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Congregational Church, Pitt Street 1856

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Congregational Church, Pitt Street 1856

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Samuel Thomas Gill

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National Library of Australia

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Gill, Samuel Thomas

National Library of Australia

Women of Pitt Street 1858

Pitt Street in 1858 was alive with busy women, who were property owners, independent tenants, employees and small-scale businesswomen. This virtual walk rescues them from the obscurity of history, and shows how varied women's lives in mid-nineteenth-century Sydney really were.

Religious building

Uniting

Congregationalist

Pitt Street Uniting church

Church built for the Congregational community which also housed a school room for 130 pupils on the upper floor. It was saved from demolition in the 1970s by the Green Bans movement.

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