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8 Argyle Stores
12–20 Argyle St, The Rocks. Map 1 B2.
@ Sydney Explorer, Circular Quay
routes from Elizabeth St. Circular
Quay. Open 10am–6pm daily.
Closed Good Fri, 25 Dec. 7
The Argyle Stores consists of
a number of warehouses set
around a cobbled courtyard.
They have been converted
into a retail complex of mostly
accessories and fashion shops
that retains its period character.
Built between 1826 and the
1880s, the stores held imported
goods such as spirits. All goods
forfeited for the non-payment
Façade of Cadman’s Cottage, the oldest extant building in the city of duties were auctioned in the
courtyard. The oldest store was
6 Cadman’s Now, as a result of successive built for Captain John Piper, but
Cottage land reclamations such as the it was confiscated and sold after
filling in of Circular Quay in the his arrest for embezzlement.
110 George St, The Rocks. Map 1 B2. 1870s, it is set well back from
Tel 9247 5033. @ Sydney Explorer, the waterfront.
Circular Quay routes from Elizabeth St.
Circular Quay. Closed to the
public. 7 Pylon Lookout
Dwarfed by the adjacent Sailors’ South-east pylon, Sydney Harbour
Home, of which it was once Bridge. Map 1 B1. Tel 9240 1100.
part, this small historic site is @ Sydney Explorer, Circular Quay
no longer open to the public, routes from Elizabeth St, 311.
though it is possible to walk Circular Quay. Open 10am– The Argyle Centre, as seen from the
around the outside of it. Built in 5pm daily. Closed 25 Dec. 8 cobbled courtyard
1816 to house the crews of the ∑ pylonlookout.com.au
governor’s boats, it is Sydney’s
oldest surviving dwelling. This site not only offers visitors 9 Garrison Church
The cottage is named after one of the best views of Sydney Cnr Argyle and Lower Fort Sts, Millers
John Cadman, a convict who from the top, but it also houses Point. Map 1 A2. Tel 9247 1071.
was transported in 1798 for a series of exhibitions about @ 311. Open 9am–6pm daily.
stealing horses. By 1813, he was the building and history of the 5 9:30am & 4pm Sun. 7
coxswain of a timber boat and Sydney Harbour Bridge. Take ∑ churchhillanglican.com
the following year received an the time to absorb the stories
unconditional pardon. In 1821, and gaze upon the artifacts The Holy Trinity Church is known
he was granted a full pardon. Six and stained-glass memorial as the Garrison Church because
years later, he was made boat feature windows as you walk it was the colony’s first military
superintendent of government the 200 steps from the bridge’s church. Officers and men from
craft and took up resi dence pedestrian deck to the upper various British regiments, sta-
in the four-room cottage reaches of the sandstone pylon. t ioned at Dawes Point fort, came
that now bears his name.
Cadman married Elizabeth
Mortimer in 1830. She had
also arrived in Sydney as a
convict, sentenced to seven
years' transportation for the
theft of one hairbrush. The
couple, along with Elizabeth’s
two daughters, lived in the
cottage until 1846.
When Cadman’s Cottage was
built it stood on the foreshore
of Sydney Harbour. At high
tide, the water used to lap
just 2.5 m (8 ft) from the door. Sandstone pylon of Sydney Harbour Bridge, housing historic exhibits
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