fitzroy

11 photos and 1 illustration tagged fitzroy, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos & illustrations taken?

3
1873
2013

 

Where were these photos & illustrations tagged?

58% of these photos & illustrations are geotagged.

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

Members using this tag

Photos & Illustrations

Show photos & illustrations photos (11) illustrations (1)

Photos & Illustrations tagged fitzroy:

Loading photos & illustrations…

See more on flickr.com →

Recent uploads

The last upload was April 2024.

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Waterfall, possibly on the Hawkesbury River, NSW, 1880-1909

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • beachcomber australia said:
    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Good calls with the Fitzroy falls! It is amazing how different they look in almost every photo. Respect to Mr Hall for going out on a limb or rock shelf to get this photo. Recent photo with much more vegetation - [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianmh2011/13692313664] Earlier from other direction by John Paine (1833-1908), which shows where Mr Hall would have been -
  • beachcomber australia said:
    That description in the Sydney Mail article wins The Purple Prose of the Year Award 1882 ! " ... Immediately it streams over the ledge it is divided into spray for which only feeble comparisons exist. Gossamer, lace, and down are alternately suggested as similarities, but neither conveys an adequate idea of the appearance of the fall as, swayed by the action of the breeze, it assumes the most fantastic forms. At a short distance it looks something like an undulating film of gossamer, then like a cloud of tiny feathers, until it changes into a ribbon of lace of constantly varying patterns. Millions of tiny spray drops fall gently downwards, and the imagination converts them into a shower of pearls while the clouds intercept the rays of the sun, and when these break forth again the visitor conceives himself to be gazing on a stream of diamond dust. ... ... " More if you can stand it - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/161922472
  • beachcomber australia said:
    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Ha! I never knew that!
  • Kip Newing said:
    Could also be Belmore falls. www.flickr.com/photos/kipnewing/4041717703/in/set-7215762...
  • Kip Newing said:
    On second thought it is Fitzroy, because you can see the lookout in the very top on the frame on this one, taken in 1925 www.flickr.com/photos/kipnewing/4041705091/in/set-7215762...

Milson's Point street scene with horses and carts

from Powerhouse Museum

  • 6 older comments, and then…
  • lively lip said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sydney's Inner West, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • Bankstown Babyboomer said:
    Looks like a tram line in the centre of the road but no sign of the cable trough, so this may be Darling St prior to the installation of the cable tram.
  • James and Rebecca said:
    So a horse drawn tram?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    My vote goes to this being Alfred Street, Milson's Point. Not Balmain as in the title. See Persistent URL. But I can't see the "GPO Tower visible across the harbour". I can see Government House, and (?) St Marks Darling Point steeple.
  • Zacha said:
    I agree - this probably isn't Balmain. The shop on the corner looks right, but if so there should probably be a street on the right corresponding with a street on the right. And most of the buildings down the street appear to be shops, whereas the surviving buildings down Darling Street near the wharf are mostly terraces and houses.

CO 1069-599-70

from The National Archives UK