Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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Street scene at Martin Place, Sydney (NSW)

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] That article about Challis House is full of fascinating detail - originally an outdoor restaurant and concert area planned for the roof - lifts stopped working at 6pm - etc.

    I think the photo must be around 1907, due to the clothes and relative lack of cars.
  • uminarampart said:
    what a fabulous bldg. when added to in 1930s it really ruined the buildings asthetics.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Trying to find evidence of electric street lamps, which should be around after 1904 ...
  • covid convict said:
    On the North side of the block between Pitt/Castlereagh Sts...the version of Bull's Chambers that appears here with two steeply pitched roofs shows the building as it looked after the ?1905 additions, which in effect added a duplicate of the original building, built in 1899...the ?1912 additions removed the roofs and added additional stories...

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/239544053

    Looks like there's a vacant space next to Bull's Chambers...Ocean House was evidently built there in 'record time' in ca. January and February 1909...

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229386769

    So the date might be between ca. later 1907 when Challis House was completed and ca. January 1909, when work began on Ocean House...

    I don't know what the story was with the gas lamp that appears here...I think some 'ornamental' gas lamps remained standing after the introduction of electric lamps for street lighting...but all the regular gas lamps were removed soon after electric street lighting commenced in ca. July 1904...

Photograph of Grace Fairley Robinson, Doctor

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  • pellethepoet said:
    !!! -
    Grace was nominated for a position at the Hospital for Sick Children. Despite excellent references, her application was rejected: the objection was 'not against [Dr Robinson] as an individual but against the female doctor in the abstract'.
    - adb.anu.edu.au/biography/boelke-grace-fairley-9533
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    pellethepoet Thank goodness we've matured somewhat since then! -AG
  • Highranger said:
    Ironing wasn't a priority? Pretty woman though.
  • Stephen Coppins said:
    Coincidently, the house her father had built in 1893 (the same year Grace graduated) at Guildford, N.S.W., is now the site of Holroyd Private Hospital. Grace and her mother inherited the house and property in 1894, following her father's death and retained ownership until 1905.
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Gladesville Hospital, 1883

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Callan Park, see



    Does anyone know what this room was for - dining, hall, chapel?

    It is a wonderful photo, full of ghosts which had not yet happened.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Exterior -

  • beachcomber australia said:
    It was the recreation hall and chapel, with male and female dining halls either side behind retractable iron shutters, so that a larger space could be made. Read all about it - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13591166
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    beachcomber australia Great find!
  • Kent Broadhead said:
    Modern aerial shot is at maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&.... The building houses a cafe and large conference room at the Sydney College of the Arts these days

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