This pedestrian bridge crosses South Dowling Street, or the lowered part of the Eastern Distributor motorway, linking the eastern suburbs of Surry Hills and Moore Park. A golfer is on his way to the nearby Moore Park Golf Course.
The iconic at dusk, viewed from Circular Quay.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunset, viewed from the Sydney Opera House forecourt.
Frog Hollow Bridge is a stone bridge with timber pergola in Centennial Park. The bridge arches over the stormwater channel in Frog Hollow, a triangle formed by Grand Drive, Dickens Drive and Parkes Drive. It was constructed in the 1890s by the New South Wales Public Works Department.
Pyrmont Bridge is a swing bridge that crosses Cockle Bay at Darling Harbour and connects the inner city suburb of Pyrmont with the Sydney central business district. The bridge was opened in 1902 but closed to traffic in the 1980s when freeways south of Cockle Bay were built. It reopened as a pedestrian bridge with the redevelopment of Darling Harbour in 1988. It also carries an elevated monorail with a track that remains stationary so that the monorails can continue to cross even when the bridge swings open for large boats.
The Gasworks Bridge carries Macarthur Street over the Parramatta River in the western suburb of Parramatta. This iron lattice bridge on sandstone pylons was completed in 1885 and acquired the name due to the proximity of the gasworks that once occupied the block southeast of the bridge. The south side of the bridge was the site of Howell’s wind and watermill, built in 1828 and used until 1868.
This contemporary artwork is located on the Parramatta River foreshore, near the Gasworks Bridge, in the western suburb of Parramatta. “Sentry Box” was created by historian Michael Flynn with artists Susan Milne and Greg Stonehouse in 2009. This 8-metre high sculpture is a reinterpretation of a small wooden sentry box which stood near this location, in the early days of the colony. The red coat soldiers were stationed on the river at the entry to Parramatta where they watched over the river and were responsible for keeping order and disciplining convicts.
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