Flinders Street - Taylor Square To Moore Park  - Darlinghurst - New South Wales 

Wow. Wow. These two little terraces seems to be one sits next to the old taxi club

“Melrose” - This Magnificent Estate Was On The Cornr Of Flinders Street And Albion Street, & Sat Directly across From St Johns. 

It Was Demolished In 1902

The Back Lane Of “Melrose” On Flinders Street 

Taylor Square 

Wow. Looks like One big roundabout. Really hard I couldn’t make a tonne of them and some of the traffic could go under to the east and some of them could’ve gone down backstreet but that’s neither here nor there now I guess it would’ve wrecked Busbys all of it still runs along Oxford Street to Hyde Park

The Flinders Hotel. 

Corner of Flinders Street and South Dowling Street. Now there is nothing there it’s all been demolished that when they were making the Eastern distributor

The Sydney Fig Trees

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In 1873 Charles Moore, Colonial Botanist And Director Of The Botanical Gardens

Charles Moore, Had Been Appointed The Colonial Botanist upon His Arrival Fro

 England. He Was Also The Director Of The Botanical Garden And Designed Them Ready For The International

exhibition In 1879. 

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The only Positive Aspects Of The Whole Operations Over The Last Few Months Is That There Has Been Some Real Outrage From The "EASTERN SUBURBS SET"

BUT STANDING AROUND THE TREES HOLDING HANDS SINGING KUM-BY-YAH IS NOT, AND DID NOT SAVE THEM

THE EASTERN SUBURB TREE HUGGING SET 

Had all good intentions when It Came To The Trees, but Thjs State Government Js Well Versed On How To Deal With, And Intimidate These Well Meaning People. 

Everyone keeps Talking About Canopies...

How about We Talk About BETRAYEL.. AND TREASON By The Moore Park And Centennial Park Trust, By Selling Off The Strip Of Land On Alison Road For $7 Million Dollars To Light Rail Operator (Not The State Govt, As People First Thought 

UNDER SECTION 5 SUBSECTION 19 

A) none Of The Original Land Granted By Governor Macquarie on The 10th Oct 1811 Shall Be Resold Or Appropriated by Private Business Or Government Unless Through An Act Of Parliament 

Governor Macquarie Sealed Up The Whole Area Through The 2nd SYDNEY COMMON DEED. Maybe He Could Forsee Money Hungry Governments 

The CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS ACT OF 1887

Was When Work Began On Creating CENTENNIAL PARK. Charles Moore - Head Royal Colonial Botanist For The Sydney Botanical Gardens Started Planting Moreton Bay Figs And Port Jackson Figs Along RAndwick Road (which Became Anzac Parade After WW1) in 1873. The First Sod Of Soil Was Turned On March 22 Of T

PLANT SPECIES 

- Phoenix Canonensis

- Ficus Rubiginosa (Port Jackson Fig)

- Ficus Hillii ( Hill's Fig)

- Washinglonia Robusta (Cotton Palm)

- Ficus Macrophylla (Moreton Bay Fig)

- Pinus Radiata (Monteray Pine)

- Araucacia Heterophylla ( Norfolk Island Pine)

- Salix Babylonica (Weeping Willow) 

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Watching All The Trees Being Chopped Down Around Me Really Inspired Me To Start Painting Again After All These Years