Slums Slashings & Sly-grog A History Tour of Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
$46.00
Known as the Chicago of the South Sydney in the 1920s and 1930s was famous for its vicious gang rivalry cocaine addition and sly-grog scene. From this labyrinth of lanes a mass of criminal empires emerged ruled by two mob bosses with a difference these bosses were women. Hailed Queens of the Underworld Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh had crawled their way up from obscure origins over the bodies (sometimes literally) of men to become the most powerful women in Sydney and they were not about to give up that power especially not to each other.
Join us as we explore the lesser known laneways and secrets of Surry Hills meet the colourful collection of working girls gangsters and hit men who gave Sydney a bad reputation finishing with a drink at a speakeasy style bar.
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Stop At: Central Railway Station Eddy Ave Haymarket Sydney New South Wales 2000 Australia
Meet your guide in the Grand Concourse of Central Station a large terminus hall constructed in the early 1900s with a giant steel frame vaulted roof. Your tour guide will introduce you to the notorious characters that preyed on naive newcomers who once arrived here on the country trains. You’ll also learn what happened here in 1916 that helped determine Sydney’s underworld over the next decades.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Surry Hills Surry Hills New South Wales
As you walk through the history of the area you’ll learn about the notorious razor gangs illegal grog-shops brothels gambling joints and slums. You’ll also delve into the stories of the infamous crime-lords and ladies who ruled over an empire of illegal trades scattered throughout Surry Hills streets and alleyways in the roaring inter-war years.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Darlinghurst Darlinghurst New South Wales
Darlinghurst was once the playground of Sydney’s not-so-glamourous underworld Queens : Kate Leigh & Tilly Devine. You’ll discover the forgotten venues of their competing sly grog & bordello empires and the cocaine-crooks standover men gangsters good-timers haunts & hide-outs that kept them at the top of the food-chain.
Known as the Chicago of the South Sydney in the 1920s and 1930s was famous for its vicious gang rivalry cocaine addition and sly-grog scene. From this labyrinth of lanes a mass of criminal empires emerged ruled by two mob bosses with a difference these bosses were women. Hailed Queens of the Underworld Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh had crawled their way up from obscure origins over the bodies (sometimes literally) of men to become the most powerful women in Sydney and they were not about to give up that power especially not to each other.
Join us as we explore the lesser known laneways and secrets of Surry Hills meet the colourful collection of working girls gangsters and hit men who gave Sydney a bad reputation finishing with a drink at a speakeasy style bar.
