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Eccleston Du Faur is credited as founder of Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park in 1894.

The Wanda Beach Murders remain one of Australia's most haunting and unsolved cases.

Como rapidly grew from a farming settlement to a village when the Illawarra Railway came through in the mid 1880s.

By Matt Murphy Read more on Marrickville Thomas Holt was born in England in 1811 and entered his family’s wool merchant business upon...

If you’re looking for things that go bump in the night, you’re barking up the wrong tree. We’re talking about Bathsheba Ghost, Matron of...

More on Crows Nest BY ALEC SMART Balls Head, the peninsula between Berrys Bay, to the east, and Balls Head Bay, to the west (opposite...

Emmeline ‘Freda’ Du Faur was a pioneering mountain climber and avid bushwalker, who spent the last years of her life in Dee Why and Collaroy

A history of how the St Ives Showground was used in Word War II.

The massacre of the Woolloomooloo Rose in Surry Hills, Sydney.

The Hopetoun Hotel in Surry Hills has a storied history.

The history of Balmain, Sydney, including why it was almost named Gilchrist.

More on Sydney CBD The events leading to Vera Sterling's murder remain a mystery to this day. Men in grey suits and felt hats -...

More on Sydney CBD, more on Lane Cove By Alec Smart PS Huntress approaching Manly Wharf, 1856. Illustration: S.T. Gill c/o State Library...

The Vicars Woollen Mill history on the site of what now is the Metro Shopping Centre.

The establishment and early days of Newtown.

More on Crows Nest In the dimly lit engineering workshop in Crows Nest, the lifeless body of Charles Louis le Gallien lay sprawled on the...

More on Crows Nest Visitors to St Thomas’ Rest Park in West St, Crows Nest, will be familiar with the 4.5 metre high pyramid in a...

The story of the Tom Uglys Bridge which is a NSW Heritage-listed dual crossing spanning the Georges River in Sydney’s south.

The circular trek from Dee Why SLSC via Long Reef Headland and Fishermans Beach, is approx 7km with amazing views and history.

The St Ives preparatory campus of Sydney Grammar School began teaching students in 1954, when St Ives was transitioning from a fruit-growing