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Located in Sydney, Powerhouse Museum is the largest museum group in Australia. Powerhouse sits at the intersection of the arts, design, science and technology and plays a critical role in engaging communities with contemporary ideas and issues.

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The last upload was June 2013.

Artesian Bore, East Moree uploaded June 2013
Farm Cove from Macquarie Street uploaded June 2013
The Domain uploaded June 2013
The Cliffs, Blue Lake, Kosciuszko uploaded June 2013
Stud Herefords uploaded June 2013
On Rams Head Range, Kosciuszko uploaded June 2013
A Stud Dairy Herd uploaded June 2013
Bloody Bridge, Norfolk Island uploaded June 2013
Kuse's Bore uploaded June 2013
Kuse's Bore uploaded June 2013
No. 1 Bore, Cooncoola uploaded June 2013
No. 3 Bore, Cooncoola uploaded June 2013
Beels Bore uploaded June 2013
Beels Bore uploaded June 2013
Beels Bore uploaded June 2013

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Sydney GPO colonnade

from Powerhouse Museum

2 older comments, and then…
BobMeade said:
Comparison photograph taken in July 2008 shown here:
George Oates said:
(I think it's colonnade.)
Lú_ said:
This photograph is featured in the Indicommons.org post Interview: Paula Bray and Sebastian Chan, Powerhouse Museum, illustrating the first uploads from the Powerhouse.
beachcomber australia said:
Harold Cazneaux, in 1932 - nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an2384453
BobMeade said:
Thanks beachcomberaustralia, that's a great comparison from a master.

Carting wool bales

from Powerhouse Museum

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beachcomber australia said:
Anyone know exactly where in Sydney this was?
beachcomber australia said:
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Good work! I think you are right with the Goldsbrough Darling Harbour ID. See also this 1884 illustration - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/64035872 , which shows railway in front - a bit of a hint. The old warehouse was at the corner of Fig and Pyrmont Streets, Ultimo. I think it was rebuilt after a fire and extended to Allen Street, as it now is.

According to the 1895 interactive map, the building on the left is the Meat Market !. The photographer was at the junction of Allen and Pyrmont Streets, looking SE - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-rm3443-sd&rgn=...

GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/Ic8i0

Phew! A relief after four years of sleepless nights!
beachcomber australia said:
" ... Sydney's first wool store was the Richard Goldsbrough warehouse built on the corner of Pyrmont and Fig streets in 1883. From World War II until the 1960s, wool stores on the peninsula employed thousands of men. With lanolin oil soaked into thousands of feet of wood, fires were a constant hazard. In 1935 the Goldsbrough and Mort store went up in a blaze lasting two weeks, filling the suburb with the smell of burning wool and grease. ..."
From PhM - www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/paradise_industrial_...
beachcomber australia said:
Article about the 1935 fire which destroyed the warehouse. A photo shows the warehouse as above with three extra floors built on top - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/83657628
beachcomber australia said:
The Central Meat Market at Ultimo - see how the refrigerated railway truck went under the canopy -
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Interior -
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Coaching on Cliff Road

from Powerhouse Museum

faded treatment said:
Bit difficult to say absolutely but I reckon this is where the Seacliff Bridge is situated now, between Clifton and Coalcliff. That headland in the background with the pier next to it looks suspiciously similar to those in a previous image of Coledale, which isn't far south of here. I think that 'Cliff Rd' is now Lawrence Hargrave Drive.
covid convict said:
Postcard version