Alfred And Albert Streets - Semi Circular Quay

 Alfred & Albert Street's - Circular Quay East - 

Proclaimed January 7, 1845

 We must establish the perspective of today's Broadway roadway was in the beginning, the mud for tank stream Estuary. At the Western end with the overhead railway slips across Pete Street and George Street,  we are near enough to the location of the first, the Kings wharf, and afterwards, in the time of Queen Victoria, the Queens wharf.

Skinny pants artistic statement of 1842 holds a glimpse of and I'm getting the gateway to a future metropolis yet manages to convey some of the romance in a worthy way.

Around the south west corner of Sydney Cove Smugglers found that they could float contraband the tide before sunup or late in the climbing what's the builder of the little ships could launch his hopes up as far as Underwood Street and see them safely born to the bosom of Sydney Cove.

However, in 1845 Albert Street had crept hesitantly down to Phillip Street, and Alfred Street struggled to establish its personality in front of the-year-old Customs House. Those streets must've been very insignificant because the directory of 1851 speaks of Circular Quay, 

By 1855 in circular key could've been more accurate accurately describe the semi circular key, the two Street lights lined up to acceptable brokers in their stores it suitable neighbours for the customs, particularly as were was acting as vice Council for Denmark and Portugal and also looking after the concealer interests of Chile, Spain, Norway and Sweden. Might have him self in Australia more in mind.

About this time, when the stone wall is nearly completion to make the art of semi circular key self evident, the Halfpenny bridge - The Bon Accord, which has been made between what is now at the paragon in Pitt Street, became superseded by the filament. Pete Street flooded in the wake of the receding  tank stream below Hunter Street and made ready to gain access to the old Commiseriat stores and the western side of Sydney Cove.


However those only assisted Circular Quay to create a fame & fortune, and a great clippers instead of anchoring off Moore's Wharf as well for Millers Point now filled the canvas and lay at ease  in the Semi circular key. The figureheads peered into the dark and dank  of the Woolstore's and sought out the valuable cargo is which rolled from shore to  ship side along great spars of iron bark and turpentine

Buckingham’s Department Store – Oxford Street, Darlinghurst

Stand on the Oxford and Riley corner today — Oxford Square / Oxford Village — and you are standing on the ghost of Buckingham’s, one of Darlinghurst’s big department stores. Draper William Buckingham opened the business in 1878; after several moves the firm was established in Riley Street by the mid-1890s and occupied the Oxford–Riley corner by the early twentieth century (City of Sydney notes a store presence from 1894; the Dictionary of Sydney dates the department-store building’s “opened” milestone to 1908).

Buckingham’s made its name serving the “respectable working class” of nearby suburbs and was among the earliest Sydney retailers to push an easy-credit / hire-purchase style system — later a model for competitors. The family company (Buckingham’s Ltd from 1920) kept the Oxford Street flagship until the business was sold in 1967 and the building was emptied for redevelopment. On Anzac Day, 25 April 1968, the partly cleared structure went up in a spectacular fire visible across much of Sydney. The site was later redeveloped as a shopping complex. The store no longer stands — this post is site memory.

Photographs here record Buckingham’s as a lost Oxford Street retail landmark.

Buckingham’s was a major Darlinghurst department store on the corner of Oxford and Riley Streets (today’s Oxford Square / Oxford Village area). Draper William Buckingham opened his business in 1878; after several moves the firm was established in Riley Street by the mid-1890s and occupied the Oxford–Riley corner by the early twentieth century (City of Sydney notes a store presence from 1894; the Dictionary of Sydney dates the department-store building’s “opened” milestone to 1908).

Buckingham’s became known for serving the “respectable working class” of nearby suburbs and was among the earliest Sydney retailers to promote an easy-credit / hire-purchase style system, later a model for competitors. The family company (Buckingham’s Ltd from 1920) retained the Oxford Street flagship until the business was sold in 1967 and the building was prepared for redevelopment. On Anzac Day, 25 April 1968, the partly emptied structure was destroyed in a spectacular fire visible across much of Sydney. The cleared site was later redeveloped as a shopping complex.

Photographs here record Buckingham’s as a lost Oxford Street retail landmark.

Its presence reflected the rise of large-scale retailing along Oxford Street, a major commercial thoroughfare in inner Sydney. The store’s history illustrates how local department stores shaped everyday shopping in the city.

BUCKINGHAMS DEPARTMENT STORE 

Buckingham’s Department Store once stood as a prominent retail landmark on Oxford Street in Darlinghurst, capturing the scale and ambition of Sydney’s department-store era.