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1975 film set in Sydney.

Building constructed to house the offices and presses of the Sydney Morning Herald, later repurposed for the University of Technology, Sydney.

Magistrate and Sydney City Coroner.

Surfing beach in south-eastern Sydney.

Landscape and portrait artist who painted many of Sydney's dignitaries as well as sketching colonial landscapes and the inhabitants of early Sydney.

An inn which was located opposite present-day Sydney Town Hall on George Street. It became one of the most lucrative in Sydney.

Sydney theatre director 1970s and 1980s. He ran the 680 Coffee Theatre in Killara and then the 269 Playhouse in North Sydney.

Businessman, diplomat and immigration agent who organised passage for German immigrants to Sydney and was later Sydney consul for Hamburg and Prussia.

Adult education television program produced by the WEA Sydney and the University of Sydney and broadcast on Channel 9 between 1960 and 1964.

Sydney businessman Arthur McElhone served as a Councillor of Sydney City Council for more than forty years, and was Lord Mayor in 1935.

Quartz rich sedimentary rock formed in the Triassic age that is found throught out the Sydney basin. Named after the region around the Hawkesbury River in Sydney's north where it's very common, it is often called Sydney sandstone. The golden yellow stone has been used as…

Headland in Sydney Harbour, now part of the Sydney Harbour National Park, which from 1806 to the 1960s contained important defensive fortifications.

Gianfranco Cresciani is a Sydney historian

George Pashley, or Parsley, was a convict who arrived in Sydney in 1791. A tailor by trade he set up business on Cumberland Street in the Rocks. He was also a private in the Sydney Loyal Volunteers and a constable with the Sydney police.

Photographer and collector with a special interest in Sydney’s transport history. His collection is held by the City of Sydney of Archives.

Freelance photographer based in Sydney.

Publican and long serving alderman on City of Sydney Council who was Mayor at the opening of the Sydney Town Hall in 1876.

Writer who published an illustrated guide to Sydney in 1839, 'Maclehose's picture of Sydney and strangers' guide in New South Wales for 1839'.

Sydney merchant and vice commodore of the Royal Sydney Yacht Club who converted Woodford House to a guest house when his mining ventures failed.

Entrepreneur and singer who took theatre to Sydney's suburbs in the early twentieth century, with theatres in Newtown, North Sydney, Parramatta and elsewhere.