Archive for the 'Historic places' Category

The South Steyne is one of Sydney’s old ferries. We passed it while walking through Darling Harbour on our recent holiday in Sydney. It is permanently moored there now and is used as a floating restaurant and function centre. It has a long an interesting history. The following is taken from its website: The S.S. [...]

After our visit to the Queen Victoria Building and lunch, we caught a train for a short distance and then walked through Hyde Park. The statue of Queen Victoria presides over the traffic around Hyde Park. A statue of her husband Prince Albert watches over another part of the park opposite his queen.

On our holiday in Sydney late last year our son suggested that we have a look at the Queen Victoria Building in the city. This historic building contains dozens of interesting specialty shops. I was more interested in the building, the beautiful architecture and the wonderful ambiance of the whole building. Not many shopping centres [...]

The Susannah Place Museum in the Rocks district of inner Sydney preserves some of the social history of this interesting part of Australia. This group of terrace houses was built in 1844 and has been in continuous use ever since. Now it is only a museum, but one of the houses was still occupied a [...]