King Street
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Originally known as Cooks River Road, King Street has been an important thoroughfare since the days of European settlement, when it linked Sydney Town with farms in the Cooks River Basin. Newtown once belonged to a few rich men, but by the late 1800s it had become a thriving township. By then King Street looked much as it does today, bustling and lined with shops. Many stately homes on the streets off King Street have been restored, but most of the houses began as poor workers’ cottages. Migrants arrived in the 1960s and ’70s, along with rockers, goths and punks, and Newtown is still peopled by an eclectic mix. Above the grungy street level, you’ll see that the upper façades of many shopfronts have retained Victorian plasterwork detail.
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