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and Fox Studios, which bags to tarot reading, and
produced such well-known films from Oriental massages to
as The Matrix and Moulin Rouge. handmade soaps.
There are 16 cinema screens
where you can watch the latest
movies, and at the La Premiere 4 Five Ways
cinema you can enjoy your Cnr Glenmore Rd & Heeley St.
movie with wine and cheese, Map 5 C3. @ 389.
sitting on comfort able sofas.
There are four live-entertain- There is a busy shopping hub at
ment venues which regularly this picturesque junction by the
feature the latest local and tramline that once ran to Bondi
international acts. You can also Beach. On the five corners stand
enjoy bungy trampolining, Victorian and early 20th-century
bowling or seasonal ice-skating, shops, one now a restaurant.
A typical pretty terrace house on and children will love the three On another corner is the
Paddington Street well-designed playgrounds. impressive Royal Hotel, built in
In addition to shops there are 1888. This mixed Victorian and
1 Paddington plenty of restaurants, cafés and Classical Revival building has a
Street bars offering a range of meals, charac teristic intricate cast-iron
“lace”-screen balcony offering
drinks and snacks.
Map 6 D3. @ 333, 378, 380. Every Wednesday and stunning harbour views.
Saturday you can sample
With its huge plane trees shading fresh produce at the EQ Village
the road and fine two-, three- Markets or try a gourmet
and four-storey terrace houses delicacy from one of the
on each side, Paddington Street dozens of stallholders. Sunday’s
is one of the oldest, loveliest, market focuses on merchandise
and at the same time most rather than food.
typical of the suburb’s streets. Shops are open until late,
Paddington grew rapidly as offering a good selection of
a commuter suburb in the late fashion, books and homewares.
19th century and most of the There is plenty of undercover
terraces were built for renting parking and the complex is a
to the city’s artisans. They were pleasant stroll from Oxford Street. Balcony of the Royal Hotel in the heart
cheaply decorated with iron of Paddington
lace (some of which had arrived 3 Paddington
in ships as ballast), as well as
Grecian-style friezes, worked Markets 5 Juniper Hall
parapets, swagged urns, lions 395 Oxford St. Map 6 D4. Tel 9331 250 Oxford St. Map 5 C3. Tel 9357
rampant, cornices, pilasters, 2923. @ 333, 378, 380. Open 5222. @ 333, 378, 380. Open see
scrolls and other fancy plastering. 10am–4pm Sat. Closed 25 Dec. website for exhibition details and
By the 1900s, these terraces 7 See Shops and Markets: p203. dates. ∑ juniperhall.com.au
had become unfashionable, ∑ paddingtonmarkets.com.au
but in the 1960s, tastes The emancipist gin distiller
changed again and Paddington This market, which began Robert Cooper built this superb
experienced a renaissance. in 1973, takes place every example of Colonial Georgian
Paddington Street now has Saturday, come rain or shine, architecture for his third wife,
a chic atmosphere, and small art in the grounds of Paddington Sarah. He named it after the
galleries operate out of quaint Village Uniting Church and its main ingredient of the gin
and grand shopfronts. neighbouring school. It is a that made his fortune.
place to meet and be seen Completed in 1824, it is the
2 The Entertainment as much as it is to shop. Stall- oldest building in Paddington
still standing. It is probably
holders come from all over
Quarter the world, and many young also the largest and most
designers hoping to launch extravagant. It had to be: he
Lang Rd, Moore Park. Tel 8117 6700.
Map 5 C5. @ 339, 355. Open most their careers display their already had 14 children when
retail shops are open 10am–10pm. wares. Among the offerings he declared that Sarah would
∑ eqmoorepark.com.au are jewellery, pottery, new have the finest house in Sydney.
and secondhand clothing, Juniper Hall was saved from
There’s a vibrant atmosphere and an array of other arts demolition in the mid-1980s
at the Entertainment Quarter, and crafts. Whatever you are and fully restored. It is now home
located next door to Sydney looking for, you are likely to to the annual Moran Art Prize
Cricket Ground, Allianz Stadium find it here, from designer (www.moranprizes.com.au).

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