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Fort Macquarie, Sydney

from Powerhouse Museum

  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • Archmage01 said:
    Really, the Opera House is unbeatable. The fort matches Gov House doesn't it? But would not have become an icon of Oz.
  • Gary Crockett said:
    don't know about anyone else but those lovely wooden dories in the foreground have got my vote
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Give it back to Bennelong and his family!
  • Highranger said:
    It is rare to see a photo of the actual Fort Macquarie. The boats are lovely too! but the cropping suggests that they were secondary to the photographer's intentions
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Highranger There are several photos of Fort Macquarie in this collection - I have been tagging them when I remember. My favourite, by Henry King (like this) -

George Street - forwards south end, Sydney (NSW)

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Thanks for posting this so quickly.

    I was amazed to discover where this handsome and very old building was - at the SE corner of George and Market Streets, in the middle of Sydney. Unfortunately it literally has "Gone to Gowings", with the 1929 Gowings building at 452-56 George St., and the 1929 State Theatre in Market St. there now.

    Google Maps Street View - goo.gl/maps/FCkLS1ofPNN2
    [ed. - updated 23/10/15]
    Gowings - www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_04_2.cfm?itemid=2424014
    State Theatre - www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_04_2.cfm?itemid=5045499 and www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_04_2.cfm?itemid=2424031

    I am not sure what the old building was called or used for, or its date (c.1830?) - does anyone know? Did it survive into the 1920s, or was there another building before Gowings? It seems to have been unloved towards the end of the C19th - most photographs seem to avoid it.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The view to the right -


    "George Street from Market Street" Henry King (PhM)
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Aha! Found it! Joseph Fowles "Sydney in 1848" names it as Waterloo Stores -


    " At the corner of Market Street, with the front in George Street, stands the "Waterloo Stores," a spacious brick building, erected some twenty years since by Mr. Daniel Cooper; it then stood alone at the corner of the Cattle Market, and was without question the best building in the City, and even in the present day, when the spirit and enterprise of the colonists have caused the erection of many very excellent buildings, it still holds its rank amongst the best. The business of this establishment is conducted by Mr. D. Cooper, Junior, (the son of the above named gentleman) on a very extended scale. Country Stores and Settlers are here supplied with every thing they require: Wines, Spirits, Ales and Porter, Grocery, and Drapery Goods, Slops, and Clothing, Ironmongery, etc., in infinite variety. "

    from - www.sydneyarchitecture.com/GALL/GALL-1848.htm (just over half way down).

    There is a recognisable illustration (top left) -
  • beachcomber australia said:
    It is easy when you have the name. The Waterloo Stores was demolished in 1883 -


    "The last of the Waterloo Stores" SLNSW
  • beachcomber australia said:
    And John Hunter (Boots - next door} took over the George St frontage and erected another building which was demolished for Gowings. Daniel Cooper had acquired the site in 1821 and started building that year. Ref - SMH 17/10/1928, p.11 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/16502273 .

    So the Waterloo Stores was there from 1821- 1883. I imagine this photo is shortly before the 1883 demolition. What a great big shame, but how lucky that someone had the idea to photograph it.

The northern end of the resumption area, The Rocks (NSW) Rocks Resumption photographic survey

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection