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Exchange corner, Pitt St, Sydney

from Powerhouse Museum

  • beachcomber australia said:
    Corner of Pitt and Bridge streets, looking south.
  • dunedoo said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sydney's older buildings and structures. , and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Charles Bayliss - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemLarge.aspx?itemID=413535
  • covid convict said:
    Several flags at half mast...lots of possible occasions... Date range 1887-1890: Empire Hotel, SW cnr Pitt/Hunter Sts (seen here in the mid distance on the rhs), built/opened 1887... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115449519 - Freeman's Journal, 19th November, 1887...'A New Sydney Hotel'... Exchange Hotel, SW cnr Pitt/Bridge Sts...the incarnation of the Exchange Hotel that we see in this pic was condemned in January 1890...it was subsequently demolished and replaced by a new hotel with an ornamental tower and cupola...I haven't managed to establish dates for the demolition and construction of the new hotel...just going on a Licensing Court application, the new hotel appears to have been built (and running) by ca. August 1890... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28276827 - SMH, 22nd January, 1890...City Improvement Board order re the demolition of the Exchange Hotel...the date for demolition ordered here was later extended... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/235773444 - the Daily Telegraph, 21st June, 1890...brief mention here of the new Exchange Hotel (architect N.C. Day) which appears to have then been under construction (see item mid first highlighted column)... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/113339543 - the Evening News, 15th August, 1890...'Licensing Court'...'a temporary license was granted to Ann Nightingale, for the Exchange Hotel, Bridge and Pitt Streets.' * take care not to mix up the Exchange Hotel, SW cnr Pitt/Bridge Sts and Aaron's Exchange Hotel, which adjoined the Royal Exchange (it was within/part of the Exchange Buildings)...Aaron's Exchange Hotel fronted both Pitt and Gresham Sts...both hotels appear in this pic... trove.nla.gov.au/work/170940115 - the NLA has a print of this pic...

George Street, Haymarket, Sydney

from Powerhouse Museum

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  • Zippy Money said:
    These are great pictures!
  • Darren White said:
    These really are awesome......do you have a year for these......
  • Mauro (A) said:
    : ) that's before the old school! yeah i like it! : )
  • Jason Painter said:
    The street really widens here.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Pre 1899 (no tram lines). Post 1885 - see iron arcade holding and hiding telephone cables on west / right side of George Street. (ref.- www.telephonecollecting.org/lightpoles.htm )