THE CACHE
The small cache is hidden in plain sight, and even it is a really busy intersection, with a bit of stealth if will be an easy find. Please, leave the cache as you found, and enjoy this beautiful part of town.
PADDINGTON 5 WAYS
Five Ways is a junction of streets at the heart of Paddington, situated three hundred meters north of Oxford Street. The junction is formed by the intersection of Glenmore Road, Goodhope Street, Heeley Street and Broughton Street.
At the intersection there is a variety of 19th- and 20th-century buildings, including the Royal Hotel, built in 1888 in a mixture of Classical and Victorian styles, offering numerous shops, cafes, and bars.
The suburb of Paddington developed after a formal road was built to provide faster access to the signal station at South Head (Watsons Bay) in 1803. The first land grants in the area were made in 1823, with a distillery and wheat mill being constructed shortly thereafter.
Initially, only a handful of workers lived in the area, however, when the Victoria Barracks construction works began, the village of Paddington began to emerge around the cottages of the stonemasons, quarrymen, carpenters and laborers who were working on the construction of the Barracks.
The main Victoria Barracks building, constructed in the Regency style, was built by convicts using Hawkesbury sandstone. The building was designed to accommodate 650 soldiers and the Barracks was the main military training site in Australia from its completion until the early 1900s. rapid growth followed the opening of Victoria Barracks in 1848, with large estates being subdivided and nearly 4,000 terrace-style houses being constructed between 1860 and 1890. By the early 1900s, 26,000 people were living in Paddington; however, by the 1940s the area was slated as a slum ready for redevelopment. Demolition of virtually all of the building stock was spared when newly arrived European migrants moved into the area; finding the location convenient and affordable.
c.1938 view looking west along Glenmore Road at Five Ways, Paddington
During the 1960s, Paddington became a multicultural middle-class area and awareness and appreciation of the historical and aesthetic qualities of the area began to emerge. By the late 1960s, Paddington became the first heritage conservation area in Australia.
CONTEMPORARY PADDINGTON
Contemporary design solutions of high architectural quality can provide a positive contribution to heritage conservation areas. The following images showcase contemporary alterations and additions to buildings located within the rare and largely intact early Victorian residential suburb of Paddington, which is now of National and State heritage significance.
