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From Wikipedia - " In September 1894 a cable tram service opened, which operated from King Street in the city to Ocean Street in Edgecliff. The powerhouse driving it was located at Rushcutters Bay. Unlike other trams of the era which were driven by steam, the cable ran in a gutter between the tracks. The cars gripped the moving cable to advance and released it to stop. It operated until 1905 when the tram line was electrified." It looks like the electric tram wires are here, which would date this as c.1905.

Thank you for the information regarding the cable tram service which has now allowed us to date the photograph.

Grace and Sons furniture was at 85 New South Head Road according to the Sands Directory.

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245844234 - this pic appeared in the Sydney Daily Telegraph on 12th February, 1926 (see pic lower lhs)...it was evidently taken in Sydney the previous day when officers from the NSW Staff Corps entertained officers from the visiting Japanese cruiser HIJMS Iwate at a tennis party held at Victoria Barracks. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245844037 - the Daily Telegraph's report... Per the Daily Telegraph, the Japanese officers present included Lieutenant Commander K. Nakae, Lieutenant T. Hadaka, Lieutenant Shigenaga, Sub-Lieutenant I. Ikegami and Sub- Lieutenant N. Kimura. The commander of HIJMS Iwate was evidently Captain Yedahara...it's unclear whether he attended the Victoria Barracks tennis party. Per the Daily Telegraph the local tennis players included 'Mrs. Noel Cox Taylor, Miss Cox Taylor, the Misses Dorothy and Olga Bruche (twins), Miss Kidstone, Mr and Miss Harper, Mrs. Solby, Mrs. Bevis.' These NLA Fairfax pics were also taken on this occasion: trove.nla.gov.au/work/185779837 trove.nla.gov.au/work/185779838 trove.nla.gov.au/work/185779833 HIJMS Iwate visited Sydney on several occasions...January 1924, February 1926 and May 1932.

I don't think that is Glenmore Road

I think the horse and cart may be in the right-angled James Lane, looking north.

Can anyone identify the large estate (top right) whose entrance gate can be seen between the trees? At first I thought it might have been the entrance to Thomas Mitchell's Craigend Estate on Upper William St, Darlinghurst, but the lie of the land is not quite right, and the Upper William St frontage, apart from the gate & driveway, was developed into a row of terrace houses by the 1880s. So I've dismissed this possibility.

There's a very similar looking gate on Trumper Oval (cnr Glenmore and Hampden Roads). Which may suggest the gate is not an entrance to a grand house, but one of the gates to the reserve? 1888 map showing recreation reserve next to the old quarry - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_zoomify/2008/D00663/a1367323.html The Paddington Recreation Reserve was christened "Hamden Park" on 22 June 1897 to mark the Queen's Jubilee (note the bullock roasting!) - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14117580 Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee celebrations at Hampden Park, Paddington - www.photosau.com.au/cos/scripts/ExtSearch.asp?SearchTerm=... It was re-named Trumper Park in 1931.

Thanks for your input, gentlemen. My problem is that if the "Woodliffe" house is actually in Glenmore Rd, as seems possible, what is the street we see in the treed background? It can't be the continuation of Glenmore Rd as it's much higher than the section of Glenmore Rd where the "Woodliffe residence" is situated. If my memory serves me right, the continuation of Glenmore Rd toward New South Head Rd beyond the Cascade/Hampden Sts intersection is low and relatively flat until it begins rising as it approaches the bend and railway before arriving at NSH Rd. Also visible in the above photo is a sandy patch on the hill in the mid-ground. There was a quarry sandwiched between Cascade St and Cambridge Lane. It is clearly not this. However, (and having never explored that part of Paddington,) I can see on the map at the other SE end of Trumper Park a certain Quarry St which is so-named because there must have been a quarry in the immediate area. Is this sandy patch a part of that quarry that we are looking at? If it is, then the road and parkland behind it must be either Jersey Rd or even Ocean St? This now demands identifying the whereabouts of the foreground. Are we looking at looking at the horse and dray being in Elizabeth Lane between Sutherland Ave and Harris St? Or maybe Sudan Lane off Hampden St near Cecil St? Next time I'm in town & have some spare time I'll explore that area of Paddington to get a better idea of the lie of the land.