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Sailors, Spies and Sydney Stairs

Looking down the McElhone Stairs from Victoria Street towards Cowper Wharf Roadway, Woolloomooloo 1960, by Geoff Paton, Courtesy of City of Sydney Archives (SRC21844) Surely few stairways in Sydney have seen as much drama as the McElhone Stairs. Constructed in 1904,…