Milsons Point and Lavender Bay History Walk - Walks

This walk will help you explore the transition of Milsons Point and Lavender Bay and the thread of art and design that connects the two areas.

1. Milsons Point station
2. Dind’s Hotel site
3. Camden Villa / Camden House
4. Luna Park arch
5. 22-26a and 26-28 Alfred Street
6. Site of Lily of St Leonards hotel
7. Sydney Harbour Bridge, North Sydney Olympic Pool and Luna Park
8. Luna Park entrance
9. Michael Leunig memorial to Luna Park fire
10. Peter Kingston Walkway
11. Ferry wharf and site of baths
12. Rail viaduct
13. Neptune Slipway
14. Berowra
15. Whiteley House and Garden
16. Clark Park
17. 30a Lavender Street
18. 68 Lavender Street
19. Jessie Broomfield fountain and Clary Akon statue
20. Bradfield Park demolition sites
21. 94-98 and 104-108 Alfred Street
22. Congregational Church building
23. 84-88 Alfred Street
24. 80 Alfred Street

Milsons Point and Lavender Bay History Walk

Few areas have undergone such upheaval as Milsons Point. A main transport hub from the 1860s to the 1930s, Alfred Street was dramatically affected by the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge from 1924-1932. The transformation changed Alfred Street but created three of Sydney’s most enduring icons: the Bridge, the North Sydney Olympic Pool and Luna Park. Alfred Street became a street of modern office blocks, then a place of apartment towers when Harbourside residential property prices soared from the 1980s. Neighbouring Lavender Bay, called Gooweebahree (Quiberee) by the Cammeraygal people who drank the fresh water there, had its own transformation. It went from a bustling cove of boatbuilders, swimmers and waterfront villas in the late 1800s and early 1900s, to scruffy backwater, and then a gentrified haunt of artists.