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Sacred Heart Church, Darlinghurst 1870

By
Charles Percy Pickering
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a089051 / SPF/51]

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Pickering, Charles Percy

State Library of New South Wales

Darlinghurst

Used by its traditional owners, the Gadigal people, well into the 1840s, Darlinghurst was a quarry and windmill site before it became popular for the fine villas of the colony's well-to-do, in the 1830s. Subsequent booms and busts raised and lowered the suburb's fortunes, creating the mix of poor and posh, criminal and respectable that have made Darlinghurst one of Sydney's most interesting localities.

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Religious building

Sacred Heart Catholic church Darlinghurst

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First Catholic church in Sydney's eastern suburbs, opened in 1852.

Darlinghurst

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Inner suburb to the east of the city which has been home to both gentry and underclass. The former Darlinghurst Gaol is now the National Art School.