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| It doesn't have to have happened donkeys'-years ago, to be historic. Yesterday is history. Just that in Castlecrag, the history I encounter is 80 years old, whereas in Paddington the history is 180 years old. Take this small cottage on Fourth Street. Constructed during the Great Depression, the socio-economic ebb and flow of suburbs make it solidly middle-class, evidenced by it being manicured to within an inch of its life. |
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| This cottage, however, stands upon a short no-thru lane between Fourth and Eastern Valley Way, and that lane itself is cloaked in history, a history of road construction. Telford was a Scot who lived in the first half of the 19th century, yet this lane is in suburban Sydney and I have found one source that dates it 1920. It looks innocuous, and the upkeep appears to be zilch. But, the construction method is complex and took us from corrugated roads to bitumised freeways. |
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