This is my first Inner West post and while this suburb is not as cool as some of it's neighbours, it does have it's own unique flavour. Let's explore.
I particularly loved this homage to Sydney trains, a gorgeous painting in its own right.
St Peters
St Peters is a suburb sandwiched between the airport and it's trendier neighbour Newtown. Conveniently, the suburb is only a 7 minute train ride from Central, and that's how I got here today.
The train station is a fairly standard minor Sydney station, but you immediately feel that you're in a bit of an industrial area, with grey buildings all around and a generous offering of graffiti.
I exited the station from its Southern end and was instantly slapped in the face with street art.
Just down from here is St Peters' own graffiti alley, a small street called May Lane.
After ooh-ahhing the street art, I made my way into St Peters proper to see what I could see.
I found this "playground" hilarious. Come on guys, you need more than a park bench on 2 square metres of grass to call something a playground.
The streets around the station are fairly quiet, without a lot of human or vehicle traffic, and have what I would describe as a "grungy" feel.
You've got tiny terraces
a whole heap of weird art (is this van a art?)
and plenty of construction.
Eventually, the streets spat me out onto the Princes Highway - St Peters' major artery. Even this so-called highway is surprisingly quiet.
Save for the odd apartment block, this suburb is strangely undeveloped, despite being so close to the city and other happening locations.
I started to get an idea why.
St Peters is super close to the airport.
Planes are loud.
Ah.
I continued along the Princes Highway until I eventually reached an oasis. This is St Peters Anglican Church, a surprising bit of history in an otherwise urban suburb. It was built in 1838 and is rather lovely, if you ask me.
I didn't want to spend the rest of the suburb walking along the highway so I made my way off the main road and into some residential streets.
Here, I was met with even more street art (can you detect a theme?), as well many terraced houses on leafy streets, a staple of this part of the city.
I did enjoy this oh-so-Sydney "you can't cross here" fence, in front of an unfinished grey cement wall. I crossed here anyway just to spite them.
To get to my next suburb, I made my way back out onto the Princes Highway one final time.
This is the site of the Westconnex exit into St Peters and is every Inner-Westie's favourite infrastructure project. (For those not in the know, Westconnex is a highway tunnel connecting the M4 highway in the West to the M5 highway in the South of the city.)
St Peters: Come here if you like street art. Don't if you don't (because there's not much else here).
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