by Lisa Murray | Feb 26, 2020 | Blog
Recently we have seen the New South Wales State Government resume whole streets and blocks for projects like the Sydney Metro and Westconnex. Houses, pubs, shops, streets and parks have been reclaimed by the government to make way for the building of new transport...
by Lisa Murray | Dec 11, 2019 | Blog
It’s summer, and for many of us, that means swimming in the sea. There has been a long tradition in Sydney of enclosing ocean bathing areas a nets to protect bathers from sharks, but the consequences of decisions about shark nets that were made in the 1920s and...
by Lisa Murray | Nov 27, 2019 | Blog
We’ve all used a tourist guide when we’ve visited a new city. They can help us orientate ourselves, to find the landmarks we want to see, and understand the locals. But have you ever wondered about Sydney’s first tourist guides? I recently had the...
by Lisa Murray | Nov 6, 2019 | Blog
This week the Dictionary of Sydney is celebrating 10 years since it went live! I am continually amazed by the content and connections in the Dictionary and the light it sheds on Sydney’s history, so this week I thought I’d share a few links to some of my...
by Lisa Murray | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog
Just after 2 o’clock in the morning on 2 October 1890 the alarm was raised after a “lurid glare” was seen in the upper windows of the large warehouse of Gibbs, Shallard & Co on Hosking Place, just off Pitt Street. It was a calamitous fire that changed Sydney’s...
