Sydney is a pre-industrial walking city. It’s roadways are based on walkways that were the initial communication lines. No carriages at the very start. George St and Broadway are quite large and Sydney has been redeveloped multiple times.
Once you get out to the inner west place like Petersham exist as dormitory suburbs connected to the train line.
Once you get further the car has been established.
Country towns have had less intensive redevelopment and still notably display streets large enough to turn wagons around in.
With history it’s really important to not think of things as a homogenous, always existing as they are. They develop and change over time.
I was going to start a proper history story discussion, a news story or wiki page or something, but then i thought, it will probably head towards Australian history in discussion, or even Sydney history.
Which opens up Aboriginal history and colonialism. Then i thought if i bring up ancient history it might be ignored, if i bring up larger colonialism, ww1 or 2 it will be regurgitated ‘facts’ over and over again…
So, i think this thread will head towards Sydney history, but i hope it will be as open as 13.7 billion years to 14/8/2024
I’ve always found it fascinating how things like this are still showing up all the time. And how the old Roman towns and cities here were basically just abandoned over the centuries after the Roman’s left. Verulamium just outside of St Albans was once a city of 20,000 people and Wroxeter 15,000.
I got a score of 1585 on today’s Chronophoto: 8/16/2024
Round 1: 0
Round 2: 53
Round 3: 453
Round 4: 924
Round 5: 155
Very tough today. Pissed off I should have got 1000 for #4 but the slider is a pain in the arse on the phone so I kept falling a year off either way and just left it there
