Project: Sydney and Surrounds. Photo walk 29. Brighton-Le-Sands, City of Rockdale.

Population: 8003

Postcode: 2216

Brighton-Le-Sands is located 13 kilometres south-west of the Sydney CBD in the local government area of the City of Rockdale.

3 facts about Brighton-Le-Sands:

1. New Brighton was the name given to his new housing estate by tramway pioneer Thomas Saywell, who had plans to emulate the famous seaside resort Brighton in England. Land acquisi-tions began in the 1840s but no significant development of Brighton-le-Sands occurred until the railway opened to Hurstville, via Rockdale in 1884. A tram service once operated from Circular Quay along the Cooks River line to Tempe.

2. Brighton-Le-Sands has very little public transport. Sydney Buses provides the suburb with a sin-gle hourly bus that runs from Sydney's CBD to the Miranda Shopping Centre.

3. Every New Year's Eve, Rockdale City Council holds a popular family fireworks display over the water at 9pm which attracts tens of thousands of visitors to Brighton Beach.

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