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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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this would be roughly where the current wharf was built? Good to see the natural shore line meeting the water before it was all built over.

Mr Mori Flapan identifies the detail as being the boatyard of Mr. Daniel Sheehy at Woolloomooloo Bay - and the ship being launched is the wooden screw steamer LLEWELYN - the date 24 December 1874. From Flotilla-Australia: "290 gross tons, 197 net. Lbd: 151'2" x 24' x 12'. Wooden steamship, single screw as built by D Sheedy at Wooloomooloo Sydney for William Hughes, Sydney. Sold July 1875 to J S McFarlane, Sydney. Sold September 1875 to Auckland S N Co., Auckland New Zealand. At this juncture, she was fitted with passenger accomodation, 42 saloon and 35 in steerage. Re-measured she was 155 feet in length and tonnage increased to 478 gross & 358 net. Not too popular in New Zealand coastal service and sold April 1877 to J M Banks, F Bickle & J Paul, registered at Sydney. From June 1877 she 'replaced' the Kembla' on the Newcastle trade under obvious charter arrangement with the Newcastle S N Co., Sydney. Since, and under the agency of W Laidley & Co, she operated the Sydney - North Queensland routes in passenger-cargo capacity. Sold February 1881 to E Vickery where she serviced the south coast of New South Wales as a passenger carrying collier. August 1881 sold to G A Lloyd. Wrecked upon Bellambi Reef, New South Wales 23rd May 1882."

Thanks everyone, that is great. I will get the info added to our catalogue records.

Lins Oz Good work there - I got completely bogged down in Trove irrelevances with this one! John Degotardi (photographer) was in a similar position ten years earlier in 1864, via Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection. Fascinating to compare the two photos, but I am puzzled by The Bells Hotel (see note) - when did that happen, or did it have a previous different name? Ping @ pellethepoet Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

It was Christmas Eve. Read All About It, as if it happened yesterday ... THE LLEWELYN STEAMSHIP.- The largest wooden screw steamer built in Sydney was successfully launched from Mr. Sheehy's building establishment in Woolloomooloo Bay, yesterday, at 9 a.m., and some hundreds of persons assembled on the occasion to witness the event. Mr. J. Sheehy has ever held a reputation for turning out first-class vessels, whether for beauty of lines or excellent workmanship; and his last piece of handiwork is no exception to the rule. She has a straight stern, beautifully fine entrance and run, and withal, great carrying capacity, and is in every respect alike a credit to her builder and the colony. The ship was gaily decorated with bunting; and, as the dog-shores were knocked away, was named "Llewelyn" by Miss Alice Mort, daughter of Mr. T. S. Mort, with the accustomed ceremonies. The launch was in every respect most satisfactory, not a hitch accruing. There were a large number of our leading merchants present, as also a full attendance of ladies, all being highly gratified at the result. As she now floats she is really a very handsome craft. The Llewelyn has been built to the order of Mr. W. Hughes, and is of the following dimensions:- length, 160 feet; beam, 24 feet; depth of hold, 13 feet. Her frame is entirely of well-seasoned hardwood, as also her planking from the garboard to the load-line, above this kauri has been used, and again hardwood in the upper portion of the topsides to take the deck beams. She is copper-fastened through-out, and diagonally shaped inside. She will be fitted with a pair of compound surface condensing engines, manufactured by Messrs. Mort and Co., Waterview Bay, of the very best material, the finish and workmanship being in keeping with the well-known reputation of the firm. The diameter of the cylinders are 45 and 24 inches respectively; length of stroke, 2 feet 6 inches. The surface condenser contains 839[?] brass tubes, their total length being nearly equal to one mile. The steam will be generated in two boilers of 8 feet diameter with four furnaces, and are constructed to carry a pressure of 25[?] lbs. to the square inch, driving a three-bladed screw. The engines will be placed as far aft as possible in order to give as much cargo space as possible, and the vessel's carrying capacity will be about 500 tons. At the termination of the launch several of the company drank Mr. Sheehy's health in bumpers of champagne, and success to the Llewelyn. From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13339268?searchTerm=ll... SMH 25/12/1874 (they published on Christmas Day!)

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/