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N.S.S Sobraon - recreation ground

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    This is a good one for a game of "spot the difference"!
  • pellethepoet said:
    Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Nearly got me there ... I thought from the thumbnail it was one of your rare duplicated posts!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Wondering where the "Recreation Ground" was. What's the building behind? Church / courthouse to the right?
  • pellethepoet said:
    beachcomber australia from Children's institutions in nineteenth-century Sydney by John Ramsland, 2011, Dictionary of Sydney:
    A recreation ground was set up for the boys on Cockatoo Island adjacent to the ship's moorage, and a saltwater tidal baths was erected beside it. Larger pets such as an emu were kept on the fringes of the recreation grounds and smaller pets such as dogs and cockatoos were kept aboard ship to be cared for there.
    - www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/childrens_institutions_i...
  • pellethepoet said:
    Although not digitised, the Powerhouse Museum description would indicate their entry is for the same photo -
    The boys are shown playing cricket and doing gymastics. An Emu is seated in the middle of the ground.
    which would date this photo to 1894, and not long before 14 June -
    The donor, Captain Frederick William Neitenstein, superintendent of the Sobraon, states in a letter to the Museum, 14 June 1894, that the photographs P1835:P1854 are "just received from the Government Printer".
    - www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=321221

Sobraon - recreation hall

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • Mich said:
    Now if my granny's cousin is in the 1938 electoral roll as a "hulk operator", what does that mean ? Work on one of these old ships ?
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    Mich I asked one of our Senior Archivists in Public Access about this; she hasn't come across the term "hulk operator" before. It is also not listed in the "Dictionary of old trades & occupations". If there are any occupations/trades experts out there, perhaps you can help with this definition? AB

CO 1069-599-142

from The National Archives UK