Bathurst Street, Sydney
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Bathurst Street is a cross street in the Central Business District of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Goulburn Street is in the southern portion of the Sydney central business district and runs from Darling Harbour in the west, to Elizabeth Street in the east at Hyde Park.
An obelisk at Hyde Park, terminates the vista of Bathurst Street. It was erected in 1857 and unveiled by the Mayor, George Thornton. The monument is actually a sewer vent, and soon the joke around town was to call it 'Thornton’s Scent Bottle'.
St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney sits on the corner of Bathurst Street and George Street. The headquarters of Sydney Water and EnergyAustralia are both located in Bathurst Street.
