The architecture is so remarkably British in style and form, if it wasn't for the more tropical flora scattered throughout the video, one could be forgiven for thinking it an Old World city.

Back when cities were beautiful, built from local materials, not alien concrete, glass or steel. We should demand a more human-scale, local architecture.

Sydney looked much more advance 200 years ago then now... Those convicts back at d old days proved to be better architects, craftsmen and builders with their horses and carts than our morden day builders with their excavators, automatic cement maker, modern electrical tools... We modern people sucks

The worst scar ever made on the beautiful Sydney Harbour is the Cahill Expressway and these images prove it, completely mutilated the Quay. Such a stunning harbour back then made even greater with the Harbour bridge 5 years later. The style of the city is so much more elegant and peaceful back then. I remember catching the tram from Maroubra Beach into Elizabeth Street many times in the early 50s for the big trip to David Jones (Elizabeth St) and Farmers on Broadway always an adventure. I was sad as a young lad when they killed the trams in 57 the buses were nowhere near as reliable. Thanks heavens they developed good tunnel boring machines.

Full of Antiquitech leftovers from the last reset…

The younger generation could do with watching these type of historical videos, might appreciate what a wonderful country we used to have... Great video, thanks for sharing.

I teach Australian history at an catholic school in Sydney’s west. And often take the students on day trips around Sydney to show them aspects of early Sydney. And for those who have never seen this, if you are travelling along Liverpool road/ Hume hwy from Enfield to Liverpool, on the side of the road travelling west they still have the concrete markers that indicate how many km until you get to Liverpool,eg 20 km, 15, 10 and so on. They are small white concrete slabs around 1 m high and 50 cm wife. They have been there since the early 1900s.

I'm supposed to believe society has progressed..

How did they build all of this?

Some of the finest images of Old Sydney I've seen. What a stunning city it was!

ALL the Ally ways were so The Dunny carters could access them 😷💩

This issue.ilar how Geelong in Australia looks like 2024

Sydney was impressive, architecture amazing - something happened!!!!!

Perhaps someone can restore this the way they've been doing with a lot of other historical film on youtube, with colour and 60fps

Sydney was x it's a beautiful City...I LOVE it...have a lots of good times in 30 years when I used to live there.❤❤❤❤

A pity some of the great buildings were torn down. Years ago we didn't appreciate the significance or some of those old buildings. Thanks to Jack Mundey most of the Rocks was saved. Pretty sure they can are going to remove the Cahill Expressway

1927 British empire. 😂😂😂

Does anyone know the building @

It’s remarkable that despite some terrible losses in the 60’s to 80’s Sydney, unlike other major Australian cities, has preserved much of its unique heritage and is all the better for that. Virtually every important building featured in this film still exists though most overall street scenes are very different now. Sydney has always been my favourite Australian city and continues to be so.

It’s nice they kept a lot of the old buildings like the QVB the old architecture is nice. I wonder if removing the trams was a good or bad decision tho? I think trams worked out good for Melbourne?