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View of Government domain & part of Sydney take...

View of Government domain & part of Sydney taken from Bunkers Hill, N.S. Wales c1820

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Richard Read Senior

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Read Senior, Richard

Colonial artist (c1765?–1829) who arrived in Sydney as a convict in 1813.

National Library of Australia

First Government House

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Residence for the first nine Governors of NSW, which was the first major building in the colony. The first permanent building in the colony, it had two storeys built of bricks and stone comprising six rooms, two cellars and a rear staircase. In front of the house was a garden where many imported plant species were grown and the first orchard planted. The Museum of Sydney, on the corner of Bridge and Phillip Streets, was built on its site.

Bunkers Hill

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High ground at The Rocks, now under Gloucester Walk and the Sirius apartments, named for Eber Bunker, sea captain, who lived there when it was a prestigious address.

The Domain

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Park in central Sydney which dates from the colony's earliest days.

Sydney Cove

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Small bay on the southern shore of Port Jackson, which became the site for the European settlement in Sydney.

Sydney Conservatorium of Music building

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Designed by Francis Greenway as stables for the Government House that had been commissioned by Governor Macquarie in 1816, the building became the Conservatorium in 1916.