badier

The top photo is a ripper - full of interesting stuff. First the photographer "P. C. BADIER NEWTOWN NSW" - Philip C. Badier, 98 King Street, Newtown. Studio operated between 1887-8 - handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/45923 . According to Trove he was a keen cyclist too. The ferries - BUNYA BUNYA or WARATAH ??

Interesting to compare with this contemporary Henry King photo - Megazoom at PhM - from.ph/30871

And compare with the wonderful 1890 (a few years later) painting by Arthur Streeton - From McMahon's Point - fare one penny (NGA). Now on the excellent GoogleArtProject - zoom right in to see every brushstroke detail, and click on the little man to see the painting at the NGA - www.googleartproject.com/collection/national-gallery-of-a...

beachcomber australia Its great isn't it? Thanks for the details & compatible pics. PS CAMMERAY was another suggestion thrown our way re the paddlesteamer ferry. I love that Streeton painting, its so evocative! A bit of beauty in the day. I wonder if this article reference is to the same photographer? Can't have been too many Badiers with a camera. Its 1891 & mentions a studio in Oxford street.

1896 - Phillip Charles Badier, photographer, aged 24 (misprint?? - unless he took these photos when he was 14) fell off a horse near Bathurst and fractured his spine - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/63940530

This view is essentially unchanged.

We love this series of his historical photos!

City of Canterbury Bankstown It's great isn't it - so much interesting stuff at ultra-hi resolution to really find details. And many of these images seem to be very rare, if not one-offs. Big thanks to Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons for sharing the Edward Hungerford Album on Flickr. And to Edward Hungerford for collecting the photos together in the first place!

Strange - this Charles Bayliss photo shows statues in the niches of the Great Hall - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.pic-vn4193369

beachcomber australia [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] As mentioned, the different coloured brickwork makes it hard to distinguish shapes in the niches:

Here is the second Customs House extension (post 1896) c1900 from State Records NSW:

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Ha ha thanks! Yes, this photo shows the 1887 extension work to the Customs House (James Barnet, architect, modifying the original two-storey building by Mortimer Lewis). See - Andy Brill They extended again twelve or so years later!

The earlier two-storey Customs House - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au//item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=220378

About the EMU (1865 - this ISN'T the 1841 ship) -

"The Manly paddler 'Brightside' (269 tons - 950 passengers) was built in Glasgow and exported to Brisbane to be reassembled for use on the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay as PS EMU. She was originally owned by the Queensland Steam Navigation Company. After another owner, she came to the Port Jackson Steam Boat Company in January 1877 and stayed with the various forms of the Manly ferry company until 1909. She was renamed BRIGHTSIDE in 1887 and sank in June 1897. She was converted into a cargo ferry in 1902 and worked the Manly run in that role until 1908. After being gutted by fire in 1908 the hull was converted to a lighter, but was broken up in 1909."

From "A Pictorial History of Ferries, Sydney and surrounding waterways" Graeme Andrews, Reed 1982

In 1887 the EMU also had a collision with the WARATAH which sank just to the left of this photo. Maybe just after this photo was taken?! - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13627954