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Sydney - corner of Pitt and Spring Streets

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • Renira1 said:
    taxis?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Renira1 Yes, I think they are taxi-cabs or whatever they were called then (1870s?). See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab#History This was a popular corner for photographers - A&APC - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=63545 Charles Pickering (? c.1871) - Charles Kerry (after 1891 with Lands Department Building) -
  • beachcomber australia said:
    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Good grief, you are having fun with this. I'm not sure what you are trying to show, but maybe this 1899 view from the other direction (with associated links in the comments) might be useful ... Pitt Street had only fairly recently happened near Spring Street at the time of this Degotardi photo (1865-ish?). See the 1858 map - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-rm1272-sd&rgn=... , and compared to the 1822 map where the Tank Stream was yet to be covered over - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-f107-sd&rgn=0....
  • beachcomber australia said:
    WooHoo! I just noticed the TRAM LINES - see bottom left. ... "Sydney's first tram was horse-drawn, running from the old Sydney Railway station to Circular Quay along Pitt Street. Built in 1861, the design was compromised by the desire to haul railway freight wagons along the line to supply city businesses, in addition to passenger traffic. This resulted in a track that protruded from the road surface and damaged the wheels of wagons trying to cross it. Hard campaigning by competing omnibus owners - as well as a fatal accident involving the leading Australian musician Isaac Nathan in 1864 - led to closure in 1866. " - from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Sydney#Early_tramways Attn - John Cowper - Sydney's first tramline alert!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Yes, but the photo may be by William Hetzer - see complicated research by pellethepoet on another photo in the album ...

Hi High Street

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 19 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The clocks agree - 15:35 !
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Jai Hindley!
  • Seán Ó Domhnaill said:
    So many telegraph wires on that building in the middle.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons 🚴...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Seán Ó Domhnaill A web?

College Green, Dublin City, Co. Dublin

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Foxglove said:
    a perspective twist makes it appear that the statue to the fore is holding a scroll of paper (the shop awning )
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Per the old reliable wiki article on Dublin Tramways, the horse trams began service in 1872, and were electrified by 1901.
  • DannyM8 said:
    In Thoms 1882 - Shanks Brothers are at 2 Foster Place and F H Killingly are at 3 Trinity Street. I see Shanks Killingly & Co at 2 Foster place in the photo, so I think it safe to presume we are after 1882.
  • DannyM8 said:
    No Bicycles, which must put this back in the nineteenth rather than twentieth century.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Grattan with the shop awning is from 1875 per the DIA.