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Lavender Bay and McMahons Point with tramsheds in the foreground

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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!

House and stables, behind Dalgety & Company's building, Millers Point

MEGANTIC of Liverpool at Aberdeen Wharf, Millers Point, Sydney

  • beachcomber australia said:
    I expect Frederic Wilkinson recorded the date and time of this too. I am guessing it was February / March 1920. The MEGANTIC made just one trip to Australia, bringing home returning servicemen - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15867280 . She was built in 1908 for the UK - Canada run, survived torpedoes in WW1, laid up in 1933 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Megantic_(1908)
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Thanks Beachcomber, we thought it would be about 1920. I am sure Wilkinson noted a date for this one too - he seems to have been quite meticulous - but it must have been lost along the way.
  • d-olwen-dee said:
    It docked in Sydney at ANZAC Bench, Wooloomooloo, and disembarked returning serviceman, but also war brides from the UK, my grandmother, Margaret Olwen Hughes, was one such. .I think this was the only WW1 war bride ship from the UK to Australia.