Hay Street - Haymarket - Chinatown - Sydney - New South Wales

Hay Street - Haymarket - Sydney - New South Wales 

 

181 - 187 Hay Street - Haymarket

181-187 Hay Street Haymarket - The Municpal  Council Building

 

Oxford Street - Darlinghurst - Sydney - New South Wales - 1788 Onwards 

From The Very First Few Days After Landing At Circular Quay The Aboriginal Track Across The Top Of The Ridge Which Became Darlinghurst / Woolloomooloo Hill Has Been Used. 
The Convicts Would Run Across The Ridge And Down Through The Centennial Swampland to Reach La Perouse and Would Run Back To The Camp At Circular Quay Before Sunrise So They Wouldn’t Get Caught By Any Of The Marines. 

Later That Aboriginal Track Was Turned Into A Road Leading to Bondi






Oxford Street At The Liverpool Street Junction Circa 1901 

 

Original Villas Of Woolloomooloo Hill, Potts Point & Elizabeth Bay - 17 Allotments - Granted By Governor Darling

Originally  the great Valley Of Darlinghurst was originally subdivided by Governor Ralph Darling in the mid 1820s when he created 17 allotments of land parcels to house public servants & other private citizens.
With the 17 land grants that Governor Darling  allowed he had strict conditions that there could only be one dwelling per allotment, that each each dwelling should be built facing the city along the ridge, & 
that the land should have landscaped gardens around.




ELIZABETH BAY HOUSE 
House








TUSCULUM 








ROCKWALL
BARHAM. 






GRANTHAM

BROUGHAM LODGE 
KELLETT HOUSE