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Demolishing Princes Street Stone Arch Ring

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Great moments in OH&S - Don't stand on arch (over the Argyle Cut) when it is being demolished.
  • BobMeade said:
    What a great photo. I wonder if Dr, Bradfield is amongst those standing on the arch?
  • BobMeade said:
    There is a nice series of photos showing the progress of this demolition: trove.nla.gov.au/picture/result?q=demolish+princes+street... An interesting letter giving some hsitorical background of the arch(es): nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16830131 And a Sydney Morning Herald article from 22/08/1932 mentioning the demolition: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16799511 This photo shows some of the mass of old bridge stonework already removed above the arch: investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/photo.asp... Nice little essay about the arches: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16740442
  • beachcomber australia said:
    BobMeade That is interesting research. It seems the Princes Street bridge was comprised of two separate arches, built years apart. Hence the men were relatively safe to stand on the other half. Are we looking east or west ? That looks a bit like the Garrison Church top right, in which case looking west. Or not?
  • pellethepoet said:
    beachcomber australia Here's an even better OH&S arch moment! Fearless Joe Dobson -

    Demolishing Hoffnung's building, Pitt Street, Sydney by Ernie Bowen (15/11/1939) [SLNSW: hood_19948, hood_19949]
    "... the crowd in Pitt Street was good. Some crowds wouldn't give you a cheer if you tore the building down with your teeth. But this crowd gave you a clap when you did a good brick. In fact, I don't think I've ever had a better crowd." - Joe Dobson interviewed in Daily News, 16 November 1939. (see Sydney Exposures by Alan Davies, Sydney : State Library of NSW, 1991, p. 50.)

    And yes, looking west. That is the Garrison Church as you surmised. The other photographs in the series that BobMeade BobMeade linked make it clearer.

The Rocks, Sydney

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • beachcomber australia said:
    See the comments on the PowerHouse Museum Collection's version of this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2844603389/
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    Thanks for letting us know, beachcomberaustralia! Those comments are very interesting.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Reverse view - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/3863063529/
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    This photo was recently determined to be part of the Rocks Resumption photographic survey, the title and date of the image has been changed accordingly Here is a map of the Rocks Resumption area (last one in the sequence)
  • pellethepoet said:
    The Argyle Cut, illustration no. 21 from Relics of Old Colonial Days: A Book of Drawings by Sydney Ure Smith (Sydney: James R. Tyrrell, 1914).

Argyle Cut, The Rocks

from Powerhouse Museum

  • S W Dent said:
    more please