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Subsidiary of Sydney Maritime Museum, who with over 600 volunteers, is responsible for preserving and crewing several unique heritage vessels.

Waltz music composed by WH Paling to mark the opening of the first railway from Sydney to Parramatta in 1855.

Established by legislation in 1968 when local government boundaries were readjusted. It has since been amalgamated with City of Sydney council.

Terminal station for the Sydney freight rail network that opened in 1984 on the site of the former Chullora Railway Workshops.

Body formed to assume control of the Electricity Department previously part of the Municipal Council of Sydney, supplying electricity to the city and other municipalities. In the 1950s its generating stations were transferred to the Electricity Commission but it continued…

Mining company which formed as part of a reorganisation of Sydney and Port Hacking Coal Company. It went in to liquidation in 1931.

Sydney's most iconic building grew out of a campaign by Eugene Goossens, conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, for a large venue to be built. Three decades later, after conflict and drama with the architect Jørn Utzon, and long delays, the Opera House opened on…

A novella for children about people at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney, written by Miles Franklin and illustrated by Nan Knowles in 1947. 

Major paediatric hospital at Randwick in Sydney's east, which grew out of the Prince of Wales Hospital complex, and was renamed in 1998.

When Sydney was declared a town, Governor Bourke had eight stones erected to mark the boundaries. Less than a decade later, Governor Gipps declared Sydney to be a city, marking out the boundaries of the 1842 wards with a series of cast iron posts. Where are those early…

A morgue, or dead house, established as part of the Devonshire Street Cemeteries in 1881, located adjacent to the Church of England section at the corner of Elizabeth Street and Belmore Road. At the time of its construction, the morgue serviced the majority of the southern…

Forum for Uniting Church congregations to promote their faith and ministry which grew out of an 1830s regional church court which governed the Sydney parishes.

Company which began the first railway in Sydney in 1849 between the town and Parramatta before financial difficulties saw it finished by the colonial government.

Psychiatrist who travelled to the Antarctic with Douglas Mawson in 1911-14 before returning to psychiatric medicine in Sydney where he developed innovative and successful treatment methods.

Newspaper published by various publishers between 1853 and 1894. Between 1872 and 1881 it was called the 'The Illustrated Sydney news and New South Wales agriculturist & grazier'.

Statutory authority established in 1980 to manage, maintain and interpret a number of historic houses and museums for the New South Wales state government as the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Known as Sydney Living Museums since 2013, the organisation manages 14…

Gathered by Aboriginal people for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived, Sydney oysters became a farmed product in the 1870s and remain a popular seafood.

Urban planning framework launched by the City of Sydney Council in 1994.

Sydney Heritage Fleet is a community-based, non-profit organisation based at Darling Harbour which acquires, restores and operates vessels which have had an historical relationship with Australian maritime heritage with emphasis on Sydney Harbour the surrounding bays and…

Sporting venues, public spaces and parklands erected for the 2000 Olympic Games on reclaimed industrial land. It became a suburb in 2009 when the suburb of Homebush Bay was divided between Sydney Olympic Park and Wentworth Point.