The first milestone

THE FIRST MILESTONE

George Street, Eastern Side, Slightly South Of Liverpool Street

Because the lettering had weathered Since its erection in 1818, the City Council In 1903 had the milestone removed and recut with the inscription Sydney 1 mile this was most confusing. Where did Sydney Begin and where did Sydney end

In December 1793 the spot where the first milestone stands was known as Brickfield Hill. Captain Collins judge advocate in his journal of that year For  describes the building of a home for soldiers at the present day wynyard Square

The milestone Located At Liverpool NSW 

The John Fraser Public Fountain - Hyde Park

John Fraser Public Fountain - Hyde Park- New South Wales

 

John Fraser Was An Irish Businessman

And Philanthropist

Macquarie Street And Associated Landmarks

            In 1792, Governor Arthur Phillip Proclaimed The Open Space Which Became The Botanical Gardens, Domain, Hyde Park, And Macquarie Street For Government Use.

            The Street Itself Was Proclaimed In 1810 By Governor Lachlan Macquarie. At First It Only Ran From Hyde Park To Bent Street, But In 1845 it was Extended In Both Directions.

CENTRE OF SOCIETY –

CENTRE OF MEDICINE – Being Macquarie Street Specialist Became A Prestigious Title

CENTRE OF CEREMONY - Ceremonial=al Tradition Began With The Waterloo Ball Of 1816 (Commemorating Wellington’s Victory Seven Months Late As The Colony Had Only Just Received The News)

1 Hyde Park – Part Of Governor Phillip’s 1792 Common, Renamed Hyde Park By Governor Macquarie. The Archibald Fountain Was Added In The 1920’a

2. Queens Square – The Centerpiece Of The Macquarie Town Plan Prince Albert’s Statue Arrived In 1866

3. Hyde Park Barracks – It Housed Convict Gangs Overnight. Above The Entrance Is The Oldest Clock In Australia. The Barracks Survived Several Plans For Demolition

4. The Mint – Completed in 1816 – As Part Of the Rum Hospital. Restored In the 1970’s

5. Sydney Hospital – 

Known As the Rum Hospital. The Builders Were Paid With 3 Years/45,000 Gallons Of Rum. I 

I Have Read That Francis Greenway i

Didn't Actually Design "THE RUM HOSPITAL"

And That In Actual Fact It Was Lady Macquarie Behind The Design Of The Original Building. In 1810 - 1815 Lady Macquarie And Elizabeth MacArthur Were About The Only Two Ladies That Would've Been Fully Literate In The New Colony. 

One Of The Main Reasons It Would Not Have Been Public Knowledge That Lady Macquarie Designed The Rum Hospital Building Was Tjat It Was Unacceptable For A Female To Do That Sort Of Thing.   

6. Martin Place – Named After the 19^th Century Premier Sir James MARTIN. Most Significant Is The Reserve Bank And Museum If Australian Currency

7. St Stephen’s Church –

8. Parliament House –

9. The State Library –

10. Wyoming – One Of The Sky Scrapers Of Macquarie Street In 1909, It Was Designed By W. Burcham Clamp -

11. Horbury House – These Are Two Survivors Of A Terrace Of Seven Built In 1845 As Gentleman’s’ Residences. Early Occupants Include Robert Lowe (Later Viscount Sherbrooke), Conrad Martens

12. The Royal Botanical Gardens – The First Farm Was Started Here. Later, Governor Bligh’s Daughter, Mary, Had More Success With Gardening. The Initial Collection Was Restricted But The Enlarged Gardens Were Opened To The Public In 1831, And The Basis Of The Present Gardens Established By Charles Moore From 1848 – 1896. The Garden Palace Was In These Grounds.

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13. The Royal College Of Physicians – No 145 Was The Home Of John Fairfax.

14. BMA House – The British Medical Association House Was Built In 1929, as Medical Chambers With A Lecture Hall On The Ground Floor.

15. History House (Royal Australian Historical Society) - Another Remnant Of A Gentleman’s Residency. This Was By Architect George Mansfield Housed The 1870’s Reform Club. As The Middle Classes Moved Away From The City It Became A Boarding House And Then Homes And Rooms of Medical Practitioners And Acquired By The RAHS in 1969

16. The Astor – in 1914 John O’Brien Built The Exclusive 13 Storey Astor Apartments Designed With A Basement Restaurant Linked By Service Lifts To Each Apartment, Enabling Dinner Deliveries To Residents. The roof Garden Included A Glasshouse, Fernery And Dance Floor.

17. Chief Secretary’s Building – The Fine Interior Of This French Second Empire Style Government Office Designed By Architect James Barnet .

18. Treasury Building – Now Included In The Intercontinental Hotel This Was Built IN two stages, Beginning With Te Treasury (The Bridge Street Corner) In 1849 In a Classical Revival Style And Bridge Street By W L Vernon To Include The Premier’s Officer

19. Conservatorium Of Music – Beyond The Equestrian statue Of Edward VII This Stable Could Accommodate 30 Horses Plus Servants

20. Government House – Beyond The Gatehouse And Down the Roadway To The North Of The Former Stables In The Gothic Castle Style Government House. Still Used By The State Governor. The house Is Open To Te Public on Certain Days Designed In England By Edward Blore And Constructed Under Mortimer Lewis’s Supervision 1837-45

21. Transport House (1938) and Sir Stamford Hotel (1896)

22. Royal Automobile Club

23. Bennelong Point -

QUOTE

1857 - by John Askew

"Tiers Of Fine Buildings Seem To Rise Once Above The Other, Like The Seats In An Amphitheatre, And Towering Above Them All Is The Tall Spire Of St James Church"

1857 - by John Askew

"The Best Thing In This Neighbourhoods In All It's Glory Is On A Summer's Evening, About An Hour After Sunset, When The Drawing Rooms Are In A Blaze Of Light. Then The Rich Tones Of A Piano Or Some Other Musical Instrument Are Heard Gushing Fourth From The Open Windows, Accompanied By The Sweet Melody Of Female Voices. Beautiful Ladies, Dressed In White May Be Seen Sitting Upon The Verandahs, or Lounging On Magnificent Couches, Partially Concealed By The Folds Of Rich Crimson Curtains."

The Rebellion If The Army Corp Amd Governor Bligh

It was the 26th January 1808, Exactly 20 Years After Arthur Phillip Had Set Up The Penal Colony Of Sydney In New South Wales. 









It Has Always Been Depicted That Governor Bligh Was Found Cowering
Under His Bed, But In Actual Fact He. was Ready To Fight John MacArthur And the Rum Corp. 

The Sydney Fig Trees

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The 

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 

Australian Explorers - Matthew Flinders -

MATTHEW FLINDERS..........

Famed Adventurer Died A Pauper After Years At Sea.........

  Explorer Matthew Flinders Paid The Ultimate Price For His Historic Voyages.......

In Constant Pain From Kidney Stones And Bladder Inflammation, Probably AS  A Consequence Of Constant Repeated Dehydration &Scurvy During His Years At Sea, Matthew Flinders Was Also Plagued By Financial As He Proofed Complex Navigation Charts For Books Chronicling His Voyages Around Terra Australis. 

Nine Days Before His Death, The Invalid Explorer Made His Final Diary Entry, Noting He Did Not Rise Before Two. Weeks Earlier His a wife Ann Wrote  to Friends That "So Dreadfully Was He Altered, He Looked Cull 70 Years Of Age & Was Worn To A Skeleton."

The Navigator, Hydrographer And Scientist Died On July 19, 1814, At His Rented Home At 14 London Street, Fitzroy Square In London, Where He Settled With His Wife & Two Year Ild Daughter Ann Five Months Earlier, Weeks Before His 40th Bitthday. 

Despite His Success As A Navigator And Cartographer, Established In Charting Tasmania, The NSW Coat And Circumnavigating Australia, Flinders Reaped Limited Financial Reward.

He Was Born At Donnington In Lincolnshire On March 16, 1774, The Eldest Som Of Surgeon Matthew Flinders, And His Wife Sussanah, Who Doed In 1783 After The Birth Of Their Youngest Son Sanuel. Educated at A Free Parosh School &From 12 As A Grammar School Boarder, Flinders Resisted His Fathers Plans For Him To Train As A Surgeon. 

Growing Up Near The English Channel, Flinders Witnessed Ships Arrive And Depart From The Napoleonic Wars And America, And Enjoyed Stories Told By Cousin John Franklin, A Royal Navy Midshipman. Flinder's  Later Explanation Was "Induced To Go To Sea Against The Awuahes  Of Frends From Reading Robinson Cruesoe."

On The  Advice Of His Cousin, Flinder's Studied Geometry, Trigonometry & Navigation To Improve His Pospects For Promotion In The Navy. franklin Also Had Him Illegally Recruited As An Officer's Servant On The HMAS Alert, Then In The West Indies, In October 1789, Although Finder's Did not Board A Ship Until May 1790. 

He Sailed On The HMAS Scipio As A MidShipMan Under a the Command Of A Family Acquaintance Thomas Pasley, Soon Moving With Pasley As An Able Bodied Seaman Patrolling Seas Around England K. HMAS Bellerophon

Demolish Sydney buildings part 2

Anthony Horderns Palace Emporium

Royal Arcade 

Sydney Arcade 

David Jonea First Shop


Henry Parkes shop

Murdoch Department
Store 

Victoria Arcade 

Imperial Arcade 

Farmers Store

Snows Drapery

Huffing
And
Co Stpre 


Farmer Victoria Hpuse 

Woolloomooloo
Fish Markets 

Market Square 

Demolished Buildings Of Sydney

001 Anthony Hordern’s Palace Emporium	057 Anthony Horderns Palace Warehouse	129 former Horderns Emporium/ Barlow st
009 Royal Arcade	012 Sydney Arcade	044 David Jones' First Shop, George St.
045 Henry Parkes' Shop, Hunter St.	070 Murdoch's department store	071 Victoria Arcade
087 Imperial Arcade	104 Farmers Store Cnr Market/Pitt Sts	090. Snows drapery store
110 Farmer's Victoria House Pitt Street	111 S Hoffnung and Co premises 165-169 Pitt St.	123 Woolloomooloo Fish Markets
161 Market Square Anthony Horderns Palace Emporium Royal Arcade  Sydney Arcade  David Jonea First Shop Henry Parkes shop Murdoch Department Store  Victoria Arcade  Imperial Arcade  Farmers Store Snows Drapery Huffing And Co Stpre  Farmer Victoria Hpuse  Woolloomooloo Fish Markets  Market Square

Kent Street Quarry

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The hillsides on both sides of Kent Street, Millers Point, were major source of sandstone for building constructed in the western end of Sydney during the Macquarie and late colonial eras. The area quarried began in Argyle Street below Observatory Hill and continued alongside Kent Street for about a kilometre. Most of the surviving sandstone buildings of Millers Point from the early 19th century, such as the Hero of Waterloo and Lord Nelson Hotels, are believed to have been created from sandstone quarried here. These sites were work by a team of quarrymen brought out from Scotland by Presbyterian minister Rev. Dr. John Dunmore Lang in 1831. The quarry continued to be used until the early 1860s. 

BUILDINGS MADE OUT OF THIS 

Buildings made from its sandstone 



Hero of Waterloo Hotel , 81 Lower Fort Street, Millers Point (1844): One of 14 hotels scattered throughout the Millers Point section of The Rocks, it was a favourite drinking place of the military garrison stationed nearby. Built from sandstone excavated from the Argyle Cut, legend has it that the hotel was used by sea captains to recruit crew members - unsuspecting patrons who had drunk themselves into a stupor are said to have been pushed through a trap door and carried away through underground tunnels to waiting ships in nearby Walsh Bay. 

The Garrison Church, 60-62 Lower Fort Street, Millers Point (1840): Built to a design by Henry Ginn, the Holy Trinity Church (it's correct name) was Australia's first military church, being constructed as a place of worship for the British regiment stationed at nearby Dawes Point. Architect Edmund Blackett was commissioned to enlarge the church to accommodate 600 people in 1855, his additions being finally completed in 1878, some 18 years after the military ceased using it for morning prayers. The church features regimental plaques recalling its military associations, a carved red cedar pulpit and a brightly coloured east window donated by a parishioner, Dr. James Mitchell, the father of David Scott Mitchell who was the principal benefactor of the Mitchell Library wing of the State Library of New South Wales.

Lord Nelson Hotel, 19 Kent Street, Millers Point (1836): The oldest working licensed hotel in the city (the license was first granted in June 1842), and one of only two hotels in the immediate area to be retained by the Sydney Harbour Trust when Millers Point was resumed during the time of the plague in 1900. The Lord Nelson Hotel, the Hero of Waterloo and a commercial terrace at 246 George Street are the only remaining examples of hotel buildings in the Old Colonial Regency style, which once were prolific in the inner city area. It was part of a network of corner hotels in the northern end of the city which provided social and recreational venues and budget accommodation. It is a smooth faced, three storey sandstone building with a hipped, corrugated asbestos cement roof, following the 'L-shaped' form of the building. The land on which the Hotel is situated was originally part of the Crown Grant to the plasterer William Wells dated 14th May 1836 and part of the Grant (in trust) to Richard Driver dated 30th November 1840. The hotel was constructed during the late 1830s by either Wells or a relative to a design by architect Michael Lehane. The sandstone blocks are believed to have been quarried at Kent Street quarry from the area at the base of Observatory Hill. The hotel's name recalls Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson who was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar. This naval battle was won by Nelson's forces in Cadiz over a contingent of thirty three Spanish and French ships under Admirals Villeneuve and Gravina.

Glover Cottages, 124-34 Kent Street, Millers Point (1826): Built by and for Thomas Glover, the mason responsible for much of the stonework of the buildings commissioned by Gov. Macquarie. Glover, a miner from Somerset, was transported to New South Wales for seven years. In the colony he worked as a stonemason and later became the landlord of the Sailor's Return. The cottages were claimed for the support of Glover's children by their uncle who had helped Glover to build them. It is believed that the stone for the two cottages was quarried locally. After Glover died his widow remarried and left the country. The cottages are also known as Noah's Ark, as the roadway of Kent Street has been lowered at this point to reduce the steepness of the hill for road traffic, leaving them high and dry above the new level of the road.

Glover Cottages, 124-34 Kent Street, Millers Point (1826): Built by and for Thomas Glover, the mason responsible for much of the stonework of the buildings commissioned by Gov. Macquarie. Glover, a miner from Somerset, was transported to New South Wales for seven years. In the colony he worked as a stonemason and later became the landlord of the Sailor's Return. The cottages were claimed for the support of Glover's children by their uncle who had helped Glover to build them. It is believed that the stone for the two cottages was quarried locally. After Glover died his widow remarried and left the country. The cottages are also known as Noah's Ark, as the roadway of Kent Street has been lowered at this point to reduce the steepness of the hill for road traffic, leaving them high and dry above the new level of the road.




Unwin's Stores, 77-85 George Street, The Rocks (1843-1846): Believed to be the longest continually occupied row of shops in Sydney and Australia, they played an integral role in the development of Sydney's first commercial area. These five sandstone buildings, originally built as shops and dwellings, were erected by Frederick Wright Unwin between 1843 and 1846. They were constructed during a depression in the Colony's economy, in the decade prior to the discovery of gold, hence their relative austerity. The land on which Unwin's stores stand was originally part of Sydney's first hospital and gardens.

The Judge's House, 521 Kent Street, Sydney (1821-22): The cottage was designed and built by William Harper, a Scottish migrant who worked as an Assistant Surveyor. Ill health and eventual blindness caused him to retire when still young and his home was rented to Supreme Court Judge Justice James Dowling (after whom Dowling Street was named) at an annual rental of 200 pounds. The house once enjoyed 'delightful and healthful views of Darling Harbour'. It was described as having 'a large garden at the back, the property being surrounded by paddocks

The hillsides on both sides of Kent Street, Millers Point, were major source of sandstone for building constructed in the western end of Sydney during the Macquarie and late colonial eras. The area quarried began in Argyle Street below Observatory Hill and continued alongside Kent Street for about a kilometre. Most of the surviving sandstone buildings of Millers Point from the early 19th century, such as the Hero of Waterloo and Lord Nelson Hotels, are believed to have been created from sandstone quarried here. These sites were work by a team of quarrymen brought out from Scotland by Presbyterian minister Rev. Dr. John Dunmore Lang in 1831. The quarry continued to be used until the early 1860s. 

Buildings made from its sandstone 



Hero of Waterloo Hotel , 81 Lower Fort Street, Millers Point (1844): One of 14 hotels scattered throughout the Millers Point section of The Rocks, it was a favourite drinking place of the military garrison stationed nearby. Built from sandstone excavated from the Argyle Cut, legend has it that the hotel was used by sea captains to recruit crew members - unsuspecting patrons who had drunk themselves into a stupor are said to have been pushed through a trap door and carried away through underground tunnels to waiting ships in nearby Walsh Bay. 




The Garrison Church, 60-62 Lower Fort Street, Millers Point (1840): Built to a design by Henry Ginn, the Holy Trinity Church (it's correct name) was Australia's first military church, being constructed as a place of worship for the British regiment stationed at nearby Dawes Point. Architect Edmund Blackett was commissioned to enlarge the church to accommodate 600 people in 1855, his additions being finally completed in 1878, some 18 years after the military ceased using it for morning prayers. The church features regimental plaques recalling its military associations, a carved red cedar pulpit and a brightly coloured east window donated by a parishioner, Dr. James Mitchell, the father of David Scott Mitchell who was the principal benefactor of the Mitchell Library wing of the State Library of New South Wales.




Lord Nelson Hotel, 19 Kent Street, Millers Point (1836): The oldest working licensed hotel in the city (the license was first granted in June 1842), and one of only two hotels in the immediate area to be retained by the Sydney Harbour Trust when Millers Point was resumed during the time of the plague in 1900. The Lord Nelson Hotel, the Hero of Waterloo and a commercial terrace at 246 George Street are the only remaining examples of hotel buildings in the Old Colonial Regency style, which once were prolific in the inner city area. It was part of a network of corner hotels in the northern end of the city which provided social and recreational venues and budget accommodation. It is a smooth faced, three storey sandstone building with a hipped, corrugated asbestos cement roof, following the 'L-shaped' form of the building. The land on which the Hotel is situated was originally part of the Crown Grant to the plasterer William Wells dated 14th May 1836 and part of the Grant (in trust) to Richard Driver dated 30th November 1840. The hotel was constructed during the late 1830s by either Wells or a relative to a design by architect Michael Lehane. The sandstone blocks are believed to have been quarried at Kent Street quarry from the area at the base of Observatory Hill. The hotel's name recalls Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson who was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar. This naval battle was won by Nelson's forces in Cadiz over a contingent of thirty three Spanish and French ships under Admirals Villeneuve and Gravina.




Glover Cottages, 124-34 Kent Street, Millers Point (1826): Built by and for Thomas Glover, the mason responsible for much of the stonework of the buildings commissioned by Gov. Macquarie. Glover, a miner from Somerset, was transported to New South Wales for seven years. In the colony he worked as a stonemason and later became the landlord of the Sailor's Return. The cottages were claimed for the support of Glover's children by their uncle who had helped Glover to build them. It is believed that the stone for the two cottages was quarried locally. After Glover died his widow remarried and left the country. The cottages are also known as Noah's Ark, as the roadway of Kent Street has been lowered at this point to reduce the steepness of the hill for road traffic, leaving them high and dry above the new level of the road.




Unwin's Stores, 77-85 George Street, The Rocks (1843-1846): Believed to be the longest continually occupied row of shops in Sydney and Australia, they played an integral role in the development of Sydney's first commercial area. These five sandstone buildings, originally built as shops and dwellings, were erected by Frederick Wright Unwin between 1843 and 1846. They were constructed during a depression in the Colony's economy, in the decade prior to the discovery of gold, hence their relative austerity. The land on which Unwin's stores stand was originally part of Sydney's first hospital and gardens.




The Judge's House, 521 Kent Street, Sydney (1821-22): The cottage was designed and built by William Harper, a Scottish migrant who worked as an Assistant Surveyor. Ill health and eventual blindness caused him to retire when still young and his home was rented to Supreme Court Judge Justice James Dowling (after whom Dowling Street was named) at an annual rental of 200 pounds. The house once enjoyed 'delightful and healthful views of Darling Harbour'. It was described as having 'a large garden at the back, the property being surrounded by paddocks'. 




22-32 Argyle Place, Millers Point (1830s): This mostly intact row of two storey Colonial Georgian Terraces is part of the streetscape element facing Argyle Place, an historic streetscape comprised of a row of terrace, a central park and a dominant church, giving Argyle Place the appearance of a typical London Square. Work on Argyle Place was commenced by Governor Macquarie however, this area was not fully formed until after cessation of quarrying at nearby rockface. It was commenced by Governor Macquarie but not fully formed until after quarrying of the adjacent rock face had ceased in about 1865. This row of terraces appears much as it did in the mid 19th century. With a construction date that appears to predate 1832, this terrace is of stone construction, with simple stone parapet, shingle roof and rendered stone facade. Window sills are simple stone slab and simple fan light over doorway consists of twelve small panes of glass.