As I mentioned in the main gallery, the demographics of Pyrmont have changed substantially over the years. It was at one time home to a stone quarry, and later to heavy industry like sugar refining and building materials manufacture. There were also extensive cargo and passenger docks along the waterfront. Many of the local workers lived in basic terrace houses in narrow streets like this. Now of course those terrace houses (some of which do, admittedly, pass through to Harris Street on the other side of the block) have been refurbished with all mod cons and in some cases (gasp) even a garage. They've been transformed from simple worker cottages to highly desirable inner city residences selling for around the 7 figure mark. Which just goes to prove that people are, in many cases, stark raving bonkers.

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Edit, September 2023: And has sanity returned in the following 13 years? The first building on the corner is number 1. Look at the next place along. One door and a window on the ground floor, one window on the first floor. It's basically a box.

Based on real estate photos from 2006, it was an unrefurbished box that hadn't met a paint brush in a long time, but it looks like it was done up in 2007. But the ground floor is 3.4 metres (11.1 feet) wide. The alleged living area is 3.4m long and dining is 3.5 metres long, though it's actually one space. Behind there the area is sub-divided into kitchen and bathroom, so call it 1.7 metres (5.6 feet) wide each, maybe a little less because of the wall. (Yes, you only have a shower, not a bath.) Ah, wait... the kitchen is 3.5m * 1.6m according to another floor plan. Put another way, a person of below average height could not lie across the width of the kitchen. There is a garden courtyard of 2.4m by 3.1m at the back.

One upstairs bedroom (the (HAH!) "master" bedroom) is 3.4 metres by 3.3 metres. To accommodate the stairs (which are basic, wooden planks like a ship's gangway; oh, no hand rails, lovely), the other is only 2.6m wide by 3.5m.

How much for this little piece of paradise? It was renting for $750 per week in 2019 and 2020. And in November 2021 it sold for, wait for it...

$1.385 million.

Draw your own conclusions.