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City Engineer and City Surveyor's Department I

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City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833

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Unique IDAS-0955Start date1st January 1833Start date qualifiercircaEnd date1st January 1880End date qualifiercircaFormatPlanDescriptionThe 1833 City Section Survey Plans (and the similar City Detail Plans of 1855) are copies, drawn in the 1880s by draftsmen of the City Council, from the originals held by the NSW Department of Lands. This series consists of linen plan drawings of the 'city sections' of Sydney lying within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Sewerage District, constituted under the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Act 1880. This effectively comprised the area bounded by Port Jackson to the north, Darling Harbour to the west, Macquarie Street and Hyde Park to the east, and Liverpool Street to the south. Details shown are: street alignments and names; parcels of land with details of the size of each parcel; survey lines; names of owners; and often the nature of the grant or basis of ownership. On some sheets colour has been used to indicate buildings although no details of construction or use are shown. Significant geographical features, such as the freshwater pond adjacent to Darling Harbour just north of Goulburn Street, are also occasionally indicated. The scale of the plans is 2 inches to 1 chain, and the sections are numbered 1 to 94.
Relationship legacy dataCREATED BY: City Engineer and City Surveyors Department I AG-0086 (01/01/1880 to 01/01/1880) RELATED TO: Surveying AY-46 (01/01/1880 to 01/01/1880) LanguageEnglish (eng)Archivist noteThe plans comprising this series were identified among a mass of disordered plans and drawings transferred to the Archives in mid 1997 inside some plan cabinets deemed surplus to requirements by the Customer Services Unit of CA 177, Service Delivery. The officers staffing this unit (Denis Robbie and Larry Cahill) were formerly responsible for plans and drawings within CA 28, City Engineers Department II. It seems most likely this series descends from plans formerly held by CA 28 and its predecessor agencies.

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City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833: Section 94

City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833: Section 93

City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833: Section 92

City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833: Section 91

City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833: Section 90

City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833: Section 9

City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833: Section 89, 98

City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833: Section 89

City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833: Section 88

City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833: Section 87

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City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833: Section 76

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Plan

City section survey plan sheets

Colour negatives 110 x 140 mm

Box

MULTIPLE SERIES - CSA069275

MULTIPLE SERIES - CSA069203

City Section Survey Plans - CSA025555

City Section Survey Plans - CSA025554

City Section Survey Plans - CSA025552

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Identification and Arrangement

Source system ID955System of arrangementNumerical by section number + section key planCopiesCRS 531, Master Negative Aperture Cards of "Old Sydney Sections" Plans, 1884. This set of microfilm copies is held (December 1997) in the Customer Services Unit of CA 177, Service Delivery.

Disposal

Disposal statusArchived

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Legacy dataRegistered by: Mark Stevens
Registered date: 08/12/1997
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Last amendment date: 08/12/1997
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System of arrangements: Numerical by section number + section key plan
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UpdatedDate: 03/05/2005
UpdatedUser: May 3 2005 12:14PM

BOS Series Description:
This series consists of linen plan drawings of the 'city sections' of Sydney lying within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Sewerage District constituted under the Metropolitan Water & Sewerage Act 1880. This effectively comprised the area bounded by Port Jackson (N), Darling Harbour (W), Macquarie St and Hyde Park (E), and Liverpool St (S).

The sections are numbered 1-94, but there are fewer drawings because a few sheets contain two adjacent (but not necessarily numerically sequential) sections. The sheets vary in size from about A3 to about A0. The scale is 2 inches to 1 chain.

Details shown are: street alignments and names, parcels of land with details of the size of each parcel, survey lines, names of owners and usually the nature of the grant or basis of ownership. On some sheets colour has been used to indicate buildings although no details of construction or use are shown. Significant geographical features, such as the freshwater pond adjacent to Darling Harbour just north of Goulburn Street, are also occasionally indicated.

The drawings seem to have been prepared by the Council in 1880 or shortly afterwards. However they are based on a set or sets of drawings dated from the 1830s and seem to show details as they were at that time. There are occasional notations indicating subsequent changes in land ownership up to around 1865, and other marks that may represent later survey marks.

Some of the sheets bear notations indicating they are copies of surveys done during the 1830s, and others carry the (copied) signature "Robert Russell, Assist Town Surveyor 1835".
Start Date qual: c.
Start Date: 01/01/1833
End Date qual: c.
End Date: 01/01/1880

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Source systemBusiness operation system (BOS); Archives investigatorCreating agenciesCity Engineer and City Surveyor's Department IRelated activitiesSurveying

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City of Sydney - Survey Plans, 1833