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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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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Sydney GPO colonnade

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

Ginninderra Falls

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  • spelio said:
    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....
  • spelio said:
    Looking downstream from the Upper Falls

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