Collection: History Support Collection

This book traces the rise, the fall and the resurgence of Surry Hills from a scattered village to an inner-city neighbourhood.

This publication contains a list of maps and plans by the Surveyor General of the earliest surveys of New South Wales towns and villages, squatting districts, counties and parishes, roads, rivers, mountain ranges and explorers' expeditions.

This publication contains surveyors' notes taken during surveys. They include diaries of surveying expeditions, descriptions of natural features, sketches of farms, town allotments, roads, trigonometrical observations and triangulation surveys.

This book tells the story behind the Board's achievements and takes a behind-the-scenes look at this large, complex and vital institution