the area from flindersStreet to
TaylorStreet along to southDowlingStreet & along oxfordStreet to
flindersStreet was granted to a robert taylor who built the first house on
the oxfordStreet
September 1880
the first suburban steam tram line opened branching off the elizabeth street
line
& following
liverpool street
& the newly
renamed OxfordStreet
to the crest of
the hill
then turning
right at the
victoria hotel
into the botany
road (flinders street)
the per way depot
operated from this point there being water tanks and extra coke for the
steam engines journey to randwick.
allen taylor
(b 1864 - d 1940)
lord mayor sydney
1905-1906,1909-1912.
1908 as recognition of the work
involved in lobbying the state governments to provide the council with the
power
to evict residents
(from what it considered sub
standard, although solidly built housing)
& to forcibly resume private
property & businesses
(thus allowing the widening of
Oxford Street through the forced resumption and demolition of the entire
northern side of oxford street from the intersection of liverpool street to
the city boundary at great barcom street (barcom avenue) paddington)
the intersection of bourke street, flinders
street, forbes street & oxford street is named
"taylor square"
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