National Trust Heritage Festival walking tour 2024 –
So many layers of history: a walking tour of Chippendale
Join me on a two hour walk through one of Sydney’s oldest precincts where a Pugin-inspired church, early Victorian terraces and the remnants of of the once dominant Tooths Brewery survive alongside the best in contemporary architecture, art galleries and eateries. While it has been undergoing gentrification for a decade, Chippendale escaped wholesale redevelopment in the 20th century so that layers of history can be read in the layering of built heritage.
The walk will run 10am-12 noon every Sunday of the festival: the 21 and 28 April and 5, 12, 19 May. It is a roughly circular walk. We will meet at the Broadway end of Kensington Street and finish in Balfour Street. Buses on Broadway, trains at Central Station and the lightrail to Haymarket are your best public transport options. Parking in the area is generally metered.
These walks are limited to 10 people per walk with a minimum of four people. The cost per head is $60 and $50 for National Trust members.
Bookings: [email protected]
Author’s walk with Ian Hoskins – From Bennelong Point to Barangaroo
“Discover the secrets of Sydney Harbour with one of Australia’s foremost historians”
This insightful history tour takes you from some of Sydney’s oldest places to its newest. We start at Bennelong Point, site of the world-renowned Sydney Opera House, and named after the Wongal man who lived there among the British colonists in the 1790s. We then walk across Circular Quay, through the Rocks and Millers Point to end at Barangaroo, named after the formidable Gameraigal / Cammeraygal woman who remained wary of the colonists – a place now home to Sydney’s most controversial developments.
