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Botany Bay from Newtown, December 1862

By
Henry Grant Lloyd
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a5894071 / DL PX 42]
(Dixson Library)

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Lloyd, Henry Grant

State Library of New South Wales

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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