barangaroo

One small truck there, horses seem to still be doing most of it.

Is that where the Wharf theatre is ? It looks suspicious, the street is not that straight.

Mich No, No 4 Wharf would now be sitting in the midst of what we now call Barangaroo - the following website shows the building of these fine wharves in 1922.

www.afloat.com.au/afloat-magazine/2009/december-2009/100_...



I used to work in Caltex House in Kent Street in the 1960s and these wharves were still there then.

John Cowper Thanks for the location - I was stumped. I think the photographer was looking over the railing on High Street. Google Street View (see Palisade Hotel for relative position) maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=-33.859966,151.202903&a...

beachcomber australia You're right the picture would have been taken from High Street, again back in my despatch boy days (ie when I worked in Caltex House at 167 Kent Street) I explored the whole area pretty thoroughly, mainly during my lunch-hour - they were lovely buildings - in fact the whole area held a great fascination for me. I especially liked the idea that the buildings allowed access at two levels, obviously for handling cargo quicker and more easily. The bridge you can see in the right background (I've noted it) facilitated this. There were a number of such bridges along Hickson Road. Again by cooincidence I went to school with a younger McEacharn - a descendant of the Malcolm McEacharn who started the shipping line.

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection There is a photo in your collection titled 'Unidentified passenger liner berthed at Dalgety's Wharf, Millers Point (NSW)' which shows the same event.

Though unidentified it does have the correct date of 8 May 1903.

It may be of interest that the Medic, of the White Star Line, was involved in a controversial famous prank in 1900, perpetrated by Charles Lightoller, who later went on to be the most senior surviving officer of the ill-fated Titanic.

Well spotted pellethepoet. Many of the architectural features of the wharf buildings are similar to those of workers' family cottages which were also built in Millers Point around this time after the bubonic plague induced demolitions. The cottages still exist today as NSW state government owned public housing

Wonderful photo(s). Wonderful prank story. 8th May 1903 was a Friday. I thought this might have been at one of the new finger wharves in Walsh Bay, but no, Dalgety's and the White Star Line wharves were on the west side of Miller's Point. See this rather odd 1905 bird's eye interactive map - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-f115-sd&rgn=0.5...

I can't help noticing the similarities in composition, perspective, subject, date, etc, with this photo - . Same photographer, John Degotardi Jnr?

Ha! Well done. I do think that is your first thumbnail ... :)

I think this from St Phillips Church tower looking NW, hence the height. Not from Observatory Hill as described in the Persistent URL. Most of the features, including the Australian Gas Light Company (AGL) gasometer, show up on the 1890 John Sands map - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-rm1280-s1-sd&rg...

I agree with 'beachcomberaustralia' - definitely from St Philip's Tower. Interesting that the AGL site is still controversial in 2011 - over who has to pay for the cleanup before Barangaroo can proceed!

Second thoughts (17 months later) - it might have been from the Grosvenor Hotel at the end of Grosvenor Street , or Charlotte Street on this better 1895 map (interactive) - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-rm3443-sd&rgn=0...