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Boundary post No 20 - Town Hall and George Str...

Boundary post No 20 - Town Hall and George Street 2012

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Peter Rickwood

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Rickwood, Peter

Peter Rickwood is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at UNSW and President of the Blue Mountains Historical Society Inc.

Sydney's Boundary Markers

When Sydney was declared a town, Governor Bourke had eight stones erected to mark the boundaries. Less than a decade later, Governor Gipps declared Sydney to be a city, marking out the boundaries of the 1842 wards with a series of cast iron posts. Where are those early markers now?

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Surveying

Town Hall Square

Public space between Sydney Town Hall and St Andrew's Cathedral which was constructed above Town Hall station and shopping arcade.

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