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SEGMENT 1 MILSONS POINT to WAVERTON

Start Main Route Back at the waterfront, walk past the old slipway and up steps by the Start Return Route electric substation to Bay View and then East Crescent Streets. This If starting from Milson's Point Railway Station, walk down Alfred or area was home for other artists and writers including Lloyd Rees, Henry To return to Milson's Point Station, continue past the Waverton shops Broughton Streets to the Harbour Bridge Pylon. Begun in 1924, the Kendall and Norman Lindsay. At East Crescent’s end, visit the reserve, and turn right on the path through Roland Wakelin Reserve, following Sydney Harbour Bridge A connected the to the city then take the pathway down to the wharf at McMahon's Point E the railway line down to Carr St. The Euroka Street H area, in 1932. There was great contention at the time of construction about named after an Irish brush manufacturer and local Mayor. From the including Ancrum and Bank Streets, is an atmospheric little valley of who should be described as its designer. Both Chief Government ferry wharf follow Henry Lawson Avenue and the shoreline to Blue's one-time workers’ cottages nestling between the railway line and the Engineer, J.J.C. Bradfield, and the design engineer Ralph Freeman, Point. Lawson, the writer, frequently arrived here by ferry before North Sydney ridge. Writer Henry Lawson lived in several Euroka Street from the English firm Dorman Long which constructed the arch, were trudging home up Blue's Point Road. Blue's Point was named after houses. Follow the cross lanes to Bank Street and climb uphill towards contenders. The matter was settled only through very careful wording Billy Blue, a West-Indian convict granted the Point in 1817 after North Sydney either via the Lord Street steps (near No 67) or Riley of the plaque seen on the pylons from the walkway. establishing a rowboat ferry service (for which he was dubbed ‘The Old Street to Edward Street. In this street look for Shore Grammar School Both North Sydney Pool (opened 1936) and Luna Park B (opened Commodore’). Blue's Point Tower, the Harry Seidler apartments with its tower; nearby Graythwaite house; and the Catholic University 1935) stand on the site of the former Bridge construction workshops. dominating the headland, stand near where Blue’s farmhouse was. beyond the Riley Street corner (once the site of artist Conrad Martens’ Before that, this was the site of Milson's Point Railway Station, Note the old pre-Harbour Bridge vehicular ferries approaches, and then home, Rockleigh Grange, and later the Vatican embassy in Australia). commuters walking from here to the ferry wharves near where the walk towards the Point, climbing the steps to explore the headland and Mount Street contains the MacKillop Place Museum I Bridge Pylons now are. The pool was the aquatic centre for the 1938 the higher level park near the Tower. dedicated to Australia’s first Saint. Worth a diversion to visit, whether British Empire Games and between 1936 and 1976, 86 world records Return uphill to Blue's Point Road, turning left down West Crescent open or shut, charming Don Bank Museum J and its garden are were set here – a world record in itself. Many of Luna Park’s original tucked nearby between Oak and Napier Streets and can be reached via rides came from an Adelaide fun park. Immensely popular until the Street to its end at Sawmillers Reserve F . This attractive Wheeler Lane on your left (which may appear blocked, but turns 1960s, the Park suffered closures and uncertainty from 1976, after a waterfront park on Berry's Bay was, from 1880 to 1982, the site of left-right into Oak Street). Down at Victoria Cross, on the Pacific Ghost Train fire in which 7 died. It reopened again in 1994 after an Eaton’s sawmill and timber yard – a few relics remain to be explored. Highway corner, stands the 1889 Italianate North Sydney Post Office. expensive upgrading, but soon closed after resident protest at noise. Little is now left of the waterfront industry (wharves, sawmills, Currently open although some development is expected in its vicinity. boatyards, gasworks, oil and coal stores, etc) which once dominated Turn right at Miller Street, going via it or Greenwood Plaza with the waterfront west of the Bridge. At the northern end of the park climb its Gothic former school K now converted to a restaurant, The boardwalk skirts Lavender Bay, which is named for George the zigzag path up to Munro Street and cross the rail Bridge to to Blue Street and North Sydney Station. Lavender, boatswain of the convict hulk Phoenix, moored in the bay in Dumbarton Street, turn downhill and then left down John Street, under If returning to Milson's Point Station, take the Walker Street steps the 1820-30s. Lavender married Susannah Blue, a daughter of Billy the railway, to Waverton Park G . This sports field was reclaimed to between the Station and the Harbourview hotel, to the Walker Street (see below). Also here were the 1881 baths of the large Cavill Family improve water access to the now removed BP Berry's Bay Oil Terminal. continuation beyond the railway. On the walk downhill note who between them invented or introduced the Australian crawl and On the ridge above the southern bank sits a stone house in St Xavier's Church L (1881) in Mackenzie Street; and, in Walker butterfly strokes, and held many swimming records. Men’s and Commodore Crescent, its oldest portion built for a son of Billy Blue. women’s baths remained here well into the 20th century. Another 19th Street, the Royal Art Society Gallery; terraces old and new; and the Near the old house at the bottom of the Woolcott Avenue steps is a flat century industry, boatbuilding, survived here until 1987 – note the area, site of the long demolished house Ivy Cliff. The park area has long 1872 Christ Church. Follow Lavender Street around to Alfred Street slipway on the waterfront and the winding gear preserved nearby. The been popular with artists, including Lloyd Rees and Roland Wakelin. South and the railway station. railway viaduct arrived in 1893 cutting off the gardens which became Walk across the waterfront and climb the steps. Written and researched by the Walking Volunteers. For further Watt Park C . The steps through the viaduct arches lead to some luxuriant growth in Walker Street. The first house, Berowra, was once If continuing on to Segment 2, turn left immediately before the toilet North Sydney and regional walking materials go to the Customer the Station Master’s house, while the towered one on the opposite side block and take the steps leading into the park on the former BP site. Service Centre, Stanton Library, or www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au of the steps was a home and studio of artist Brett Whiteley. A short Otherwise continue along the path to Larkin Street, up Woolcott and - click ‘recreation’, and www.walkingsydney.net. Funded by detour up the steps and to the right takes you to Wendy Whiteley’s right into Bay Road to Waverton Station (1893) where this walk ends. Sharing Sydney Harbour Access Program (SSHAP). ‘Secret Garden’ D . Some older original homes in the area survive, Originally Bay Road Station, the modern name derived from an early including the 1855 Quiberee (after the location’s Aboriginal name). house in the area. Photographs: Graham Spindler.