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Friday, October 9, 2026

The Sunbeam Hotel – Corner Riley & Albion Streets – Surry Hills – The 1945 Shooting

The Sunbeam Hotel stood on the corner of Riley Street and Albion Street in Surry Hills, right at the top of the old Frog Hollow. It was a Tooth & Co. pub with a hard reputation, and on Tuesday 10 April 1945, just after six o'clock closing, two local men were shot dead in its public bar. Arthur Graham and Cecil Miller died on the bar-room floor within seconds. The man with the gun was Francis Alexander Walls, a 46-year-old Army cook in uniform, who had a Japanese pistol his son had brought home from New Guinea. He was charged with double murder, but a jury convicted him only of manslaughter, and Mr Justice Herron sent him to gaol for four years. The pub closed in the 1950s and was pulled down, and the corner it overlooked is now Frog Hollow Reserve.

If you've ever cut across Frog Hollow Reserve with the dog, you'd never guess a pub stood on that corner, let alone one the soldier in this story called "a low dive". So I went digging in the old newspapers to see what really happened at the Sunbeam that night in 1945, and what sort of place it was.

Children playing in Hills Reserve, Frog Hollow, Surry Hills, in 1949, with old weatherboard houses and a sandstone wall behind
Kids playing in Hills Reserve, the cleared ground of old Frog Hollow, in 1949. This is the hollow the Sunbeam looked down on from the corner of Riley and Albion Streets. Ted Hood, State Library of New South Wales, no known copyright restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

Where the Sunbeam Stood

The Sunbeam was on the corner of Riley and Albion Streets, Surry Hills. The Sydney Morning Herald of 11 April 1945 put it exactly that way: "the Sunbeam Hotel, at the corner of Riley and Albion Streets, Surry Hills". The City of Sydney Archives has a Town Clerk's file from 1929–30 headed "Frog Hollow resumption. Demolition of party wall. 'Sunbeam' Hotel, 317 Riley Street. Tooth & Co.", so its street address was 317 Riley Street. A council deed packet dated 6 March 1930 covers the same party wall. Some reports called it the Sunbeam in Riley Street and one picture caption put it in Albion Street, but it's the same pub on the same corner.

It had a door facing Albion Street, with steps down to the footpath. That's the door the soldier ran out of in 1945.

Frog Hollow next door

The Sunbeam's big neighbour was Frog Hollow. According to the City of Sydney's history of Frog Hollow Reserve, the hollow was a pocket of land bounded by Anne, Albion, Riley and Little Riley Streets, sitting about nine metres below the surrounding streets. You could only get into it from three directions, down steep flights of stone steps. Between 1895 and 1904 it was known as "one of the most depraved areas of Sydney", and the police said it had bred some of the most "desperate and dangerous criminals" they'd come across. One of them was Samuel "Jewey" Freeman, the leader of the Riley Street Gang.

The council finally moved in with slum clearance. The first houses to go, at 295 to 315 Riley Street, were demolished in 1925. Going by the street numbers, that row ran right up to the Sunbeam at number 317. The council's 1929–30 file about demolishing the hotel's party wall suggests the pub was left standing on the corner while its neighbours came down. Part of the cleared land became a council depot and part became a park called Hills Reserve, named after Pat Hills, the alderman who later became Lord Mayor. Today it's Frog Hollow Reserve, at 303 to 307 Riley Street on the corner of Albion Street.

I wrote about the hollow itself years ago in my Frog Hollow – Albion St & Riley St – Surry Hills post.

A Tooth & Co. Pub with a Hard Name

I couldn't find a full run of licensees for the Sunbeam in the papers I could get at, so I'll stick to what I can back up.

  • Built: Elliot Lindsay, writing for Neighbourhood Media in 2024, says the hotel was built in 1865. I haven't seen that date in a primary source, so treat it as his.
  • Owner: It was a Tooth & Co. house. In July 1930, the City of Sydney's legal opinion books recorded a matter headed "Sunbeam Hotel. Albion & Riley Sts. Tooth & Co. Ltd. Evan's Place. Easement of light and air." The Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the ANU holds Tooth & Co.'s yellow card for the "Sunbeam Hotel, Riley Street, Surry Hills" (about the 1920s to the 1950s), as well as the brewery's property office file on the hotel from 1930 to 1957.
  • Licensee in 1945: Eric Stapleton. His wife, Mrs Louise Stapleton, and her sister, Mrs Vera Porter, worked the bar.

Pub historian Mick Roberts, writing on his Time Gents site in 2023, called the Sunbeam the suburb's "most infamous of 'blood houses'", and wrote that its history "is littered with violent incidents". His article includes a photograph of the hotel taken in September 1948 by Ivan Ive, held by the State Library of NSW. It's a great picture, but it isn't free to reuse, so I've linked his article in the sources rather than putting it here.

A woman in an apron standing in the doorway of a corner grocery covered in hand-painted price signs, Riley and Fitzroy Streets, 1934
The corner store at Riley and Fitzroy Streets, further up Riley Street, during the Depression "bread wars" of August 1934. This is the Riley Street the Sunbeam's regulars knew. Sam Hood, State Library of New South Wales, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Six O'Clock and No More Beer

To understand what happened, you need to know how drinking worked in Sydney in 1945. Six o'clock closing had come in during the First World War, and pubs in New South Wales stopped serving at 6 pm until 1955. Plenty of men knocked off work at five and had an hour to get as much beer into themselves as they could. That was the "six o'clock swill". On top of that, beer was short in the last years of the war, and when a pub's beer was gone, it was gone. Four days after the shooting, a man on the Sunbeam's front steps told two would-be customers there was "no beer in the hotel" at all.

A barmaid pulling beers in a crowded Sydney hotel bar at 6 pm in 1941
A barmaid at work at six o'clock at Petty's Hotel, Sydney, in 1941. This was the six o'clock rush at its worst, and it's the moment the trouble started at the Sunbeam. Max Dupain, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Tuesday 10 April 1945

The afternoon

Francis Alexander Walls was a private in the Australian Military Forces (A.M.F.) and worked as an Army cook. Most papers gave his age as 46, although the Canberra Times said 40. He'd been in the Army about five years. According to Mrs Stapleton at the inquest, he came into the bar at about 3 pm and was drinking with a civilian. That civilian was his son, who was also named Francis Alexander Walls and had since been discharged from the Army. The Age also said the soldier had been in the hotel since about three o'clock. In the statement read to the jury at his trial, though, Walls said he'd been drinking all afternoon and only went to the Sunbeam shortly before 6 pm.

Walls told Detective-Sergeant Oswald Millgate why he had a loaded pistol on him: "I had to deliver some tobacco to a cove there. I knew it was a low dive of a place, a cosmopolitan sort of a place. They get funny down there sometimes, and draw knives, so I took the pistol with me." (Truth, 1 July 1945)

Also in the bar that afternoon were two Surry Hills locals:

  • Arthur John Graham, 31, a City Council cleaner from Griffin Street, Surry Hills. He was married.
  • Cecil Miller, an ironworker from Bennett Place, Surry Hills. The Herald said he was 35 and married, with three sons aged two, four and six and an adopted daughter of 18. The Age, the Canberra Times and the Northern Star gave his age as 45.

Six o'clock

At 6 pm the main bar door was shut. According to the Herald, all but seven men left when they were asked, and one of the seven was in an Australian soldier's uniform. Mrs Stapleton told the Herald that night:

"The soldier had been drinking for some time, and at 6 p.m. I told him that the beer was off and that he had better leave. He asked: 'Aren't you going to serve me?' and when I replied 'No' he became abusive. He said, 'I've got something here that will fix the lot of you,' at the same time pointing to his pocket. He then said something insulting to me." (Sydney Morning Herald, 11 April 1945)

She said Graham and Miller got up off the form along the wall and told him to "break it down" and not to repeat what he'd said. A fight broke out and the soldier was knocked to the floor. At the inquest her account was a bit different. She said the soldier asked for two middies, and when she wouldn't answer him he abused her, and then "Bill Flanagan and Cecil Miller spoke to the soldier and told him to break it down". In that version, the soldier swung at Miller and missed, Miller hit back, and the soldier ended up on the floor.

William Flanagan, a sheet-metal worker from Riley Street, told the coroner he'd asked the soldier not to talk that way in front of women. He said Miller told him, "Be your age and go. There's no more beer."

The shots

The licensee, Eric Stapleton, was down in the cellar. What happened next took only a few seconds. From the floor, the soldier pulled out the pistol and two shots were fired. One bullet went into Graham's right temple and the other hit Miller in the body (the inquest heard it was his chest). The Herald said both men "slumped to the bar floor and died in a few seconds". It put the time at five minutes past six.

Not everyone heard it the same way. Flanagan told the coroner: "There was bang, bang, bang, bang. I thought there were about 14 shots." Every other account, and the evidence about the two dead men, comes back to two shots. The taxi driver George Brian Courtney, who said he was also known as Brian Hunt, said he saw a flash, heard a report, and saw the soldier turn his head. "I thought I might be the next one to get it, so I jumped over the bar. I heard another shot fired as I was going over."

Out the Albion Street door

In the confusion the soldier got to his feet and ran out the door facing Albion Street, leaving his hat on the floor. The Age said he left his kit bag behind too. As he went down the steps, two of the men in the bar tried to grab him, and one threw a beer glass that smashed against the brickwork of the doorway.

Within minutes the hotel was full of detectives. The Herald named Detective-Superintendents Wickham and James, Detective-Inspector G. Smith, Detective-Sergeants Milgate, Lynch, Gordon and Aldridge, and Detective Kelly. They put out a description of a man aged 40 to 43, 5 ft 7 in, thin to medium build, with a dark to olive complexion and an Australian soldier's uniform.

The Daily Mirror of 11 April ran photographs of "the spot in the bar where the fatal shots were fired", along with Mrs Louise Stapleton and Mrs Vera Porter. You can see the page through the Trove link in the sources.

A Japanese Nambu Type 14 pistol made in 1943, shown with its leather holster
A Japanese Nambu Type 14 service pistol made in 1943, with its holster. The 1945 papers only call Walls' gun a Japanese automatic or service pistol. This is just an example of the type soldiers brought home from New Guinea, not the gun itself. Chris.w.braun, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Arrest

He didn't get far. The Canberra Times reported that at 2 am the police arrested "Francis Alexander Walls, 40, A.M.F., at a house in Riley Street". At the inquest, Detective-Sergeant Millgate said he saw Walls at his home in Darley Street, Surry Hills, and that the soldier told him:

"I'm glad you've come. I couldn't sleep. I'm pleased to get it over." (Truth, 1 July 1945)

According to Millgate, Walls said one of the men had knocked him down and he'd tried to defend himself, saying "Give us a go; don't kick me." He said one of the men said "I'll kick you to death", and that he fired but didn't aim at anyone.

On Wednesday morning, 11 April, Walls appeared in uniform at the Central Police Court before Mr Farrington, S.M. He was charged with murdering Cecil Miller and Arthur Graham and with having an unlicensed Japanese automatic pistol. Sergeant Moulden, the police prosecutor, asked for a remand to 19 April. Bail was refused.

Four Days Later, More Trouble

If anybody thought the Sunbeam would settle down after that, they were wrong. On Saturday 14 April, two men came up to an employee who was sitting on the hotel steps minding the place while the licensee was out. The hotel doors were open but no drinks were being served. According to the Daily Mirror, they wanted beer. According to the Sun, it was a bottle of wine. When he told them they couldn't get any, one of them grabbed him, pulled a revolver and poked it into his stomach. He broke free, ran inside and slammed the door. Detective-Sergeant Windsor and Detective Perry later charged two men with assault.

The Sun put it under the heading "Sunbeam Hotel in limelight again". The same article reported three more shootings in New South Wales that day, one of them a bank teller hit when his own gun fell, which gives you an idea of how many guns were around at the end of the war.

A group of barefoot children in a narrow inner-Sydney lane lined with brick walls and paling fences, 1949
Children in an inner-city lane in 1949, from Ted Hood's series on the slums of Surry Hills, Woolloomooloo and Redfern. Ted Hood, State Library of New South Wales, no known copyright restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

The Inquest

The inquest was held at the City Coroner's Court before the Acting-Coroner, Mr Austin. Walls was defended by Mr Dovey, K.C., and Mr J. Bruxner, instructed by Niland and Bohane.

Truth's report of the first sitting, published on 27 May 1945, had some telling evidence:

  • The Government Medical Officer, Dr Stratford Sheldon, said blood tests showed Miller had been "slightly under the influence" and Graham "affected to a much greater degree".
  • Detective-Constable B. Toms said both Miller and Graham were known to the police.
  • Asked whether Graham was "pretty full and pretty cranky", Courtney said "Yes". He said Miller seemed sober to him.
  • Mrs Stapleton said Graham had had a quarrel during the afternoon, but not with the soldier, and that it had blown over. When Mr Dovey asked whether anyone kicked the soldier on the floor, she said, "No, no one kicked him."

Truth printed her name as "Mrs. Mary Stapleton" in that report, but every other report, including Truth's own later one, calls her Louise.

The inquest was adjourned to 6 June, and Walls was remanded again without bail. When it finished, Truth reported on 1 July that the Acting-Coroner had found Walls murdered both men and committed him for trial. Mr Dovey argued that at most a jury would convict him of manslaughter, but bail was refused again. At one point Mr Dovey complained that Mrs Stapleton and Mrs Porter seemed to treat the proceedings as entertainment and were giggling, and both women were ordered out of the court.

The son's evidence

Walls' son, the younger Francis Alexander Walls, told the coroner he'd been in the Sunbeam with his father. In his telling, after a few words at the bar a man in the corner said "Cut it out", and then "they rushed over to my father and started punching and pushing him". He said one of them knocked his father down with a left hook, and that Miller and Graham stood over him "in a half crouched position. I saw movement as though they were kicking him." Then the first shot went off and one man fell. The other man went at his father with his arm up, the second shot went off, and he fell too.

About the gun, he said: "I brought it down from New Guinea and gave it to my father, with some ammunition, as a souvenir." And outside the hotel, he said, his father told him, "I had to do it, otherwise they would have kicked me to death."

Millgate agreed that several of the men in the hotel at the time were known to the police, and said Walls himself had an unblemished record.

Royal coat of arms on the sandstone pediment of Darlinghurst Court House at sunset
Darlinghurst Court House, where the Central Criminal Court sat. Walls was tried here in September 1945. Sardaka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Trial

Walls went on trial at the Central Criminal Court on Monday 3 September 1945. He pleaded not guilty to murdering Arthur Graham, and the Crown said he fired two shots from a Japanese pistol, one of which killed Graham instantly. The reports I found are all about the Graham charge. I didn't find what became of the separate charge over Cecil Miller's death, so I'll leave that open.

Walls' statement was read to the jury, and the Herald summed it up the next day. He said he was knocked down and "kicked four times in the face and head". He thought he was going to be killed and said "Give me a chance", and someone answered, "You'll get no chance, we'll kick you to death." He drew the pistol, someone grabbed him, and "the next instant he heard the pistol explode". He said, "I did not aim at anyone," and that what he did was in self-defence.

On Tuesday 4 September the jury acquitted him of murder and found him guilty of the manslaughter of Arthur John Graham. He was remanded for sentence.

Four years

Mr Justice Herron passed sentence the following week. Truth reported it on 16 September 1945 under the heading "Guns Menace To Society":

"I am determined to put down the carrying of loaded firearms ... whether they be souvenirs of this war or not." (Truth, 16 September 1945)

He gave Walls four years' gaol. The judge told him, "I don't regard you as belonging to the criminal class," and said the police shared that view. He praised Walls' five years in the Army and his family's service, and said that without those things he'd have felt "impelled to have made the sentence much heavier". He also said Graham had a criminal record and that "he and his friends might have made a serious assault upon you". But in his view, "the worst factor of the case was that you took a loaded pistol into a crowded hotel." He said that if Walls behaved himself in gaol he'd be willing to recommend an early release, on condition that Walls left Sydney and kept away from drink.

The Maitland Mercury of 15 September also reported four years. Elliot Lindsay's 2024 article says Walls got seven years on 12 September 1945, but both 1945 newspaper reports I found say four years, so I've gone with those.

Surry Hills at the End of the War

The Sunbeam shooting wasn't a gang killing. It was a pub brawl at closing time with a souvenir gun in the mix. But it happened at a violent time in Surry Hills. In a 2022 piece for Murders Most Foul, Elliot Lindsay describes a gangland war across Sydney, with more than a dozen deaths that peaked between December 1944 and May 1945, much of it in Surry Hills and Darlinghurst. He lists the Sunbeam shooting among the violence of those months. According to Lindsay, the old razor-gang figures of the 1920s were mostly dead or in prison by 1939, and a new crowd had moved in on the wartime money from sly grog and vice.

The Americans were a big part of that. Lindsay writes that African-American servicemen were steered towards Surry Hills and Darlinghurst, and that Durham Hall at 207 Albion Street became the Booker T. Washington Club for Black servicemen in 1943. That's the same Albion Street as the Sunbeam. My post on Durham Hall – 207 Albion Street has more about the house itself.

Then there were the guns. Men coming home from New Guinea brought souvenirs, and some of them were loaded. That's why Justice Herron went out of his way to talk about "souvenirs of this war" when he sentenced Walls.

Durham Hall, a two-storey colonial house behind a garden at 207 Albion Street, Surry Hills
Durham Hall at 207 Albion Street, further along Albion Street from the Sunbeam. During the war it housed the Booker T. Washington Club for African-American servicemen. Sardaka, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Sunbeam After 1945

The pub kept its reputation. In 1950 a detective told the Central Court that the gunman William "Joey" Hollebone "had been battered and bashed in the Sunbeam Hotel, Surry Hills, about a week earlier by a number of men". That was in late April 1950, and the same men had smashed down his front door with an axe looking for him (Truth, 4 June 1950). His lawyer said he got a pistol to protect himself after the bashing. He was caught throwing it over a fence in a Surry Hills street at about 1.30 am on 30 April, and he got 12 months' gaol for carrying it without a licence.

The Sunbeam didn't last much longer. Mick Roberts says it closed in 1954, and Elliot Lindsay says it closed in 1953 and was demolished by 1957. The Tooth & Co. property file on the hotel at the Noel Butlin Archives runs to 1957, which fits with the end. I can't pin down the exact closing year from the papers I've seen, so it was either 1953 or 1954 depending on whose account you follow.

Today there's no pub on that corner. Frog Hollow Reserve has lawn, trees and an off-leash area, and the old stone steps still lead down into it.

Old sandstone steps with an iron handrail leading down into Frog Hollow Reserve, Surry Hills
O'Hears Steps, one of the old stone stairways down into Frog Hollow, photographed in 2011. Steps like these were how people got in and out of the hollow, and the Sunbeam stood right at the top. Sardaka, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Timeline

  • 1865: The Sunbeam Hotel is built, according to Elliot Lindsay.
  • 1895–1904: Frog Hollow, below the hotel, is known as "one of the most depraved areas of Sydney".
  • 1925: Slum clearance starts in Frog Hollow, and 295–315 Riley Street, right next to the Sunbeam, is demolished.
  • 1929–30: The council deals with demolishing the party wall of the "Sunbeam" Hotel, 317 Riley Street, during the Frog Hollow resumption.
  • 9 July 1930: City of Sydney legal opinion on "Sunbeam Hotel. Albion & Riley Sts. Tooth & Co. Ltd. Evan's Place. Easement of light and air."
  • 1943: Durham Hall, 207 Albion Street, becomes the Booker T. Washington Club, according to Lindsay.
  • Tuesday 10 April 1945, about 3 pm: A soldier and his son are drinking in the Sunbeam, according to Mrs Stapleton.
  • 10 April 1945, 6 pm: The bar door closes and the beer is "off". An argument and fight follow.
  • 10 April 1945, 6.05 pm: Arthur Graham (31) and Cecil Miller are shot dead in the public bar.
  • 11 April 1945, 2 am: Francis Alexander Walls is arrested.
  • 11 April 1945: Walls is charged at the Central Police Court with two murders and possessing an unlicensed Japanese pistol, and bail is refused.
  • Saturday 14 April 1945: An employee is held up at gunpoint on the Sunbeam's steps.
  • May 1945: The inquest opens before the Acting-Coroner, Mr Austin, and is adjourned to 6 June.
  • Late June 1945: The coroner finds Walls murdered both men and commits him for trial.
  • Monday 3 September 1945: The trial opens at the Central Criminal Court, and Walls pleads not guilty to murdering Graham.
  • Tuesday 4 September 1945: Walls is acquitted of murder and convicted of manslaughter.
  • September 1945: Mr Justice Herron sentences Walls to four years' gaol. The papers say four years, Lindsay says seven years on 12 September.
  • Late April 1950: Joey Hollebone is bashed in the Sunbeam.
  • 1953 or 1954: The Sunbeam closes. Lindsay gives 1953 and Roberts gives 1954.
  • By 1957: The hotel is demolished, according to Lindsay.
People walking dogs at dusk on the lawn of Frog Hollow Reserve, Surry Hills, under autumn trees
Frog Hollow Reserve at dusk in 2020, with people out walking their dogs. It's a lot quieter now than it was when the Sunbeam was open. Sardaka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Who Was Who

  • Francis Alexander Walls, 46, A.M.F. private and Army cook.
  • Francis Alexander Walls (junior), his son, discharged soldier, who brought the pistol home from New Guinea.
  • Arthur John Graham, 31, City Council cleaner, of Griffin Street, Surry Hills.
  • Cecil Miller, 35 (some papers say 45), ironworker, of Bennett Place, Surry Hills.
  • Eric Stapleton, licensee, who was in the cellar at the time.
  • Mrs Louise Stapleton, the licensee's wife, and Mrs Vera Porter, her sister, both serving in the bar.
  • William Flanagan, sheet-metal worker, of Riley Street, a witness.
  • George Brian Courtney (Brian Hunt), taxi driver, of Balfour Street, Greenwich, a witness.
  • Det-Sgt Oswald Millgate and Det-Const B. Toms, police.
  • Mr Farrington, S.M., at the Central Police Court; Mr Austin, Acting-Coroner; Mr Justice Herron, the trial judge.
  • Mr Dovey, K.C. and Mr J. Bruxner, for Walls.

Where the Old Reports Don't Agree

  • Miller's age: 35 in the Herald, the Sun and Truth, but 45 in the Age, the Canberra Times and the Northern Star.
  • Walls' age: 46 in most reports, but 40 in the Canberra Times.
  • Where he was arrested: "a house in Riley Street" (Canberra Times), or his home in Darley Street, Surry Hills (Det-Sgt Millgate at the inquest).
  • When he got to the pub: about 3 pm according to Mrs Stapleton and the Age, or shortly before 6 pm according to Walls' own statement.
  • Was he kicked? Walls and his son said yes. Mrs Stapleton said "no one kicked him".
  • How many shots: two in nearly every account, or "about 14" according to Flanagan.
  • The hold-up on 14 April: the men wanted beer (Daily Mirror) or a bottle of wine (Sun).
  • The sentence: four years in Truth and the Maitland Mercury, seven years in Elliot Lindsay's 2024 article.
  • When it closed: 1953 (Lindsay) or 1954 (Roberts).

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Sources

Newspapers (via Trove, National Library of Australia)

Other sources

Pictures

  • Children playing in Hills Reserve, Frog Hollow, Surry Hills, in 1949, with old weatherboard houses and a sandstone wall behind. Ted Hood, State Library of New South Wales, no known copyright restrictions: Wikimedia Commons
  • A barmaid pulling beers in a crowded Sydney hotel bar at 6 pm in 1941. Max Dupain, public domain: Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman in an apron standing in the doorway of a corner grocery covered in hand-painted price signs, Riley and Fitzroy Streets, 1934. Sam Hood, State Library of New South Wales, public domain: Wikimedia Commons
  • A group of barefoot children in a narrow inner-Sydney lane lined with brick walls and paling fences, 1949. Ted Hood, State Library of New South Wales, no known copyright restrictions: Wikimedia Commons
  • A Japanese Nambu Type 14 pistol made in 1943, shown with its leather holster. Chris.w.braun, CC BY-SA 3.0: Wikimedia Commons
  • Durham Hall, a two-storey colonial house behind a garden at 207 Albion Street, Surry Hills. Sardaka, CC BY-SA 3.0: Wikimedia Commons
  • Royal coat of arms on the sandstone pediment of Darlinghurst Court House at sunset. Sardaka, CC BY-SA 4.0: Wikimedia Commons
  • Old sandstone steps with an iron handrail leading down into Frog Hollow Reserve, Surry Hills. Sardaka, CC BY 3.0: Wikimedia Commons
  • People walking dogs at dusk on the lawn of Frog Hollow Reserve, Surry Hills, under autumn trees. Sardaka, CC BY-SA 4.0: Wikimedia Commons
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