Old Sydney
(Looking north along George Street (with tram, T-model Ford and hansom cab) from Union Line Building (incorporating the Bjelke-Petersen School of Physical culture), corner Jamieson Street), n.d. by, c. 1935(Looking north along George Street (with tram, T-model Ford and hansom cab) from Union Line Building (incorporating the Bjelke-Petersen School of Physical culture), corner Jamieson Street), n.d. byc. 1935

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The Sydney central business district (CBD) is the historical and main commercial centre of Sydney. The CBD is Sydney's city centre, or Sydney City, and the two terms are used interchangeably.

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Sydney city centre by decade

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Streets and landmarks in Sydney city centre

A sample across the years

Lower George Street Sydney 18281828Sydney Market 1857, 18501850Government House, Sydney, 1860 - 18631860Joseph Wearne's Flour Mills, Russell's Foundry, Phillips & Company Coal & Wood Merchants, 18701870Nightingale Wing c. 1870c. 1870The first Tramways Dated c. 10 1 1880 Depot at Pitt Street, c. 1880c. 1880Judge William Charles Windeyer, c. 1890, by Freeman and Coc. 1890Sydney ferry BENNELON at Bennelong Point, c. 1900c. 1900Colonial Mutual Life Building, Sydney, Australia, 19001900Rear of 585 George St showing Weirs Butcher Shop, Sydney (NSW), c. 1900c. 1900King Street during the plague clean up, 19001900Oxford Street, Sydney 1910 A-000390791910Henry Bull & Co. Building in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, c. 1920c. 1920Wynyard Park, Sydney 1920, c. 1920c. 1920Amicus statue on top of the Australian Mutual Provident Society Head Office, Pitt Street, Sydney (c.1930), c. 1930c. 1930Wynyard Station old2, c. 1930c. 1930Wynyard Station - Erecting Escalators, c. 1930c. 1930Large wall advertising sign for Fitform Menswear advertising Oskosh overalls and workshirts, 19301930Anzac Day in the Domain, Sydney, 25 April ca. 1930 Sam Hood, c. 1930c. 1930Marchers pass the Conservatorium leaving Government House grounds, 19301930The Sydney Town Hall illuminated for the Radio and Electrical Exhibition, ca. 1930 - photographer Sam Hood, c. 1930c. 1930Grand organ, Town Hall, Sydney, between 1928-1932 - Samuel Wood, 1928–321928–32The Women's Emergency Signalling Corps, c. 1940c. 1940Conferring of honours and medals at Government House Sydney St Johns Ambulance parade, 19401940

1,560 historic photos of Sydney city centre, taken between 1828 and 1999. They span 16 decades, with the most from the 1930s (497). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.