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Detail of trigonometrical study of The Rocks showing Playfair Stairs 1855 - 1865

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[Detail of City of Sydney – Trigonometrical Survey, 1855-1865: Block B2, CRS1042/4]
(Detail of City of Sydney – Trigonometrical Survey, 1855-1865: Block B2 )

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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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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. 

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.