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Martin Place, Elizabeth Street, Rural Bank c1936

Martin Place, Elizabeth Street, Rural Bank c1936

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Martin Place

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Wide street running through Sydney's centre, from the General Post Office at the George Street end, and completed when Sydney City Council resumed property to extend the street all the way to Macquarie Street in the 1930s. Lined with elegant buildings of grand design and lavish materials it has been entirely pedestrian since 1979.

Rural Bank of New South Wales building

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Moderne bank building constructed in 1936 at 52 Martin Place for the Rural Bank of New South Wales. It was demolished in 1983 despite public outrage to make way for a new State Bank tower.