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in Phillip Street.  The 1880s factory was a purpose- built factory containing all the latest technology and John Starkey is said to have built a "mammoth" business in Australia[61].  Starkey's Limited remained on the site until 1914.  (See Figures 7 & 8) From 1917 a motor garage and hire Co. was using the site and from 1919 it became the garage and workshops for Hughes Motor Services.  The site, though resumed by the council in 1926, remained a garage until 1948 by which time the building had been demolished and the site was being used as a parking area.

When John McGrath Limited Purchased the Starkey's factory site around 1918 they also purchased the adjoining land that had previously contained the two cottages located at 170 and 172 Phillip Street.  Both the factory and the cottages were demolished and the land re-subdivided.  On part of Lot 29 & 30, 170 Phillip Street, Hughes Motor Services erected a five- storey office building in 1923 called "Chancery Chambers".  The ground floor contained the offices for Hughes Motor Services and the floors above housed solicitors and barristers suites.

Figure 55 - 1910 map of the City of Sydney compiled and published by Roberts & Moffat Ltd.
Source: City of Sydney Archives

The remaining land which covered part of lots 28 & 29 and numbered 166-168 Phillip Street lay vacant for some time.  The Municipal Council of Sydney Rate Books for 1927 show that the land had been sold to NSW Teachers Limited but it was not until 1939 that Federation House was built on the site.  Teachers Building Limited, as it became known, sold the property to the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1967 and soon after it was demolished for the extension to the Reserve Bank Building which was completed in 1980.

Figure 56 - Phillip Street buildings demolished to form the eastern extension of Martin Place, photographed by EG Shaw, 1935.  St Stephen's Church and the building to its right, St James Parsonage, were subsequently acquired by the Commonwealth of Australia for the RBA Head Office building.  Figure 57 - General view of St Stephen's (Presbyterian) Church, Phillip Street Sydney, c1934, by Herbert H Fishwick.  The church was demolished in 1935.
Source: SLNSW, Album ID:1024134, a7850 online.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Source: SLNSW, PIC/15611/17896

11.4             Plans, Sections and Elevations showing the proposed RBA Head Office Consolidation project, c1975

11.5             Land Titles Information
    The Reserve Bank site comprises of the following three titles -

                  Lot 1 in DP 444499 (Lots 10 & 11 Martin Place), consisting of part of the original allotments 3, 4, 5, 26, 27 & 28 of Section 41 of the Sydney Subdivision with the majority of the land forming Lots 4