Pyrmont Maxi taxi to or from Sydney Airport. Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 2 kilometers southwest of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney. It is also part of the Darling Harbour region. As of 2011, it is Australia’s most densely populated suburb. Pyrmont was once a vital component of Sydney’s industrial waterfront, with wharves, shipbuilding yards, factories, and wool stores. As industry moved out, the population and the area declined. In recent years it has experienced redevelopment with an influx of residents and office workers. Pyrmont contained a mineral spring of cold water bubbling out of a rock and was thus named for a similar natural spring in Bad Pyrmont, close to Hanover, Germany. Thomas Jones was granted 55 acres (22 ha) of land on the peninsula in 1795. The land was sold to Obadiah Ikin in 1796 for 10 pounds, which he then sold to Captain John Macarthur in 1799 for a gallon of rum. Pyrmont was the site of quarries from a fairly early stage because of the quality of the sandstone. Charles Saunders, the licensee of the Quarryman’s Arms hotel, became the biggest quarry master, with three quarries established in the area from 1853. The work was continued by his son and grandson till circa 1931. The quarries were nicknamed Paradise, Purgatory, and Hell Hole by the Scottish workers employed by Saunders. Steam-powered equipment was used there for the first time in Australia. The sandstone was used in many of the most significant buildings in Sydney. Saunders Street, near the site of the Paradise quarry, was named after Saunders. There is also a small brewery, the original was built in 1880 near where the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel stands today. Maybanke Kindergarten, named after Maybanke Anderson, in Harris Street The area was also the site of the First Presbyterian Church in the colony, built-in 1864 and situated in Mount Street. The congregation eventually outgrew the premises and had to move to a new church at Quarry Street, Ultimo, in 1883. In the 1870s, a small Methodist chapel was built in Harris Street on land owned by Charles Saunders. In the 1920s, it was converted to the Maybanke Free Kindergarten, named after Maybanke Anderson, a feminist and educationist. It was still used for that purpose as of 2018. maxi van taxi Sydney, best maxi taxi, maxi Sydney, airport maxi taxi, book minibus taxi, maxi taxi, maxi, taxi to Sydney airport, maxi taxi airport, taxi van Sydney, maxi cabs Sydney Australia, maxi taxi online, maxi taxi Sydney airport, maxi taxi airport Sydney, maxi taxi booking, book maxi cab, booking a maxi cab, maxi taxi Sydney quote, maxi taxi to airport Sydney, maxi cab booking, maxi taxi, booking a maxi taxi, maxi taxi how many seats, maxi taxi cabs, maxi taxi Sydney, maxi taxis Sydney, Sydney maxi taxi, booking maxi taxi, maxi taxi to airport, maxi cab taxi, book maxi, Cruise Transfers in Sydney, Sydney maxi taxi book, maxi taxi Parramatta.