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Yet another picture of the SS Orient. More details here - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2362703683/ Other SS Orient pictures - www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=24785917@N03&q=SS+o...

This picture is a few seconds later than this - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2610194962/ see the people near the tram and ferry bottom left.

Spot the differences - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemLarge.aspx?itemID=413342

The very early Manly ferry PS Phantom (paddle box and single tall white funnel with black top) can be seen at her lay-over wharf at Dawes Point. Having been built in parts near Glasgow and assembled in Melbourne in 1858, she came to Sydney in 1859 and became the first regular Manly ferry. She left the Manly service in 1878 and was broken up in 1885.

The origin of Ekka The first 'Royal' Show was held in 1921, when the Association was granted the prefix under warrant from His Majesty King George V. Since then, the shortened name 'Ekka' has replaced 'Exhibition' in the Queensland vernacular, indicating locals' affection for the show. Ekka has since been held every year with only three exceptions - in 1919 due to the Spanish Flu epidemic, in 1942 when the grounds were used as a World War II staging depot and in 2020 due the the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Source: www.ekka.com.au/about-us/our-history/

The best-looking and behaving dog wins. Last-minute preparations before the dog show started.

September 1902, from the banner on the Belmore (First & Last) Hotel advertising acts at the Tivoli theatre. A Trove search of "Nawn Wilton Tivoli" produced this from the SMH of Saturday 20/9/1902 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14507894 . I wonder if the photo was taken from the then-being-built Sydney Harbour Trust Building - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/2715092837/ ? Wonderful photo and amazing to see such detail via the persistent URL Zoomify.

About twenty years later -

In the bottom RH corner of the OP, there is a verandah. I think this may be David Lynch's "Ship Inn Hotel" which was demolished sometime during 1901, allowing Tooths to build the new Ship Inn during 1902, 50m back on the corner of Alfred and Pitt Streets. The western side of this verandah can be seen in this undated image www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/8724829262/in/pho...

? slightly later...but not by much... www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/44899209431/in/ph... JUST FOR INTEREST: In the bottom rh corner we see the verandah on the old Ship Inn...which appears to have shared a common wall with the Change Alley building (NE cnr Pitt/Alfred Sts). The Change Alley building (built 1877) was demolished in ca. August/September 1901 to make way for the Pitt St tramway extension. I gather the adjoining yard, which then housed the Government weigh bridge, was also cleared at this time. A good portion of the old Ship Inn appears to have survived as a ruin until ca. March/April 1904, when it too was demolished... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/237372089 - the Daily Telegraph, 4th September, 1901...item on the demolition of Change Alley. I'm not sure whether the writer had all the facts correct...the article indicates that the Ship Inn was then also being demolished...but if this were the case, then the demolition must have been incomplete...there are numerous newspaper items which indicate that the Ship Inn remained standing beyond this point and that it wasn't (completely) demolished until ca. March/April 1904... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14406015 - SMH, 27th August, 1901...SMH item re the demolition of Change Alley... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229295576 - the Australian Star, 22nd March, 1904...re the pending demolition of the old Ship Inn... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71471961 - Australian Town & Country Journal, 7th September, 1901...pic of Alfred St, showing Change Alley and the Ship Inn prior to the August/September 1901 demolitions... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165236417 - the Sydney Mail, 21st September, 1901...pic here of the Circular Quay side of the Ship Inn...this item also refers to the pending demolition of both Change Alley and the Ship Inn... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165190990/16808490 - Sydney Mail, 13th May, 1903...pic here which shows the Ship Inn (?and part of Change Alley) still standing...with the Harbour Trust Building under construction in the background (see pic on 1st page of link)... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138764510 - the Australasian, 12th March, 1904...pic here also shows the Ship Inn still standing...with the ?now completed Harbour Trust Building behind...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165380561/17336718 - Sydney Mail, 31st December, 1902...similar pic of Circular Quay here...maybe earlier...