panorama

Wow - what a fascinating panorama!! It looks west towards Glebe, with Wattle Street in the foreground. It is a shame that this precinct was spoilt by the construction of the huge greyhound racing facility in 1932. Thankfully it is now being demolished.

SL NSW, this appears to be much earlier than 1924.
Examining the individual photos (which are offline atm)
- Not a single car in any of the images.
- Gas lighting still on Wattle St.
- Still undeveloped areas of Glebe.

Sydney Lead Works appears here on Wentworth Park Rd towards the Blackwattle Bay end...it evidently started operation in 1892...so that might be an earliest date...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/112599095 - the Evening News, 14th September, 1892...item re Sydney Lead Works

But there's no sign of the shot tower, which was evidently built in ?1902-03...

See comments re the shot tower here...it's a Beachcomber 're-discovery'...
www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/55207168797/

trove.nla.gov.au/work/184714866 - jfi this ?1930s NLA Fairfax aerial pic shows something of Wentworth Park as it then was...

Ha! here we go!

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71389732 - the Australian Town & Country Journal, 13th October, 1900...'Progress of Pyrmont'...pics evidently by G.A. Hills studio, King St...

This shot-tower was built in 1902, for the ‘Sydney Lead Works’ and designed by the architects Messrs. H. E. Ross and Slatyer and Cosh. The completed factory included a two-story brick building with the 46 metre tall tower next to it. After the ‘Sydney Lead Works’ moved to Waterloo in 1930 the site was taken over by Pabco Products Pty. Ltd. which manufactured roof and floor coverings. The new owners no longer used the tower to make shot and instead used it for storing chemicals. This would have fateful consequences as on 8 October 1937, disaster struck. Late that morning an explosion started a fire and within five minutes it had engulfed both floors of the 2,000 square metre factory. It then spread to the shot-tower

The original Royal George Hotel was built in 1912 by G.L. Bury, and was one of the first main hotel establishments on the Sunshine Coast. After a horrendous fire which hit Nambour Curry Street in 1924, the building was rebuilt. In the mid-1950s another blaze took on the second floor, and the whole structure was rebuilt in the style it is to be seen as today. Over the years, the RGH has been known in the region as the friendly pub, the Worker Man's Hotel (cane cutters, mill workers...). The Royal George Hotel always has been and still is an iconic landmark for the town of Nambour. The Royal George Hotel has been family owned and operated since the year 2000 by the Laing family. Known over the years and throughout the Sunshine Coast for their generosity, sponsoring many junior sporting teams and events, as well as senior sporting clubs, the Laing family's motto has never changed: "Buy Local, Support Local". Source: www.thergh.com.au/about#:~:text=The%20original%20Royal%20....

The making of a town produces many memories and Nambour's landmark Club Hotel was originally the site of the Residential Hotel, built in 1911 as a timber saloon that provided accommodation only. The hotel was re-named the Club Hotel in 1912 when a liquor license was granted. The hotel was remodeled in the 1920s and destroyed by fire on January 7, 1938, in a blaze that decimated half of the town. The present Club Hotel building was erected on the same site in December 1938. The building was architecturally designed with cement walls. For Currie St and the wider Nambour community, this building has stood as an important part of Near North Coast history in the heritage sugar town. It has been the gatekeeper to memories of the iconic cane train crossing the nearby main street where the tracks still remain today. Today, this lovely old pub building houses an exceptional surfboard collection with an impressive array of rare and iconic boards lining the walls. This collection includes the large timber planks of the early 1900s as well as the more modern fiberglass boards of the 1960s and current times. In this collection there is a replica of the surfboard used by Duke Kahanamoku, a true Hawaiian hero and one of the world's greatest surfing watermen, when he first visited Australia and gave a surfing exhibition at Sydney`s Freshwater Beach on December 23, 1914. This is widely regarded as the most significant day in the development of surfing in Australia. The building and surfboard collection opened with a completed renovation of the floor that had previously been vacant for more than 10 years. Source: www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/sunshine-coast/lan...

collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9BvkR6D9 - left
collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1wNO0rPn - left middle
collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1JkjgPDY - right middle
collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nX6mkDzY - right

These ANMM Sam Hood Collection pics show how the left side of this panorama appeared in 1914...it's still recognisable as the same location...I wonder what happened to the pine trees...by 1914 they'd been usurped by fig trees...
www.flickr.com/photos/anmm_thecommons/9155938984/
www.flickr.com/photos/anmm_thecommons/6961779710/

covid convict 👍

Slightly later, ca. 1875-78
www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/52638977508/

The terraces at view are still standing …https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/eDA5QJ7NNbj2
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