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Roadworkers removing woodblocks from road at St Peters 22 April 1935

By
Sam Hood
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[hood_12140 / Home & Away 12140]
(Mitchell Library)

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Hood, Sam

State Library of New South Wales

The road south

Built as an access road to the farmland south of Sydney town, the road south gradually pushed far beyond Cooks River to the Georges River ferry.

Roads

Children

Construction

Labour

St Peters

Inner western residential, commercial and industrial suburb, named after the Anglican church around which it developed. It is recognisable by the iconic chimneys of the former brickworks, now part of Sydney Park, built to take advantage of vast deposits of clay.

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