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(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 18281828Vue de l'entrée de Sydney- Cove. (Nouvelle Galles du Sud.) (NYPL b13624459-1266797), 18331833St James' 1843 interior, 1840s1840sSydney 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. 1930T&G Building V1-FL1639382, c. 1930c. 1930View over the Botanic Gardens, 1930, c. 1930c. 1930Building Town Hall station - QVB in the background, 19301930Wynyard Station - Pouring Roof Slab, c. 1930c. 1930Colonel Sommerville leads WWI veterans past the Cenotaph, 19301930The T and G Building from Hyde Park, Sydney, ca. 1930 - photographer Sam Hood, c. 1930c. 1930The Jewel Curtain, State Theatre, n.d. by Sam Hood, 19301930