Bulletin Place - Laneways - Sydney - New South Wales

Bulletin Place - Laneways - Sydney - NSW

The Basement Has Long Been A Favourite Jazz Venue In The City. Beyond This, Warehouses & Stores From The Mid 19th Century Preserve A Little Enclave Of Olde Sydney. The Bulletin Newspaper Was Published Here From 1880, & Writers Such As Henry Lawson & A B Paterson Would Have Frequented This Little Street. 

This Lane Possibly inspired The Lines Of Patterson's Famous Poem 
"Clancy Of The Overflow" 
About Dingy Offices And Folk With 
"Stunted Forms & Weedy, For Townsfolk Have No Time To Grow, They Have No Time To Waste"

Reiby Place - Macquarie Place - Sydney - New South Wales

Reiby Place - Near Macquarie Place - Sydney - NSW 

Today Reiby Place Is Lined With Slick Glass & Concrete, But It's Name Commemorates One Of The City's Earliest Entrepeneurs. 

Before This Area Was Drained, Thomas & Mary Reiby Had A House On the Waterfront Macquarie Place. Mary Reiby, Convicted For Horse Stealing, Became A Wealthy & Respected Widow, & In 1817 Her House Became The First Premises Of Australia's First Bank, The Bank Of New South Wales.

Mary Reiby's Face Is On The $20 Note.





Mary Reiby 1777 to 1855 was a convict who became a highly successful business woman was interested in hotels, trading, shipping, farming in city buildings.

She briefly owns the land around Argyle stores in 1828. Mary Reiby was a governor of the free Grammar School and a founding member of the bank of New South Wales, as well as an active in church and charity work

Macquarie Place - Sydney - New South Wales

Macquarie Place - Bridge Street - Sydney - NSW

Macquarie Place is that small triangular park at Bridge and Loftus Streets — Tank Stream side of early Sydney Cove — and it still feels like the colony’s front lawn. Governor Lachlan Macquarie regularised it as a civic square; in 1818 Francis Greenway’s sandstone Obelisk of Distances went up as the official zero point for public roads. The inscriptions still give mileages to Parramatta, Windsor, Liverpool, Bathurst, Macquarie Tower at South Head and the north head of Botany Bay. Circular Quay reclamation and street extensions later nibbled the reserve; the old Macquarie Place roadway was folded into the park in the later twentieth century.

The State Heritage precinct also holds the anchor and a cannon associated with HMS Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet (anchor salvaged from the 1790 Norfolk Island wreck and placed here in the early 1900s; the cannon had earlier signal use at South Head). A bronze of merchant and industrialist Thomas Sutcliffe Mort by Pierce Francis Connelly (1883) stands where Greenway’s Doric public fountain (c.1819–20) once stood — the fountain was demolished to make way for the monument. Other fabric includes 1869 Renny mayoral gate posts, an 1857 cast-iron drinking fountain, traces of a former underground convenience, and plane trees planted in 1954 at the start of the Remembrance Driveway to Canberra.

Images here survey the obelisk, Sirius relics, Mort statue and everyday park use in the CBD.

Originally swampy mangrove land

Originally swampy mangrove land on the banks of the Tank stream, this triangular morsel of land is awash with historic relics.
The obelisk records distance in miles by road to important places in the colony 7 beyond.
The sandstone monument was designed by Francis Greenway, who was sent to the colony for forgery & became Sydney's first Colonial Architect.
Along one side of the park with the Canon & the weather anchor of HMAS serious, flagship of the first fleet which arrived in Sydney in 1788.
The imposing statue of the 19 century industrialist Thomas Sutcliffe mort looks over Bridge Street