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New Post Office, George Street 1846

By
Edward Winstanley
F G Lewis
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a128977 / DG SV1A/22]
(Dixson Galleries)

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Winstanley, Edward

Lewis, F G

State Library of New South Wales

General Post Office

From convict beginnings, the General Post Office was to re-emerge in the 1860s in Italian Renaissance grandeur when James Barnet created an enduring centrepiece for Sydney.

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George Street General Post Office

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Police office and customs house converted to post office use in 1830. It was given a portico façade in the late 1840s, in the Greek Temple style. By the 1860s it was too small and inefficient so was demolished in 1863 and plans were made for the present building on the site.

King, William Francis (Flying pieman)

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Athlete and pie seller, who achieved many feats of pedestrian prowess during the 1840s and became a well known street character in Sydney.