Thomas Sutcliffe Mort
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Thomas Sutcliffe Mort was an Australian industrialist who improved the refrigeration of meat. He was renowned for speculation in the local pastoral industry as well as industrial activities such as his Ice-Works in Sydney's Darling Harbour and dry dock and engineering works at Balmain.
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his first wife, Theresa, photographed c. 1847
Mort's Dock at Waterview Bay, Balmain, c. 1860, by William Hetzer
Mort's Dock at Waterview Bay, Balmain, 1887
T S Mort's Statue, Macquarie Place, Sydney photographed about 1900–1910
Edmund Blacket
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Edmund Thomas Blacket was an Australian architect, best known for his designs for the University of Sydney, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney and St. Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn.
Sydney University seen from Parramatta road in the 1870s.
Francis Greenway's spire of St James' Church was Sydney Town's landmark. I.G. Austin, 1836
Bright colours such as those on the hammer-beam roof at St Andrew's Cathedral were advocated by Augustus Welby Pugin.
St Mark's Church, Darling Point, (1848-70) is in the Early English Gothic style.