Such an asset, this little park, filched from part of Riley Street, and right beside The Northcott.
Daily Archives: October 25, 2008
Surry Hills 76: Spring 10
What a beautiful day this has been! I didn’t have to go far from home to find these… And the afternoon light.
Mind you, oleanders are really not nice plants, being poisonous and all…
… and Indian mynahs are not really nice birds…
Surry Hills 75: phantom streets
Over the past 100 years much has changed in Surry Hills. Entire precincts have disappeared. A bubonic plague scare early last century led to the disappearance of Wexford Street over towards Oxford and Elizabeth Streets, and the notorious “Frog Hollow” in Riley Street vanished not too long after. The area where The Northcott now is was transformed from the late 1940s, a period documented in Ruth Park’s Surry Hills novels. Extending and widening Devonshire Street led to the disappearance, except for the following strange remnants, of two small streets.
