Iconography 4

I wrote recently (Prelapsarian Sydney) of the squat brown blocks of Commission flats that had `been demolished recently in Glebe...[revealing] for the first time in however many years...the sandstone terraces that once stood at the head of Blackwattle Bay...' And in a blog on Sydney's iconography I pointed out the prevalence of honey-coloured sandstone as building material in Sydney's Victorian-era public buildings.

It's not just public buildings either. Every so often you'll come across a 19th century cottage built out of sandstone.

Little cottages like this are so typical of the inner suburbs of Sydney, this being only 3 or 4 kms from the CBD. At the head of Glebe Point Road to the east of here, closer into the city, there is a plaque marking the western boundary of the town of Sydney in the time of Governor Bourke (1831-37). I wonder who lived 'way out here' then?