Sydney Harbour Bridge
Many boats and ferries ply the beautiful Sydney Harbour every day. For the local people these boats provide an easy and pleasant way to commute to work.
For the tourist and other visitors they provide an excellent means of seeing this beautiful city and the amazingly beautiful harbour.
Sydney Harbour
Sydney Harbour
Old kitchen furniture, Susannah Place, The Rocks, Sydney
The Susannah Place Museum in the Rocks district of inner Sydney preserves some of the social history of this interesting part of Australia. This group of terrace houses was built in 1844 and has been in continuous use ever since. Now it is only a museum, but one of the houses was still occupied a few years ago.
Relics from the past, Susannah Place Museum, Sydney
Each of the former homes have been decorated and furnished in a different era of its history. Moving through the various homes and rooms in each home on the guided tour is like walking through the pages of early Australian history.
This museum is only a short walk from Circular Quay in central Sydney. It has proved to be very popular with tourists and locals wanting to taste a little of Sydney’s past.
Old furniture, Susannah Place Museum, Sydney
Susannah Place Museum, The Rocks, Sydney
Although I was a little uncertain at first, I thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the Susannah Place Museum in The Rocks district of inner Sydney. we went there on the advice of our daughter who was with us on this holiday. A teaching colleague of hers had previously been there and had recommended a visit.
Basic laundry at Susannah Place, The Rocks, Sydney
We went on an hour long guided tour of these old historic terrace houses and shop. The houses were generally occupied from 1844 until relatively recently, one of them until only a few yars ago.
The houses are furnished and decorated in keeping with various eras in the life of this building. Some of the facilities, like the outdoor laundry tub and water heating fireplace and copper tub shown above, seem primitive when compared with what we have today.
Furniture in Susannah Place Museum, The Rocks, Sydney
My deepest condolences to all the people in Victoria who have lost loved ones and homes in the wild bushfires that have devastated that state over the last 48 hours.
Over 700 homes have been destroyed. At least 76 people have died and it is feared that this might rise to over 100.
You can read more on my birding blog here.
Susannah Place Museum, The Rocks, Sydney
Late last year we travelled to Sydney with our daughter. One of the places she was really keen to visit was the Susannah Place Museum in The Rocks district of inner Sydney. I was a little dubious at first but after going on the guided tour of this old historic shop and terraced houses I had radically changed my mind.
Susannah Place Museum, The Rocks, Sydney
The tour of this museum illustrates so graphically how people lived in this area in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Some of the houses are furnished as they would have been in that era. Other houses have a more modern feel with furnishings from the early twentieth century.
Susannah Place Museum, The Rocks, Sydney