Powerhouse Museum

Hopefully the group of residents in Canberra can influence the NSW and ACT Governments, with the help of local landowners, to create a reserve over the area to protect it for future generations....

Looking downstream from the Upper Falls

see www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8805949/yowie-man-rediscov...

Anyone know exactly where in Sydney this was?

[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!

" ... 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_...

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

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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A few seconds (!) earlier than this -

I think the date has to be ca. 1903-04...but I'm not quite 100% on that...we don't get to see the various date markers in good enough detail...

I think the earliest date has to be ca. mid 1903...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165190993/16808491 - the Sydney Mail, 13th May, 1903... the bottom pic here shows the Eastern end of the Sydney Ferries Ltd wharf building under construction...in the PHM Kerry & Co pic it looks complete...which suggests that at the very least the PHM Kerry & Co pic was taken in ca. the second half of 1903...

Some of the other date markers stack up with this...

The Customs House shows the 1896-1903 Walter Liberty Vernon additions, which look complete...though I dare say it's possible there could still be some work in progress that isn't visible here...

Another date marker is the 'Goldsbrough Mort & Coy Limited' signage on the former Mort & Co wool store at Circular Quay ...which we see here. Although Goldsbrough Mort & Co came into being in in 1888, the 'Goldsbrough Mort' signage appears not to have been added until the earlier 20th century...from what I've managed to establish so far, the 'Goldsbrough Mort' signage appears to have been added some time in the period 1902-06...

- My sources re the 'Goldsbrough Mort' signage dates are at this pic...

As for a latest date...my theory is ca. early-mid 1904...

If it were there...at the top of Loftus St, we should see the Colonial Sugar Refining Co's building at the corner of Bent/O'Connell Sts...but I don't think it's there yet...the CSR Building was evidently built in 1904-05...the construction work was well under way by April 1904...it evidently took 17 months to complete...and was finished by ca. August 1905...read the details here...

Instead, at the top of Loftus St, I suspect we see the Dalgety's Building (completed 1899), which was on the opposite corner of Bent/O'Connell Sts...if the CSR Building were there I think it would obscure the Dalgety's Building...

trove.nla.gov.au/work/190009370 - the O'Connell St facade of the Dalgety's Building appears on the right in this 1911 NLA Fairfax pic...If you zoom in at the PURL on PHM's pic and take a screenshot and then blow that up...you discover there's a good match-up with the Dalgety's Building...

11th August, 1908