Renewal Ultimo Historical Walking Tour
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historical walking tours RENEWAL ULTIMO Historical Walking Tour Front Cover Image: Tram passing Sydney Technical College, 1950s (Photograph: City of Sydney Archives) ultimo Then the landscape was remade by sandstone ntil 1850, Ultimo was semi-rural, quarrying on Ultimo’s western edge and by the with cornfields and cow paddocks. construction of a railway and goods yard on its Members of the Gadigal people still eastern shoreline. The suburb became crowded harvested cockles on its foreshores. with factories, woolstores and workers’ housing. Today it has a new identity as a cultural precinct as industrial sites are adapted for entertainment and education. This tour of Ultimo starts in greyness and ends in the technicolour of Darling Harbour. Sydney’s PLEASE ALLOW 1½ – 2 hours for this tour. WHY ULTIMO? history Begin the walk at The story of Ultimo began with a court case is all around us. Railway Square outside the and a joke. In the 1800s, Governor King was Our walking tours will lead you Marcus Clark Building (1). engaged in a power struggle with officers on a journey of discovery from of the NSW Corps. Surgeon John Harris early Aboriginal life through to of the Corps supported him, and became contemporary Sydney. so unpopular with his colleagues that he was court-martialled in 1803. But Harris escaped conviction because the charge stated he had committed an offence on the “19th ultimo” (last month) instead of “19th instant” (this month). When Governor King rewarded Harris with land grants, he Clover Moore MP celebrated the technicality by calling his Lord Mayor of Sydney estate Ultimo. It covered the whole of the modern suburb. Darling Harbour Goods Yards, c1900 (Photograph: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW) Historical Walking Tours — Renewal / 01. 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BELLEVUE ST ALBION AVE PADDINGTON ST PARRAMATTA RD CORBEN ST ARUNDEL ST SOUTH DOWLING ST KNOX ST FOVEAUX ST ORMOND ST GRAFTON ST CHURCH ST NICHOLS ST LEE ST RANDLE ST GREENS RD COOPER ST HUTCHINSON WATERLOO ST Sydney University Victoria DEVONSHIRE ST SELWYN ST WILLIAM ST HOLT ST HOLT Park OCONNOR ST ST KENSINGTON RENNY ST BENNETT ST JOSEPHSON ST WELLINGTON LACEY ST MYRTLE ST ROSE ST REGENT ST ARTHUR ST PROSPECT ST SHEPHERD ST QUEEN ST MARSHALL ST CROWN ST PINE ST CHALMERS ST MOORE PARK RD PHELPS ST GORDON ST ELIZABETH ST BUCKLAND ST MEAGHER ST RAINFORD ST OATLEY RD ARTHUR ST ABERCROMBIE ST ABERCROMBIE CLEVELAND ST DANGAR PL BUCKINGHAM ST DAVIES ST REGENT ST BALFOUR ST VINE ST BLACKWATTLE CLISDELL ST HUDSON ST CITY RD CLEVELAND ST VINE ST SHEPHERDBOUNDARY ST ST MAZE CRES JAMES ST EDWARD ST ABERCROMBIE ST REGENT ST JAMES ST CALDER RD HUGO ST ANZAC PDE OXFORD ST IVY LN IVY CAROLINE ST LEWIS ST IVY ST IVY MISSENDEN RD MISSENDEN LAWSON ST RENWICK ST LANDER ST GEORGE ST CARILLON AVE WILLIAM ST PITT ST CLEVELAND ST DARLINGTON RD EVELEIGH ST LAWSON SQ Moore Park WELLS ST COOK RD BURNETT ELIZABETH ST Redfern AVE DRIVER REDFERN ST KING ST GREAT BUCKINGHAM ST CODRINGTON ST CODRINGTON CLEVELAND ST LANG RD ABERCROMBIE ST TURNER ST BOURKE ST GIBBONS ST MARGARET WILSON ST ROSEHILL ST ALBERT ST CORNWALLIS ST COPE ST DOUGLAS ST REGENT ST PHILLIP ST CHALMERS ST LANG RD LOCOMOTIVE ST BAPTIST ST CENTRAL AVE BURREN ST BURREN RAGLAN ST Macdonaldtown HENDERSON RD ERSKINVILLE RD SOUTH DOWLING ST Centennial Park BOTANY RD BOTANY PITT ST PITT BEAUMONT ST ST ST GEORGE ALBERT WALKER ST WYNDHAM ST WYNDHAM GARDEN ST GARDEN WELLINGTON ST GERARD ST GERARD KINGSCLEAR RD KINGSCLEAR REEVE ST NEWTON ST NEWTON ALEXANDER ST ALEXANDER CHARLES ST CHARLES RAILWAY PDE ST PHILLIPS KELLICK ST ALLEN AVE PARK ST PARK ST CLARA ST CLARA RENWICK COPE ST COPE ROBERTSON RD JENNINGS ST ST JOHN ST SWANSON DIBBS ST LACHLAN ST Erskinville SUTTOR ST COPELAND ST PARK RD PARK POWER AVE DACEY AVE FOX AVE MCEVOY ST ELIZABETH ST ROCHFORD ST FOUNTAIN ST ST PITT MALCOLM ST ST BRENNAN POWELL ST GEORGE ST BRIDGE ST LOVERIDGE VICTORIA ST ASHMORE ST ST GEORGE ELLIOT AVE ALISON RD ASHMORE ST ALLEN ST BELMONT ST MITCHELL RDHARLEY ST LAWRENCE ST AVE STOKES O’DEA AVE O’DEA AVE ANZAC PDE MACDONALD ST MCCAULEY ST MCCAULEY MCEVOY ST BOWDEN ST MANDIBLE ST BOURKE ST FLORA ST TODMAN AVE ELIZABETH ST EVE ST LAWRENCE ST COULSON ST BELMONT ST EUSTON LANE BOURKE RD CONCORD ST HUNTLEY ST JOYNTON AVE ALISON RD BOTANY RD BOTANY MADDOX ST SYDNEY PARK RD St Peters EUSTON ROAD DONCASTER AVE O’RIORDAN ST KING ST HUNTLEY ST ANZAC PDE TODMAN AVE BURROWS RD Sydney Park EPSOM RD LENHALT ST Royal Randwick Racecourse COLLINS ST LINK RD EPSOM RD PRINCES HWY ALISON RD CAMPBELL RD DALMENY AVE EUSTON ROAD SOUTH DOWLING ST BOURKE RD ROTHSCHILD AVE MORELY AVE ROSEBERRY AVE BURROWS RD DALMENY AVE HARCOURT PDE GARDENERS RD PDE ANZAC BOTANY RD O’RIORDAN ST RICKETTY ST KENT RD GARDENERS RD DALMENY AVE DALMENY RENEWAL ULTIMO Historical Walking Tour 01 FORMER MARCUS CLARK BUILDING When the Marcus Clark department store was completed in 1928, it overlooked a lively retail and entertainment district. But when the underground railway was built, the centre of gravity for shoppers shifted away from here. After the war, customers preferred the new suburban shopping centres and cinemas, so education became the real growth industry in this area.