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Large cannon on circular track aimed at Harbour

from Powerhouse Museum

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  • Michael Wood said:
    This may have been taken at Middle Head:
    Middle Head Fort
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Yes juilong, it is definitely Middle Head, but I think a couple of hundred metres to the north from the 'normal' group of gun emplacements in your photo, because of the black headland on the right of the cannon in the photo. There are more fortifications on the north end of Middle Head, surrounded by thick bush, which show up on Google Maps (satellite). I am trying to work out the geometry and geography. Field trip required! Can anyone date the uniform?
  • BobMeade said:
    The black headland at the right of the cannon in the photo is not actually a headland. It is an earthen berm which was created to correct a design fault which would have permitted adjacent cannon to fire upon one another without the presence of the berm. This problem was only recognised after the construction of the emplacements and installation of the guns. I've taken two photographs of emplacements nearby, but not this one: www.flickr.com/photos/lifeasdaddy/2911023023/ www.flickr.com/photos/lifeasdaddy/2909598486/in/photostream/ Not that I can precisely identify this cannon, but I've seen lots of photographs of cannon around Sydney in the 1880 to 1910 period, and this is one of the clearest photographs I've ever seen. That's the wonder of lifting the image from a well preserved glass plate negative.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A BERM ?! I just had an Inspector Clouseau moment ! Thanks lifeasdaddy.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Yet another Tom Roberts coincidence, from the Australian War Memorial website: cas.awm.gov.au/PROD/cas_disp_pkg.pr_detailed_scr?surl=434... "Tom Roberts established 'Curlew camp" at Sirius Cove in Mosman by the end of the 1890s. While camped there, concentrating on painting outdoors, Roberts was commissioned to paint three works depicting the New South Wales military forces, commanded by his friend, Major General Edward Thomas Hutton, from 1893 - 1896" Could this photo be a study for one of the paintings?

Gun at Middle Head Port Jackson NSW

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • 5 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I hoped this was the same gun as in a Phillips Collection (PhM) photo, but it isn't. Gun expert required!
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Not the same gun but a great comparison nonetheless. What interesting contraptions...
  • Vlad Dmitriev said:
    seen & admired in:
  • Doug Richards said:
    I doubt that this gun was at Middle Head, as the Middle Head guns are quie well docume ted. More likely to be at South Head. See www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#view=photo&position=... note that the way the gun is now mounted at South Head the carriage is back to front.
  • Doug Richards said:
    Other possibility: this gun is a 9in 12 ton RML at Georges Heights (Not 'Middle Head')

'At Breakfast' & 'After Breakfast', picnic scenes, Sydney Harbour

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • pellethepoet said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pellethepoet/galleries/72157629040357105/] If only I had room to include you, but the picnic is fully subscribed!
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    pellethepoet Great set! Nice to see everyone in those images are keeping up the tradition of picnic-ing in formal wear :)

'Our Corroboree' and 'Gathering Oysters', Sydney Harbour

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • beachcomber australia said:
    Looks like Edward Hungerford was born with a knife in his mouth, not a silver spoon!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Bantry Bay, Middle Harbour? Manly Local History blog talking about picknickers in the 1880s and 90s - manlylocalstudies.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/romantic-bantry...
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Bantry Bay is also a site in West Cork Ireland - so if the Christmas picnic was a 'gathering of the clans' then a Bantry Bay location has a nice symmetry!