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Customs House on the Strand Townsville with the Queens Hotel opposite ca. 1929

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Townsville Customs House is a heritage-listed former customs house at Wickham Street, Townsville CBD, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George David Payne and built from 1900 to 1902 by Crawford & Cameron. With its distinctive entrance portico and domed roof the former Townsville Customs House makes an outstanding contribution to an historic and aesthetic streetscape that includes Anzac Memorial Park, the former Queen's Hotel, the State Government Offices, Tattersalls Hotel, and the former Bank of New South Wales. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsville_Customs_House#External_l...
  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Townsville's first Queen's Hotel, a two-storeyed timber structure, was erected at the corner of Wickham Street and The Strand in 1872, and was extended along Wickham Street in the 1880s. It early acquired a reputation as one of the best-kept hotels in Queensland, patronised by visiting dignitaries. In 1899 the property and license were purchased by John Henry Tyack. He raised a £14,000 mortgage on the property, and called for competitive designs to replace the timber building with a substantial brick structure. The original design was more modest in size than the final structure, extending along the Strand only as far as the eastern tower, and around the corner of Wickham Street for eight bays. It was erected in stages, with trade continuing from the original hotel on the corner of Wickham Street and the Strand until 1925. In 1901, Tyack purchased an adjoining block (site of the former North Australian Hotel) along the Strand, which permitted construction of the first section of the new Queen's Hotel, comprising the eastern tower and four bays to its west, c.1902. This section was extant by March 1903. In May 1904, Tyack replaced the first mortgage with one for £20,000, which probably financed construction of the second section, completed by 1905. This involved demolition of part of the timber building along the Strand, and the extension of the brick building a further six bays toward the corner of Wickham Street. The contractor was a Mr Boyle, and work was underway in January 1904. For the next twenty years, Queen's Hotel consisted of a brick wing along the Strand, and a corner timber section that continued back along Wickham Street. Source: mstrong.info/qsatwig/historic-places/townsville/queens-ho...

General Post Office Sydney NSW, side view from George Street

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Fantastic thank you! We have updated our records with all this data. More to come from this wonderful album!
  • pellethepoet said:
    Spot the differences! Again, courtesy of Kerry & Co. Short persistent URL: from.ph/29365
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    pellethepoet [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Beautiful - thanks folks :)
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Later (c.1897) -

Government House Sydney NSW

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons