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Peter McNeil, Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney

Surry Hills was once the centre of New South Wales’ ‘rag trade’: a short history of fashion manufacturing in Sydney

Top Dog factory for men's hats, Surry Hills, 1941 State Library of New South Wales

Sydney has awoken to the smouldering ruins of its largest city fire in 55 years.

The “abandoned building” in Randle Street, Surry Hills, adjacent to Central Station was once the R.C. Henderson Ladies Hat factory, a six-storey brick structure built in 1912.

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