OLD SYDNEY

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1933, Page 8

OLD SYDNEY

VANISHING LANDMARKS

SOME INTERESTING CHANGES

SYDNEY, July 8. Old Sydney is rapidly vanishing, and within the next'week or so a host of interesting and historical landmarks is doomed to disappear. Mont of the barristers’ chambers' in , Phillip Street, close to the Supreme Courts, •which are involved in the Martin Place extension scheme, have gone already. In these old-fashioned terrace houscis, built in imitation of London houses, in districts like Bloomsbury, nearly a century ago, many distinguished judges worked as juniors. Burdekin House, in Macquarie Street,, regarded by many as the most beautiful. I private house ever erected jn New South Wales, will also go before long ami will be replaced by a ne.iv St. Stephen’s Church. The present church isy in the way of . the Martin Place extension’. The huge eight-storey building previously occupied by the Sun newspaper is already half demolished to make way for the new street. The new St. Stephen’s Church will be a magnificent structure in the perpendicular Gothic style. It will accommodate 1200 people and will, cost £48,000, The Presbyterians are fortunate in two rer,poets. They have secured probably the best site for a city church, and the church will open in credit. The cheque from the City Council for the resumption of the site- now 1 occupied was £oo,ooo which is £2OOO more than the estimated cost of tho new building. Another old institution the doom of which is at hand is Governor Mac-. quarie’s .commissariat store .at Circular. Quay. It was built by convicts in 1811, and .it is .as solid to-day as it must have boon when it was constructed more than a century ago. It is now difficult to. make remunerative use of t.lio old building, especially as the harbour bridge has done irreparable damage Lousiness on the western side of the quayfc