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Old Cambridge Street, The Rocks, now demolished...

Old Cambridge Street, The Rocks, now demolished c1910

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John Henry Harvey

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State Library of Victoria

[ H2009.100/415 ]

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Harvey, John Henry

State Library of Victoria

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Playfair Stairs

Playfair Stairs in The Rocks was an unusually shaped stairway, which did not fit neatly into the typical stairway typologies of the city. The stairway bent around the corner into Cambridge Street like an elbow.

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The Rocks

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Suburb located north of the central business district on the western shore of Sydney Cove. Characterised by a precinct of restored nineteenth-century buildings which are a major tourist attraction, it was recognised as a separate suburb in 1993.

Playfair Stairs

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Set of steps built to link the higher Gloucester Street with Cambridge Street, The Rocks at the lower level on the south-east of Argyle Cut.