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Cambridge Street looking to Argyle Cut, The Rocks

from Powerhouse Museum

  • 6 older comments, and then…
  • Merryjack said:
    What times!
  • Adaptable Direction said:
    These great old photos should also be in the Picture Australia pool.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Another wonderful picture of the not-so-good old days. Dated "August 1901" - it was just after an outbreak of bubonic plague in the Rocks. The whole area was resumed by the NSW government for slum clearance. Maybe these photos were taken for evidence? The next photo is from the other end of the street, possibly at the same time.
  • BobMeade said:
    State Records New South Wales has a good set of plague era photos of The Rocks, beachcomberaustralia. I'll go and get a couple of links. Got 'em. Check this: www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/tags/bubonicplague/
  • beachcomber australia said:
    RAT'S @RSE ! Thanks lifeasdaddy for those charming pictures - put me off my breakfast. It is fun to see what were once considered to be complete slums, are now referred to as a 'renovator's delight'.

Argyle Street & Miller's Road, The Rocks

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    So glad you have posted this to Flickr - I have been looking for it here all week, because it is yet another photo which very closely matches a ca.1902 painting by Julian Ashton -



    In the news currently due to the Historic Houses Trust exhibition "Painting The Rocks' -
    www.hht.net.au/whats_on/exhibitions/exhibitions/painting_...

    Apart from the history (this picturesque corner of Millers Point was demolished to make way for Hickson Road), this is a wonderful photo with amazing composition, curves and perspectives. How to make old 'slums' look beautiful . John Degotardi Jnr photographer?
  • pellethepoet said:
    A certain someone, who will remain nameless [ahem], might just have made a special request.
  • pellethepoet said:
    There was another J. Duggan, Butcher in Cumberland Street.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    pellethepoet Thanks pellethepoet, pellethesaint !
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    ...wait for two other special requests tomorrow!

Trinity Avenue, Sydney

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    I think the houses are in Princes Street (now the Sydney Harbour Bridge southern approach road), Trinity Avenue is marked in the middle, and the street at front with the loitering gentleman is Lower Fort Street.
  • pellethepoet said:
    You're right beachcomberaustralia - the foreground is Lower Fort Street, though a few of the houses do have access from Trinity Avenue - investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/photo.asp...
  • pellethepoet said:
    A nice Harold Cazneaux photograph from the AGNSW collection.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Interesting stuff pellethepoet. I see from Google street view that the steps and ramp are still there (why would they go anywhere?!).
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I wonder if this was nearby? - Julian Ashton - "Old House, Trinity Lane, Sydney" (1893) AGNSW - www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/3320/