Powerhouse Museum

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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Photo c. 1914 ?

CBA started construction in 1911.

CBA started construction 1915; completed 1916; so, indeed, the vacant block is likely late 1914, early 1915 …

Building on SE cnr Pitt/Moore Sts demolished in ?April/May 1913... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15419883

I suspect the date is somewhere in the range late 1913-early 1914...the period when construction work on the new Commonwealth Bank building was in abeyance...

Kensington Chambers, the building that occupied the SE cnr of Pitt/Moore Sts was demolished in ca. April-June 1913...it appears to have been mostly demolished at the time of the foundation stone laying ceremony for the new Commonwealth Bank building, which took place on 14th May, 1913. Some excavation work for the new Commonwealth Bank building was completed by October 1913...but due to delays in the tendering process, the building contract wasn't awarded until November 1913 (to Phippard Bros)...the building work proper began in ca. February 1914...the new Commonwealth Bank building was more or less complete by mid 1916...the official opening took place on 22nd August, 1916...

See comments/links here
www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/53698777267/

The King St tracks are for cable cars (slot in the middle) but the tram looks like an electric !

The scan of this slide at the PHM is somewhat better than this overexposed Flickr version...so you can see more detail...the scan at the PHM also includes some of the fragments missing on the Flickr version...

collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/28636 - link to the slide at the PHM...

One clue re the date is the Royal Exchange Hotel at the SE cnr George/King Sts...in the PHM version you can see that the signage has it as 'Belfield's Hotel'...amateur billiards champion Jack Belfield was licensee from 1904-19...so the earliest date has to be 1904...

On the NE cnr George/King Sts, we see the new building extension erected for W.T. Waters & Co, women's drapers, in the second half of 1903...

Compare with this pic that appeared in the Town & Country Journal on 30th September, 1908...
www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/52680596034/

Also compare with this earlier ca. 1900 pic showing the Royal Exchange Hotel
www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/52679911106/