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Botany Bay from Newtown 15 October 1853

Botany Bay from Newtown 15 October 1853

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State Library of New South Wales

[a1599040 / PXA 1987, 37]

(Mitchell Library)

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From Sheas Creek to Alexandra Canal The road south

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Leigh, William

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.

From Sheas Creek to Alexandra Canal

Once a stream draining much of southern Sydney, the conversion of the Sheas Creek to an industrial canal resulted in a polluted and ugly corridor that has defied attempts at remediation

Botany Bay

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Large bay south of the city of Sydney, into which the Cooks and Georges rivers run.

Alexandria

Largely industrial inner-city suburb located south of Sydney's central business district, named after Princess Alexandra, wife of Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). By the 1940s, it was the nation's largest industrial district, and called itself the "Birmingham of Australia".

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Erskineville

Formerly industrial, now residential inner-city suburb to the southwest of central business district. The Rev. George Erskine, a Wesleyan minister, built a house here in 1830 which he called Erskine Villa.

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Newtown

Inner-west suburb which developed along the main road south from Sydney. It became a prosperous shopping district in the late 19th century, and later a working-class and migrant suburb, now gentrified.

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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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Tempe

Inner-west suburb on the northern bank of Cooks River which grew from the workers camp established to build the Cooks River dam in 1839. By the 1850s it was also home to limeburners, woodsmen and fishermen.

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