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Cambridge and Gloucester streets, The Rocks 1900

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Cambridge and Gloucester streets, The Rocks 1900

[C4076, HN1441]

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Playfair Stairs

Playfair Stairs in The Rocks was an unusually shaped stairway, which did not fit neatly into the typical stairway typologies of the city. The stairway bent around the corner into Cambridge Street like an elbow.

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Suburb located north of the central business district on the western shore of Sydney Cove. Characterised by a precinct of restored nineteenth-century buildings which are a major tourist attraction, it was recognised as a separate suburb in 1993.