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Boundary post No 20 - Town Hall and George Street 2012

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Peter Rickwood
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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?

Local government

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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