Banjo Paterson wrote in the late 1880’s in “Clancy of the Overflow”

"I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy
Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,
And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city
Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all"

But looking at Sydney now it doesn’t look like that at all. Its light and clean and I reckon Banjo would get a bit of a surprise if he came back now.

This is the Writers Walk looking back to the City of Sydney past the Quay.