Cremorne, New South Wales
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Cremorne is a North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Cremorne is located 6km north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the North Sydney Council and the Municipality of Mosman. The postcode is 2090. Cremorne Junction is a locality within the suburb. Immediately adjacent to the suburb, to the south, is the small residential suburb of Cremorne Point. Cremorne is situated between Mosman and Neutral Bay.
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[edit] Commercial Area
Cremorne is a mainly residential area with its commercial area centred along Military Road, also known as Cremorne Junction. Cremorne hosts a supermarket, a high-rise hotel, a large number of restaurants and various other shops. The commercial zone is dwarfed by nearby Neutral Bay.
A number of small companies lease office space in the commercial zone along Military Road, most notably Sharman Networks, the owners of the Kazaa peer-to-peer software, whose head office is situated here.
Cremorne features an impressive historic cinema, the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace, which has been restored to original Art Deco style, and features a Wurlitzer pipe-organ at selected film screenings.
[edit] Schools
A co-educational private school, SCECGS Redlands, has its senior campus on Military Road and its junior and middle campus on Murdoch Street.
[edit] Transport
All transport to and from Cremorne is by road or water. Military Road connects Cremorne to Neutral Bay and the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the West, and to Mosman to the East.
Transport between Military Road and Sydney CBD is available via Sydney Buses routes L80, L85, 178, 180, 246 and 247. The Sydney Ferries Mosman route runs past Cremorne's two wharves, Cremorne Point and Old Cremorne, to Sydney CBD's Circular Quay.
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 Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace |
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[edit] History
Cremorne was named after the Cremorne Gardens, a popular pleasure ground in London, United Kingdom.
[edit] References
- The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
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