Construction & engineering
![Government Printing Office 2 - 29953 - Opera House from Unilever Building [Sydney Opera House (N.S.W.); building construction] [GPO original locations or series - unnumbered] [4/03/1966]](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/07/77f33ae978a14604963c244092d53545.jpg)
Sydney Opera House construction
We hold records relating to the construction of Sydney Opera House including the stages of construction, who was who, correspondence, plans, contracts, accounting records and more
![Government Printing Office d1_03860 - Circular Quay Showing Strathnaver, and Sydney Harbour Bridge [From NSW Government Printer series: City Views], 1931](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/05/7db908ec2c214c5eacd07f4f682c64dd.jpg)
Sydney Harbour Bridge guide
A brief history of the Sydney Harbour Bridge plus a select list of records relating to the design, construction and official opening ceremony. Also included is a list of records relating to the construction workers employed by the NSW Government
On This Day
Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge
On 28 July 1923 construction began on the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Nailing history at Rouse Hill House
When Richard Rouse, superintendent of the Parramatta lumberyard, won the contract to build tollhouses along the new turnpike road running from Parramatta to Windsor in 1811 he couldn’t have known that his name would be etched in colonial history
On This Day
20 Dec 1926 - Sydney underground railway opened
On 20 December 1926 the first section of underground railway in Sydney began operating