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  • Eastern Creek, Sydney

    Eastern Creek, Sydney

    Eastern Creek, Sydney

  • Melbourne vs Sydney, SCG
Melbourne vs Sydney, SCG

    Melbourne vs Sydney, SCG Melbourne vs Sydney, SCG

  • Adidas International, Sydney

    Adidas International, Sydney

    Adidas International, Sydney

  • Hyde Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Hyde Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    The Archibald Fountain, built using money left by JF Archibald on his death in 1919; remembering the friendship with France in WWI. Designed by François Sicard and completed in 1932.

  • Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Horbury Terrace. Once a group of eight houses, built in 1842 for Ouseley Condell. Their name derives from the second owner, Thomas Holt, a native of Horbury, Yorkshire.

  • Martin Pl, Sydney, Australia

    Martin Pl, Sydney, Australia

    The sculpture 'Passage', by Anne Graham. Martin Place.

  • Central Station, Sydney

    Central Station, Sydney

    Central Railway Station. The station has operated since 1855; this building dates to 1906.

  • Brooklyn, Australia

    Brooklyn, Australia

    Ready.

  • Australian Pioneer Village, Sydney

    Australian Pioneer Village, Sydney

    Australian Pioneer Village, Sydney

  • Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Rozelle Tram Depot, Glebe. Opened in 1918; closed in 1958.

  • Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Harold Park Paceway, Glebe

  • Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    The Railway Viaduct. Crossing Wentworth, Jubilee and Federal Parks, it was built in 1922 to provide freight access from the Darling Harbour goods yard to the timber industry in Glebe and Rozelle.

  • Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Glebe, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Harold Park Paceway, Sydney, Australia

  • Near Cattai Homestead, on Thomas Arndell's grant.

    Near Cattai Homestead, on Thomas Arndell's grant.

  • Near Cattai Homestead, on Thomas Arndell's grant.

    Near Cattai Homestead, on Thomas Arndell's grant.

  • Near Cattai Homestead, on Thomas Arndell's grant.

    Near Cattai Homestead, on Thomas Arndell's grant.

  • Part of a 1930s  dairy and grain silo complex.

    Part of a 1930s dairy and grain silo complex.

  • Cattai National Park, Australia

    Cattai National Park, Australia

    Part of a 1930s dairy and grain silo complex.

  • Rouse Hill, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Rouse Hill, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Vinegar Hill Memorial, Castlebrook Memorial Gardens. 1988 momument on the site of the 'Battle of Vinegar Hill', March 5 1804.

  • Rouse Hill, Sydney

    Rouse Hill, Sydney

    Rouse Hill House & Farm. Designed by Richard Rouse as a family home, constructed 1813-1818 using convict labour.

  • Bradleys Head, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Bradleys Head, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Trench leading to gun emplacements, part of the Bradleys Head Fortification Complex. Designed by James Barnet, constructed 1871.

  • Carlingford, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Carlingford, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    The K13 Memorial on Pennant Hills Road. HMS K13 was a steam-propelled First World War K class submarine of the British Royal Navy. She sank in an accident during sea trials in early 1917; killing the 80 people on board - 53 crew, 14 employees of the shipbuilders, five sub-contractors, five Admiralty officials, a River Clyde pilot, and the captain and engineering officer from the still-completing K14.

  • Fish Ladder, Lane Cove National Park, Sydney

    Fish Ladder, Lane Cove National Park, Sydney

    Fish Ladder, Lane Cove National Park, Sydney

  • Fagan's Park, Sydney

    Fagan's Park, Sydney

    Fagan's Park, Sydney

  • Fagan's Park, Sydney

    Fagan's Park, Sydney

    Fagan's Park, Sydney

  • Kangaroo Point, Brooklyn, Australia

    Kangaroo Point, Brooklyn, Australia

    Peats Ferry Bridge. Part of the main road north from construction in 1945 until the freeway (parallel to the bridge, far side) was built in 1977.

  • Sydney, Australia
The mighty Wenty Warriors.

    Sydney, Australia The mighty Wenty Warriors.

  • Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Australia vs England, 3rd Test. Tim May.

  • Parramatta, Sydney, Australia

    Parramatta, Sydney, Australia

    Manly vs Balmain.

  • Getting Some Air.

    Getting Some Air.

    Getting Some Air. Sydney.

  • St John’s Anglican Church, Wilberforce
Designed by Edmund Thomas Blacket and built by J. Atkinson of Windsor. Construction completed 1859.

    St John’s Anglican Church, Wilberforce Designed by Edmund Thomas Blacket and built by J. Atkinson of Windsor. Construction completed 1859.

  • Ballast Point Park, Sydney

    Ballast Point Park, Sydney

    Once the place where unladen ships stocked up on ballast before returning to Europe, Ballast Point was most notably the home of the Caltex Grease Plant for many years. The site was opened as a park in 2009.

  • Windsor, Sydney, NSW, Australia
John Tebbutt's Observatory in Palmer St. Built 1845-1864, close to his father's house.

    Windsor, Sydney, NSW, Australia John Tebbutt's Observatory in Palmer St. Built 1845-1864, close to his father's house.

  • St Matthews Anglican Church, Windsor
Designed by convict architect Francis Greenway, and built between 1817 and 1822.

    St Matthews Anglican Church, Windsor Designed by convict architect Francis Greenway, and built between 1817 and 1822.

  • Originally known as the Maid of Australia, an earlier Inn, the Bird in the Hand was nearby on a different site. The current building dates to the 1850s, and was restored in 1987.

    Originally known as the Maid of Australia, an earlier Inn, the Bird in the Hand was nearby on a different site. The current building dates to the 1850s, and was restored in 1987.

  • Various buildings, dating from 1878.

    Various buildings, dating from 1878.

  • Wilberforce, Australia

    Wilberforce, Australia

    Macquarie School House (1819) outside St Johns Anglican Church.

  • Castlereagh General Cemetery, Australia

    Castlereagh General Cemetery, Australia

    Marked out in the original planning of Castlereagh and dates back to 1814.

  • Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    The Parramatta Justice Precinct, site of the city's first Hospital.

  • Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    Jeffery House, formerly part of Parramatta Hospital. Built in the 1940s, and refurbished in 2007 as part of the Justice Precinct development.

  • Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    Church St, approaching Lennox Bridge. Prince Alfred Park on right.

  • Parramatta, NSW, Australia
St John's Cathedral, built 1855. The towers date to 1820, and there has been a church on this site since 1803.

    Parramatta, NSW, Australia St John's Cathedral, built 1855. The towers date to 1820, and there has been a church on this site since 1803.

  • Parramatta Park, NSW, Australia

    Parramatta Park, NSW, Australia

    The George St Gatehouse, O'Connell St (opposite the intersection with George St itself). Erected 1885 to the design of Gordon McKinnon; replacing a small lodge built in 1820 for Governor Lachlan Macquarie.

  • Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    The mural tells the story of the school known as the 'Native Institution' (1814-1822), an early attempt to force Aboriginal children to conform to a British way of life. The bridge in the background is the Lennox Bridge, built 1836-1839.

  • Parramatta, NSW, Australia
The Macarthur Bridge (commonly known as the Gasworks Bridge - there used to be a large gasworks on the bank nearby), completed in 1885.

    Parramatta, NSW, Australia The Macarthur Bridge (commonly known as the Gasworks Bridge - there used to be a large gasworks on the bank nearby), completed in 1885.

  • Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    Hambledon Cottage, built by John Macarthur as a second house on his Elizabeth Farm Estate. 1824. The building in the background is the 'Our Lady of Lebanon' Maronite church.

  • Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    The James Ruse Drive Bridge over Parramatta River. Built 1964.

  • Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    One of the 9 boundary markers (6 still in or near their original locations - this one is under the James Ruse Drive Bridge) defining the edge of Parramatta. Erected in 1839 by David Lennox.

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    Part of a 1930s  dairy and grain silo complex.
    Cattai National Park, Australia
    Rouse Hill, Sydney, NSW, Australia