Waterloo, shops

This wide footpath is located in front of shops along Botany Road, in the inner city suburb of Waterloo. It's typical of a traditional suburban shopping centre with a fruit shop, coffee shop, bakery, supermarket seen here and even a payphone. The suburb of Waterloo took its name from the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, when Allied and Prussian forces under the Duke of Wellington and Blücher defeated the French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Waterloo, library

Waterloo Library is a heritage listed building in the inner city suburb of Waterloo. The building was originally the Waterloo Town Hall, designed by John Smedley and built in 1881 in the Victorian Italianate style. It is historically significant as evidence of the small inner city council areas which were subsumed into larger municipalities.

Waterloo, monuments

These monuments are located in a small reserve in the inner city suburb of Waterloo, beside a new residential development called Mondrian Apartments. Waterloo was developed by small businesses in light industry such as tanning and wool scouring in the late nineteenth century. It remained an industrial suburb throughout the twentieth century. Luke Muras and Company, a blacksmithing and engineering firm, built a factory on this site on Powell Street in 1915. The elements of a truss roof from this building, which was demolished in 2001, are displayed here to commemorate the association of light industry with the suburb.

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