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Police station

Type - Police station
Balmain Watch House
Central Police Station and Court House
Darlinghurst Police Station
Glebe Police Station
Malabar Police Station
Manly Police Station
Paddington Police Station and Courthouse
Redfern Police Station
Rose Bay Police Station
Water Police Station

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Police station

Balmain Watch House

Two storey sandstone police lock-up constructed in what was once one of the toughest areas of Sydney.

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Central Police Station and Court House

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Police station and courthouse on the corner of Druitt and George Street that occupied part of the old Central Markets from the early 1830s, including the domed Market House that had been built in 1820. The markets were removed to the rear of the building. Never entirely satisfactory as a police station and court, by 1880 the building was becoming derelict and was eventually demolished in 1889 along with the rest of the markets. The site is now occupied by the Queen Victoria Building.

Darlinghurst Police Station

Edwardian style police station building on the corner of Forbes and Bourke Streets near Taylor Square. The building was designed by Walter Liberty Vernon in 1899 to replace a previous station on the same site that had become inadequate. The station was decommissioned in 1987 after the Sydney Police Centre on Goulburn Street in Surry Hills opened and was occupied by community health organisations.

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Glebe Police Station

Late Victorian two storey building prominently located on a corner site. It forms part of the largely intact 19th century character of Glebe.

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Malabar Police Station

Pair of residences in Queen Anne style at 1234 Anzac Parade thought to be built about 1910 that were used as police facilities for over 60 years.

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Manly Police Station

Local police office and interview rooms for Manly area.

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Paddington Police Station and Courthouse

Victorian Free classical style facility which has served the community since 1888. The court is now closed but the police station remains.

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Redfern Police Station

Police Station in Redfern, originally in Turner Street, recently relocated to Lawson Square.

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Rose Bay Police Station

Originally the gatehouse for Woollahra House and believed to have been built in the late 1850s. It was acquired and remodelled in the 1930s for police use. Further additions and modifications have significantly altered the structure.

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Water Police Station

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Described as a 'very useful building' when it opened in Feburary 1858, the ground floor consisted of a guard room on one side and an office on the other with cells for the prisoners at the read. On the first floor there was a barrack room and three rooms for the inspectors. The water police occupied the building until 1913 when a new headquarters was built at Dawes Point and it became known as Philip Street Police Station.  In 1990 it became part of the Police and Justice Museum managed by Sydney Living Museums.