Powerhouse Museum

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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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Dignitaries viewing the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1930

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] pellethepoet There's another 'Tardis' on the south side at Dawes Point. I think they were there well before the bridge. GoogleMapsStreetView
  • beachcomber australia said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] It seems there were two 'tardis'. See this c.1913 photo of Dawes Point -



    I am thinking access chamber for bottom-of-the-harbour gas, electricity, or water pipes?
  • GrenadierGuardsDmr said:
    This was a crossing point for the watermen (water taxis) before the Bridge. I recall reading somewhere that the circular stone structures were offices for the watermen.
  • covid convict said:
    I suspect this pic of Bradfield, etc was taken on 24th September, 1930, when the first hanger ('Hanger 0') was to be lifted into position...however a wild weather event passed thru Sydney that day, so the operation was held over to the 25th...

    Looks to be the same party...probably the same day

Circular Quay Looking South-East

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    A few seconds (!) earlier than this -
  • covid convict said:
    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...
  • covid convict said:
    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...
  • covid convict said:
    11th August, 1908

General Post Office from Moore Street, Sydney

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Photo c. 1914 ?
  • uminarampart said:
    CBA started construction in 1911.
  • Philip Cohen said:
    CBA started construction 1915; completed 1916; so, indeed, the vacant block is likely late 1914, early 1915 …
  • covid convict said:
    Building on SE cnr Pitt/Moore Sts demolished in ?April/May 1913... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15419883
  • covid convict said:
    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...

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