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Reclamation work for the Spit Bridge being carried out at Pearl Bay

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Google Maps Street View - NB dent in concrete wall - g.co/maps/tx7g7
  • Highranger said:
    wow, a lot of work to make parkland, i guess it deepened the bay for moorings as a bonus?
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    Good find! And if you cross to the other side of the road in Google streetview you can see the palm tree is still there. AB
  • Adam W said:
    Okay... here's a real research teaser for you... On the water is the sand-pump dredge and to its right is a large roofed barge with a jetty up to it. Is that the same barge, or the sister vessel, of the one used at Luna Park as its floating dance hall? Seen to the extreme, bottom left in this very early Luna Park image. www.lunaparksydney.com/sites/default/files/2017-10/home-h... Which was then later left rotting in Berrys Bay www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/helipad-turns-out-to-be-an-ol... What's even more fascinating is that by my understanding this (these) barge/s were in-fact repurposed from their original use - construction barges for the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Would love to know!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Adam W It's always good to revisit these photos (9 years later!). I have no idea about the barges, but here is a 'large spanner in the works' re the 1935 date - this Trove article from 10 years earlier (Feb 1925) has a similar earlier photo and details. It was a co-operation between Mosman Council and the Sydney Harbour Trust (their barge?) and the work was expected to take three years ... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16206151?searchTerm=sp...

Pearl Bay

from Powerhouse Museum

  • Blaine said:
    glorious!

View of Middle Harbour prior to the building of the Spit Bridge

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Something way wrong with the date of this "earlier than 1958", when the current bridge was completed. There was a previous 1924 bridge, not in evidence here. So before 1924??

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spit_Bridge &
    www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/spit_bridge
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Interesting to compare with an earlier (no tram loop) photo by Charles Kerry ...

    from.ph/28690
  • beachcomber australia said:
    And nowadays - GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/3gLnk
  • John Cowper said:
    beachcomber australia The balloon loop ceased to be used on 11 June 1923 as it stood in the way of the southern approaches to the 'new' bridge. The water tank, which was also in the way of the approach was relocated on 17 July 1923.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    John Cowper Do you know when the loop was built? That might provide an earliest date.

    I can't see Grotto Point Light (see note), which should show as a white blob, as it does on streetview. Built in 1910-11, the lack of it might drag the photo date even earlier to before 1910. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotto_Point_Light (one of my favourite places in all of Sydney, but sshh, don't tell anyone!).