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Victory Day parade, Macquarie Place, Bridge Street 19 July 1919

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Lands Department Building

The Lands Department Building on Bridge Street, one of Sydney's iconic 'sandstones', was designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet and embodies the work of the surveyors of New South Wales.

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Lands Department building

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Sandstone administration building on Bridge Street. The building is in the Renaissance Revival style, with 12 niches on each facade with sculptures of explorers and legislators. The most recent addition is that of James Meehan who was added in 2010. In 2015 the government sold a 103-year lease for this and the neighbouring Education Department building to the Singapore based Pontiac Land Group to develop a hotel.

Macquarie Place

The open space at the corner of Loftus and Bridge streets marked with an obelisk from which roads in the colony were measured. Originally the area was swampy mangrove land on the banks of the Tank Stream it has been a public meeting place since the 1790s.

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Bridge Street

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Street in the centre of the city that runs from Macquarie to George Streets that was named for the bridge across the Tank Stream. The town was both physically and socially divided by the stream. On the eastern side was the Governor's house and tents of the civil establishment and to the west, the makeshift barracks of the military and convicts. The timber log bridge built in October 1788 was replaced by a stone bridge in 1803.