Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

Not a scrap of vegetation anywhere, not even a weed.

I wonder if the pram the boy is wheeling was a common type - it's so different to the strollers/prams of today.
AB

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Yes, it looks like a wooden collapsible or foldable. Could not find much about the history of prams, except this, "The First Perambulator" !

www.flickr.com/photos/jacksonstreet/49721002403/in/datepo...

My family were living at 63 Gloucester St when this photo was taken. The boy and the baby could actually be my family members, they're the right age and I could name them. The boy is looking back at the women up the street.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Sydney, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

You would think that there would never be timber scaffolding outside the AGNSW in this day and age?

Well, there's more:

www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aboutus/faq/construction_around...

This looks like an OH&S nightmare by today's standards, but it is fascinating to see how the (National) Gallery was built. The gantry arrangement at top right looks very flimsy, especially with blocks of stone on it..

Y I K E S !

This is NOT the Art Gallery of NSW. We were very wrong fourteen years ago. Good old 4481 series!

I think it is the right hand addition to Darlinghurst Courthouse.
"... Colonial Architect James Barnet designed major flanking court room pavilion additions to the building in 1884-88. ..."
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlinghurst_Courthouse

GoogleMaps Streetview - maps.app.goo.gl/yBAFdRQzh4uQPs5v7
where a Roman numeral date is set in stone. I think it says ...
MDCCCLXXXIV or 1884, which should be the date of the photo, or maybe a year earlier.
via Newtown grafitti

That's Darlo' court house all right with its Doric order columns, just like the Parthenon!
This is the AGNSW under construction, Ionic order columns anyone?

Photo by Lithgow Studios

"RAILWAY ACCIDENT ON THE ZIG-ZAG. [BY TELEGRAPH] SYDNEY, Wednesday.
An accident, involving some £200 damage, occurred on Thursday evening at the Zig-Zag, near Lithgow, to a goods train from Penrith. The train was descending the top line incline, and when the Westinghouse brakes were applied they refused to act. As a result the engine was impelled forward at terrific speed until it struck the end of the length upon which trains back up to enable them to run on to a different track. Here five feet of solid cut-out rock was encountered, and, having demolished the strong buffer stops, the engine bounded up on to the rock ledge, on the other side of which was a deep chasm. A truck next the engine mounted the tender by the force of the impact, and became a total wreck; the next truck also left the rails, but the remainder of the train kept its position. Beyond shock, the driver and fireman received no injuries. A departmental inquiry completed yesterday afternoon shows that the derailment of the engine was due to the injudicious use of the brake, which resulted in the train getting beyond control." - Barrier Miner, Wednesday 10 April 1901, p. 2.

A view from the other side shows the engine number to be 246

Derailment on the Zig Zag at Lithgow (04/04/1901) [SRNSW: 17420_a014_a014000988]

pellethepoet Thanks for adding this article. What a frightening experience for the driver and fireman!

AB

I love this photo, so much I tracked down the exact location & made a composite photo of the old photo & a new photo taken in the same location

Here it is
flic.kr/p/DsU3xa

John Bolt, the engine driver, is my GG Grandfather. He sadly died 7 months later.