in 1850 and inaugurated in 1852 before moving to Camperdown in 1859. It is the oldest university in Australia.

Muslims have been a presence in Sydney since the eighteenth century, despite the immigration restrictions of the White Australia Policy. Half of all Australia's Muslims now live in Sydney, forming a culturally and ethnically diverse community that flourishes, even amidst…

Book published by author and artist Joseph Fowles in 1848 which depicted Sydney's streets and buildings in that year.

An association formed for women interested in the arts, sciences, social concerns and the pursuit of lifelong learning. Though the club was no longer active in 1982, interest was rekindled in 1991 and a group of Sydney women set up The Sydney Lyceum Club Incorporated the…