lunatic

This has been bugging me for yonks! It has to be somewhere up the Parramatta River ... ? The old building at Callan Park ? Or Gladesville Hospital ?

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Whoopee! Found it !

It is at the old GLADESVILLE Hospital. Seen on this GoogleMapsSatellite - maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Gladesville,+New+South+Wales&am... . We are looking south from the north side of the building across Parramatta River towards Abbotsford.

Anyone know what the building was used for in the asylum?

ps those plants looked familiar - see -

Gladesville Hospital 1883 (State Records NSW)

I wonder if this photo(s) are also c.1883 ?

Whoopee Again!

It is the former Medical Superintendent's Residence (check the unusual arrangement of first floor windows). Designed by Mortimer Lewis 1836-38.

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Links to Wikipedia page on Gladesville Hospital

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[beachcomber australia Love to see your brain working ...]

wow this might be a tricky one!

Do the numbers on the images mean anything? Going by the similarity with this I'd say around the same time ... and am still investigating. Ihave no idea where at this point but possibly looking down to Darling Harbour???

Sounds like a challenge to me :) There's a gas street light part way down the street which I assume could help to date it (presumably late 1800's). From the shadow and the lack of development on the land in the background, which is apparently across the harbour, I'm guessing that its looking north. Also seems to be a ferry terminal or something similar opposite the end of the street.

[hint - it's NOT the back-of-bourke !]

beachcomber australia I feel very lost as to location despite your hint. But I can say that if I'm right and it's around the same time as the George Street photo that it would be post 1908/9 which is the earliest that photo could be ... now what does that hint mean????