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Steam driven pump, Crown Street Pumping Station, Surry Hills c1915

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City of Sydney Archives

The City of Sydney Archives holds items from as early as 1842 when the Municipal Council of Sydney was established, and manage, preserve and provide access to more than 1 million items, including documents, photographs, maps, plans and data. The collection consists of City of Sydney corporate archives, items collected from the community relating to the City of Sydney local area and published reference material. Use the links to go directly to the City of Sydney's website.

Water

Finding and securing enough water for Sydney's needs has been a challenge since the arrival of the Europeans in 1788, and over two centuries water supply has prompted some of the largest engineering schemes undertaken in Sydney.

Water supply

Surry Hills

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Inner-city suburb located immediately to the south east of the central business district. After explosive growth in the second half of the nineteenth century it came to be seen as a slum, then experienced gentrification from the late 1960s.

Crown Street reservoir

Completed in 1859, Crown Street reservoir is the oldest working reservoir in Australia. Built from special bricks imported from England with wooden columns and a fire-proof jack-arch roof, it was part of the early Botany Swamps water scheme and still supplies water, now from Warragamba Dam, to the inner city of Sydney.

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