Sydney History Walking Tours
Our Sydney History Walking Tours
Our history walking tours all start at a train station in the Sydney city centre. Each walking tour has been researched and designed by a Sydney-based historian and archaeologist who specialises in Sydney’s amazing past. Our history walking tours take you off the tourist tracks and away from the tourist traps. You instead traverse back streets, hidden lanes and explore secret neighbourhoods. Best of all, we don’t use tired old scripts; we prefer to customise the tours to suit the interests of each group. It is the best way to discover the forgotten history of Sydney.
Walk Woolloomooloo’s shadowy laneways to uncover Sydney’s Italian mafia underworld, migrant dockside life, and the hidden network of crime, vice, and revenge that linked the waterfront to Queensland’s sugar belt. Part of the National Trust Heritage Festival. Click here to find out more.
Limited Time
Step into the suburb’s hidden drinking-den past to discover the ghostly remains of 93 historic hotels, forgotten pubs frozen in time, and the colourful publicans, gangsters, and locals who brought them to life. Part of the National Trust Heritage Festival. Click here to find out more.
Limited Time
Explore murder, myth and mystery in Sydney’s most eerie and sinful historical neighbourhood. You will track the steps of disturbed serial killers; lurk through old ganglands; uncover a 19th-century same-sex scandal that ends in murder, and discover the forgotten prostitute lanes, beats and brothels. *Parental discretion for children under 15.* Click here to find out more.
Starting at $45.00
Investigate the dark past of Sydney’s iconic Surry Hills. This gentle walk explores old lanes and alleys to discover a series of forgotten murders and crime scenes from 1820 to 1960. Experience old-fashioned storytelling with a twist and finish at a historical pub. Click here to find out more.
Starting at $45.00
Explore the history of the Kings Cross underworld between 1955 and 1985 while uncovering the mysterious disappearance of heiress and activist Juanita Nielsen, who took on powerful interests to save Kings Cross—and paid the ultimate price. Don’t miss this chance to delve into one of Australia’s most infamous and enduring unsolved cases. Click here to find out more.
NEW DATES
Explore the turbulent history of old Balmain as you uncover forgotten crime scenes, gang conflicts, waterfront scandals, and the dramatic events that shaped this once-notorious peninsula. From colonial murders and opium smuggling to labour uprisings. Discover the hidden stories behind Balmain’s charming streets and bays. Don’t miss this chance to delve into one of Sydney’s most colourful and surprising historical neighbourhoods. Click here to find out more.
NEW TOUR
Uncover Newtown’s hidden past! Step into the old laneways, grand Victorian mansions, and its eerie Colonial Cemetery as a historian reveals tales of crime, scandal, and rebellion. From shocking murders to underground subcultures, this tour explores the darker, stranger side of Sydney’s history. Click here to find out more.
NEW DATES
A history walk from Circular Quay to Woolloomooloo through Farm Cove, the Botanic Gardens and Woolloomooloo. See Sydney from a different angle while hearing bizarre, peculiar and spine-chilling stories that will change the way you see our most iconic landmarks. Click here to find out more.
NEW DATES
Due to overwhelming demand, I am finally offering a tour of The Rocks. This special limited-run experience has been designed as an epic Australian history adventure, taking you deeper into the heart of the nation’s oldest neighbourhood. Click here to find out more.
Limited Time
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