Crown Street, Sydney
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Crown Street is a street in the Sydney suburbs of Wooloommooloo, East Sydney and Surry Hills. The Surry Hills section is lined by restaurants and shops, as well as the former Crown Street Women's Hospital. An electric tram service formerly ran down Crown Street from Oxford Street to Cleveland Street until its closure in the late 1950's.
[edit] Crown Street Women's Hospital
The now-closed Crown Street Women's Hospital was once the largest maternity hospital in Sydney. It was one of several stand-alone maternity hospitals in Sydney, none of which remain. It opened in 1893, and was closed in 1983. During its 90 year life, it trained hundreds of midwives and doctors, and was a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. Many thousands of Sydney's residents were born there. When Westmead Hospital opened in Sydney's west, Crown St Hospital's maternity facilities were moved there, along with the general medical and surgical departments of Sydney Hospital on Macquarie Street, and the hospital was closed. The site has now been redeveloped.
