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Swimming - possibly Katoomba swimming baths

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  • InTheBush* said:
    Wow, this is a very distinctive swimming spot. Someone will be able to confirm it's location for sure!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    aka Leura Baths, where Leura Cascades is. It looks like an OH&S disaster waiting to happen ...

    Opened 1913; full details -
    trove.nla.gov.au
    trove.nla.gov.au (includes reverse view photo)

    And via Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies
  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    Any lifeguards around?
  • Merryjack said:
    Nowadays just grass

    Leura Park Pano

Unidentified Post Office, (possibly William St, Sydney), New South Wales

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Thanks State Records NSW for posting this so quickly - I wish Australia Post was as fast!

    It is DEFINITELY (not "possibly") the old Post Office on William Street, at the SW corner with Rosebank Street, rebuilt in 1926 for road widening, and disappeared completely in the 1970s (?) for more road widening. I think it was about where the green median strip is here - GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/M5d1v

    See interesting comments here -
  • beachcomber australia said:
    There is a version at the NAA (link times out so via Trove) - trove.nla.gov.au/version/175913461 dated 1885, when the PO was opened. As seen here the building is incomplete. Full description at the opening (13/5/1885) including all about the residence upstairs for Mr Charles John Booty, the postmaster - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13588603
  • pellethepoet said:
    Sydney & Suburban Map Publishing Co. 1888. MAP RaA 31. Part 13. - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-raa31-s13-sd&r...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    pellethepoet Oooo - that's a good map ... but the index ( nla.gov.au/nla.map-raa31 ) is impossible!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I wonder ... possibly ... maybe ... if the photographer had his back to William St ...

    Side door in Rosebank St leading to the stairs to Mr Booty's apartment. See description - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13588603 (as above)

Gloucester Street looking north, The Rocks

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  • Michael Williams said:
    Love it
  • pellethepoet said:
    Believed to be the same cottage as the one at right:
    back cover illustration from Relics of Old Colonial Days: A Book of Drawings by Sydney Ure Smith (Sydney: James R. Tyrrell, 1914).
    Gloucester Street?from In & Around The Rocks compiled by Joanne Coleman (Sydney : View Productions, 1984), p. 98.
  • Lynell Rosenberg said:
    My SELAND family were living in 63 Gloucester St, The Rocks at the time this photo was taken :-)

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