mcmahonspoint

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Lavender Bay and McMahons Point with tramsheds in the foreground

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

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  • Andy Brill said:
    The air seems more polluted than today. The downside of concentrations of coal-fired furnaces and steam boilers and locomotives.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I think those are railway sheds if anything. It was a popular view - Henry King (c.1888?) - Arthur Phillips (c.1895?) Charles Kerry (c.1900?) Guessing Mr Hall's photo at about 1910?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Wait a minute - the railway opened in 1893 and I think they are building it here. The large size shows what looks to be stacks of rails. So 1892? That makes more sense with the square riggers in the background. Andy Brill It looks like a westerly wind, so all the smoke and filth from Balmain area is blowing towards the north shore.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Hmmm - the ferries and wharf buildings look more like c.1910 ...
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    Andy Brill beachcomber australia 1892 seems like a better date, though we will forward this photograph to a ferry expert for some advice about the ferries. Presuming you saw Catherine Warne's Pictorial History: Lower North Shore pp 67-71? Interesting!

Passenger liner KÖNIGIN LUISE acting as a flagship for the Anniversary Day Regatta on Sydney Harbour

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Wonderful photo. When ... c.1905 ?
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Hmmm, the women's clothing certainly suggests a date pre 1912, definitely post 1900 so c 1905 is a good guess. We have so many Anniversary Regatta photographs that all the flagships are melding into one. I feel like I've seen this vessel before.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Cracked! New info from a learned observer has identified the vessel and the date! :)
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons Wonderful - how useful to have a "learned observer"! I am going to vote for 1898, because in 1899 the KÖNIGIN LUISE was "moored off Neutral Bay" instead of previous years' courses near Lavender Bay. This photo looks like it is nearer Lavender Bay. 1898 Anniversary Day Regatta report - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14160588 1899 Anniversary Day Regatta report - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14197303
  • beachcomber australia said:
    See also in 1920 as the Orient Line OMAR -

Three masted ferry with wharf in background

from Powerhouse Museum

  • Giovanni Portelli said:
    I wonder which wharf
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Looking west across Lavender Bay towards McMahon's Point from Milson's Point.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A little to the left: Tom Roberts "Sydney Harbour from Milson's Point" 1897 collection.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/results.do?id...