My Darlinghurst

Darlinghurst, a triangle of 80 hectares, sits on the edge of Sydney' s CBD. Dominated by high rocky ridges on which grand colonial houses were once built, it is bordered in the east by Rushcutters Creek (Boundary Street), which was used by Aboriginal peoples until at least the 1860s, and in the south by a Gadigal pathway (Oxford Street), which traced a route out to the ocean. The colony' s first mills were built beside valley streams, which were soon covered over by densely packed rows of terrac