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Plummer, George
Founder of the first Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Robinson, John
Trumpet player with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Romac, Rok
Catholic priest who served Sydney's Croatian community.
Herbert, George
Secretary of the Sydney Coal Lumpers' Union.
Mihalic, Ivan
Catholic priest who served Sydney's Croatian community
Crown Street Women's Hospital
Maternity and women's hospital which became the largest in Sydney when it moved to Crown Street in 1897, catering for Sydney's inner-city population and training hundreds of doctors, nurses and midwives. Closed in 1983, its facilities were transferred to hospitals…
Power, John Joseph Wardell
Expatriate doctor and artist who left his estate to the University of Sydney for the study and acquisition of contemporary art. His bequest became the basis of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Power Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney.
Parramatta railway station
One of Sydney's oldest railway stations. Opened in 1860 when Sydney to Parramatta Railway line was extended from original terminus at Parramatta Junction near Granville.
Ride on Stranger
Novel set in Sydney in the 1930s.
Newlands, Stephen Foster
Alderman of North Sydney Municipal Council, 1923-1931
Hay, Jessie Sinclair
Landholder in North Sydney and the Shoalhaven.
Turramurra Public School
Public primary school in Sydney's northern suburbs.
Todd, Frederick Augustus
Classics scholar at the University of Sydney
Australian Golf Club
The oldest private golf course in Sydney.
Consulate of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavian representative organisation in Sydney, dissolved 1992
Berry, Alexander
Leading merchant and landowner in nineteenth-century Sydney.
Main, James Maxwell
First Missionary Superintendent of Sydney City Mission.
d'Aunet, Georges Biard
First French Consul-General in Sydney, from 1893-1905.
Diamadis, Panayiotis
Panayiotis Diamadis is a secondary and tertiary level educator, teaching history at a Sydney high school and lecturing in Genocide Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney
Peddle, Thorpe and Walker
Architectural practice founded in Sydney in 1889.