Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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The Photographic Collection We hold tens of thousands of archival photos from the late 19th Century to the present, capturing life in New South Wales in much of its richness and diversity. The original formats of these images vary widely, from glass plates and lantern slides to 35mm negatives, colour transparencies and prints. More images from our photographic collection can be searched for from the Homepage on our website.

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Sydney Station clock hands

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Interior Central Railway station concourse, Sydney

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  • 3 older comments, and then…
  • Highranger said:
    Such an abomination has replaced that time board, the pot plants and moulded chairs are classics aren't they?
  • Albert Alcoceba said:
    By the time this photo was taken the departures board had already outlived it's usefulness and lacked the flexibility required by the timetable as testified by the numerous supplementary metal signs that had to be used. This was mainly due to the decrease in long distance country trains and the vast increase in shorter distance commuter intercity trains.
  • Highranger said:
    Albert Alcoceba From memory on the Southern Highlands line the only thing that changed was the clock at the top, the destinations remained unchanged. Might have been different on other lines I suppose.
    In any case it was a lovely bit of old world. I'm glad they preserved in in the Powerhouse Museum.
  • Highranger said:
    Albert Alcoceba Those metal signs on the floor look like someone isn't coping very well as you say.
  • Albert Alcoceba said:
    Highranger What used to happen is that columns for country and less frequent trains would be "borrowed" for thenumerous North, West and Illawarra Interurbans. Because the columns didn't have the correct destinations on the flip over slats, the supplementary metal signs were hung up on those less frequently used columns.

Old Sydney Girls High School Castlereagh St, Sydney

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  • Highranger said:
    What a perfect place to put the 'David Jones' flagship department store.
  • Highranger said:
    A cemetery headstone supplier next door
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Underneath all those later additions is a Francis Greenway 1820s building ...
    " ... The building chosen [in 1883] as the site of the new schools was a two- storeyed building on land now occupied by David Jones, surrounded by a high wall. It had been commissioned in 1820 by Governor Macquarie and designed by Francis Greenway and in the meantime it had been St James Church of England Primary School. The boys entered from Castlereagh Street and occupied the ground floor, the girls entered from Elizabeth Street and occupied the first floor. These conditions prevailed until 1892 when the boys moved to a new school at Mary Ann Street, Ultimo and thereafter the girls had the whole building to themselves. Trams travelling along both Castlereagh and Elizabeth Streets made the site very noisy and very dirty so eventually it became necessary to move to a new site. ... "
    From - www.sghs.nsw.edu.au/About_Us/History.html
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Lionel Lindsay was slightly lower and to the left - cs.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=93122
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245788527 - the Daily Telegraph, 9th September, 1922...interesting item by 'Old Scholar'

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