- Broadway, New South Wales
Broadway is a
road inSydney , in the state ofNew South Wales ,Australia . The road constitutes the border between the suburbs of Ultimo (to the north) and Chippendale (to the south). Broadway is also an urban locality.When travelling westward along Broadway the name changes into
Parramatta Road at Victoria Park just after the junction with City Road. Broadway andParramatta Road are part of theGreat Western Highway . Broadway provides a link between theUniversity of Sydney and theUniversity of Technology, Sydney .History
Broadway is historically important because it is one of the first roads built in the colony of New South Wales, in
1794 . It had been called "George Street South" and then "George Street West". After being widened in 1906 when the Central Railway Station was built, George Street west of Railway Square, it became known as "The Broadway" [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/history/sydneystreets/Widening_the_Streets/default.html Widening the streets - City of Sydney website] ] . This name was subsequently shortened to just "Broadway".In the early nineteenth century, travel to Parramatta on Parramatta Rd attracted a toll and this was charged from the area now known as Railway Square. The toll gate was subsequently moved to the approximate junction of the present Broadway and Parramatta Rd.
Landmarks
Broadway was once home to the flagship building of department store chain Grace Brothers until
1995 , operating there for 90 years. It was visited by Queen Elizabeth II during her1954 visit to Australia. Today this site contains theBroadway Shopping Centre and the Hotel UniLodge Sydney.The Embassy Conference Centre is a historic building, built in the 1890s as the first branch of the
Bank of New South Wales .Churches
*St Barnabas Anglican Church
Transport
Broadway was a busy tram thoroughfare in the first half of the 20th century, until the line's closure in
1958 [D. Keenan: "Tramways of Sydney". Transit Press 1979] .References
External links
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