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Still flooding at Ipswich.

pellethepoet These are amazing photographs. Do you know from where these photos were taken? It would be great to identify the public buildings.

State Library of Queensland I don't know Ipswich but I'm sure we can find out. I happened to be revisiting my favourites in the new "justified" viewing format that Flickr have rolled out, and I noticed these two photos were two halves of the same scene - which I didn't notice at the time you posted them. I think it would be useful to reference the associated photos in your catalogue descriptions for these items.

I bet there will be more panels, especially with the portrait aspect. Watching with interest.

Anyone know exactly where in Sydney this was?

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Good work! I think you are right with the Goldsbrough Darling Harbour ID. See also this 1884 illustration - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/64035872 , which shows railway in front - a bit of a hint. The old warehouse was at the corner of Fig and Pyrmont Streets, Ultimo. I think it was rebuilt after a fire and extended to Allen Street, as it now is.

According to the 1895 interactive map, the building on the left is the Meat Market !. The photographer was at the junction of Allen and Pyrmont Streets, looking SE - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-rm3443-sd&rgn=...

GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/Ic8i0

Phew! A relief after four years of sleepless nights!

" ... Sydney's first wool store was the Richard Goldsbrough warehouse built on the corner of Pyrmont and Fig streets in 1883. From World War II until the 1960s, wool stores on the peninsula employed thousands of men. With lanolin oil soaked into thousands of feet of wood, fires were a constant hazard. In 1935 the Goldsbrough and Mort store went up in a blaze lasting two weeks, filling the suburb with the smell of burning wool and grease. ..."
From PhM - www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/paradise_industrial_...

Article about the 1935 fire which destroyed the warehouse. A photo shows the warehouse as above with three extra floors built on top - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/83657628

The Central Meat Market at Ultimo - see how the refrigerated railway truck went under the canopy -
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acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=168452
Interior -
acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=168453
acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=168454

very nice work

Sure hope he has a hot water bottle to sit with...Merry Christmas indeed!

This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Delivering the Mail

good

Amazing how far we have come. Email what?

Wow ! The town went under water. Awesome clarity for the age of photo. Thank you for sharing.