Sydney – The 1860s

By the 1860s Sydney was no longer the bark-and-brick gaol town of the early governors. Transportation to New South Wales had effectively closed, the gold rushes had scrambled money and migration, and in December 1859 Queensland cut away as its own colony — leaving NSW smaller on the map overnight and Sydney’s merchants arguing about what the new borders meant for trade. The skyline argument of the decade was Gothic stone and warehouse Italianate, not another round of temporary convict lumber.

Among the architects who mattered, one name still walks the city: Edmund Blacket. He and Sarah stepped ashore from the emigrant ship Eden in early November 1842; by mid-century he had been Colonial Architect, then the University’s man for the Great Hall and quadrangle, then the Anglican church-builder whose towers still punctuate Newtown, Darling Point and a dozen country towns. The Lewis generation (Mortimer Lewis before him) and other early colonial practices were the ground he built on — this post’s old list can stay as a prompt, not as a verified roll-call of every Hallen and Ginn job.

Read the 1860s as the decade when Sydney started looking permanent: university sandstone, wool stores at the Quay, parish steeples, and a colony that had just lost its northern districts. Soft-correct the live typos (Queensland, South Wales, consequences) on paste; don’t invent a named “mini depression” beyond commercial jitters after separation.

Amongst The Architects in 1850 There Were 

- The Lewis Family

- The Hallens

- The Housins 

- The Ginns 

But The One Who Would Become

as Important As Francis Greenway at The Beginning was EDMUND BLACKET. He Became An Australian In 1842 When He And His Wife Came Ashore From

the Emigrant Ship "Eden"

In 1859, A separate Colony Of Queenzland Was Created And Sydney..... and The Colony Of New Sputh Wales Found Itself A Third Of The Size It Had Been. 

So The Conaequences Led Business in Sydney Into Mini Depression. 

By 1850 The Early Colonial Period In Sydney And Australia Was Coming To An  End. New South Had Started As A. Convict Settlement, But By 1850 Transportation