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Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney 1899

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • 3 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Trying to remember what was built there . . . ?
  • pellethepoet said:
    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
  • beachcomber australia said:
    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 . . .
  • uminarampart said:
    great shot. those telegraph poles were ugly. looked like a steel tree
  • Kent Broadhead said:
    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.

Selfie?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 6 older comments, and then…
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    The New Arrivals were: Coypu rats, each of which is as big as a full-grown cat. A very rare Malayan monitor and "Lincoln Murphy" a new baby kangeroo. There are pictures of all three too.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Sharon Corbet Well done Sharon, what a name for the Kangaroo!! Don't like the sound of Coypu Rats!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Sharon Corbet I would say that Mason had great fun showing that photo to friends and family with its well centered if confusing headline!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Some interesting background to Thomas Holmes Mason (1877-1958) -
    "... Thomas Mason's son, Thomas Holmes, was born in 1877. The grandfather of today's company chairman, Thomas H was a remarkable man. He worked alongside his father in the company until the latter's death in 1913, at which point the company was called Thomas H Mason. Stan explains how the company, under his grandfather's direction, made a "dramatic move with the technology of the time". "In the late 1890s he introduced photography to the business in the form of picture postcards. We went on to become the biggest producer of picture postcards in Ireland, right up until the 1940s, when the price of silver, a major component in developing solutions, rocketed because of the war." He takes a book from a glass case - Thomas H Mason's book The Islands of Ireland, published 1936. "My grandfather was interested in archaeology, ornithology, historical sites on the islands off Ireland, interests which brought him all over the country with his full-plate camera. He built up a huge and very fine collection of pictures which, unfortunately, were destroyed by fire in 1963. There's a vast collection of his picture postcards in the Civic Museum, however." ... ... "
    From - www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/saga-of-a... (2003)
  • Carol Maddock said:
    From the Irish Press on Tuesday, 4 July 1933...
    TURF PLAN'S VALUE TO ARCHAEOLOGISTS ROTARY LECTURE That the Government's turf scheme should result in the discovery of articles of archaeological value, was claimed by Mr. T. H. Mason, M.R.I.A., in the course of a lecture on "Archaeology in Ireland", at the weekly meeting of the Dublin Rotary Club, in the Metropole Restaurant, yesterday [Monday, 3 July 1933]. Those engaged in the work of drainage of the bogs and of cutting turf should at once report to the National Museum, Dublin, or to the local Gardaí Síochána any structure or objects, however small, of artificial nature, which they discovered in the course of their work... He believed that the number of bronze age finds during the next ten years would far exceed the discoveries of the past 30 or 40 years...
    And given current news, it's not just bogs hiding bronze age finds.

Metropole Hotel, Cork

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons