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Trying to remember what was built there . . . ?

beachcomber australia It was the site of the first Government House. "After Government House was demolished, the site was used variously as a carter's yard, a fruit shop, a confectioner and a tobacco shop, government offices, accommodation for nurses during the Second World War and a car park. At one stage it was to become the site of the city's town hall and later was mooted as the location for a multi-storey office block." www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/national/first-gov... Now the site of the Historic Houses Trust's Museum of Sydney www.hht.net.au/museums/mos

pellethepoet Thanks, I meant immediately after 1899. I don't recall a photo of this corner pre or post that date. One will turn up when least expected . . .

great shot. those telegraph poles were ugly. looked like a steel tree

Nice to see that, apart from the Metropole, all readily visible buildings in shot still stand, although the trees outside the Public Instruction Office went in 1911.

Moffat Beach is a coastal suburb in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. The suburb and beach were named after James C. Moffat, a chemist from Brisbane, who established a holiday house on Moffat Head in 1883.[3][2] The Queen of the Colonies pandanus tree stood on the headland above the site where 13 passengers from the Queen of the Colonies shipwreck were cast ashore in a small boat, during stormy weather in 1863. In 1963, a concrete memorial was erected on the site. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moffat_Beach,_Queensland

Thanks for the note, beachcomberaustralia, it's very useful!

I am amazed at how handsome and well-proportioned this corner of Sydney was at the time.

Nice bit of history here, TS (the statue) is my GGG-Grandfather. This is taken on Macquarie Place looking up to the intersection of Bridge and Gresham, as TS looks west up Bridge St (closest google street view).

The long side of the triangle that forms Macquarie Place was the land side of buildings that sat on the original waterfront facing the mouth of the Tank Stream that widened to form Sydney Cove. Yes, all that land in Pitt Street North, Alfred Street and Circular Quay is land fill. That's why BRIDGE Street had a bridge over what was initially the most northern narrow point, and therefore crossing, of the tank stream.

The Public Service Association of NSW www.psa.asn.au was established in 1899 and had an office in Bridge St. PSA members worked in the Dept of Lands building across the road and PSA members held their meetings in Aaron's Exchange Hotel on Gresham St which was a beautiful old building demolished in 1965. PSA is now celebrating 120 years and is located at 160 Clarence St. PSA has its own library on the 9th floor and every copy of the Public Service Journal from 1900 available to read.