Paddington Reservoir Gardens
Sunken nineteenth-century water reservoir reborn as a garden of brick vaults, cast iron columns and a reflecting pond.
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This guide to Paddington Reservoir Gardens starts with a 1990 storm that caved in the roof of a busy Oxford Street garage, exposing a hidden brick and sandstone reservoir underneath. It traces the chamber's original life pumping water into nineteenth-century Sydney, and its stranger decades afterward as a forgotten mechanic's garage. You'll hear about a second collapse that sealed it shut in 1993. Look for the corroded steel supports as you walk among the surviving brick vaults.
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