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At the SW corner of George and King Streets. See - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2362669437/

Now the site of the Apple store.

Foundation stone laid 16/6/1884. Full details of the planned building - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13563473

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Good stuff there! "In 1885 a cable support disguised as an ornamental verandah front was erected along the western side of George Street from the G.P.O. to what is now Railway Square. (ref 3'4'5) This is a distinctive feature which can be seen on many photographs. It became the backbone of the network with pole routes branching off at every cross street. The pole route in this section of George Street was replaced by a smaller one carrying only telegraph wires. The cable support was superseded before 1900 but was not all demolished. Shopkeepers had been allowed to use it to support awnings, and where they had done so it was left in place." From - telephonecollecting.org/lightpoles.htm I am betting on 1888 for the date, like many of these wonderful Henry King photos - I have an old hunch that he produced a Centenary album.

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71077475 - SMH, 22nd May, 1886...description of the then substantially completed AJS Bank building ...per the SMH, by this point the bank had evidently moved in, but the building work was still not finished ...the statues 'Justice' and 'Plenty', which would be placed above the George St entrance, had also not yet been put in position... Although the title on the slide has 'Australian Bank of Commerce', at the time this pic was taken (ca. 1888 or whenever), the building was the AJS Bank...and this remained the case for some 20 more years until the AJS Bank folded in 1909...after which it was reconstructed/ reformed as the Australian Bank of Commerce...which in turn traded for some 20+ years before merging with the Bank of NSW in 1931...so this original AJS Bank building was at later points variously known as the Australian Bank of Commerce and the Bank of NSW...so I assume that the title was added to the slide some 20+ years after the pic was taken... NLA Fairfax pics of the statues 'Plenty' and 'Justice', which sat above the George St entrance...I gather these pics were taken in 1925, when the building was known as the Australian Bank of Commerce...the statues were the work of British sculptor Charles Bell Birch (1832-1893): trove.nla.gov.au/work/189730490 - 'Plenty' trove.nla.gov.au/work/189730489 - 'Justice' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28346622 - SMH, 6th March, 1888...per this item instrument maker Angelo Tornaghi had then recently moved to new premises at 379 George St...see item 2nd highlighted column...remember 'the bells' controversy (!!!) trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115673049 - the Evening News, 15th October, 1906...Tornaghi's obit... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63225473 - Australasian Sketcher, 30th December, 1886...item on Briscoe, Drysdale, and Co's new Sydney premises...

Cute picture!!!))

I guess there was no TV at the time...

That is a huge baby.

oh mommy!!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Beautiful Vintage Memory, and we'd love to have this added to the group!