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Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd. offices

from Powerhouse Museum

  • beachcomber australia said:
    Or portrait -
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/work/247410459 - Trove link to pic at PHM... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165003788/16888393 - Sydney Mail, 23rd August, 1905...item on the recently completed Colonial Sugar Refining Company Building...it was under construction for 17 months evidently. The pic that appears here looks to have been taken somewhat earlier than the Kerry & Co pic... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163987030 - Sydney Mail, 20th April, 1904...pic of the building under construction... trove.nla.gov.au/work/170931051 - an earlier Kerry & Co view... trove.nla.gov.au/work/188533262 - this NLA Fairfax pic shows a similar view...but in ca. early 1923...it shows the Union Bank (SE corner Pitt/Hunter Sts) post 1908 rebuild...with the additional storey and cupola, etc. It also shows the Empire Hotel being mutilated to become the Queensland National Bank...the traffic island garden in Bent St is also well established... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/164358254 - Sydney Mail, 2nd June, 1888...sketch of the Union Bank Building drawn prior to its construction... A key to the date here might be the work we see at the bottom left of frame...I suspect this is the construction of the garden plot that occupied the Bent/Young St traffic island, near the Metropole Hotel...but so far I haven't managed to find any reference to the construction of this garden in the digitised newspapers...

Gun Powder Office

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Keïteï said:
    Lovely bit of history!
  • Michiel2005 said:
    It seems to be a popular point for taking pictures:

    Dublin – Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) around 1900

    This one I found in a book. The tram tracks are a bit different.
  • petersondublin said:
    Surprisingly, the "Gun Powder Office" survived the Rising without being shelled or blown up by its own contents getting too hot. ;-) By 1916 the "Kelly's Fishing Tackle Manufactory" on the lower signage had become "M. Kelly & Sons Fishing Tackle", and was moved up to top billing on the wall, while the Gun Powder Office lettering got smaller and lower-down on the building.
  • petersondublin said:
    Aftermath of 1916:
  • Swordscookie said:
    What a super shot! There is so much going on here you could stare at it for ever and find new things all the time. The jewellers on the corner of Eden Quay "Hopkins and Hopkins late of Law and Sons were there right up to the mid '70's at least. See all the dung on the street (great for roses) and the man pushing the handcart with the milk churn? Brilliant!

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child, ex-housewife, now only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress