This image is from the City of Sydney's Sydney Streets exhibition : http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/history/SydneyStreets
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From Slum Lane to Highway While the Wexford Street and Brisbane Street Resumptions were promoted by the City Council as being about creating new broad access streets to Central Station and a new industrial precinct, it was also about clearing out the poorer populations in Surry Hills, with a dash of racism added in. (image: Daily Telegraph, 6 September 1911)
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