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

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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)

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Banking and Finance Commercial building Pedestrians Roads
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Martin Place
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Commonwealth Trading Bank & Headquarters building

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Australian National Publicity Association

State Library of New South Wales

Martin Place

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

Banking and Finance

Commercial building

Pedestrians

Roads

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.

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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