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Golly she was a VERY OLD ship - launched 1814, butchered in the late 19th century, and eventually scrapped in 1926 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Nelson_(1814) The Figurehead is in the Australian National Maritime Museum - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lord_Nelson_01.jpg

beachcomber australia Right you are! Here is a link to the figurehead over on eMuseum.

Oh My Giddy Aunt! Just identified another contemporary (c.1895) photo of HMVS NELSON (1814) from that figurehead. From the mysterious Phillips Collection (PhM), as a hulk ... mega-zoomify from.ph/381230

The Colonial Sugar Refining Co. works at Pyrmont (built 1877) and the original (not 1903) Glebe Island Bridge are marked on this interactive 1895 map - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-rm3443-sd&rgn=... .

1929 fuller history of the ship - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/69519134 . From this it seems she was in Sydney from 1901-1908 near Cremorne.

Or portrait -

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...

amazing!

i gather this is site of now 1 o connell street office tower. what a great old bldg.

Or landscape -

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Your notes suggest building started in 1824, yet photo has a date of 1720, has someone in archives added this date to the glass plate in error?

Paul Vandenberg No those 1720 numbers are the photographer's plate numbers - all very confusing.