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Miranda shopping centre, 1964

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Miranda shopping centre, 1964

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Wolfgang Sievers

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National Library of Australia

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Sievers, Wolfgang

National Library of Australia

Shopping

The early colony's closed economy, with limited currency and reliance on government rations, did not foster a retail culture, but it soon developed as the city moved beyond its prison status. At first dealing in necessities of life, Sydney's shops became more elaborate and diverse over time, and as elsewhere, department stores and shopping malls developed new kinds of shopping and consumption.

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Post-War architecture

Retail

Miranda

Southern commercial and residential suburb, named in the nineteenth century after the character in Shakespeare's play ˜The Tempest'. It became a fruit growing and poultry farming area, with settlements of returned First World War soldiers being established there in the 1920s.

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Shopping centre on the Kingsway, Miranda which opened in 1964.