historical walking tours hidden sydney’s little laneways Historical Walking Tour

Front Cover Image: Reef Knot The Sky is Falling Angel Place 2008 temporary art installation for Laneways By George! (Photograph: Paul Patterson / City of Sydney) EXPLORE

Sydney was settled around a freshwater stream xplore the city’s laneways and that formed the back boundary of properties minor streets, the ones the casual fronting the earliest main streets, and a series of passer-by doesn’t see. informal paths provided rear access to gardens, stables and storage areas.

In time these laneways became formalised, oblivious to any planner’s grid. Other laneways developed to provide access to the rear of commercial buildings that Please allow 1 to 2 hours for this tour. came to dominate the area. Charming walkways or grungy service lanes, today they contribute complexity Start at Phillip Lane, just south of Bridge Street. to the tapestry of the city. Enter Phillip Lane (1) from Macquarie Street and walk through the archway to Phillip Street. On your way, look to your left along the length of the lane behind Sydney’s the Macquarie Street buildings, where once town houses had their tradesmen’s history entrances and gardens. is all around us. Our walking tours will lead you on a journey of discovery from early Aboriginal life through to J B Henderson’s 1852 painting contemporary Sydney. Old Tank Stream, Sydney, shows the area behind George and Pitt Streets where laneways eventually evolved. (Image: State Library of NSW)

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GARDENERS RD DALMENY AVE DALMENY HIDDEN SYDNEY’S LITTLE LANEWAYS Historical Walking Tour

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This is the last survivor of several laneways that For most of its life this laneway has served as back were established by the 1840s to service Macquarie entrance to the buildings on Loftus Street, housing Street houses. The white Astor apartments on the left customs agents, shipping brokers and wool buyers. were built in 1923, an early example of fashionable The old sandstone three-storey building on the right, apartment living in the city. On the right is the rear of which forms the rear of the Gallipoli Club, was built the Chief Secretary’s Building, occupied from 1878. in 1876. This and Hinchcliffs are the only remaining The laneway’s low sandstone archway, remnant woolstores in the Circular Quay precinct. sandstone guttering and cobblestone paving echo a past kind of streetscape that has all but disappeared from the city. 04 macquarie place In front of you across Phillip Street is the Museum of Sydney. If you have time, take a look inside, but to continue the walk, pass the museum, cross Bridge Street, head down the left side of There was once a through Young Street and turn left into Customs House Lane (02). Before street at Macquarie Place, Circular Quay was built in the 1830s this area was waterfront but this is now given over property, still retaining some mangrove vegetation and dotted to public space joining with early boat building sheds. Hence the odd shaped blocks, a little park packed with unaligned streets and little lanes. items of historical interest, including the Obelisk of Distances, the anchor 02 customs house lane of the Sirius, a Victorian drinking fountain and the remnants of what was once a glass-domed entrance Hinchcliffs Woolstore, on the south-west corner, built to an underground “men’s 1860 –1880, is a rare survivor from the time when convenience”. This area is Circular Quay was a centre for international shipping (Photograph: a popular drinking hole at City of Sydney Archives) and wool was Australia’s greatest export. Imagine the end of the day when the bales being raised on the hoist pulleys that are the surrounding office still attached to the building. In the second half of the blocks close for business. 20th century the building was set up with dormitories and a soup kitchen and used as the Matthew Talbot Hostel for unemployed men. Inside Customs House you can take a look at the in-floor city model, catch an Two little lanes run between Macquarie Place and Pitt Street. exhibition, have a coffee or borrow a book from the Take a look at Reiby Place (05) before entering through the archway into Bulletin Place (06). City of Sydney Library.

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Today Reiby Place is lined with slick glass and concrete, but its name commemorates one of the city’s earliest entrepreneurs. Before this area was drained, Thomas and Mary Reiby had a house in waterfront Macquarie Place. Mary Reiby, convicted for horse stealing, became a wealthy and respected widow, and in 1817 her house became the first (Image: Mitchell Library, premises of Australia’s first State Library of NSW) bank, the Bank of New (Photograph: City of Sydney) South Wales. Reiby’s face is on the $20 note. The Half way along Customs House Lane, turn left into Loftus Gateway building offers a Lane (03) and follow the dog leg through to Loftus Street. range of food options. You are now facing Macquarie Place (04).

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The Basement has long been a favourite jazz venue What’s in a name? Dalley Street, named for politician in the city. Beyond this, warehouses and stores from Victor Dalley, was once called Queen’s Place. And its the mid 19th century preserve a little enclave of “olde continuation across George Street was called Charlotte Sydney”. The Bulletin newspaper was published here Place (now Grosvenor Street). Queen Charlotte was from 1880, and writers such as Henry Lawson and A B George III’s queen. Queen’s Court (Dalley Street) was Banjo Patterson would have frequented this little street. part of a warren of tiny lanes and courtyards that grew This lane possibly inspired the lines in Patterson’s up along the banks of the Tank Stream between the famous poem Clancy of the Overflow about dingy “official” George and Pitt Streets. offices and folk with “stunted forms and weedy, for townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste”. Prove him wrong by spending a little time here enjoying a meal or a cup of coffee.

Queens Court, off Queens Place (Dalley Street), 1875 (Photograph: State Library of NSW)

Turn right at Dalley Street (08) and follow it to George Street. Ahead, across the road, is the Brooklyn Hotel and Johnsons Corner, landmarks in Sydney since 1912. If you’re not in need of a drink, turn left and walk up George Street. Before crossing over Bridge Street, notice the Metropolitan Hotel, a match for the Brooklyn, and the solid Burns Philp & Co building, one of Sydney’s old shipping firms. Turn left into Abercrombie Lane (09).

Bulletin Place, 1937, viewed from Pitt Street (Photograph: City of Sydney Archives)

When you arrive on Pitt Street, cross over to the western side and into dog-legged Underwood Street (07). Follow it down to Dalley Street (08).

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Here is another reminder of how remote the original waterfront has become, as this is the place where James Underwood built Sydney’s first commercial shipyard in 1798. The red brick building at the bend in the lane is unusual, employing an architectural style that was more commonly used in domestic apartment buildings of the 1930s and 1940s. Abercrombie Lane 2008 (Photograph: Paul Patterson / City of Sydney)

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On the corner of Abercrombie Lane is the George Patterson Building, refurbished as an upmarket bar after a fire gutted the building in 1996. This building retains many original features, including some atmospheric fire-damaged walls. Walking down Abercrombie Lane it is easy to imagine that you are heading for the Tank Stream. “The spot chosen for the settlement was at the head of a cove, near the run of fresh water which stole silently along through a very thick wood, the stillness of which had then, for the first time since the Creation, been interrupted.” (David Collins, Account of the English Colony of New South Wales, 1802) When the water supply became inadequate, convicts were set to work digging holding tanks into the watercourse, and so it became known as the Tank Stream. Today the stream runs silently through a city drain below the pavement. Tank Stream Way (left) Tank Stream Way was once part in the foreground and of Hamilton Street which ran from Bridge Lane (right) (Photograph: City of Sydney) Bridge to Hunter Streets, named Just before you reach Pitt Street, turn left into Tank Stream after Hamilton’s biscuit factory. Most of it disappeared Way (10) and left again into Bridge Lane (11). Either of these lanes will take you back to Bridge Street. under the Australia Square development, leaving two remnant laneways, and this section was renamed in 1981. In Bridge Lane, once the site of the town’s first lumber yards, look for the old warehouse doorway, now entrance to the Establishment Hotel. As late as the 1860s there was still vacant land sliced between small cottages in this area, but by the end of the 19th century it had become a favoured location for warehouses, including several tea merchants’ stores.

You are now back at Bridge Street. Turn right, and immediately turn down Pitt Street. Take a look down Bond Street, but keep walking on until you reach Curtin Place.

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Bond Street remains on the grid, but most of its buildings were swept away for the construction of Australia Square, opened in 1967. In the early decades of the 20th century, Bond Street was a honeycomb of small shops and businesses, including printers and publishers. The influential Bond Street, looking magazine Art in Australia east, in the 1880s was published from here, (Photograph: State Library of and Bond Street studios NSW) attracted tenants such as artist Sydney Ure Smith and photographer Max Dupain. Abercrombie Lane featuring an art installation (Photograph: City of Sydney)

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At the end of Wynyard Lane you arrive at Wynyard Street and 13 curtin place Regimental Square. Notice the fine bank building ahead and the equally fine piles to your left on George Street. This is the heartland of 19th century commercial Sydney. Turn right, walk up Wynyard Street and cross over the top of Wynyard Park to York Street. This lane, formerly Little George Street, forms the Stay on the park side of York, and notice across the road the southern boundary of the distinctive Art Deco Transport House with its green tiled facade. Australia Square site. John Walk through this building (an entrance to Wynyard railway Curtin was Australian Prime station) to York Lane (15). Turn left and follow it to the end. You Minister, 1941– 45. Between will cross Erskine Street and arrive at Barrack Street. this and Bond Street, underneath the skyscraper, was once the romantically 15 york lane named Robin Hood Place. Curtin Place, Two other little lanes, Hamilton formerly Little George Street (Photograph: City of Sydney Street and Little Hunter Street This is Sydney’s longest Archives) run off Curtin Place. laneway. Just before Barrack Street there are some At George Street, cross over to Margaret Street, then turn remnants of old warehouses left again into Wynyard Lane. on the right, and on the left some residential apartments. Residents here were some of the early adopters of the 14 Wynyard Lane York Lane, 1938 current trend towards inner city (Photograph: living that began in the 1980s. City of Sydney Archives) A laneway of loading docks and car parks, the back end of city businesses. But note the hotel entrance in Barrack Street offers opportunities to fuel up with food, with this 1919 photo of the lane. This area was taken up with choices ranging from street stalls to the elegant banking chamber of the old Savings Bank of NSW. Turn left and return to George military barracks until the 1840s, and when the barracks Street. Cross over and walk north until you reach Palings Lane. were closed in the 1840s, the military commander, Edward Buckley Wynyard, ensured that his name was applied generously to the places in this precinct. 16 17 palings lane ash street

(Illustration: Australian Builder & Contractor’s News, 8 December 1888)

The elegant complex of up-market restaurants, pools, bars and spas on George Street is entered through narrow Palings Lane, which despite its very contemporary feeling, has been on or close to here for a long time. It was named because it led through to the large 1880s Palings Building in Ash Street. W H Paling was a musical entrepreneur who imported and eventually manufactured pianos and sheet music. Upper floor rooms in Palings building, and many others in this area were rented out to teachers of music and dance, and as artists’ studios. Ash Street also housed the headquarters of the Liberal Party of Australia for many years.

Imperial Hotel, Wynyard Lane, 1919 (Photograph: City of Sydney Archives) When you reach the end of Ash Street you have arrived at Angel Place.

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18 angel place 21 Tank Stream If you enter the GPO building at No.1 Martin Place directly under the clock tower and head downstairs, In front of you, at the intersection of Ash Street and you will find eating and shopping temptations as well Angel Place is a covered way that goes through to as an exhibition of objects found in an archaeological Martin Place, Sydney’s grandest street. Turn right and dig on this site. They include an excavated segment face towards George Street. On either side are rough of the original drain which channels the Tank Stream. hewn trachyte stone facades of two fine commercial buildings, the one on the right built in 1896, the other in 1904, both designed by American immigrant, Edward 22 rowe street Raht, who introduced this neo-Romanesque style to Sydney. Look up and catch a glimpse of Sydney’s little white Eiffel Tower, the AWA Tower, in the distance. Now No street in Sydney has had more words written turn and walk back to Pitt Street past the City Recital about it than Rowe Street. By the early 20th century Hall, definitely a hidden city gem. The old Edwardian its fine run of terrace houses was being converted Angel Hotel on the corner of Pitt Street shows off period to small shops and galleries, and Rowe Street was timber fittings, stained glass and lovely turquoise tiles. the closest thing Sydney had to European chic. Upstairs rooms were used as artists’ studios, and the commercial Notanda Gallery was a gathering place for the artistic community. In adjoining shops you could borrow a book or buy an elegant hat. Many people remember window shopping for the latest in interior design and Parisian frocks, buying some music at Rowe Street Records or enjoying a bohemian espresso at Horton’s Gallerie. The street remains, but the buildings were demolished to make way for the construction of the MLC Centre in the 1970s. Many people still mourn its passing, and it continues to be cited as a cautionary tale against overdevelopment and wholesale destruction of the fine grain fabric of the city.

Interior of City Recital Hall (Photograph: City of Sydney Archives)

At Pitt Street, cross over and walk down Penfold Place (19) and Hosking Place (20).

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W C Penfold & Co is one of Sydney’s oldest firms. In 1886 Penfold bought out a printing business that had been on this Pitt Street site since 1830, and in 1912 the firm bought the eight- storey Hosking House in Hosking Lane behind, for an expanded print works. These private laneways have Hosking Place, 1967 (Photograph: served the firm, and acted as a City of Sydney Archives) short cut for locals for all this time. John Hosking was Sydney’s first elected Lord Mayor. He had to step down from this position when he was declared bankrupt in the 1840s depression. If only he could see this piece of real estate now!

Retrace your steps to and head to Martin Place. You may wish Notanda Gallery, Roycroft Bookshop and Henriette to call in at the GPO to see the Tank Stream artefacts (21). Lamotte’s hat boutique, Rowe Street, c1950 Finish your tour at Rowe Street (22). (Photograph Kerry Dundas, State Library of NSW)

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This brochure was prepared by the History Program at the City of Sydney. 2nd edition, September 2011. HWT 5