Paddington Reservoir Gardens

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.