1914 - Victoria & Albert Guesthouse, Mt. Victoria, NSW
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S 33° 35.378 E 150° 15.365
56H E 245354 N 6279968
A charming two story guesthouse in Mt. Victoria, the most westerly township in the Blue Mountains.
Waymark Code: WMKNQE
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 05/07/2014
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The Blue Mountains became an up-market Victorian playground in the late 19th century. Parts of Sydney were filthy, poverty-stricken and overcrowded. Epidemics of cholera, typhoid and smallpox were a constant threat. Sydney’s wealthy residents felt uncomfortable about this.
For both the rich and the not-so-well-off, the opening of the Great Western Railway in 1868 was a godsend. Now they could easily escape to the fresh air of the mountains, leaving Sydney’s pestilence to the poor. Guesthouses sprang up everywhere, and members of the elite built fashionable summer residences in the mountains.
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The Victoria & Albert Guesthouse, a private hotel, was one of the many guesthouses that attracted Sydneysiders wishing to take in the fresh, invigorating air.
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