cremorne

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] I think you are right about the Australia Hotel being built, but the tower is the GPO not the Town Hall. Maybe?! And the PFA is the Miles Building in Gloucester St - link in note. Also www.flickr.com/photos/33147718@N05/7799953792/ Puzzled by the titling - I bet it originally said " 78. SYDNEY FROM "CREMORNE" (H. KING, PHOTO SYD.) " - ie this is another Henry King copy, and explains the early dating.

Interesting to compare buildings with these two Henry King photos from the next point back -

beachcomber australia [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks folks, the gap between the inscriptions does look suspiciously like it once fit 'H. King Photo Syd'...

Great shot though and fantastic info from you blokes here.

A Pirates Dream!! :-)

Very peaceful and nostalgic

Mosman Bay (Sydney Harbour) looking north from near what is now the sailing club (Smith's boat shed) at the corner of Kareela Road / Green Street, Cremorne Point ? A quarter turn away from this view: www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3129029289/in/set... ?

Interesting to compare this to Arthur Streeton's The Point Wharf, Mosman Bay, 1893 at this link (scroll down to SYDNEY) : www.ngv.vic.gov.au/australianimpressionism/education/insi... www.ngv.vic.gov.au/australianimpressionism/education/imag...

That is a wonderful picture (Streeton is famous for blue), lifeasdaddy, from roughly the same place as this photograph, but looking 90 degrees to the right. The painting is of Curraghbeena point, where the Musgrave Street wharf now is. I think it was a sandstone quarry at the time of the picture, and the ferry wharf is just out of sight to the left. Streeton painted the other wharf in 1895 - www.artsender.com/gallery/details.asp?PaintingID=430 Both wharfs show up clearly on Google maps (satellite), which is invaluable in these investigations. This is fairly near the photo view but higher up the ridge of Cremorne Point: www.flickr.com/photos/patopostcards/2213485419/ I should get down to Sydney myself and snoop around with my camera. I am in Port Macquarie and relying on memories of living around Cremorne and Mosman.

a bit sharpened i did not attempt to remove blemish and other sign of time, just i left in a bit of yellowing

"Life on the River" by photocomix-mandala [?]


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English-born John Greenwood Barnes arrived in Mackay in 1863 and was the earliest settler on the northern side of the Pioneer River. Barnes had spent ten years in Victoria, perhaps initially at the goldfields, but he had developed an interest in gardening. The Mackay Mercury reported in 1868, "Two young vigorous looking orange trees were blooming in foliage, their branches literally loaded with golden fruit, fast-ripening under the genial influence of climate and the good quality of the ground". But it was the coconut palms initially planted in 1867 which increased to a plantation of 1200 trees that brought real fame. "These trees, growing in a most luxuriant manner, produce very fine fruit which was of much larger size than those obtained from the South Seas." Cremorne was already a popular venue for weekend entertainment when in 1884, Barnes erected a two-storey hotel that featured a promenade roof. Attractions for children were provided and fundraising fetes and concerts were held in Cremorne Gardens, which were possibly based on Cremorne Gardens in Melbourne, rather than those in London. developing his gardens by his father-in-law and former business partner, William Seaward, remembered for his keen interest in horticultural and agricultural pursuits. Source: www.mackayregionalbotanicgardens.com.au/about/history_of_...