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Phillip Street at Hunter Street

from Powerhouse Museum

  • beachcomber australia said:
    Philip Street used to be straight from Circular Quay to St James church - it now has a kink at Chifley Square - which is why this view is a bit puzzling. The 1890 map shows this clearly, together with the route of the steam tram line, one of the first in Sydney. www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-rm1280-s1-sd&rg...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Charles Bayliss - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemLarge.aspx?itemID=413452
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/work/247379779 - Trove link to slide at PHM Latest date ca. 1903... Per various digitised newspaper items, the Star Hotel (SW cnr Phillip/Hunter Sts) and the adjoining buildings seen here in Phillip St appear to have been demolished in 1903-04...the Star Hotel appears to have been demolished in ca. April-June 1904...the licensee of the Star Hotel evidently had a lease on the property which evidently delayed its demolition...the Central Police Station was erected on the site in ca. 1905-06... On the other side of Phillip St, the Assembly Hotel (SE cnr Phillip/Hunter Sts) appears to have been demolished in the 1930s...and replaced by a new Assembly Hotel...which remained until ?the early 1960s... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228525417 - the Australian Star, 27th June, 1903...historical item on the buildings being demolished... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/113908249 - Evening News, 11th June, 1904...demolition of the Star Hotel then in progress (see 1st item)... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/126554375 - Sunday Times, 6th May, 1906...police move into the completed Central Police Station... trove.nla.gov.au/work/184464391 - ca. 1927-28 NLA Fairfax pic of the Central Police Station... trove.nla.gov.au/work/184210393 - this ca. 1933 NLA Fairfax aerial pic shows the buildings seen here in the foreground on the rhs of Phillip St still standing...

Sydney from Australia Hotel, looking East

from Powerhouse Museum

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  • BobMeade said:
    Another view from Australia Hotel looking east (although an adjacent view to the one above) is here:
    www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2779697753/

    The Sydney Hospital buildings fronting Macquarie Street were mainly opened in 1894.

Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney 1899

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Trying to remember what was built there . . . ?
  • pellethepoet said:
    beachcomber australia It was the site of the first Government House. "After Government House was demolished, the site was used variously as a carter's yard, a fruit shop, a confectioner and a tobacco shop, government offices, accommodation for nurses during the Second World War and a car park. At one stage it was to become the site of the city's town hall and later was mooted as the location for a multi-storey office block." www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/national/first-gov... Now the site of the Historic Houses Trust's Museum of Sydney www.hht.net.au/museums/mos
  • beachcomber australia said:
    pellethepoet Thanks, I meant immediately after 1899. I don't recall a photo of this corner pre or post that date. One will turn up when least expected . . .
  • uminarampart said:
    great shot. those telegraph poles were ugly. looked like a steel tree
  • Kent Broadhead said:
    Nice to see that, apart from the Metropole, all readily visible buildings in shot still stand, although the trees outside the Public Instruction Office went in 1911.

Wool ships, Circular Quay, Sydney

from Powerhouse Museum