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Anyone know exactly where in Sydney this was?

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Good work! I think you are right with the Goldsbrough Darling Harbour ID. See also this 1884 illustration - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/64035872 , which shows railway in front - a bit of a hint. The old warehouse was at the corner of Fig and Pyrmont Streets, Ultimo. I think it was rebuilt after a fire and extended to Allen Street, as it now is.

According to the 1895 interactive map, the building on the left is the Meat Market !. The photographer was at the junction of Allen and Pyrmont Streets, looking SE - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-rm3443-sd&rgn=...

GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/Ic8i0

Phew! A relief after four years of sleepless nights!

" ... Sydney's first wool store was the Richard Goldsbrough warehouse built on the corner of Pyrmont and Fig streets in 1883. From World War II until the 1960s, wool stores on the peninsula employed thousands of men. With lanolin oil soaked into thousands of feet of wood, fires were a constant hazard. In 1935 the Goldsbrough and Mort store went up in a blaze lasting two weeks, filling the suburb with the smell of burning wool and grease. ..."
From PhM - www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/paradise_industrial_...

Article about the 1935 fire which destroyed the warehouse. A photo shows the warehouse as above with three extra floors built on top - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/83657628

The Central Meat Market at Ultimo - see how the refrigerated railway truck went under the canopy -
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Interior -
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A strange photo showing the west side of the Mort Warehouse building, at the corner of Alfred and Young Streets. See investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/photo.asp... . Late 1930s or 1940s?

the original 1869 5storied woolstore was highiest building in the colony. it was added to in 1889 and turned into a massive bulk. finally demolished 1959 for AMP.great shot

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166861780/16605908 - Sydney Mail, 10th November, 1877...this item indicates that the construction of the original Mort & Co wool store and warehouse at Circular Quay took place in 1867-71...'the work of the construction of the new warehouse was begun in 1867 under the supervision of Mr E.T. Blacket, architect. The various contracts, from one cause or another, were rather slow of completion, and it was not until about 1871 that the store, as it at present stands, was finished...' Just going on the various newspaper items the stores appear to have been partly completed and in use by October 1868... trove.nla.gov.au/work/235944961 - SLNSW pic of the original structure... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/70461600 - Australian Town & Country Journal, 27th August, 1870...description of the building + illustration... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- trove.nla.gov.au/work/244632436 - City of Sydney Archive pic showing the original building with an extra storey + ...this pic appears to have been taken during construction of the ?1884-86 additions...looks like an excavation is in progress beside the original building... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71013715 - Australian Town & Country Journal, 21st June, 1884...this item indicates that the extra storey + seen in the City of Sydney Archive pic were part of the 1884-86 additions...'An additional floor and sample room are to be added to the present building, and on the land adjoining a large new warehouse seven stories high and on a level with the present building, when the two [stories] are added as arranged'... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- trove.nla.gov.au/work/247358513 - PHM Henry King pic showing the additions completed in ?1886...which more or less doubled the size of the original building... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13635130 - SMH, 9th August, 1886...description of the additions...it's not entirely clear from the article whether the additions were fully complete at this point...but it would appear so... With the formation of Goldsbrough Mort & Co in 1888 the building became known as the Goldsbrough Mort wool store/warehouse, etc…I haven’t managed to establish when the ‘Goldsbrough Mort’ signage appeared on the building…possibly not until the 20th century...

Goldsbrough Mort moved all their Sydney wool store and warehouse operations to Pyrmont some time in ca. 1923…the Circular Quay wool store was sold to City Parking Stations Ltd in 1926…and then in December 1927 it was sold again to the Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative… trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246066930 - the Daily Telegraph, 4th July, 1923…item re Goldsbrough Mort moving their operations to Pyrmont…they retained their Circular Quay office at Goldsbrough House, the former Harrison Jones & Devlin wool store, which fronted Loftus St, etc… trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246344630 - the Daily Telegraph, 7th August, 1926…item re the sale to City Parking Stations… trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/222730149 - the Sun, 20th December, 1927…item re the sale to the Farmers & Graziers' Co-op... trove.nla.gov.au/work/185373917 - this NLA Fairfax pic appeared in the Daily Telegraph on 31st December, 1927, at the time of the sale to the Farmers & Graziers' Co-op... I haven’t yet managed to establish when the ‘Farmers & Graziers’ signage replaced the ‘Goldsbrough Mort’ signage, but it didn't appear for quite some time…the various newspaper etc pics suggest ca. July-August 1930… trove.nla.gov.au/work/183006523 - this NLA Fairfax pic appeared in the Daily Pictorial on 15th July, 1930...it shows the Goldsbrough Mort signage still there...but it's unclear when the pic was taken... This SANSW pic of Circular Quay from the Sydney Harbour Bridge was evidently taken on 6th August, 1930...it shows the 'Farmers & Graziers' signage in place... www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/28930621308/

September 1902, from the banner on the Belmore (First & Last) Hotel advertising acts at the Tivoli theatre. A Trove search of "Nawn Wilton Tivoli" produced this from the SMH of Saturday 20/9/1902 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14507894 . I wonder if the photo was taken from the then-being-built Sydney Harbour Trust Building - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/2715092837/ ? Wonderful photo and amazing to see such detail via the persistent URL Zoomify.

About twenty years later -

In the bottom RH corner of the OP, there is a verandah. I think this may be David Lynch's "Ship Inn Hotel" which was demolished sometime during 1901, allowing Tooths to build the new Ship Inn during 1902, 50m back on the corner of Alfred and Pitt Streets. The western side of this verandah can be seen in this undated image www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/8724829262/in/pho...

? slightly later...but not by much... www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/44899209431/in/ph... JUST FOR INTEREST: In the bottom rh corner we see the verandah on the old Ship Inn...which appears to have shared a common wall with the Change Alley building (NE cnr Pitt/Alfred Sts). The Change Alley building (built 1877) was demolished in ca. August/September 1901 to make way for the Pitt St tramway extension. I gather the adjoining yard, which then housed the Government weigh bridge, was also cleared at this time. A good portion of the old Ship Inn appears to have survived as a ruin until ca. March/April 1904, when it too was demolished... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/237372089 - the Daily Telegraph, 4th September, 1901...item on the demolition of Change Alley. I'm not sure whether the writer had all the facts correct...the article indicates that the Ship Inn was then also being demolished...but if this were the case, then the demolition must have been incomplete...there are numerous newspaper items which indicate that the Ship Inn remained standing beyond this point and that it wasn't (completely) demolished until ca. March/April 1904... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14406015 - SMH, 27th August, 1901...SMH item re the demolition of Change Alley... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229295576 - the Australian Star, 22nd March, 1904...re the pending demolition of the old Ship Inn... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71471961 - Australian Town & Country Journal, 7th September, 1901...pic of Alfred St, showing Change Alley and the Ship Inn prior to the August/September 1901 demolitions... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165236417 - the Sydney Mail, 21st September, 1901...pic here of the Circular Quay side of the Ship Inn...this item also refers to the pending demolition of both Change Alley and the Ship Inn... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165190990/16808490 - Sydney Mail, 13th May, 1903...pic here which shows the Ship Inn (?and part of Change Alley) still standing...with the Harbour Trust Building under construction in the background (see pic on 1st page of link)... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138764510 - the Australasian, 12th March, 1904...pic here also shows the Ship Inn still standing...with the ?now completed Harbour Trust Building behind...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165380561/17336718 - Sydney Mail, 31st December, 1902...similar pic of Circular Quay here...maybe earlier...