PHOTO: 448A Bourke St, Surry Hills (right), has a price guide of $2.1 million ahead of Saturday’s auction. Source: Supplied
The rumour goes that Granny Lynn ran a brothel at 448A Bourke St, Surry Hills, which she’d bought for the grand sum of 30 pounds in 1916.
The rumour goes that Granny Lynn ran a brothel at 448A Bourke St, Surry Hills, which she’d bought for the grand sum of 30 pounds in 1916.
Her descendants aren’t sure if she was a hard-hearted Madam like her friend, Tilly Devine, — who ran a string of brothels in the neighbourhood in the late 1920s — or a woman who turned a blind eye to the goings-on upstairs.
Whatever the story, Belle Property Surry Hills agents Mark Foy and James Perlowski are getting huge interest in the three-bedroom, two-bathroom terrace with a grand facade and a rich history.
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