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Aviator and Test Pilot Moye Stephens in the aft cockpit and adventurer Richard Halliburton in the front cockpit of the Stearman C-3B (NX882N / NR882N / NC882N ; c/n 248) named "The Flying Carpet." Halliburton and Stephens' flight around the world and the name of the aircraft subsequently provided the subject matter and title of Halliburton's 1932 best-seller. See: grandcentralairterminal.org/airplanes/NR882N/index.php en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moye_W._Stephens en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Halliburton

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...

Charles Bayliss - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemLarge.aspx?itemID=413452

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...

Frederick Howard Stephens (December 30, 1896 - September 11, 1968), Naval Aviator No. 1537. See: www.findagrave.com/memorial/37573699/frederick-stephens