Join ‘Go Saturday’ on this cool Autumn day visiting the heritage-listed 19th stately harbourside home. Over 30 years went into the construction of this stunning example of Gothic Revival architecture in Australia, before it eventually became Australia’s first official house museum. DATE: Saturday, 24 May 2025 TIME: 2pm-3pm. Tickets must be booked in advance. VENUE: […]
When an Irish knight was caught kidnapping a local heiress, his punishment was swift: exile to a single-storey cottage in NSW. Over five decades, new owners transformed the cottage into a large and picturesque estate. By the 1830s, the gardens and grounds covered most of the present-day suburb of Vaucluse but the main house of […]
We’re going back to colonial times with this month’s Go Saturday with a visit to the magnificent Vaucluse House, one of Sydney’s few remaining 19th century mansions. This well preserved house is still surrounded by its original gardens and wooded grounds. Tours run on the hour so if we meet at 1:50pm (at ticket office […]
We started the year with a bush walk, then a coastal walk, and now we offer a city walk. The Goods Line is a partly elevated urban walkway from Sydney Central Station to Darling Harbour that follows the route of the once bustling but long neglected railway line. After completion of a $15 million transformation, The […]