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Google Maps street view: maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

It is very sad, the same people who manage lands are the same people who removed a piece of their own history, and on both sides of this street, now all that is left is the building in the far distance.

And there is the building in the distance, on New Years Eve 2009, this link to the Powerhouse shot kindly added by beachcomberaustralia www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4233527870/

you can see why barnet wanted the clock tower located at rear of building. he wanted it to be seen from spring and bent streets. not centred .cool pic

Uminarampart thanks for that interesting information about James Barnet's intentions. It shows up clearly on the Google Maps satellite picture - maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&... . Recently found a picture of James Barnet on top of the (new) Macquarie Lighthouse - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/4312847312/

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71386904/5334571 - a cropped version of this pic appeared in the Australian Town & Country Journal on 21st July, 1900 (see pic on 4th page of link, bottom rhs)...the T&CJ have photoshopped out some of the advertising signs... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13595372 - SMH, 15th August, 1885...description of the plan of Norwich Chambers (NW cnr Bligh/Hunter Sts)...which was then under construction. The description of the dome (towards bottom of article) matches what we see here... trove.nla.gov.au/work/12290907 - just for interest...the building with the witch's hat spire which we catch a glimpse of on the NE cnr of Bligh/Hunter Sts was the City Mutual Life Assurance Building...per various digitised newspaper hits, it appears to have been built in 1892-94 (completed 1894) and was demolished in late 1934-early 1935... trove.nla.gov.au/work/189920912 - just for interest...Norwich Chambers was demolished in the early 1920s...and replaced with the Metropolitan Building (Australian Metropolitan Life Assurance Co Building) which we see under construction in this NLA Fairfax pic taken in ca. early 1923...this NLA Fairfax pic also shows the construction Queensland National Bank Building, which was evidently a rebuild of the Empire Hotel...the tower and cupola were casualties... Also see www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2697490952/in/pho...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71314960 - this pic appeared in a pictorial in the Australian Town & Country Journal on 9th July, 1898...see pic mid top row... The postcard version www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/8286876020/