milsons

7 photos tagged milsons, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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2011

 

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'Neptune'

from Powerhouse Museum

  • Frankie Roberto said:
    Hmm, are you sure this was taken in 'some time in 2008'? :)
  • TPorter2006 said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Buoyant, and we'd love to have this added to the group! So great to see a Buoy pic in The Commons!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A Naval gunboat. I don't know if it is more properly called HMS Neptune. There's a wonderful description in the SMH of 13/4/1887 of a day's exercise on the 'Neptune', including the firing of that bow cannon, a 64 pounder MLR [sic - RML = Rifled Muzzle Loading] slide-gun. Really brings this otherwise ho-hum picture to life. trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13660801?searchTerm=hms%... Milsons Point in the background.
  • pellethepoet said:
    "The weather was wet, and the air was raw and cold..." - a great enhancement of the photo beachcomberaustralia. I dare say you wouldn't be able to creep up on the enemy with that smokestack!

Milson's Point street scene with horses and carts

from Powerhouse Museum

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  • lively lip said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sydney's Inner West, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • Bankstown Babyboomer said:
    Looks like a tram line in the centre of the road but no sign of the cable trough, so this may be Darling St prior to the installation of the cable tram.
  • James and Rebecca said:
    So a horse drawn tram?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    My vote goes to this being Alfred Street, Milson's Point. Not Balmain as in the title. See Persistent URL. But I can't see the "GPO Tower visible across the harbour". I can see Government House, and (?) St Marks Darling Point steeple.
  • Zacha said:
    I agree - this probably isn't Balmain. The shop on the corner looks right, but if so there should probably be a street on the right corresponding with a street on the right. And most of the buildings down the street appear to be shops, whereas the surviving buildings down Darling Street near the wharf are mostly terraces and houses.

Milsons Point

from Powerhouse Museum

  • Merryjack said:
    More APT tags
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "Kurraba" - www.ferriesofsydney.com/kurraba.html "Wallaroo" - www.ferriesofsydney.com/wallaroo.html
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Five years earlier (1900) photo of this view - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3022875713/
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The advert for Anthony Horderns (see note) dates this photo as 1905+.
  • faded treatment said:
    Sorry, Powerhouse, but you have mapped this photo incorrectly. If it was taken from McMahon's Point, the photo would be the other way around. I think that it was taken from the headland near where Kirribilli House is now.