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Boundary post No 20 - Town Hall and George Street 2012

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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

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Council boundaries

Sydney Square

Open pedestrian plaza between the Town Hall and St Andrew’s Cathedral, above the Town Hall Arcade. It has also been an important rallying point for protests and demonstrations, including against Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War and the dismissal of the Whitlam Government during the 1970s. Also referred to as Town Hall Square.

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