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Ultimo Place with Cockle Bay c1821-1823

Ultimo Place with Cockle Bay c1821-1823

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Mason, Edward

State Library of New South Wales

Chippendale

Chippendale's progress from Gadigal forest and wetland, to farm and nursery, was followed by industrial development that made it a polluted and deprived suburb. Community, charity and religion helped inhabitants, but poor drainage and unplanned development persisted until the end of the nineteenth century. As the number of factories grew, population fell, and recent migrants moved in. From the 1970s, as the factories closed, Chippendale again became an attractive place to live, drawing students, artists and others who wanted an inner-city life.

Ultimo

Originally the country of the Gommerigal people, the Ultimo estate of surgeon Harris was a rural retreat until the 1840s when industry gradually encroached and subdivision in the 1860s. Quarries and woolstores provided work, but life was hard for Ultimo's residents. Postwar economic changes took away the manual work, and like other inner-city neighbourhoods, Ultimo has become a wealthier area, with rich cultural and educational institutions.

Ultimo House

Demolished in 1932, Ultimo House was then claimed to be Sydney's oldest residence. It had been one of the most prestigious houses in the colony.

Residential building

Ultimo House

House built in 1804 by surgeon John Harris on his estate at Ultimo, and extended in 1814 by the convict architect Francis Greenway. It was Greenway's first colonial commission.

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Cockle Bay

Small bay in Darling Harbour to the west of central Sydney. The bay was an important site for shipping and industry during the nineteenth century.

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Chippendale

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Inner-city suburb on the land of the Gadigal people which was developed for farming and industry with dense, working-class housing during the nineteenth century, now undergoing gentrification.

Ultimo

Western inner-city suburb named for surgeon John Harris's estate, densely populated by the end of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century it became heavily industrialised, as well as a centre for technical education, and is now largely gentrified.

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Ultimo Estate

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The estate of Dr John Harris which grew from a small farm to an estate of 233 acres across the Pyrmont peninsula and Haymarket.