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72-78 Oxford Street

On the left of the picture is 72-74 Oxford Street. Downstairs W. & M. O’Loughlin run a laundry, dry cleaners and dyeing business. Upstairs is the Oxford Billiard Saloon. In the centre of the photograph is the Union Bank of Australia Ltd, 76-78 Oxford Street. This fine Federation Queen Anne style structure was built only a few years earlier in 1903, after the bank bought and consolidated two sites. A gentleman stands in the doorway of the bank, probably the manager, Mr H. N. Grant. Grant is reluctant to relinquish the site to council. A group of children line up against the bank’s windows to get in the photo, while a blockboy chats with two other boys in the gutter. The Savings Bank of New South Wales, built in 1882, can be seen on the right.

(image: City of Sydney Archives, CRS 51/2964)