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Pitt Street, Sydney 1851

By
John Black Henderson
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a9467001 / SSV1/St/Pitt/1]
(Mitchell Library)

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Horses as transport Roads
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Henderson, John Black

State Library of New South Wales

Busby's Bore

Part of the new water system designed by John Busby in the 1820s, Busby's Bore was a major piece of engineering infrastructure for the city, and supplied a population of 20,000 with 1.5 million litres of water per day.

Horses as transport

Roads

Tank Stream

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The fresh water course which supplied the fledgling colony, emptying into Sydney Cove. It was named for three storage tanks which were constructed in the sandstone beside the stream during a drought in 1790. By 1828 the stream had been polluted to such an extent that it could no longer be used as a source of water and was diverted into a sewer, and by the 1870s it had been completely covered. The Tank Stream still flows in a covered storm water drain.