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Before lifts and moving footways – and long before people thought of counting steps on a device – traversing Sydney was a workout.

Stairways to heaven: The amazing history of Sydneys most impressive steps Save Normal text size Advertisement Away from the cameras surveilling Sydney, public stairs remain among the few places where people "can still be private in public", says architect Jennifer Preston. As poet A. A. Milne wrote: "Halfway up the stairs isnt up, it isnt down ... It isnt really anywhere, its somewhere else instead." And in the case of the Steps to Nowhere on Hickson Road, Barangaroo, they lead up and down, but...