Crown Street is a street in the
inner Sydney suburbs of
Woolloomooloo, ,
Darlinghurst and
Surry Hills in
New South Wales, Australia. The Surry Hills section is lined with restaurants and shops and includes the Crown Street Public School, the Surry Hills Library and Community Centre, and the
White Horse Hotel.
Traffic volumes vary, depending on the segment of Crown Street. South of
William Street in East Sydney, the average traffic movements in 2016 for north-bound vehicles was 5,690; while the movements for south-bound vehicles was 4,136.
History
An
electric tram service formerly ran down Crown Street from
Oxford Street to
Cleveland Street until its closure in the late 1950s. Until the opening of the
Eastern Distributor in December 1999, Crown Street was a
one way street in a southerly direction south of Campbell Street.
The now-closed
Crown Street Women's Hospital was once the largest maternity hospital in Sydney. It opened in 1893, and was closed in 1983.
Women's Hospital, Crown Street
NSW State Records The site has now been redeveloped as housing and mixed commercial use.
The Crown Street pumping station was established in 1859 to get water from the Botany Water Reserves, replacing Busby's Bore
Busby's Bore, Sydney's second water supply, is a heritage-listed former water management facility located between Centennial Park and College Street, Surry Hills, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by John Busby and b ...
. It also pumped water up to the Paddington Reservoir, then the Centennial Park Reservoir
The Centennial Park Reservoir or WS001 is a heritage-listed underground reservoir at 3R Oxford Street, Centennial Park, City of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed and built by NSW Public Works Department from 1896 to 1898. ...
before also supplying Waverley.
See also
References
External links
State records, NSW
Streets in Sydney
Darlinghurst, New South Wales
Surry Hills, New South Wales
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