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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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Interior -
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Joseph R. Darling was a special agent of the Department of Justice, author of "Darling on Trusts" (1915), a legal treatise: openlibrary.org/b/OL19744141M/Darling-on-trusts

pennylrichardsca: Thanks for the information. We'll adjust the description with the more complete name when we update the record.

I added him to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_R._Darling JOSEPH DARLING, ADVENTURER, 85; Author, Promoter, Explorer, Soldier of Fortune Dies --Did Antitrust Work Special to The New York Times. September 7, 1957, Saturday MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 6--Joseph Robinson Darling, author, promoter, explorer and soldier of fortune, died at his home here today after a short illness. His age was 85.

Modern dairying would be impossible without milking machines. But it took a century after the first such machines were invented before they were widely adopted in Australia. For millennia, humans had milked cows and other animals by hand. In the 19th century, as mechanisation began to change agricultural practices, people started to apply their minds to the milking operation. The first milking machines were patented in 1838, says the Australian Bureau of Statistics. But, they add, it wasn’t until the late 1930s that milking by machine became the norm in Australia. It wasn’t through want of trying. Both overseas and in this country, numerous machines were tried and patents applied for. Many new patents were subsequently applied for using vacuum suction and, in 1895, the pulsator milking machine was invented. In 1897, Robert Kennedy and William Lawrence, an engineer from Glasgow, produced the Lawrence Kennedy milking machine which, in 1903, was improved by a Victorian dairy farmer, Mr A Gillies. The resulting LKG machine was widely used in Australia, although most dairy farmers continued to milk by hand until the 1930s. Source: australianfoodtimeline.com.au/milking-machines-in-australia/