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Stairs for pedestrians in Sydney, NSW [Butler S...

Stairs for pedestrians in Sydney, NSW [Butler Stairs, Woolloomooloo] c1900

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John Henry Harvey

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Harvey, John Henry

State Library of Victoria

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Butler Stairs

Stairways such as Butler Stairs were part of the Sydney City Council’s Victorian infrastructure boom, and the sophisticated level to which these stairways are detailed shows a level of civic pride and financial investment in pedestrian infrastructure that had not been undertaken previously in the city.

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Potts Point

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Small, densely populated inner-eastern suburb, joined to Garden Island in 1942. It contains significant nineteenth-century buildings as well as some of Sydney's earliest apartment buildings in the Art Deco style. It includes the locality of Kings Cross.

Woolloomooloo

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Once a desirable bayside address east of central Sydney, the area grew more congested and grimy as the wharves expanded and the boarding houses and pubs gave refuge to larrikin gangs and petty criminals. Though now bisected by freeways and rail it is slowly reclaiming its heritage and character with extensive residential development and sympathetic landscaping.

Butler Stairs

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A set of 103 steps which connect Brougham Street, Woolloomooloo with Victoria Street, Potts Point.