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Water Police Court, Phillip Street, Sydney, 1870

By
Charles Percy Pickering
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a089337 / SPF/337]
(NSW Government Printing Office collection of copy negatives, frame no. GPO 1 - 05667)

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Pickering, Charles Percy

State Library of New South Wales

Glebe Courthouse

Glebe Courthouse was built in 1889 in recognition of a growing Sydney metropolitan area. However, its use as a courthouse was frustrated by the government's refusal to appoint additional stipendiary magistrates.

Courts and judicial system

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Water police

Justice and Police Museum building

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Building on the corner of Phillip and Albert streets at Circular Quay comprising two 19th century courthouses and a former police station. Originally built in the 1850s to house the Water Police Court and Water Police Station, the complex has variously been used by several branches of the police service before conversion in the 1980s to the Police and Justice Museum, operated by Sydney Living Museums.