Page 31 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Sydney

THE HIST OR Y OF SY DNEY  29

The Waverly
This clipper brig, with Where to See
its extra sails and tall Victorian Sydney
masts, enabled the
fast transport of wool Sydney’s buildings reflect the
exports and fortune spirit of the age. The Queen
seekers hastening Victoria Building (see p84), Sydney
to newly discovered Town Hall (p89) and Martin Place
Colonial gold fields. (p86) mark grand civic spaces.
In stark contrast, the Argyle
Terraces and Susannah Place (p69)
in The Rocks give some idea of
the cramped living conditions
endured by the working class.
The “Strasburg” Clock
In 1887, Sydney clockmaker Richard
Smith began work on this astronom ical
model now in the Powerhouse
Museum (see pp102–3).

The Macquarie Street
entrance to the Garden St Mary’s Cathedral (see p88),
is home to the Palace’s built in Gothic Revival style,
surviving carved Sydney
sandstone gateposts is thought to be the largest
and wrought iron gates. Christian church in the former
“Empire”, outside Britain.
The exhibition attracted over
one million people.

Arthur Streeton Victorian terrace houses,
In 1891, Streeton and Tom decorated with iron lace, began
Roberts, both Australian to fill the streets of Paddington
Impressionist painters, set up an (see pp124–9) and Glebe (p133)
artists’ camp overlooking from the 1870s onwards.
Sydney Harbour in Mosman.

1877 Caroline Chisholm, a philanthropist 1890 First Tivoli Theatre programme
who helped immigrant women, dies
electric trams
1880 The Bulletin magazine is run between 1896 Moving
launched. Captain Moonlight, Bondi Junction pictures come to the
a notorious bushranger, is hanged and Waverley Tivoli Theatre
1880 1890
1879 Steam tramway Steam tram 1891 Labor Party enters
travels from the city the political arena
to Redfern 1900 Queen Victoria consents to
1888 Louisa Lawson’s journal the formation of the
Dawn published Commonwealth of Australia.
Bubonic plague breaks out

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