Paddington (New South Wales)

Paddington is an inner-city situated in the eastern suburb of Sydney in the Australian state of New South Wales and is located three kilometers east of the Sydney central business district. The suburb belongs partly to the City of Sydney and part of the Municipality of Woollahra. The name is often colloquially shortened to " Paddo ".

Paddington is located primarily on the north side of a ridge, which runs along Oxford Street. To the west is close Darlinghurst, east Centennial Park and Woollahra where north is Edgecliff and Kings Cross and south of Moore Park.

• 2.1 Art Market
• 2.2 traffic

• 3.1 Paddington Town Hall
• 3.2 Victoria Barracks
• 3.3 Sydney Football Stadium
• 3.4 Juniper Hall
• 3.5 Oxford Street
• 3.6 monuments

History

Aboriginal culture

Today's suburb Paddington is located on parts of the country, which is in communication with the history and the rituals of the Cadigal, who belonged to the Eora language group and the traditional owners of the land were, in the is now the Central Business District. The ridge on which today's Oxford Street runs, was used by the natives as a path.

The majority of indigenous people in Sydney was killed by a smallpox epidemic in 1789, a year after the arrival of the First Fleet. Records of British settlers from this period indicate that only three members of the Cadigalstammes survived the epidemic; some anthropologists assume, however, that the tribe went to other tribal areas in the field of Eorasprachgruppe. However, the references to the history of the indigenous people are sparse, but we know that to build the time in which Robert Cooper began his house, about 200 Koori lived in Woolloomooloo, huts, Governor Lachlan Macquarie had built for them.

Colonization by Europeans

Built in the early 1820s Ginbrenner and former convict Robert Cooper a big house in the Georgian style on the ridge of by today Paddington running hill, from where there was a good view. Cooper named the area after the London Borough Paddington and his residence Juniper Hall. The first houses were built in the vicinity of the Victoria Barracks. In the late 19th century terraced houses were built mainly in which the burgeoning working population and middle class settled. Over time, each plot was cultivated, and the suburb was overpopulated. The unfavorable structure Paddington sat down to gentrification in the 1960s continued. At this time the area developed bohemian aspects, and a community of artists attracted to creative and alternative residents. In the present day Paddington is an example of unplanned urban renewal, wherein the desired location and charm of cultural heritage have contributed to a thriving real estate market. Shoemaker workshops and fabric stores have given way to designer shops and specialty foods.

Trade and Industry

Paddington is a lively, cosmolitisch acting part of the Eastern Suburbs on Oxford Street, one of Sydney's arteries. The suburb is one of the most historic and culturally most diverse districts of the capital of New South Wales and is known for its many boutiques and fashion shops as well as cafes and restaurants, grouped mainly around the intersection of Five Ways.

Art Market

Every Saturday there is an art market on the grounds of the listed Paddington Uniting Church and the adjacent Paddington Public School on Oxford Street. Here contemporary Australian art objects, crafts and fashion are marketed in direct sales to about 250 stalls.

Traffic

Paddington is served by public transport especially by buses that run on the Oxford Street. The bus routes on Darlinghurst to Circular Quay and Central Station and Bronte, Bondi or Bondi Junction in the opposite direction.

Attractions

Paddington Town Hall

Paddington Town Hall was built in the late 19th century at a cost of 15,000 pounds sterling. It was inaugurated in 1891 and is an example of European architecture in Sydney. The clock tower has a height of 32 meters and dominates, standing on Oxford Street, Paddington's the silhouette.

The dials to the east, south and west show the time in Roman numerals on, but on the nearby Oxford Street north side of the digits have been replaced as follows: 1: D, 2: U, 3 S, 4: T, 5: H, 6: E, 7: VII, 8: e 9: D, 10 V, 11 A, 12: R. This was done to celebrate the coronation of Edward VII and starting from the point where normally the VIII would be located, one reads EDVARDUS THE VII

The clock was set on Wednesday, August 30, 1905 by Joseph Carruthers, the Prime Minister of New South Wales in motion, the case mentioned at the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth and said he thought, " the day on which peace between Russia and Japan has been declared, is a good day to set the clock in motion, " and" he hopes it would be peace and good will on earth, as long as the clock would continue to run. "

In the former town hall, in which the present Rugby Club Sydney Roosters was founded in 1908, now a cinema and a library are radio studios housed.

Victoria Barracks

The Victoria Barracks is an agency of the Australian Army, which is set back south of the Town Hall on Oxford Street. It was built from broken in Hawkesbury sandstone blocks of forced labor and opened after seven years in 1848. Even after Australian independence in 1901, the barracks was a major base for the training of soldiers. At present, it houses the Headquarters Country Command and Headquarters Training Command.

Sydney Football Stadium

The Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park Road is located on the southern border of Paddington and is the home stadium for the Sydney Roosters, the NSW Waratahs and Sydney FC.

Juniper Hall

Juniper Hall was built by Robert Cooper, a former convict, in the 1820s and is the oldest house in Paddington. The large dominant building is located diagonally opposite the Paddington Town Hall. It has been restored and comprehensive belonged for a time to the National Trust. Today, it is however available for private and can not be visited; however, it is visible from Oxford Street from.

Oxford Street

Oxford Street was originally a way of Aborigines to South Head. Later, the road served as a shopping street. First, it 's shops fulfill the needs of local residents, but now the inhabitants belong to the middle and upper class, and the road became the target of tourists, many of whom come only to Paddington for shopping on Oxford Street.

Monuments

The following buildings are entered in the Register of the National Estate:

• Victoria Barracks, Oxford Street
• Paddington Town Hall, Oxford Street
• Paddington Court House, Jersey Road
• Paddington Public School, Oxford Street
• Uniting Church and Parsonage, Oxford Street
• St Matthias Church Group, Oxford Street
• Former Rectory, 495 Oxford Street
• St Matthias Church Hall, Oxford Street
• Royal Hotel, Glenmore Road

Houses

Paddington is known for its Victorian terraced houses which degenerated to a large extent after the Second World War to slums, but later gentrification meant that these houses are sought after today. The suburb is characterized by a network of interconnected streets and roads, some of which are too narrow for vehicles of today's road traffic. In contrast, there are some much wider streets, such as Paddington Street or Windsor Street.

Demography

In the 2001 census 11,817 people lived in Paddington. The area has a high percentage of residents born outside Australia. , Only 25 percent reported that their parents were born in Australia. 67 % were in North West European States -born parents, especially from the United Kingdom and Ireland. 70 % of the residents of the suburb living in the typical suburban Victorian terraced houses, the rest in apartment dwellings.