Torrens University, Surry Hills
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Steve Surry of England
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Steve Surry of England
My old digs
I was noodling about town this morning, a dull blanket of cloud cover Sydney, so I went to an old haunt to capture some memories.
This house was built by convicts, it is tiny, and my first home bought in 1986 for a ridiculously cheap price.
Simpson Grocer on Marshall Street in Surry Hills was a heady house.
Albion (white) was a proposed name for Sydney, thankfully that didn’t get up. In Surry Hills, it is associated with Samuel Terry's Albion House, Albion Brewery (1826). Now that’s a very Sydney approach. This is up the hill, close to Flinders Street.
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Jesson Street in Surry Hills is named after an early Sydney property owner, while the street may be rather modest, the shadows are lovely.
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DM24/52 Surry
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128# Sydney-central-station-development-
Central is a heritage-listed railway station located in the centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The station is Australia's largest and busiest railway station, and is a major transport interchange for NSW TrainLink inter-city rail services, Sydney Trains commuter rail services, Sydney Metro services, Sydney light rail services, bus services, and private coach transport services. The station is also known as Sydney Terminal (Platforms 1 to 12). The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. It recorded 85.4 million passenger movements in 2018 and serves over 250,000 people daily.
Central station occupies a large city block separating Haymarket, Surry Hills and the central business district, bounded by Railway Square and Pitt Street in the west, Eddy Avenue in the north, Elizabeth Street in the east and the Devonshire Street Tunnel in the south. Parts of the station and marshalling yards extend as far south as Cleveland Street, and are located on the site of the former Devonshire Street Cemetery.
History
There have been three terminal stations in Sydney.
First Sydney terminal
The railway arrived in New South Wales in 1831. Proposals began in the 1840s for a railway linking Sydney and Parramatta, with an eastern terminus close to the Sydney city centre.
Although the Sydney Railway Company first applied to the government for four blocks of land between Hay and Cleveland streets in 1849, the Surveyor General favoured Grose Farm, now the grounds of the University of Sydney. It was further from the city and less costly to develop. The company finally exchanged land in the first, second and third blocks, between Hay and Devonshire Streets, for an increased area of eight hectares (twenty acres) in the fourth block, the Government Paddocks, between Devonshire and Cleveland Streets. Hence, the site of the first Sydney railway terminus was located here from 1855.
Surry Hills
Sydney’s Surry Hills is home to an eclectic array of people.
I did not take his pic as belittling in public is poor form, but a local chap was proudly sporting a shirt with ‘dope’ letters jumbled and repeated many times on it. Unfortunately it looked just as much like ‘pedo’ to the casual eye.
Violet Street is perfect in-swing territory for a game of cricket.
No matter how early I get out, Muma and Papa box along with junior never get me any signals. Wimbo Park, Bourke Street in Sydney’s Surry Hills.
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Knott's Berry Farm
School Road
Belted kingfisher—Megaceryle alcyon—Hog Island—Surry, Virginia
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Bushy bluestem—Andropogon glomeratus—Hog Island—Surry, Virginia
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Red-winged blackbird—Hog Island—Surry, Virginia
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Belted kingfisher—Megaceryle alcyon—Hog Island—Surry, Virginia-2
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Red-winged blackbird—Agelaius phoeniceus—Hog Island—Surry, Virginia-2
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Urban
There’s an odd part of Sydney’s Surry Hills near Central Station, Elizabeth and Chalmers Streets on either side.
Right near what used to a great live music venue, The Southern Cross Hotel (now The Strawberry Hills Hotel).
It’s a little bleak, but reminiscent of the vital days.
History
Colonial Sydney paid respect to wide array of felons and thieves, some were transported here and others were the gentry.
Here’s an early morning shot of Phelps Lane.
Thomas Phelps appeared as a major Surry Hills landlord in the first city assessment of 1845.
Gone
Near Central Station is Randle Street in Sydney’s Surry Hills, there was a fire in a derelict old hat factory here a couple of years ago.
And while plowing through a pile of unpublished pics, I found this shot of a building caught up in the fire. So it’s no longer here.
Surry Hills Festival Activation
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Just before the holiday season, Hutchinson Place is Sydney’s Surry Hills ramps up to its busiest time of the year.
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Surry
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With the red glow of the DON’T WALK making its presence known, these terrace houses on Bourke Street in Sydney’s Surry Hills see no dark of night.
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I posted a B&W shot of this corner (Reservoir Street and Wright Lane) in Sydney’s Surry Hills a few weeks ago. A couple of requests for colour followed. Maybe those requesters knew about the caterpillar guts green.
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Cnr Cleveland & Buckingham St Surry Hills 2010
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