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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.

Ferry Lane, The Rocks

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • 5 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I wonder if pellethepoet knows where this is?
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    Yes I wonder.....:)
  • pellethepoet said:
    Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Thank you so much for going to the trouble of tracking down this image of Ferry Lane. beachcomber australia This is the photo I mentioned here that was incorrectly identified in Harvey Shore's book.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    pellethepoet Another to add to the 'coincidences' gallery.



    Lionel Lindsay - "Balcony, Ferry Lane, The Rocks" 1925 (NLA)
  • pellethepoet said:
    beachcomber australia Whoops, thanks - nearly forgot in all my excitement!

Crossing the Sydney Harbour Bridge

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    That must be at (the new) Milson's Point Station.
  • BobMeade said:
    Well, the caption says it was the first train across the Bridge, but certainly there were test runs. The first passengers across the Bridge were actually the Rev G. McChesney Clark and the Rev. B. Bentley who had the lucky chance to board a train as the only passengers on Friday 18 March, 1932 and travel across the Bridge. They travelled the day before the first OFFICIAL trip was scheduled. Here is the story from Monday 21 March, 1932: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16849340 Therefore, the date presently shown for this photograph of 19/01/1932 is incorrect, it would correctly be dated 19/03/1932 the date when the first official passenger train crossed the bridge. Here is an advertisement selling tickets for the train scheduled to depart Wynyard Station for North Sydney station at 12.30pm on Saturday March 19, 1932: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16847415
  • BobMeade said:
    beachcomber australia Given the train travelled from Wynyard to North Sydney, do you think this photo could have been taken at North Sydney station?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    BobMeade There are several newspaper reports and photos of this "first train" on Tuesday 19 January 1932 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/16834951 trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/32387789 trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/29940464 The second link mentions that the journey was from Kirribilli (ie Milsons Point). The third link mentions the trip was "from north to south, and back again" I think the Bridge pylons are too close in the above photo for it to have been North Sydney. I wonder if the water bubbler is still there on the platform?
  • BobMeade said:
    Yes, I think you're right and it is Milson's Point. I just made some measurements on a map which also suggest you are correct.