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Street or lane

Type - Street or lane
Abercrombie Lane
Albion Place
Angel Place
Appian Way
Argyle Cut
Ash Street
Back Row East
Bates Drive
Bond Street
Bridge Lane
Bridge Street
Broadway
Bulletin Place
Cahill expressway
Challis Avenue Potts Point
Curtin Place
Customs House Lane
Dalley Street
Darlinghurst Road
Dixon Street
Douglass Lane
Eastern Distributor
Elsie Walk
Eveleigh Street
Ferry Lane
Gorricks Run
Hosking Place
Kensington Street Chippendale
Loftus Lane
Macquarie Street
Market Row
Oxford Street
Palings Lane
Penfold Place
Phillip Lane
Reiby Place
Rowe Street
Tank Stream Way
Thompsons Run
Underwood Street
Victoria Street Kings Cross
Warringah expressway
Wynyard Lane
York Lane

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Street or lane

Abercrombie Lane

Lane way which once serviced the adjacent warehouses and retail premises and were busy with carriers and carts heading down towards the Tank Stream.

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Albion Place

Laneways like this were once common all over the city - the result of custom and chance rather than planning. The southern side is a reminder of the older warehousing period.

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Angel Place

Laneway which weaves past fine commercial buildings and the City Recital Hall linking two major thoroughfares. It now houses a cluster of bird cages called Forgotten Songs by Michael Thomas Hill which commemorates the songs of fifty birds once heard in central Sydney before they were gradually forced out of the city by European settlement.

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Appian Way

Heritage-listed precinct of Edwardian houses in Burwood.

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Argyle Cut

Roadway cut through deep rock between The Rocks and Millers Point, begun by convict labour in 1843, and completed in 1859, with later completion of bridges over the cut. The cut was altered again in the 1920s with the construction of the approaches to the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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Ash Street

Service laneway from the 1800s for the many warehouses and small businesses of the area which now houses upmarket restaurants and bars.

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Back Row East

The eastern back row of the early township of Sydney, where Phillip Street runs today. Behind the street lay bush and scrub. Also known as Back Row, and later as Mulgrave Street, it was renamed 'Phillip Street' by Macquarie in 1810. Back Row West is modern day Kent Street on the other side of the city.

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Bates Drive

Road off the Princes Highway at Sylvania that provides access to Jannali, Kareela, Como and Oyster Bay. It opened in 1962.

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Bond Street

Now a small street limited by the Australia Square development it was once lined with shops, printing and publishing businesses which were swept away during the reconstruction of the area in the 1960s.

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Bridge Lane

Laneway which was once the site of the first timber yards. By the nineteenth century it was surrounded by warehouses including several tea merchants stores.

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Bridge Street

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Street in the centre of the city that runs from Macquarie to George Streets that was named for the bridge across the Tank Stream. The town was both physically and socially divided by the stream. On the eastern side was the Governor's house and tents of the civil establishment and to the west, the makeshift barracks of the military and convicts. The timber log bridge built in October 1788 was replaced by a stone bridge in 1803.

Broadway

Street at the western edge of Sydney's central business district which gives its name to the locality around it.

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Bulletin Place

Laneway first recorded in 1867 which housed the offices of the Bulletin newspaper from 1880 until 1897. Writers like Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson would have recognised the few remaining warehouse facades now dominated by steel and glass.

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Cahill expressway

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Overhead road that crosses Circular Quay above the elevated railway line.

Challis Avenue Potts Point

Broad avenue named for John Henry Challis, a successful merchant in the mid nineteenth century. Many of its Romanesque style terraces with elaborate colonnaded verandahs remain as do some of the Greek Revival style town houses.

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Curtin Place

Narrow lane named for Australia's wartime Prime Minister John Curtin which was once linked to Bond Street by Robin Hood Place. With construction of Australia Square in the 1960s the area was reconfigured for highrise development.

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Customs House Lane

Laneway which serviced the wool stores and warehouses of the Quay when wool was Australia's greatest export. Before Circular Quay was built in the 1830s this was waterfront property with mangrove vegetation and boat sheds, hence the odd shaped blocks and little lanes.

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Dalley Street

Part of the warren of tiny lanes and courtyards that grew up along the Tank Stream, it was previously named for Queen Charlotte. This section was Queen's Court and originally lined up with Charlotte Place (now Grosvenor Street) across George Street.

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Darlinghurst Road

Once lined by exclusive mansions from the 1830s, the road has seen a transformation from the Bohemian atmosphere of the 1930s and 40s where the cafes and nightclubs attracted writers and artists, to the seedier side of bars and strip clubs which proliferated during wartime to entertain servicemen from nearby Garden Island. Today it is a red light district, tourist mecca and home to the desperate and the affluent.

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Dixon Street

The centre of Sydney's Chinese community, the street is marked by ceremonial gates, banners and signage for the many restaurants and businesses in the area. It was once home to many of the old clan associations who were actively involved in the welfare of the Chinese who came to try their luck in the goldfields.

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Douglass Lane

Remnant laneway of the old industrial area of the town with some cobblestones still evident.

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Eastern Distributor

Motorway which links Sydney's central business district with the airport.

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Elsie Walk

Small laneway on the western side of Glebe Public School between Derwent Street and Glebe Point Road.

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Eveleigh Street

Neighbourhood in Redfern which became a centre of Aboriginal life.

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Ferry Lane

Flagstone lane way which once ran to the waterfront from Lower Fort Street enabling pedestrian access to the North Shore ferry which berthed at the bottom of the lane. First appearing on maps in the 1830s it now finishes at The Paddock, a landscaped park created by the local community.

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Gorricks Run

Local road that began as an unfenced cattle run in the tributary valley of Gorricks Creek through Yengo National Park in the Upper Macdonald (Gununday) ranges.

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Hosking Place

Laneway that serviced the warehouses and businesses behind Pitt and Castlereagh streets from the 1830s.

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Kensington Street Chippendale

Small street in Chippendale that runs off Broadway and Cleveland Street. One of the areas oldest streets, it has been redeveloped as part of a 'lifestyle precinct' and public place.

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Loftus Lane

Laneway between Loftus and Young Streets, Sydney, which provided a back entrance to the shipping brokers, customs agents and wool buyers which existed in the area during the shipping boom of the nineteenth century. With pulleys and hoists from many buildings, it was a noisy cart filled lane for decades.

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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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Market Row

Lane behind the George Street markets, which was only joined to Druitt Street in 1914.

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Oxford Street

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Street running south-east from Sydney's centre as far as Bondi Junction, along the line of a Aboriginal walking track, which became an important commercial area and was renamed after the famous London shopping street. Originally part of South Head Road built in 1811, this section was renamed in 1875.

Palings Lane

Thoroughfare to the original 1880s Palings Warehouse now lined with restaurants and bars.

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Penfold Place

Private laneway used to service the stationery warehouse from the 1830s.

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Phillip Lane

Service laneway which once serviced houses on Macquarie Street and the Chief Secretary's Building. The low stone archway and remnant sandstone guttering and cobblestones evoke another era.

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Reiby Place

Once part of the waterfront mangroves it commemorates the nearby home of Thomas and Mary Reibey in Macquarie Place which became the first premises of the Bank of New South Wales.

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Rowe Street

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Small street between Pitt and Castlereagh Streets originally named Brougham Place which was renamed for architect Thomas Rowe in 1875. It became a hub for Sydney's artistic and fashionable set in the mid-twentieth century before most of it was demolished in 1973 for the building of the MLC centre. Only a small portion off Pitt Street remains.

Tank Stream Way

Lane which once formed part of Hamilton Street and was renamed in 1981 after much disappeared under the Australia Square complex. Following the same path as the original water source for Sydney it is a reminder of the mangroves and mudflats which previously existed in the area.

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Thompsons Run

Road that began as an unfenced cattle run in the tributary valley that runs alongside Thompson Creek in the Higher Macdonald area.

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Underwood Street

Once the site of James Underwood's first commercial shipyard in 1798 it is now remote from the original waterfront.

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Victoria Street Kings Cross

Tree lined street of Victorian era terraces which became the epicentre of the Green Bans movement of the 1970s when developers submitted plans to gut the street and build high rise apartments.

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Warringah expressway

Major road to serve the Manly Warringah area.

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Wynyard Lane

Now a service lane for businesses it was once lined with small warehouses and an hotel which took over the former military barrack site from the 1840s. It was one of many sites named for military commander Edward Buckley Wynyard who ensured he would be remembered in the area.

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York Lane

One of Sydney's longest laneways which reveal some of the original warehouses which serviced businesses as well as residential conversions which heralded the return to inner city living from the 1980s.

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