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Lovely shot of the park

The park looks alot smaller these days.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/61271636@N05] It is, successive realignments of York Street - now a major bus terminal, and the buiding of the city railway (1926-32) changed the character of the park. And of course the buildings that surround it now are "monsters" compared to the lovely Edwardian streetscape we see in the photograph. The terraces in the shot are where Transport House now sits. I vaguely remember the buildings to the left, I think Selby's was in that block, or the one next to it, along with the Sydney rep for the West Australian Newspaper, when I was despatch boy (1963!) we always said that the lift in the West Australian newspaper building was the slowest in Sydney.

Well said John The park nowadays seems a former shadow of it's past glory, and thank you for the comparative photos pellethepoet.

Nice pergola to match the ornate fence.

In large it looks like they both have a net each. The boy on the left is holding the one with the visible trianglular net and the boy on the right has his submerged in the water. Thats how it looks on closer inspection at least. :)

Rihslw alw Think you're probably right. Got distracted by the two little sail boats on the pond...

This might have been me if the photo had been taken 10 years earlier. The pond in Herbert Park was once the mill pond for the nearby Mill at Ballsbridge. This later became the Bakery of Johnton, Mooney & O'Brien (all together now!), where my father spent his working life. This site was later to make a few people very rich,... (plus ca change). The Bakery is long gone and a posh Hotel and Apartments have replaced it.

Rihslw alw Rich, I see a line in the hand of the kid in the middle of the photo and I see this line in the water also, perhaps attached to one of the sail boats ( for retrieval purposes) what do you think? Carol are you off to play with the Mayfly!

Slow Loose Chippings You and generations of Dublin kids! Thanks, I never knew it was a mill pond...