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Bankers galore when women stood behind

  • 28 older comments, and then…
  • O Mac said:
    Looks like the picture was taken at this bank

    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000593589
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    O Mac Looks as if the stonework was cleaned between yours in 1922, and today's in 1925.

    And where is it?
  • O Mac said:
    Gladstone St.

    maps.app.goo.gl/uzYWipJF8YBJMPjNA
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    O Mac Thank you! Location identified!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A WUNCH of bankers !!

    "(UK, humorous, derogatory) A group of unpleasant people, especially bankers; a supposed collective noun for bankers."
    via - en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wunch

    30 April 1925 was a Thursday ...

Ladies in a rustic location

Hudson's Timber yard, Blackwattle Bay, Sydney, ca. 1920-1925

  • 9 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Had to look up what that tower on the right was - the shot tower of lead works in Glebe, built 1902, demolished ca. 1950.
    glebesociety.org.au/forgotten-glebe-the-shot-tower/
  • beachcomber australia said:
    " ... The very high shot-tower just erected on the Glebe side of Wentworth Park by Messrs. G. E. Crane and Sons, at their lead works, is not only the greatest landmark in the low-lying portions of the suburbs, but is the most attractive and convincing monument in the metropolis of the coming of a new era in Sydney. ..."
    1903 Hype! - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228521299?searchTerm=%...
  • covid convict said:
    beachcomber australia I thought it might have been a lighthouse built in the wrong place by mistake (!)
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    I was wondering just that myself - it appears in a number of other photos in the collection as well so thanks for the update
  • Michael Gschwind said:
    Glückwunsch zu Explore !