Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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Cambridge School, Hunters Hill, Sydney NSW - hockey

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  • jayne said:
    These girls wouldn't look out of place at ' St Trinian's '
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14931657 - SMH, 24th June, 1908...'Hockey for Girls'...brief item which indicates that the Cambridge School first formed a hockey team in 1903...per this item the Cambridge School was the first of the Sydney girls' schools to do so...
  • covid convict said:
    'Treago', at Hunters Hill, which the Cambridge School evidently occupied in the years 1904-06

Central Railway Station, Sydney

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  • Aussie Big Bob said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Sydney, and we'd love to have all of your old Sydney photos added to the group.
  • Bankstown Babyboomer said:
    You've put the wrong date in; should be 04/10/1890 (from your photo investigator).
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    Thanks for pointing that out, opsbooks, I've amended the date above.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Arthur Streeton "The railway station, Redfern" 1893 - www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/7209/

    And another photo of the same view from the Tyrrell collection -


    The old Redfern Station seems to have been a popular subject.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    4 October was a SATURDAY in 1890
    www.easycalculation.com/date-day/day-of-year.php . And judging by the shadow directions and length, I would guess it was about 5 PM. Saturday evening rush hour!

Offices of the Sydney Harbour Trust at Beresford Chambers, 30 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (NSW), decorated for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York .

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  • Highranger said:
    Now a modern multistory building with Tiffany's as the shopfront
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "Breakfast at Beresford Chambers" doesn't quite have the same appeal !
  • covid convict said:
    I think Beresford Chambers might have been built in ca. 1883 (it starts appearing in the digitised newspapers in early 1884)...in July 1914 it was acquired by the Australian Metropolitan Life Assurance Co, after which it was known as the Metropolitan Building...later still it was acquired by the Government Savings Bank...it was demolished in ca. 1922-23...I think it might have initially been a casualty of the construction of the new GSB...but in any case it would have been demolished for the Martin Place extension...

    Good view of the location in this ca. 1892-93 pic taken from the GPO tower
    www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/53729164236/
    Also see comments/links at this SLNSW Hall & Co photo of Castlereagh St, which looks to have been taken in 1922, before Beresford Chambers and the other buildings in the row were demolished...
    www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/53771331173/

    jfi...the building to the right of Beresford Chambers is the of the Australian Star newspaper building...it was built in ca. 1895...it later became the office of the Australian Star and the Sunday Sun. In 1910 it was acquired by Hugh Denison's Sun Newspaper Ltd...in ca. 1913-14 it was replaced by the 'new' Sun Building...

    trove.nla.gov.au - the original Australian Star building appears in this NLA Fairfax pic...

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