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Detail of birdseye view of Sydney, showing the Bridge Street tram yard 1888

By
MS Hill
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[M3 811.17s/1888/1]
(Detail from 'The City of Sydney [a bird's-eye view]' 1888)

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Bridge Street Tram Yard Circular Quay East Circular Quay Macquarie Street Royal Botanic Gardens
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Hill, MS

State Library of New South Wales

Maps

Trams

Bridge Street Tram Yard

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Shunting yard and tram depot on block that ran between Bridge, Phillip and Macquarie Street behind the Treasure Buildings. The yard opened in 1882 after the steam trams introduced at the International Exhibition in 1879 proved popular and the service was expanded. After the opening of the Fort Macquarie tram depot in 1902 fewer services left from the yard. When steam trams ceased operation in 1910, the yard was used to store electric trams and only special services left from it. The yard was demolished in 1938. Extensions to the rear of the Treasury Buildings that form part of the Intercontinental Hotel now stand on the site.

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.

Mort's Wool Stores, Circular Quay

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Large Italianate warehouse on the corner of Alfred and Young Streets at Circular Quay that was designed by Edmund Blacket in the 1860s for Mort & Co. The building was extended in the 1880s, and demolished in 1959 (by which time it was known as the Farmers and Graziers Building) to make way for the construction of the AMP Building.

Macquarie Street

Street at the eastern edge of Sydney's central business district, designed as a ceremonial thoroughfare by Lachlan Macquarie and containing many of Sydney's public buildings. It was later the best address in the colony, and became a prestigious medical precinct in the twentieth century.

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Royal Botanic Gardens

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Harbourside gardens that combine scientific research with recreation for Sydneysiders.

Colonial Secretary's Office

Office of secretary to the Governor responsible for record keeping of all aspects of administration in the infant colony.

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East Circular Quay

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Area on the eastern shore of Sydney Cove to Bennelong Point.

Circular Quay

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Area of Sydney's central business district that surrounds the quays built on reclaimed land from the 1830s.

Justice and Police Museum building

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Building on the corner of Phillip and Albert streets at Circular Quay comprising two 19th century courthouses and a former police station. Originally built in the 1850s to house the Water Police Court and Water Police Station, the complex has variously been used by several branches of the police service before conversion in the 1980s to the Police and Justice Museum, operated by Sydney Living Museums.