This image is from the City of Sydney's Foundations for a City: Building Sydney Town Hall exhibition http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/history/foundations

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Old Burial Ground, 1865

This image is a detail from the Trigonometrical Survey of Sydney. It shows the Old Burial Ground and the Cathedral next to it in 1865. The Council was granted the land for a Town Hall shortly afterwards.

(image: Detail from Sheet E1, Trigonometrical Survey of Sydney 1865. City of Sydney Archives / State Records)