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Flower seller in Martin Place, Sydney, 1961

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Flower seller in Martin Place, Sydney, 1961

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[A1200, L38879]

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Martin Place

A pedestrian street created in stages from the 1980s to the 1970s, Martin Place has been called the heart of the city.

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Mobile economy and street vendors

Martin Place

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Wide street running through Sydney's centre, from the General Post Office at the George Street end, and completed when Sydney City Council resumed property to extend the street all the way to Macquarie Street in the 1930s. Lined with elegant buildings of grand design and lavish materials it has been entirely pedestrian since 1979.