Public Toilets in Sydney

Letter - Urinaries needed for persons at George Street Markets and generally, 1851

File - Demolish and reconstruction of public lavatory on Baker Street, 1905

File - City Building Surveyors office on Queen Victoria Markets public lavatories, 1900

File - Advice on installation of underground urinals, 1900

Letter - Erection of wooden screens at George Street market and a watch box on the Markets wharf, 1844

Petition - Request for public baths, urinals and closets in the city, Market Street Sydney, circa 1868

Memorandum - Erection of lavatory at Sale Yards, 1899

Letter - Nuisance to women passing public convenience, Lees Lane, 1899

Letter - Complaint about ladies lavatories at the Belmore Markets, 1896

Letter - Complaint about insolent conduct of man in charge of lavatory, Haymarket, 1897

Letter - Request for key to the ladies lavatory, 1897

Memorandum - Drawings of the one person urinals in Princess and Kent Streets, 1894

Letter - Complaint about erection of public convenience in front of property, Riley Street, 1893

Letter - Offer to erect public lavatories, 1893

Letter - Filthy state of lavatory, Reservoir, 1890

Memorandum - Costs for ladies lavatory and retiring rooms in Sydney, 1889

Letter - request for locks on lavatory doors, Queen Victoria Markets, 1899

Letter - Urinal attracts drunks and larrikins, Union Street, 1889

Letter - Disgraceful state of closets at the George Street Markets, 1888

Letter - F. Lassetter & Co forwarding the specification for Jennings' urinals, 1887

Letter - Insufficiency of water closets (toilets), 1886

Letter - Issues caused by lack of public conveniences in the City, 1886

Memorandum - Inspector of Nuisances, Richard Seymour, reports on the state of the closets, 1885

Plan - Details of swing doors at lavatory entrance, Queen Victoria Building (QVB) Sydney, 1892

Plan (tracing) - Queen Victoria Building (QVB) - Lavatory screen, first floor, 1892

Plan - Temporary lavatory, Power Station, Pyrmont Street, 1948

Plan - New convenience for women, 13 St Johns Road Glebe, 1961

Plan - Remodelling of Male Convenience, Macquarie Street Sydney, 1968

Plan - Female convenience and rest area, St Johns Road Glebe,1961

Plan - Conveniences, Macquarie Street Sydney, 1955

Plan - Female Convenience, Taylor Square Darlinghurst, 1937

Plan - Darlinghurst Road Victoria Street Convenience, 1936

Plan - Female convenience, Victoria Park, 1930

Plan - Lamp & pillar, public convenience, Park Street Sydney, 1909

Plan - Convenience, George Street North, Sydney, 1908

Plan - Public Convenience, Druitt Street Sydney, 1905

Plan - Public Convenience, Macquarie Place, no date

Plan - Convenience, Wynyard Park Sydney, 1911

Plan - Conveniences adjoining Market Wharf and Pyrmont Bridge Sydney, 1904

Plan - Public Convenience, Prince Alfred Park, 1911

Plan - Convenience in Darlinghurst, 1906

Plan - Public Convenience, Darlinghurst, 1906

Plan - Public Convenience, Market Wharf and Pyrmont Bridge Sydney, 1904

Plan - Public Convenience, Darlinghurst Road Darlinghurst, 1900

Plan - Public Convenience, Moore Park, 1924

Plan - Public Convenience, Green Park Darlinghurst, 1922

Cast iron urinal, Observatory Hill Park Millers Point, circa 1973

Print - Hyde Park women's public convenience, Elizabeth Street Sydney, 1919

Men's convenience on Druitt Street Sydney, 1933

Removal of Druitt Street men's convenience, Druitt Street Sydney, 1933

Removal of the Druitt Street men's convenience Druitt Street Sydney, 1933

Cast iron urinal, Observatory Hill Park Millers Point, 1960

Unattended convenience or urinal, Hickson Road Dawes Point, 1934

Unattended convenience or urinal, Observatory Hill Park Millers Point, 1934

Cast iron urinal and steps, George Street The Rocks, circa 1980s

Steps and public toilet, George Street The Rocks, circa 1980s

Pissoir, George Street The Rocks, circa 1980s

Underground convenience, corner of Park and Elizabeth Streets Sydney, 2002

Underground public convenience, Corner Park and Elizabeth Streets Sydney, 2002

Public toilet under rotunda in Green Park, 1990

Men's public convenience, Central, no date

Unattended convenience or urinal, Day Street Haymarket, 1934

Unattended men's lavatory, Hickson Road Millers Point, 1934

Unattended convenience or urinal, George Street The Rocks, 1934

Unattended convenience or urinal, Hyde Park, 1934

Unattended convenience or urinal, Driver Avenue Moore Park, 1934

Women's attended convenience, Victoria Park Camperdown, 1934

Women's attended convenience in Hyde Park, Park Street Sydney, 1934

Women's attended convenience, Corporation Building Haymarket, 1934

A photomontagic cruise through the Inverted belvedere/ Jim Anderson

The inconvenience of going public: a study of public conveniences in the urban environment