The Rocks, Sydney: A Self-Guided Walking Tour

By Steven Lewis

Read light and informative commentary while you take a self-guided walk through more than 200 years of history, starting with the first convicts to arrive in Sydney. See where they worked the hard sandstone by hand and where they lived, drank, gambled, robbed and kidnapped.

Hear tales of murders, foul deeds and the vision that saved The Rocks from government bulldozers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Taleist
• Release date: Sep 3, 2010
• ISBN: 9780980855906

Steven Lewis

Steven Lewis is a Communication Strategist with an extensive background in training creative corporate leaders on their presentation skills. He is an elite personal presentation trainer who has worked with senior executives at NBCUniversal, Warner Bros., Verve Mobile, Hulu, Paramount, Fox and Stitch Fix. He has worked with various directors and actors for their promotional tours, including Tom Cruise, Zac Efron and Jennifer Lawrence. He is also an Emmy Award winning TV Executive Producer, with a keen understanding of how to bring out the best in talent. Previously, Steven co-founded Greystone Communication, and has worked as a Producer at MTV. He was then a partner at Media Savvy, a media coaching firm.

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The Rocks, Sydney

A Self-Guided Walking Tour from Taleist

by Steven Lewis

Published by Taleist

Smashwords Edition

Updated 1st edition

ISBN 978-0-9808559-0-6

Copyright Taleist 2010

Table of contents

Map

Orientation

George Street

Brown Bear Lane

First Fleet Park

George Street

Policemen and Nurses

Parallel to George Street

Nurses Walk

Suez Canal

Back to George Street

Outside the Orient Hotel

Along the foreshore

Cadman’s Cottage

The Old Sailors’ Home

George Street to the Harbour Bridge

The Coroner’s Court

Bushells Factory

Playfair Street

The Metcalfe Bond

Dawes Point Park

Lower Fort Street

The Hero of Waterloo

The Garrison Church

The Argyle Cut

The Sydney Observatory

Cumberland Street

The Australian Hotel

Cribbs Lane

Susannah Place and Cambridge Street

Cambridge Street

Parting company

About the author

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Map

Chapter 1

Orientation

[Map location 1]

This walk starts at the corner of George and Alfred Streets in the Sydney CBD. We should be standing on George Street under the Cahill Expressway, which is the road bridge that runs over the ferry piers.

We should be on the pavement on the harbour side of the road, the side with the ferry piers.

Across the road from you is one of the pylons holding up the road bridge. On it you will see a sign saying 157 George Street.

Chapter 2

George Street

Brown Bear Lane

This is the start of the Rocks area of Sydney. The Rocks is a place with a colourful -- often criminal -- past.

Across the road from us, above the ramp to the carpark, there‘s a mural on the wall. It