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Buckle, Carfrae and Turner
Architectural firm in Sydney in the 1920s and 1930s.
Cheltenham Girls High School
Public high school in north-western Sydney established in 1958
The Hills Shire Council
Council that governs the Hills Shire in Sydney's north-west.
Jade Tree Gift Shop
Shop in Rowe Street Sydney run by Maude Slessor
de Muro Lomanto, Enzo
Italian tenor who visited Sydney on tour in 1928.
Technical and Working Men's College
Sydney's first technical college, which grew out of the lectures at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, and flourished for four years before the colonial government took over technical education.
University of New South Wales
Incorporated by Act of the Parliament in 1949, its development can be traced back to the formation of the Sydney Mechanics Institute in 1843 and Sydney Technical College in 1878.
Barden Ridge
Southern suburb of Sydney located on the Woronora River
North Head
Sandstone headland on the northern edge of Sydney Harbour.
Don John of Austria
Opera composed in Sydney and first performed in 1847.
Empire Hotel
Hotel which published its own travel guide to Sydney.
Burragorang Valley
Valley in western Sydney between Camden and Lake Burragorang.
Milperra Bridge
Bridge across the Georges River in south west Sydney.
Haslams Creek
Creek flowing through Sydney Olympic Park into Homebush Bay.
Hornsby Plateau
Sandstone plateau lying to the north of Sydney Harbour.
Milford, Frederick
Surgeon and medical lecturer. Milford was apprenticed at the Sydney Dispensary in 1849 before being sent to England for medical training. He returned to Sydney in 1859 as surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital, then became the First Lecturer in the Principles and Practice of…
Homebush Bay
Residential and commercial suburb on the Parramatta River which included Sydney Olympic Park. The name was discontinued in 2009 when it was split into Wentworth Point and Sydney Olympic Park.
Blues Point
Locality on Sydney Harbour named for mariner Billy Blue.
Spit bridge
Sydney's only remaining lift bridge on a major arterial road.