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Cambridge Street looking south, The Rocks 4 January 1867

By
Samuel Elyard
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a2086001 / DGD 15/vol.5/69]
(Original title ' Lower Fort St? 1867.')

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Elyard, Samuel

State Library of New South Wales

Sydney in 1858

In 1858, Sydney had become a bustling prosperous town, with a university, commercial centre, restaurants and fine town houses. As in London, though, these amenities existed side by side with poverty and misery for some citizens.

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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Millers Point

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Inner-city suburb on the western side of the Harbour Bridge's southern approaches. It was named for the windmills that were built on its heights, and their owner, John Leighton, known as Jack the Miller.

The Rocks

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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.

Playfair Stairs

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Set of steps built to link the higher Gloucester Street with Cambridge Street, The Rocks at the lower level on the south-east of Argyle Cut.