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23 photos tagged bent, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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1860

2014

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beachcomber australia said:
Or portrait -
covid convict said:
trove.nla.gov.au/work/247410459 - Trove link to pic at PHM... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165003788/16888393 - Sydney Mail, 23rd August, 1905...item on the recently completed Colonial Sugar Refining Company Building...it was under construction for 17 months evidently. The pic that appears here looks to have been taken somewhat earlier than the Kerry & Co pic... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163987030 - Sydney Mail, 20th April, 1904...pic of the building under construction... trove.nla.gov.au/work/170931051 - an earlier Kerry & Co view... trove.nla.gov.au/work/188533262 - this NLA Fairfax pic shows a similar view...but in ca. early 1923...it shows the Union Bank (SE corner Pitt/Hunter Sts) post 1908 rebuild...with the additional storey and cupola, etc. It also shows the Empire Hotel being mutilated to become the Queensland National Bank...the traffic island garden in Bent St is also well established... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/164358254 - Sydney Mail, 2nd June, 1888...sketch of the Union Bank Building drawn prior to its construction... A key to the date here might be the work we see at the bottom left of frame...I suspect this is the construction of the garden plot that occupied the Bent/Young St traffic island, near the Metropole Hotel...but so far I haven't managed to find any reference to the construction of this garden in the digitised newspapers...

beachcomber australia said:
The reference to "Castlereagh Street" (on the street sign on the corner) is confusing. It is obviously the back of the Lands Department Building at the corner of Bent St and what is now Loftus St. It turns out that Loftus St used to be called Castlereagh St (they are aligned); also Young St used to be called Elizabeth St. See this 1858 interactive map - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-rm1272-sd&rgn=0... Since only the northern section of the Lands Department Building is finished here, I would put the date at c.1885. See - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/4057365692/
Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
Thank you for the information about the changes in street names. We will amend the date to c.1885.
beachcomber australia said:
Other end of the block -