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Commercial building

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AWA Tower

Centrepoint Tower

Chifley Tower

Lincoln House

Queen Victoria Building

Strand Arcade

Transcript: Mr Eddie Saunders remembers a blacksmith's workshop in Liverpool

CTA Business Club

1-3 Park Street

185-211 Broadway Ultimo

213 Broadway

436-450 George Street

64-66 Pitt Street, Sydney

814 George Street Haymarket

AMP Building

APA Building

AWA Building and Tower

Administration Building of WD and HO Wills

Anthony Hordern's New Palace Emporium

Argyle Stores

Aurora Place

Australasian Chambers

Australia Square

Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co woolstore

Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society Building

Bankstown Square

Beard Watson Warehouse

Berangie Chambers

Berry Square

Big Bear Supermarket

Blackwall wool stores

Bon Marche

Broughton House

Buckingham's Department Store

Burland Hall

Burns Philp

Campbell's Stores

Casula Mall shopping centre

Central Pitt

Centrepoint Tower

Challis House

Chifley Tower

Chinese Nationalist Party of Australia building

City Bank House

Colonial Mutual Life building

Commercial Banking Company Building

Commonwealth Bank of Australia building

Commonwealth Centre

Commonwealth Trading Bank & Headquarters building

Commonwealth Wool & Produce No1 & No2

Corn Exchange

Culwulla Chambers

Darrell Lea Shop

David Jones store Barrack Street

David Jones store Elizabeth Street

David Jones store Market Street

Deutsche Bank Place

Dorchester House

Double Bay shopping centre

Dudley's Emporium

Dymocks Building

Entally House

Equitable Life Assurance Building

Exchange Centre

Fairlight shopping centre

Farmers and Graziers No1 Woolstore

Farmers and Graziers No2 Woolstore

Galeries Victoria

Gold Fields House

Goldring House Randwick

Goldsbrough Mort Woolstore

Governor Macquarie Tower

Governor Phillip Tower

Gowings Building

Grace Building

Griffith Tea Building

Grosvenor Place

Hay Street Chambers

Henry Deane Plaza

Hinchcliff Wool Stores

ICI House

IXL Factory garage

Imperial Arcade

Italian Forum

John Fairfax building

Lend Lease House

Lincoln House

Lloyd's Chambers

MLC Centre

Macquarie Centre

Marcus Clark Building

Marcus Clark Warehouse

Marrickville Metro

Mason Brother stores

Metcalfe Bond Stores

Miranda Fair

Mort's Wool Stores, Circular Quay

New Bond Store Macquarie Street

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Woolstore

Newtown Markets

Nithsdale House

Old Sydney Morning Herald building

Old Totalisator building Victoria Park

P&O Orient Line building

Palings Warehouse

Pastoral Finance Association

Piccadilly Arcade

Pitt Son & Badgery No 1 Woolstore

Protestant Hall

Qantas House

Queen Victoria Building

Queen's Warehouse

Roselands Shopping Centre

Royal Arcade

Royal Exchange

Royal Hall of Industries

Schute, Bell, Badgery and Lumley Woolstore

Science Centre

Science House

St Ives Shopping Village

St James Hall

Staples Stores

Strand Arcade

Sun Building

Sydney Arcade

Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre

Sydney Gazette office 1810-1824

Sydney Tower

The Eastwood Centre

Top Ryde City

Totem Shopping Centre Balgowlah

Town Hall House

Trades Hall

Unilever House

Vickery's Chambers

Victoria Arcade

Victoria House Pitt Street

Warringah Mall

West Lindfield Neighbourhood Shopping Centre

Westfield Hornsby

Westfield Liverpool

Westfield Parramatta

Westpac Bank Building

Wigram Chambers

Wigram House

Winchcombe Carson Woolstore

Wyoming

280 Pitt Street

284-292 Pitt Street

Australian Technology Park

Barangaroo

World Square

177-191 Oxford Street, late 1920s

195-197 George Street West, 15 November 1918

227-267 Pitt Street, Sydney c1875

259-263 Pitt Street 1848 Price and Favenc (formerly Joseph Farmer's store) and Pite & Preston

426-428 George Street; Royal Hotel, Dymocks c1910

87-95 Market Street 1923

A Hordern & Sons, Drapery Warehouse and Palace Showrooms 1878

A few of the business buildings of Sydney March 1878

A new Grace Bros regional store at Parramatta October 1939

ABN-AMRO building Aurora Place 2008

ABN-AMRO building Aurora Place 2009

AMP Building c1962

AWA tower illuminated for VE Day May 1945

Alfred Street, Circular Quay 1962

Ampol service station on Water Street and Punchbowl Road, Belfield c1957

Ampol service station on the Pacific Highway, Pymble 1950s

Anthony Hordern's Palace Emporium, George Street Sydney 1907

Arcade off Market Street behind Linden Court, leading into Her Majesty's Arcade 1952

Artist's impression of Marcus Clark Building, Railway Square c1905

Ashfield Centre

Beard Watson & Co Ltd, George Street 1927

Bible Hall and Australian Mutual Provident Society, Pitt Street c1860s

Bond Street looking west

Bond's Corner, Northbridge 1926

Bondi Junction, including Pattinson & Co. Chemist c1905

Building Bankstown Square shopping mall 1966

Bush store at Peats Ferry c1887

Central Railway Station at Railway Square 1923

Centrepoint Tower 2008

Church Street Parramatta c1890

Church Street, Parramatta 1898

Circular Quay 1965

Circular Quay East towards Bennelong Point 1961

Cleveland Street, Surry Hills 1991

Colonial Sugar Co offices c1910

Commonwealth Bank, Martin Place, c1930s

Commonwealth Bank, Sydney c1920s

Construction of AWA Tower 1938

Construction of AWA Tower 1938

Construction of AWA Tower 1939

Corner Pitt and Market Streets, site of Her Majesty's Theatre 1882-3

Corner of Pitt and George Streets, Sydney c 1910

Cover of Tattersall's Club Magazine, October 1929

Culwull Cahmbers: front facing King Street 1911

Culwulla Chambers and the Surrey Hotel on the corner of King and Castelreagh Streets c1925

Culwulla Chambers: Profit possibilities of the tall building 1915

Daceyville, garden suburb, from Randwick Road, August 1915

Darlinghurst Fruit Market on the corner of Flinders & Oxford streets, c1909

Darlinghurst Fruit Market, corner of Flinders and Oxford Streets c1909

David Jones & Co, furnishing and carpet warehouse in York Street 1878

David Jones 'Acousticises' Its Auditorium March 1934

David Jones, Market Street, Sydney 1938

Detail of Panorama of Sydney 1829

Detail of view of buildings on lower eastern George Street, including the shop of tea dealer F.Gaunson and Sydney Morning Herald office 1848

Display window of FW Johnson's Bakery at 42 Stanmore Road, Enmore with Sydney Waratah Festival display, c1960-67

Drive-in shopping centre, Top Ryde 1961

Entrance to Dymock's Book Arcade with Melocco Bros terrazzo paving, April 1938

Erection of new Farmer and Co department store building facing Pitt Street 1872

Ermington shops c1958

Erskineville Bootmaking School 1909

Exchange Sydney c1863-1865

Fantasia Coffee Inn, Grosvenor Street Sydney 1946

Farmer and Company's `Victoria House' department store, Pitt Street ca1875

Flashlight photo of crowd in the Strand Arcade on New Years Eve, 31 December 1901

Galeries Victoria 2007

George Street looking north from near King Street c1860

George Street showing Royal Hotel c1905

George Street, Sydney c1905

Gibbs Shallard & Co, printers, binders and publishers 1878

Goldsbrough Mort, Circular Quay c1925

Goldsbrough, Mort & Co Ltd Wool Store 1936

Grocery store on the corner of Riley and Fitzroy Streets during bread price war in the Depression, Surry Hills 21 August 1934

Ground Floor of Professional Chambers, Macquarie Street 1910

Headquarters of the Electrical Association for Women at the corner of Clarence and Grosvenor streets 1936

Henriette Lamotte hat salon, 27 Rowe Street c1950

Hoadley's Coffee Palace, King Street c1910

Houses converted to commercial premises at 370-374 Pitt Street, 1909-1913

Hunter River New Steam Navigation Co warehouse, Wharf Street 1871

In George Street, Sydney c 1910

Interior view of the Sydney Arcade 1890

Italian Forum Leichhardt 2009

J Taylor, dealer, 365 Pitt Street c1873

John Frazer & Co, Merchants and Shipping Agents March 1878

Kent Street, Millers Point c1873

Kings Cross 1918

Looking north from Dymock's Book Arcade, 428 George Street and the Royal Hotel, decorated for Federation, 1901

Lord Nelson Hotel, Millers Point c1873

Mark Foy's Complete Organisation Consists of Three Separate Establishments 1915

Mark Foy's department store c1958

Martin Place, Elizabeth Street, Rural Bank c1936

McCarthy & Co Tobacco Merchants, George and Hay Streets c1901

Mesr Hawkes and Co.'s new Sydney Tattersall's Buildings 1882

Miranda shopping centre, 1964

Moore Stairs, between Talbot Wool Stores at East Circular Quay 1870

Mort's Stores, Circular Quay c1870

Mr WH Paling's new establishment in George Street 1883

New offices for the Sydney Morning Herald 1924

New offices of "The Sydney Morning Herald," New South Wales c1856

New offices of the Sydney Morning Herald, N.S. Wales 1856

New shops, Argyle Street, The Rocks c1907

Newtown Markets, corner King and Newman Streets (and with sign announcing demolition to build a new market building) c1906

People outside Violet McKenzie's wireless shop in the Royal Arcade c1928

Pitt St at Lyceum Theatre [and Tattersall's Hotel]

Pitt Street Mall 2007

Pitt Street from Hunter Street looking north 1856

Pitt Street from King Street looking south 1856

Pitt Street north c1873

Proposed new chambers, Macquarie Street, Sydney 1910

Queen Victoria Building (QVB) early 1900s

Queen Victoria Building 2007

Queen Victoria Building, Sydney 1896

Railway Building, Wynyard Square c1940

Railway House interior c1945

Reynolds' Cottages at the Rocks c1989

Royal Arcade, Sydney c1879-1892

Scene in the Strand Arcade 1982

Sharpie's Golf House, Surry Hills 2006

Shopping Delights of Parramatta Road 28 August 2010

Signwriting firm, Elizabeth Street 1917

South Bankstown Ampol 1952-4

South side of Martin Place, from Commonwealth Bank to Prudential Building c1938

Steel frame of AWA building and old Mangrovite Belting Ltd building c1938

Sydney 2008

Sydney Morning Herald building construction c1924

Sydney Town Hall and George Street c1958

Sydney from Pyrmont c1900

The Judge's House, 531 Kent Street 1983

The Malaya Restaurant in the Sutton Forest Meat Company building, Haymarket, December 2000

The New South Wales Club, 31 Bligh Street c1935

The Phoencian Club on the corner of Broadway and Mountain Streets, Ultimo 1980s

The Strand Arcade 1958

The city to the south 2005

The shop and dwelling of Mr Holmes at the corner of lower George and Alfred Streets, formerly the offices of the Sydney Gazette,1848

Town planning model of Circular Quay 1963

Two Mark Foy's stores, Liverpool Street, Christmas 1936

Vaulted ceiling of stained glass, Commonwealth Bank, Martin Place

View from Castlereagh Street down Martin Place 1954

View of AWA tower from GPO tower, 17 May 1942

View of Macquarie Place 1850s

View of part of the River of Sydney in New South Wales, taken from St Phillips Church yard Views in New South Wales 1813

WC Penfold building in George Street c1900

Wine saloon, George Street 1916

Wing Sang & Co Haymarket c1909

Wool Stores, Circular Quay c1890s

Wynyard Park with the AWA building and tower c1939

Wyoming Chambers, Sydney's newest skyscraper 1911

York Street by Victoria Markets c1895

York Street looking south c1875

York Street, Sydney, in 1848 and 1878

corner of Bathurst and George Streets 1945 and 2015

Construction of the AMP Building 1961

Jennifer Farrer on the Strand Arcade 2009

Jennifer Farrer talks about the Queen Victoria Building 2009

Mr Eddie Saunders remembers a blacksmith's workshop in Liverpool, interviewed in 1986

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Commercial building

AWA Tower

Topping the Art Deco AWA building, the tower was modelled on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and once dominated Sydney's skyline.

Centrepoint Tower

Reputedly sketched on a paper napkin, the design for the Sydney Tower, also called Sydney Tower, used new engineering solutions to build the tower and to manage the effect of the wind.

Chifley Tower

Designed by American form Kohn Pederson Fox, Chifley Tower is one of Sydney's tallest buildings.

Lincoln House

Built as a commercial building in the 1920s, Lincoln House has had a second life as the headquarters of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.

Queen Victoria Building

One of Sydney City Council's big projects in the late nineteenth century, ostensibly built to replace the old central markets, the Queen Victoria Building was never really intended to be used as markets, and contained 200 shops under one roof. Later used as council offices and a library, the building was restored to retail use in the 1980s.

Strand Arcade

Opened in 1892, the Strand Arcade was one of five built in the city centre during the late nineteenth century. It was designed as a covered shopping street, with 80 shopfronts on four floors. By the 1950s it was neglected but in the 1970s the arcade was refurbished, and has since been restored after fire damage.

Transcript: Mr Eddie Saunders remembers a blacksmith's workshop in Liverpool

Mr Eddie Saunders was born in 1903 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' He remembers the unexplained disappearance of a building wall in Liverpool on a site that once housed a blacksmith's workshop.

CTA Business Club

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Mushroom shaped building on the corner of Martin Place and Castlereagh Street that was built as part of the MLC Centre to rehouse the Commercial Travellers Association of New South Wales club, whose building was demolished for the development.

1-3 Park Street

Eight storey retail building constructed on the site of two previous Bebarfald shops.

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185-211 Broadway Ultimo

Companion department store building constructed for Grace Brothers.

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213 Broadway

Department store topped by a distinctive glass and steel globe which became a symbol of the Grace Brothers empire.

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436-450 George Street

Department store built on the corner of Market and George streets which once contained an art gallery, roof garden and restaurant. Its changes of name reflect the importance of the site to the retail history of the city although on several occasions the name of the previous owners was retained for commercial purposes.

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64-66 Pitt Street, Sydney

Curved building on the corner of Pitt, Hunter and O'Connell Streets in the city that was built by the Fairfax family to house the offices of their newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail, in the 1920s, on the site of the former Sydney Morning Herald building. Designed by Manson & Pickering, it was built by Stuart Bros in three stages. The newspaper moved to a new building at Broadway in 1954 and this building was sold to the Bank of New South Wales (later Westpac), when it was known as Wales House. Since the bank sold the property, it has been adapted and used as an office building and a hotel.

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814 George Street Haymarket

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Eight storey emporium built for Marcus Clark & Co in 1906 at the corner of Pitt and George streets, it remains a commanding presence in Railway Square. Designed by James Nangle, it was modelled on the Fuller building, or flat iron building, in New York.

AMP Building

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Post War International style office building which at 25 storeys was the first to officially break the 1912 Sydney height of Buildings Limit of 150 feet and thus become the tallest building in Australia at the time of its construction.

APA Building

Office block built in the new extension to Martin Place in 1936-7, in the Art Deco or Jazz Modern style.

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AWA Building and Tower

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Communications tower that was Sydney's tallest building from the time it was built in 1939 until the 1960s. AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) was a household name from the 1930s to the 1950s as both a broadcaster and a manufacturer of radios, record players and other electrical equipment. The tower was modelled on Berlin's Funkturm Tower, built a few years earlier, and both took inspiration from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The building is decorated with appropriate symbols of communication, including a winged Pegasus, and the light fittings in the entrance in the shape of radio valves.

Administration Building of WD and HO Wills

Office building constructed for the British tobacco importer and cigarette manufacturer. It became the centre of social life for the community with concerts, outings and sports on their bowling green, cricket ground, soccer and hockey fields. The area was redeveloped for residences and the building became a community centre.

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Anthony Hordern's New Palace Emporium

Department store building which occupied the block bound by George, Pitt and Goulburn streets. A huge six storey building with 52 hectares of retailing space, it dominated retailing in the southern CBD until it was demolished in the early 1980s for the World Square development.

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Argyle Stores

Sandstone warehouse in The Rocks on land once owned by Mary Reibey, incorporating parts of very early commercial buildings in Sydney and built in stages, the east wing being completed in 1826, the west between 1840 and 1845. In the 1970s it was repurposed as a retail centre.

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Aurora Place

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Office and residential tower designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano on the corner of Bent and Macquarie Streets

Australasian Chambers

Office block in George Street.

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Australia Square

Iconic cylindrical office building designed by Harry Seidler and Associates.

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Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co woolstore

Woolstore building in Ultimo on the block bounded by Pyrmont, Quarry, Harris and William Henry Streets, that was destroyed by fire on 6 July 1992.

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Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society Building

Victorian Free Classical style office and retail block built for an insurance business on the site of the Surry Arms Hotel. With a fine modelled stone facade and well articulated corner elevation design, it has been a city landmark for over 100 years. In the 1970s it had housed Grahame Book Company, a prominent publishing house from the 1940s to the 1980s.

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Bankstown Square

One of Sydney's first major shopping malls, located in Bankstown in Sydney's south-west.

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Beard Watson Warehouse

Four storey office block and warehouse in Victorian Romanesque style which had originally been the warehouse for the Beard Watson furniture emporium. The original sandstone façade has florid detailing and forms part of the so-called York Street Wall which retains many fine 19th and early 20th century buildings.

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Berangie Chambers

Offices built in Eastwood by Marie Byles for her legal practice.

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Berry Square

Shopping and leisure precinct in North Sydney.

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Big Bear Supermarket

Shopping centre at Neutral Bay.

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Blackwall wool stores

Wool storage and pressing warehouse constructed at Circular Quay in the 1860s.

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Bon Marche

Named after the French department store, the retail emporium built in 1909 for Marcus Clark & Co was on the site of an earlier Marcus Clark store at the corner of Harris Street and Broadway. In 1959 the building was sold to the NSW Department of Technical Education and forms part of the University of Technology's Broadway campus, occupied by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

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Broughton House

Residential building which was converted from a warehouse constructed for ironmonger John Keep and Son at the beginning of the twentieth century. It once housed rifles, cutlery, anvils, horse shoes and all manner of ironmongery for the building trade with easy access from King, Kent or Clarence streets.

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Buckingham's Department Store

Department store founded by draper William Buckingham which was one of the first to provide a store credit system and a home service unit to visit clients. The building was destroyed by fire shortly after the business was closed.

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Burland Hall

Ice skating rink and grand pleasure palace on King Street, Newtown which lasted less than a decade before conversion to a department store as Marcus Clark & Co, and later a cinema. From 1986 to 1995 it housed the Newtown public library before it was converted again to office and retail space. The Art Deco facade was constructed during the 1930s.

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Burns Philp

Richly carved Romanesque style sandstone and brick office block constructed for the Australian maritime trading company to reflect their status and control of trade along the east coast and with the Pacific Islands.

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Campbell's Stores

Georgian style warehouse buildings built to service the commerce and international shipping transport hub of Sydney until the late nineteenth century. Now occupied by restaurants.

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Casula Mall shopping centre

Shopping centre opened in 1986 with a Coles supermarket, a K Mart discount department store and about 40 specialty shops.

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Central Pitt

Retail store which incorporated seven former buildings behind an integrated facade which wrapped around the Pitt and Market street corner. Part of the site was previously occupied by Victoria House.

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Centrepoint Tower

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Landmark and tourist attraction that rises high above the city skyline.

Challis House

Thirteen-storey office building in Art Deco style, that stands on land purchased with funds bequeathed to the University of Sydney by JH Challis. The original 1907 building was reconstructed in 1936 and remains a major asset of Sydney University.

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Chifley Tower

Modern skyscraper that completes the curve of Chifley Square.

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Chinese Nationalist Party of Australia building

Building at 75 Ultimo Road, Haymarket that opened in May 1922 as the headquarters of the Chinese Nationalist Party of Australia. Also known for this reason as the KuoMinTang headquarters, or the KMT Building.

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City Bank House

Office complex with street level retail premises which was constructed for City Bank after fire destroyed their main branch on the corner of Pitt and Moore Streets (Martin Place) in 1890. A facade of Pyrmont stone in Italian Renaissance style with several sculptures over the entrance presented an elegant frontage to Pitt Street whilst inside could be found the latest electric lighting and hydraulic lifts. The building facade now forms an entry to Skygarden.

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Colonial Mutual Life building

Commercial building in Martin Place, built at the time of the widening and improvement of the street, which housed tenants including the Sydney Stock Exchange and the United States consulate. In 1976 it became one of the earliest examples of a modern redevelopment retaining the original building facade.

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Commercial Banking Company Building

Former bank offices in Commercial Palazzo style reflecting the return of building confidence in the 1920s. Originally part of the site of the first military barracks and parade ground, the premises were lavishly decorated with marble and wrought iron, being planned in stages to allow the bank to keep operating on the site as they had done since the 1850s. It is now occupied by a variety of retail and business tenants.

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Commonwealth Bank of Australia building

Bank building at 42 Martin Place which is a rare example of Inter-War Beaux-Arts style. The Banking Chamber, Grand Hall and Safe Deposit area form a sequence of grand interiors with imported marble and a plaster and pressed metal ceiling.

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Commonwealth Centre

Office block of little architectural merit which was demolished to make way for Chifley Tower.

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Commonwealth Trading Bank & Headquarters building

Bank constructed in the Commercial Palazzo style on the corner of Pitt Street and Martin Place. The building was used in the design of their moneyboxes for many years.

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Commonwealth Wool & Produce No1 & No2

Extensive woolstore indicative of the massive volumes of wool that were exported from Australia during the early part of the twentieth century, a high proportion of which passed through this area.

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Corn Exchange

Earliest remaining market building in Sydney and was extensively restored and reconstructed in the early 1990s. For its first four years it was operated as a fruit market before it was converted into offices with posted street-level awnings. It became known as the Corn Exchange from 1900 during a private attempt to establish the city's grain market in the building. Commercial tenants inhabited its upper levels from 1917.

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Culwulla Chambers

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Thirteen (originally twelve) storey office block at King and Castlereagh Streets designed in 1911 by architectural firm Spain, Cosh and Minnett for the estate of the late Sarah Jane Marks, who had died in 1909. The building was named after her family's property Culwulla at Jamberoo as a memorial to her from her sons Dr Herbert J W Marks and Walter Moffitt Marks. At 50 metres high, it was the tallest building in Sydney and fears were raised that Sydney would develop a New York style skyline with darkened streets. It was also considered a fire hazard as existing equipment was incapable of reaching this height. The city's building regulations were subsequently amended with the introduction of the 1912 Height of Buildings Act by the New South Wales government, restricting building heights to 45 metres. This remained in force until 1957.

Darrell Lea Shop

Built for an ironmonger it was soon converted to an hotel which hosted regular billiards competitions for patrons. Threatened with demolition when George Street was widened in the 1920s and surviving severe fire damage in 1944, it was purchased by Darrell Lea in 1957 and became the flagship store for the confectionery business for 55 years. It closed in 2012 when the business was placed in administration.

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David Jones store Barrack Street

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Drapers opened by David Jones on the corner of George and Barrack Streets at Wynyard in 1838. The original building was redeveloped in 1887 as the business David Jones & Co grew. Two new city stores were built in the 1920s and 1930s. The Barrack Street store closed in 1986.

David Jones store Elizabeth Street

Retail department store near St James station.

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David Jones store Market Street

Department store completed in 1938 to mark the trading centenary of David Jones.

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Deutsche Bank Place

Office building in Phillip Street, designed by architects Foster and Partners.

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Dorchester House

Art Deco style building at 149 Macquarie Street, Sydney. The red texture brick building comprises professional offices and residential apartments.

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Double Bay shopping centre

Retail shopping centre serving Double Bay.

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Dudley's Emporium

Suburban emporium on the corner of Anzac Parade and Maroubra Road which included a small cinema, stores for produce, hardware, groceries, draperies, refreshments, chemist, butchery and residence. It was established to provide services for the growing suburb which had been rapidly developed by Herbert Dudley.

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Dymocks Building

Office and multi-storey retail arcade building in George Street designed by architect F H B Wilton, on the site occupied in part by Dymocks bookshop since 1890. Formally known as The Block, it was built in Commercial Palazzo style and reflected the retail optimism and less elite bazaar concept of 1920s shopping. The site had earlier been occupied by the Royal Hotel and Theatre Royal.

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Entally House

A building originally located in what is now Macquarie Place from where Thomas and Mary Reibey operated their grain-carrying business. He named the establishment after a suburb in Calcutta, India and the sign above their door read 'Entally House - Raby's Warehouse'. Mary took an active role in the management of the business, keeping the accounts and looking after the store. Eventually their property included a warehouse and residence combined.

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Equitable Life Assurance Building

Offices built for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of America designed by their visiting architect Edward Raht in American Romanesque style. It incorporated significant overseas construction techniques from the turn of the century including terracotta floors and marble slab floors.

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Exchange Centre

Office complex to house the Australian Securities Exchange which was formed from the merger of the stock exchange and futures exchange in 2006.

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Fairlight shopping centre

Collection of local shops originally developed along the northern side of Sydney Road in the early twentieth century.

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Farmers and Graziers No1 Woolstore

Woolstore whose form and layout demonstrates the nature of goods handling technology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which required the extensive use of gravity driven transport, the efficient layout of loading docks and good use of natural and artificial light.

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Farmers and Graziers No2 Woolstore

Woolstore constructed to to expand the capacity of the Farmers and Graziers No 1 Woolstore It provides evidence of the volume and importance of wool handling and storage in the inter-war period.

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Galeries Victoria

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Shopping complex on George Street below the Citigroup office block.

Gold Fields House

Office building in Alfred Street at Circular Quay built in 1966. It was sold in 2014 and is to be converted into a hotel and apartments.

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Goldring House Randwick

Two-storey stuccoed brick row of four shops fronting Avoca Street in Randwick constructed by William Mears. The land was originally part of a grant acquired by Judge Thomas Callaghan in 1853.

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Goldsbrough Mort Woolstore

Woolstores have occupied this site since the 1880s as the boom in wool exports began, using hydraulic goods and passenger lifts. When the original store, with its own railway siding, burnt down in 1935 it was quickly replaced in 1936 and it operated until the 1970s when brokers relocated to Yennora. In 1995 it reopened as residential apartments.

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Governor Macquarie Tower

Commercial office building constructed as part of property development that also includes Governor Phillip Tower and the Museum of Sydney. The development incorporates heritage listed buildings and remnants of the footings of the first Government House.

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Governor Phillip Tower

Commercial office building constructed as part of property development that also includes Governor Macquarie Tower and the Museum of Sydney. The development incorporates heritage listed buildings and remnants of the footings of the first Government House. Governor Phillip Tower is one of the tallest buildings in the city.

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Gowings Building

Built as a department store in Commercial Palazzo style used for inter-war commercial buildings, it has always been associated with Gowings retail business since the first store on the site in 1868. The building now houses retail, restaurant and hotel premises.

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Grace Building

Built as a retail and office space in retail Gothic style for Grace Brothers during the retail boom of the 1920s. It was believed the opening of the Harbour Bridge would cause more traffic in the area but this failed to happen. It was requisitioned by the Australian Government during World War II, used as a telephone exchange and a medical centre and now operates as an hotel.

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Griffith Tea Building

Warehouse in late Federation style by architects Kent, Buddin and Greenwell for the melbourne tea and coffee merchants. For many years it was owned by Isaak and Susan Wakil and left empty before being turned into warehouse apartments.

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Grosvenor Place

Office and shopping complex comprising the Federation buildings Royal Naval House, the Johnson's Building, the Brooklyn Hotel and Federation Hall, and the 1980s office tower designed by Harry Seidler, which together fill the entire block between George, Essex, Grosvenor and Harrington Streets.

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Hay Street Chambers

Small sandstone building originally used as a bank but which has since played many roles including cafe, shoe store and cake shop.

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Henry Deane Plaza

Commercial development of the area between the Railway Square bus station and the Devonshire Street Tunnel entrance to Central Station. It includes a retail plaza, the Henry Deane Building and Gateway House.

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Hinchcliff Wool Stores

Two three storey gabled warehouses built to service the international wool trade of the late nineteenth century. Two loading bays and hoist pulley indicate how the bales were lifted manually to the upper storeys before shipment. In 1945 it became a Catholic refuge and since 1988 has been an office complex.

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ICI House

Office building at East Circular Quay opened in 1957 and demolished in 1996.

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IXL Factory garage

Garage for food processing factory in Darlington which still exists as an office and storage facility long after the main IXL factory opposite was demolished in the 1980s.

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Imperial Arcade

Shopping arcade constructed in 1891 following the building boom of the 1880s.

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Italian Forum

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Residential and shopping complex built around a central plaza off Norton Street in Leichhardt.

John Fairfax building

Building constructed to house the offices and presses of the Sydney Morning Herald, later repurposed for the University of Technology, Sydney.

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Lend Lease House

Office building at East Circular Quay designed by Harry Seidler and opened in 1971

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Lincoln House

City building erected in 1924-25 for Bennett and Wood Ltd, manufacturers and importers of bicycles and motorbikes, at 280 Pitt Street, a site owned by the company since 1910. The building was purchased by the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts in 1996.

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Lloyd's Chambers

Professional chambers building in George Street at 348 George Street (1885).

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MLC Centre

Retail, office and theatre complex on Castlereagh Street designed by Harry Seidler and built by Lend Lease in 1973-76.

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Macquarie Centre

Shopping centre opened at Ryde in 1981.

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Marcus Clark Building

Nine storey department store built in 1913 for Marcus Clark & Co at at 827-837 George Street Railway Square as a furniture showroom, an extension to the existing flagship store at Railway Square on the corner of Pitt and George. In 1928 the building on George Street was modified to become the main store. The store closed in 1965 and the building was purchased by the Sydney Institute of Technology in 1966.

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Marcus Clark Warehouse

Small warehouse which was originally part of the huge department store complex of Marcus Clark and Co in Newtown on the corner of King Street to Brown Street from the 1890s.

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Marrickville Metro

Small local shopping mall in Marrickville, built on the site of the Vicars Woollen Mill in 1987.

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Mason Brother stores

Bond stores for the wool trade in lower Macquarie Street in the 1880s.

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Metcalfe Bond Stores

Warehouse built on the site of Robert Campbell's garden and orchard. In 1973 they were converted to offices and restaurants.

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Miranda Fair

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

Mort's Wool Stores, Circular Quay

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Large Italianate warehouse on the corner of Alfred and Young Streets at Circular Quay that was designed by Edmund Blacket in the 1860s for Mort & Co. The building was extended in the 1880s, and demolished in 1959 (by which time it was known as the Farmers and Graziers Building) to make way for the construction of the AMP Building.

New Bond Store Macquarie Street

Commercial building used as a woolstore.

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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Woolstore

Immense woolstore constructed to take advantage of the steeply sloping site to allow the most efficient movement of produce from floor to floor.

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Newtown Markets

Local market established on the site of the Sydney Omnibus company which sold everything from fruit and vegetables to second hand clothes and furniture. Markets were held regularly between the 1880s and 1950s.

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Nithsdale House

Two storey building opposite Hyde Park at 167 Liverpool Street and the corner of Nithdale Street. Built in 1873 as the home and a dance academy and ballroom of owner Frank Hillard Needs on the site of Figtree Cottage. Medical professionals also took rooms there in the 1890s. In 1903 it was purchased from the Needs family by the Sydney City Mission, who used the assembly rooms as their headquarters and continued to lease out other rooms. It was purchased from the Mission in 1913 by the developer of a picture theatre and sold again in 1922 before being demolished.

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Old Sydney Morning Herald building

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Newspaper office for the Sydney Morning Herald that stood on the corner of Pitt, Hunter and O'Connell Streets from 1856 until it was demolished in 1926 to be replaced by a new, larger building on the same site.

The keystone representing early English printer John Caxton that was used in the arch of the entrance of the original building was removed and reused in the new building.

Old Totalisator building Victoria Park

Only remaining structure of the former Victoria Park Racecourse in Zetland, which operated from 1908 to 1944. Later used as part of British Motor Corporation's motor vehicle factory. The site was re-developed for housing in the 1990s.

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P&O Orient Line building

Office block on the corner of Hunter and Castlereagh streets.

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Palings Warehouse

Office building which used innovative engineering techniques to straddle the Tank Stream and featured safe deposit vaults in the basement. Only the facade still exists as a reminder of the musical heritage of the area.

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Pastoral Finance Association

Wool store on the waterfront at Kirribilli for 30 years which was destroyed by fire.

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Piccadilly Arcade

Late nineteenth century shopping arcade which existed at 220 Pitt Street.

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Pitt Son & Badgery No 1 Woolstore

Federation style warehouse which reflects the status of the wool exporting industry to the area from the 1880s to the 1960s. The building was renovated and strengthened in the 1980s for use as a carpark.

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Protestant Hall

Commercial building at 238-240 Castlereagh Street built in 1878 for the NSW Protestant Hall Company Ltd. In 1938 it became home to the Australian Workers Union, whose name still appears on the front of the building.

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Qantas House

Former world headquarters of Qantas airways at No. 1 Chifley Square, designed by Rudder Littlemore & Rudder, Architects in the Post-War International style, utilising the latest curtain wall technologies to create the distinctive sweeping curve of its facade.

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Queen Victoria Building

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Grand domed sandstone arcade in the centre of the city which was saved from demolition in the 1980s and restored to its Federation Romanesque glory. Previously the site had been the municipal markets designated by Governor Macquarie and its current retail tenants continue the tradition.

Queen's Warehouse

Bonded warehouse adjacent to the Customs House, Circular Quay

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Roselands Shopping Centre

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One of the first fully enclosed shopping malls in Australia.

Royal Arcade

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Shopping arcade running from George Street to Pitt Street that was designed by Thomas Rowe in 1881. It was demolished in 1969 along with its neighbour Tattersall's Hotel to be replaced by the Hilton Hotel.

Royal Exchange

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Building which aimed to provide a place of meeting for the commercial community. It was situated on Bridge Street, and its construction was met with support from Sydney's business community including John Fairfax, Thomas Holt Jnr, David Jones and Thomas Sutcliffe Mort. The first telegraphic message in New South Wales was sent from the Exchange to Liverpool on the day of its official opening, and then the state's first telephone system was established in the building in 1880. Wool auctions were held in the building from 1864 until its demolition in 1964. Originally called the Sydney Exchange, it was designated the Royal Exchange in May 1901.

Royal Hall of Industries

Exhibition hall at the Sydney showgrounds Moore Park.

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Schute, Bell, Badgery and Lumley Woolstore

Seven storey woolstore in Federation Warehouse style. The piers divide the main Harris Street facade into nineteen bays, with the central nine bays framed beneath three built up features on the parapet.

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Science Centre

Office building at 35 Clarence St used by the Royal Society and the Linnean Society from 1976 until 1983.

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Science House

Office building at 157 Gloucester St, designed by Peddle, Thorpe and Walker which won the inaugural Sulman Award in 1932.

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St Ives Shopping Village

Shopping centre on Mona Vale Road St Ives established in the 1960s.

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St James Hall

13 storey office block at 169-171 Phillip Street owned by the St James Church of England. Built in 1963 on the site of an older building also called St James Hall, it included a 300 seat theatre that known as the St James Playhouse between 1964 and 1978. It was the home of the Phillip Street Theatre company between 1979 and 1989.

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Staples Stores

Originally located north of the railway line, WG Staples constructed a new group of shops south of the line which formed a nucleus for the retail centre of Lawson after 1892.

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Strand Arcade

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The last surviving Victorian shopping arcade in Sydney. Three storeys high with glass roof, cantilevered galleries, cast iron balustrades, and timber framed shopfronts, it has been restored after several fires and still retains the small elite boutiques that defined the Sydney shopping experience of the 1890s.

Sun Building

Office block built for the Sun newspaper, its spectacular Skyscraper Gothic style confidently portraying the commercial power of the media. It was the last of the great newspaper buildings to be built in the city.

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Sydney Arcade

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Retail arcade between George and King streets, one of six constructed during the building boom of the 1880s.

Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre

Convention and exhibition centre at Darling Harbour designed by Philip Cox. The mast and cable construction of the Exhibition Centre reflects its maritime environment. During the 2000 Sydney Olympics the complex was used for wrestling, boxing, judo and fencing events.

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Sydney Gazette office 1810-1824

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Building on lower George Street that housed the offices of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, between 1810 and 1824. The newspaper was founded in 1803 by publisher and printer George Howe. The building on lower George Street (then numbered 96) was a warehouse, store and residence. It was owned in 1810 by Edward Wills, and subsequently by his widow Sarah Wills, who married Howe in 1812. In 1921, the Royal Australian Historical Society placed a commemorative porcelain plaque near the intersection of George and Alfred Streets to mark the location of the building.

Sydney Tower

Sydney's tallest free standing structure, the observation tower is 309 metres tall sitting atop an office and retailing centre. It also contains three levels of dining and function centre and a glass viewing platform. The speed of the double deck lifts are determined by wind conditions around the tower.

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The Eastwood Centre

Multi-level shopping centre in Rowe Street, Eastwood.

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Top Ryde City

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Large shopping centre in Ryde, which first opened in 1957, and was redeveloped in 1986 and 2007.

Totem Shopping Centre Balgowlah

Early American-style shopping centre in Balgowlah, incorporating a tenpin bowling alley.

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Town Hall House

Office block designed by Ancher Mortlock and Woolley in the Brutalist style and opened in 1977 to house City of Sydney council staff.

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Trades Hall

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Established by the developing trade union movement in 1888 and now owned by Unions NSW representing over 60 unions covering all fields of work.

Unilever House

Office building constructed at East Circular Quay in the 1950s, demolished in the 1990s.

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Vickery's Chambers

Office block at 76 Pitt Street.

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Victoria Arcade

Elegant shopping arcade constructed between Elizabeth and Castlereagh streets.

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Victoria House Pitt Street

Department stores constructed for Farmer and Co in Pitt Street. When the street numbers in Pitt Street were changed the address became 259-261 Pitt Street.

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Warringah Mall

Large shopping centre in the suburb of Brookvale on Sydney's northern beaches.

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West Lindfield Neighbourhood Shopping Centre

Shopping centre.

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Westfield Hornsby

Large shopping centre in Hornsby.

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Westfield Liverpool

Large shopping centre in Liverpool.

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Westfield Parramatta

Large shopping centre in Parramatta.

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Westpac Bank Building

Bank building at 341 George Street, built in the Inter-War Commercial Palazzo style which reflected the commercial optimism of the pre-Depression years. Part of the site was originally used by the first military barracks and parade ground before being subdivided in 1850. The first Bank of New South Wales occupied the site from 1853. The bank acquired additional land as the business expanded.

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Wigram Chambers

Law offices at 167 Phillip Street which were converted into chambers for Sydney University law school about 1913.

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Wigram House

Exclusive gentlemen's club in central Sydney which was converted to office use in 1917.

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Winchcombe Carson Woolstore

Woolstore constructed against the sandstone cliff of the former quarry. They used the terrain to develop a system of â€œgravity balingâ€. Heavy loads of wool came in at the Jones Street level and were moved easily through the store's display, examination and auction floors using chutes, to emerge at Wattle Street.

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Wyoming

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Federation Free Style block of professional chambers on the corner of Hunter and Macquarie Streets, named after the Junee property of the original owner and developer, grazier John O'Brien. The eight storey building was designed by Burcham Clamp and built by Turner and Loveridge in 1911, and included over 100 suites and rooms to be let to medical professionals and some residential flats. Described as a 'magnificent structure' and a skyscraper, one of the features of the building was the plumbing, with a hot water and sanitary service that had to be pumped to the top floors.

280 Pitt Street

Allotment 18 of the original subdivision recognised in 1831, the use of the site reflects the changing face of commercial Sydney over almost two centuries.

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284-292 Pitt Street

Site at corner of Pitt and Bathurst streets initially occupied by single storey structures in the 1800s before its commercial potential was realised with a multi-storey warehouse in 1907. Joined to Lincoln House in 1925 it was subdivided again in the 1960s.

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Australian Technology Park

Commercial space located on the southern side of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops site in Redfern housing communications and technology companies with conference and events venues. A contentious government decision to sell the site in 2014 brings uncertainty for the future.

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Barangaroo

Waterfront urban renewal precinct on the site of some of Sydney's earliest wharves between Darling Harbour and Millers Point, named in honour of Cammeray woman Barangaroo.

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World Square

Complex of retail, residential and commercial buildings constructed on the site of the once vast Anthony Hordern department store. When the store was demolished in 1986 the site remained empty for 20 years because of planning disputes. The complex now dominates the southern commercial section of the city.

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177-191 Oxford Street, late 1920s

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hall_35090 / Home and Away 35090]

(Mitchell Library)

195-197 George Street West, 15 November 1918

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[958]

(Para 1 in A meeting place for sport)

227-267 Pitt Street, Sydney c1875

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a089579 / SPF/579]

259-263 Pitt Street 1848 Price and Favenc (formerly Joseph Farmer's store) and Pite & Preston

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[Dixson Reading Room Q84/56 c.9]

(Plate 30a, 'Sydney in 1848 : illustrated by copper-plate engravings of its principal streets, public buildings, churches, chapels, etc.' from drawings by Joseph Fowles)

426-428 George Street; Royal Hotel, Dymocks c1910

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hall_35191 / Home and Away 35191]

(Mitchell Library)

87-95 Market Street 1923

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[NSCA CRS 51/1044]

A Hordern & Sons, Drapery Warehouse and Palace Showrooms 1878

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Illustrated Sydney News, 23 March 1878 p21)

A few of the business buildings of Sydney March 1878

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Illustrated Sydney News, 23 March 1878 p21)

A new Grace Bros regional store at Parramatta October 1939

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hood_09953 / Home and Away 9953]

(Mitchell Library)

ABN-AMRO building Aurora Place 2008

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By

Sacha Fernandez

Contributed By

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/sacharules/2569693827/]

ABN-AMRO building Aurora Place 2009

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By

Contributed By

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mugley/3284305024/]

AMP Building c1962

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[028\028850]

(SRC2432)

AWA tower illuminated for VE Day May 1945

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Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

Alfred Street, Circular Quay 1962

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[NSCA CRS 48/2877]

Ampol service station on Water Street and Punchbowl Road, Belfield c1957

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an24535871]

Ampol service station on the Pacific Highway, Pymble 1950s

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an24535867]

Anthony Hordern's Palace Emporium, George Street Sydney 1907

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Contributed By

Private collection

Arcade off Market Street behind Linden Court, leading into Her Majesty's Arcade 1952

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By

Contributed By

National Archives of Australia

[A1200, L14562B]

Artist's impression of Marcus Clark Building, Railway Square c1905

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hall_34863 / Home and Away 34863]

Ashfield Centre

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Image courtesy of

[0210-0946-25]

Beard Watson & Co Ltd, George Street 1927

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By

Arthur Ernest Foster

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a6464002 / ON 30/Box 6, 18]

(Mitchell Library)

Bible Hall and Australian Mutual Provident Society, Pitt Street c1860s

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a089482 / SPF/482]

(Mitchell Library)

Bond Street looking west

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a128815 / XV1/St/Bon/2]

Bond's Corner, Northbridge 1926

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Contributed By

Willoughby City Library

[PF 6541237]

Bondi Junction, including Pattinson & Co. Chemist c1905

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a105072 / PXA 635/72]

(Mitchell Library)

Building Bankstown Square shopping mall 1966

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By

David J. Hickson

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[d7_22872 / Australian Photographic Agency 22872]

(Mitchell Library)

Bush store at Peats Ferry c1887

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-vn4312981]

Central Railway Station at Railway Square 1923

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By

William Blamire Young

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Centrepoint Tower 2008

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Image courtesy of

[0803-1020-32]

Church Street Parramatta c1890

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By

John Henry Harvey

Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

[H2009.100/334]

Church Street, Parramatta 1898

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a622007 / PXA 1232/1, p.7]

(Mitchell Library)

Circular Quay 1965

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[044/044385]

(Len Stone / Vic Solomons Collection: 397)

Circular Quay East towards Bennelong Point 1961

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By

Wolfgang Sievers

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an14156306-9]

Cleveland Street, Surry Hills 1991

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By

Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

Colonial Sugar Co offices c1910

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By

Contributed By

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

Commonwealth Bank, Martin Place, c1930s

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[Home and Away - 35245]

(Mitchell Library)

Commonwealth Bank, Sydney c1920s

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Construction of AWA Tower 1938

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By

Arthur Ernest Foster

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-vn3091684]

Construction of AWA Tower 1938

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By

Arthur Ernest Foster

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-vn3091697]

Construction of AWA Tower 1939

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By

Arthur Ernest Foster

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-vn3091676]

Corner Pitt and Market Streets, site of Her Majesty's Theatre 1882-3

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a089587 / SPF/587]

(Mitchell Library)

Corner of Pitt and George Streets, Sydney c 1910

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By

John Henry Harvey

Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

Cover of Tattersall's Club Magazine, October 1929

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Contributed By

Internet Archive

[oct71929vol1no.9_202001]

(October 1929, Volume 1, No. 9)

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Culwull Cahmbers: front facing King Street 1911

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[ Art and architecture : the journal of the Institute of Architects of New South Wales, Vol. 8 No. 6 (1 November - December 1911), p 372 via Trove]

Culwulla Chambers and the Surrey Hotel on the corner of King and Castelreagh Streets c1925

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hall_34761 / Home and Away 34761]

(Mitchell Library)

Culwulla Chambers: Profit possibilities of the tall building 1915

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[Building Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 89 (12 Jan., 1915) p66, via Trove]

Daceyville, garden suburb, from Randwick Road, August 1915

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a3622001 / SPF/1159]

(Mitchell Library)

Darlinghurst Fruit Market on the corner of Flinders & Oxford streets, c1909

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[002\002659]

(NSCA CRS 51/2436)

Darlinghurst Fruit Market, corner of Flinders and Oxford Streets c1909

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[NSCA CRS 51/2437]

David Jones & Co, furnishing and carpet warehouse in York Street 1878

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Illustrated Sydney News, 23 March 1878 p21)

David Jones 'Acousticises' Its Auditorium March 1934

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[Building : the magazine for the architect, builder, property owner and merchant, 12 March 1934, p73]

David Jones, Market Street, Sydney 1938

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

Detail of Panorama of Sydney 1829

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[DG XV1A/2 (detail)]

(from 'Panorama of Sydney, NSW, in the year 1829 as painted by Robert Burford and exhibited in Leicester Square, London', Dixson Galleries)

Detail of view of buildings on lower eastern George Street, including the shop of tea dealer F.Gaunson and Sydney Morning Herald ...

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[Dixson Reading Room Q84/56 c.9]

(Detail from plate opp p.12, 'Sydney in 1848 : illustrated by copper-plate engravings of its principal streets, public buildings, churches, chapels, etc.' from drawings by Joseph Fowles)

Display window of FW Johnson's Bakery at 42 Stanmore Road, Enmore with Sydney Waratah Festival display, c1960-67

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By

Contributed By

Private collection

(Courtesy of Elaine Johnson)

Drive-in shopping centre, Top Ryde 1961

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Contributed By

National Archives of Australia

[A1501, A2696/8]

Entrance to Dymock's Book Arcade with Melocco Bros terrazzo paving, April 1938

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hood_09148 / Home and Away - 9148]

(Mitchell Library)

Erection of new Farmer and Co department store building facing Pitt Street 1872

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a089488 / SPF/488]

(Mitchell Library)

Ermington shops c1958

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[d2_11088 / GPO2 11088]

(Mitchell Library)

Erskineville Bootmaking School 1909

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Contributed By

Private collection

(A Quarter Century of Technical Education in New South Wales: A Monograph published on the occasion of the exhibition of students work held at the Sydney Technical College, Government Printer, 1909, p 263)

Exchange Sydney c1863-1865

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By

Dalton's Royal Photographic Establishment

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

Fantasia Coffee Inn, Grosvenor Street Sydney 1946

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

Farmer and Company's `Victoria House' department store, Pitt Street ca1875

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a089487 / SPF/487]

(Mitchell Library)

Flashlight photo of crowd in the Strand Arcade on New Years Eve, 31 December 1901

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Australian Town and Country Journal, 11 January 1902 p 21)

Galeries Victoria 2007

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By

Christopher Chan

Contributed By

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanc/852258352/]

George Street looking north from near King Street c1860

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[PXA 4358, Vol 1, p 145a (CY 491, 327)]

(from Album of views, illustrations and Macarthur family photographs, 1857-66, 1879, Mitchell Library)

George Street showing Royal Hotel c1905

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By

John Henry Harvey

Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

[Image H91.300/311]

George Street, Sydney c1905

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By

John Henry Harvey

Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

Gibbs Shallard & Co, printers, binders and publishers 1878

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Illustrated Sydney News, 23 March 1878 p21)

Goldsbrough Mort, Circular Quay c1925

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By

Eleanor Georgina Shaw

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[Item 72 : Sydney scenes, 192-, 3]

(Mitchell Library)

Goldsbrough, Mort & Co Ltd Wool Store 1936

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By

Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[SRC14976]

Grocery store on the corner of Riley and Fitzroy Streets during bread price war in the Depression, Surry Hills 21 August 1934

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hood_04530 / Home and Away 4530]

(Mitchell Library)

Ground Floor of Professional Chambers, Macquarie Street 1910

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[Building Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 32 (12 Apr., 1910), p38, via Trove]

Headquarters of the Electrical Association for Women at the corner of Clarence and Grosvenor streets 1936

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Contributed By

Private collection

(Electrical Association for Women Cookery Book, compiled and published by Mrs FV McKenzie, Director of the Electrical Association for Women (Australia) Sydney, published by The Electrical Association for Women (Australia), Sydney 1936, p 4)

Henriette Lamotte hat salon, 27 Rowe Street c1950

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a1528035 / SV/128]

(Mitchell Library)

Hoadley's Coffee Palace, King Street c1910

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[NSCA CRS 51/355]

Houses converted to commercial premises at 370-374 Pitt Street, 1909-1913

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[000\000536]

Hunter River New Steam Navigation Co warehouse, Wharf Street 1871

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a089829 / SPF/829]

(Mitchell Library)

In George Street, Sydney c 1910

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By

John Henry Harvey

Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

Interior view of the Sydney Arcade 1890

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Italian Forum Leichhardt 2009

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By

Contributed By

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/chechuan/3243803716/]

J Taylor, dealer, 365 Pitt Street c1873

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a089497 / SPF/497]

(Mitchell Library)

John Frazer & Co, Merchants and Shipping Agents March 1878

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Illustrated Sydney News, 23 March 1878 p21)

Kent Street, Millers Point c1873

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Kings Cross 1918

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By

John Henry Harvey

Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

Looking north from Dymock's Book Arcade, 428 George Street and the Royal Hotel, decorated for Federation, 1901

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Lord Nelson Hotel, Millers Point c1873

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[ SPF/920 (detail)]

(Mitchell Library)

Mark Foy's Complete Organisation Consists of Three Separate Establishments 1915

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Contributed By

Internet Archive

Sydney Living Museums

[TC 749.20491 MAR ]

(The home beautiful / by Mark Foys Ltd, 1915, p2)

CC BY-NC 3.0 AU

Mark Foy's department store c1958

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By

Contributed By

National Museum of Australia

[Slide 172, via NMA's Flickr set]

(Raymond Morris Collection, courtesy of the photographer)

Martin Place, Elizabeth Street, Rural Bank c1936

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[Home and Away 35246]

(Mitchell Library)

McCarthy & Co Tobacco Merchants, George and Hay Streets c1901

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[NSCA CRS 51/60]

Mesr Hawkes and Co.'s new Sydney Tattersall's Buildings 1882

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[The Bulletin, 8 July 1882, p7 via Trove]

Miranda shopping centre, 1964

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By

Wolfgang Sievers

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an23150322]

Moore Stairs, between Talbot Wool Stores at East Circular Quay 1870

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Mort's Stores, Circular Quay c1870

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By

Charles Percy Pickering

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Mr WH Paling's new establishment in George Street 1883

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Illustrated Sydney News, 7 July 1883, p9 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page5786854)

New offices for the Sydney Morning Herald 1924

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[Building Magazine, Vol. 34 No. 204, (12 August, 1924) p5 via Trove]

New offices of "The Sydney Morning Herald," New South Wales c1856

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By

Frederick Charles Terry

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[NK Broadside NK1119/5]

New offices of the Sydney Morning Herald, N.S. Wales 1856

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By

Samuel Thomas Gill

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[PIC Volume 196 #S4023]

New shops, Argyle Street, The Rocks c1907

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[d1_47201 / GPO1 47201]

(Mitchell Library)

Newtown Markets, corner King and Newman Streets (and with sign announcing demolition to build a new market building) c1906

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Royal Australian Historical Society, Box 09) (Mitchell Library)

People outside Violet McKenzie's wireless shop in the Royal Arcade c1928

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Reproduced courtesy of the

Ex-Wrans Association NSW

Pitt St at Lyceum Theatre [and Tattersall's Hotel]

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[DL PX 163, 68]

(Dixson Library)

Pitt Street Mall 2007

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By

Christopher Chan

Contributed By

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanc/845243486/]

Pitt Street from Hunter Street looking north 1856

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By

Samuel Thomas Gill

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an7536051]

Pitt Street from King Street looking south 1856

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By

Samuel Thomas Gill

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an7537491]

Pitt Street north c1873

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a1939080 / PXA 420/34a]

(Mitchell Library)

Proposed new chambers, Macquarie Street, Sydney 1910

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[Building Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 32 (12 Apr., 1910), p38, via Trove]

Queen Victoria Building (QVB) early 1900s

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[SRC10892]

Queen Victoria Building 2007

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By

Christopher Chan

Contributed By

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanc/485087301/]

Queen Victoria Building, Sydney 1896

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By

Albert James Perier

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[perier_34474 / Home and Away 34474]

Railway Building, Wynyard Square c1940

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an23381795]

Railway House interior c1945

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an23503969]

Reynolds' Cottages at the Rocks c1989

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[054\054582]

(NSCA CRS 1035, Central Sydney Heritage Inventory Photographs, 198)

Royal Arcade, Sydney c1879-1892

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a924046 / PX*D 116, 105]

Scene in the Strand Arcade 1982

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Contributed By

National Archives of Australia

[A6180, 13/12/82/18]

Sharpie's Golf House, Surry Hills 2006

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By

Contributed By

Wikimedia Commons

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SharpiesGolfHouse.JPG]

(GNU Free Documentation License)

Shopping Delights of Parramatta Road 28 August 2010

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By

Contributed By

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/heymrleej/4936941566]

Signwriting firm, Elizabeth Street 1917

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[NSCA CRS 51/691]

South Bankstown Ampol 1952-4

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an24535596]

South side of Martin Place, from Commonwealth Bank to Prudential Building c1938

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By

Australian National Publicity Association

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a390004 / PXA 907 Box 22, 41]

(Walkabout Collection, Mitchell Library)

Steel frame of AWA building and old Mangrovite Belting Ltd building c1938

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an23478366]

Sydney 2008

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Image courtesy of

[0801-1105-21]

Sydney Morning Herald building construction c1924

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By

Arthur Ernest Foster

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[PIC P860/86 LOC Cold store PIC AGF]

Sydney Town Hall and George Street c1958

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By

Contributed By

National Museum of Australia

[Slide 173, via NMA's Flickr set]

(Raymond Morris Collection, courtesy of the photographer)

Sydney from Pyrmont c1900

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By

John Henry Harvey

Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

[H2009.100/152]

The Judge's House, 531 Kent Street 1983

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[053459]

(CRS 422, City Engineer's Department Negatives, 1980 - 1988)

The Malaya Restaurant in the Sutton Forest Meat Company building, Haymarket, December 2000

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[049\049073]

(Mark Stevens Collection 490723)

The New South Wales Club, 31 Bligh Street c1935

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[Home and Away - 34898]

(Mitchell Library)

The Phoencian Club on the corner of Broadway and Mountain Streets, Ultimo 1980s

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

(SRC3332)

The Strand Arcade 1958

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By

William (Bill) Brindle

Contributed By

National Archives of Australia

[A1200, L26814]

The city to the south 2005

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Image courtesy of

[0510-2713-03]

...

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[Dixson Library Q84/56]

(Opp p.17 (detail), 'Sydney in 1848 : illustrated by copper-plate engravings of its principal streets, public buildings, churches, chapels, etc.' from drawings by Joseph Fowles)

Town planning model of Circular Quay 1963

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[SRC4418]

Two Mark Foy's stores, Liverpool Street, Christmas 1936

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[Home and Away - 35250]

(Mitchell Library)

Vaulted ceiling of stained glass, Commonwealth Bank, Martin Place

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By

Douglass Baglin

Contributed By

Private collection

(By kind permission of the Baglin estate)

View from Castlereagh Street down Martin Place 1954

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Contributed By

Sydney Living Museums

[FP08_0069_004]

(Justice & Police Museum)

View of AWA tower from GPO tower, 17 May 1942

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Contributed By

National Archives of Australia

[C4078, N1991C]

View of Macquarie Place 1850s

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a7123001 / SV/237]

(Mitchell Library)

View of part of the River of Sydney in New South Wales, taken from St Phillips Church yard Views in New South Wales 1813

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(in 'Views in New South Wales', Sydney : Absalom West, 1812-1814)

WC Penfold building in George Street c1900

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Courtesy of

Bantex Group - WC Penfold

Wine saloon, George Street 1916

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[NSCA CRS 51/891667]

Wing Sang & Co Haymarket c1909

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

[NSCA CRS 51/507]

Wool Stores, Circular Quay c1890s

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By

Contributed By

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

(Tyrrell Photographic Collection)

Wynyard Park with the AWA building and tower c1939

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an23381789]

Wyoming Chambers, Sydney's newest skyscraper 1911

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[Building Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 45 (12 May, 1911). p45 via Trove]

York Street by Victoria Markets c1895

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By

Contributed By

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

York Street looking south c1875

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By

Bernard Otto Holtermann

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a2267002/DL PXX 73/22]

(Dixson Library)

York Street, Sydney, in 1848 and 1878

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Illustrated Sydney News, 7 September 1878, page 5)

corner of Bathurst and George Streets 1945 and 2015

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By

Contributed By

Private collection

[GIF IT UP 2015]

(CC BY 3.0) (Source material courtesy the State Library of New South Wales. Ref: hood_21250 )

Construction of the AMP Building 1961

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Contributed By

Private collection

Jennifer Farrer on the Strand Arcade 2009

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By

Courtesy:

City of Sydney Council

Jennifer Farrer talks about the Queen Victoria Building 2009

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By

Courtesy:

City of Sydney Council

Mr Eddie Saunders remembers a blacksmith's workshop in Liverpool, interviewed in 1986

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Mr Eddie Saunders was born in 1903 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' He remembers the unexplained disappearance of a building wall in Liverpool on a site that once housed a blacksmith's workshop.
Transcript

EDDIE: In the Liverpool paper there was a bit of an article about when they built the ANZ Bank, or when they put additions onto it, there was a brick wall they built and it disappeared. They couldn't understand why it disappeared, and I know where it disappeared into.

INTERVIEWER: Where did it go?

EDDIE: There was an old well there. On the back side of the blacksmith's shop [where the bank building now was] was a tyreing fire where they used to heat the tyres to put on the wheels [of carts], you know, they'd rebuild the wheels, or put new spokes in, or all sorts of things, and fix the wheel up.

And when they heated the tyres up they had to cool them down, and they had a well there. A big lump of a well too. And they used to put a bucket on a rope, throw the bucket down in the water, drag it out and go around the tyre and cool it down so it wouldn't burn the [wooden] wheel. That's where the wall disappeared [into the well]. The bank couldn't understand it. I could've told them but I wasn't going up to the bank to tell them that.

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Liverpool City Library

(Excerpt from interview with Mr Eddie Saunders, from the 'Looking back at Liverpool : an oral history of the Liverpool region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith)

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