Miller’s Point’s loss of childcare signifies a loss of a city’s heart

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I went to school near Millers Point. It breaks my heart to see what it’s become

Robyn Willis Lifestyle Editor October 21, 2025 — 7.30pm

When I was 12, my mother sent me to high school in The Rocks. It was the early 80s and I was following in the footsteps of my sister, who had just completed Year 10. Although we lived in south-west Sydney, my mother thought going to school in the city would broaden our horizons, helping us to understand there was a world beyond our comfortable suburban life. It managed that – and more.

St Patrick’s Girls’ High was behind St Patrick’s Church in Grosvenor Street. A small, low-fee paying school for roughly 300 students, it serviced families all over the city and inner suburbs, new migrants’ daughters, factory work