Castlereagh Street circa 1860

This is the Victoria Club in the early 1860s, well-known in its day. Around 1871 it was converted to government offices, the fig tree cut down, and the front fence moved back to realign with the rest of the street.

Castlereagh Street, Sydney 1867, Victoria Club

This took me quite a bit of locating to place, as it's listed as being at 136 Castlereagh Street. However, in those days Castlereagh ran all the way to the Quay, with a break between Bligh St. At some point it was renumbered starting at Hunter Street, so today's 136 is past Market Street. However, using old maps and newspapers I concluded it was actually located opposite Hoskins Place.

Today-

(A clearer photo of it around 1870.)

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Welcome, this site is all about Sydney 'then and now'..

The pics: Do click to enlarge the old photos as I've restored most of them from their faded small originals, and the details you'll often see in them can give an awesome insight into how ordinary people, your and my ancestors, actually lived.

Then: Where nothing today remains of a 'Then' scene, the Google Street Views of the 'Now' location have been verified through old maps and the NSW government's SIXMaps.

Sources: Most of the old photos have been collected over many years through the now-defunct Picture Australia and the original sources lost, but almost all are now found through Trove; variously from the National Library, the State Libraries of NSW and Vic, and the National Archives. Some are also via Flickr, so if you know the source of any, do let me know and I will add the credit.

Me: I'm Ross, a major oldsydneyphile (that's a word, really - well, now it is anyway). I grew up here from the 60s. Originally, I made the site in 2006-2008, and restarted it in 2018 using the 'now' scenes supplied by Google Street View.

Castlereagh Street circa 1860

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