Writers such as Ruth Park and Kylie Tennant made Surry Hills notorious as the
inner city home of battlers, larrikins, crime bosses and the rag trade.
In his new edition of 'Surry Hills: The City's Backyard', Christopher Keating
contrasts the well heeled residents and ultra-chic businesses that cram into
today's Surry Hills, with the shady past and the planning disasters that once
put the whole area under threat of demolition.
The story begins in convict times, when Surry Hills was so far from town that it
was exempt from early building regulations. It follows the declining fortunes of
Surry Hills as it turned into a slum area, and its resurgence as a favoured
inner city locality.
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Conversions
Introduction
1. Early Surry Hills to 1850
2. From 1850 to 1890
3. From 1890 to 1940
4. From 1940 to 1991
Postscript: 1991 to the Present
Sources of Illustrations
Index
