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eXceptional old photograph .... thankyou for sharing

Arthur Streeton's "The Railway Station, Redfern" 1893 [AGNSW] collection.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/results.do?id...

The large barrel-vaulted building at top left is the Exhibition building in Prince Alfred Park. Built in 1870, demolished in 1954. nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an6016314 www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/waterexhibition/images/zoom/a...

Here's another interesting thing: the white telegraph poles are very noticeable in this photo and in Streeton's 1893 painting (see above). Evidently it is possible to date old photos in Sydney from the type of pole. Technology was changing so rapidly between 1880 and 1920, that every few years a type of pole was replaced. "The backbone of the public telegraph network was a route in George Street from the telegraph office [GPO George Street] to Redfern Station and a shared route along the railway line to Parramatta. By 1880 there were about 10 wires along George Street. This pole route appears from the General Post Office c.1890 on Arthur Streeton's 1893 painting of Redfern Station." And on this photo. I would dearly like to say that they are contemporary, but it is raining in the painting and sunny in this photo. More telephone pole info: www.telephonecollecting.org/lightpoles.htm btw there is an excellent explanation of where this station was on the PH site Persistent URL above. It is not the current Redfern Station, or Central Station. I was very confused until I read it, and always wondered why Arthur Streeton would have bothered to paint a picture of a suburban station in the rain.

Another view from the State Records NSW photostream dated 04/10/1890 - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/2654873676/ Old Redfern Station was a popular subject.

Streetview www.google.es/maps/@53.3098686,-6.2836556,3a,75y,92.67h,8...

"Terenure Cross (Vaughan's Corner) was at one time a terminus for the city trams, and this is mentioned James Joyce's Ulysses (Episode 7, Aeolus). ... "
" ... The author James Joyce, who was born nearby at 41 Brighton Square in Rathgar on 2 February 1882, was baptised at St. Joseph's church on 5 February by Rev. John O'Mulloy.[5] His mother, Mary Jane (May) Murray, was born 90 metres from the church at Terenure Cross in 1859 in the pub owned by her father, John Murray, called The Eagle House."
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terenure

Round town, as it was known on the older 6"!

The Royal Bank branch is from 1911, per the DIA.

Nugent, Denis J. Phamaceutical Chemist is in the 1913 phone book at Lennon-Wylie, at number 478 Rathmines, as in the shop window.

RAILWAY TERMINUS HOTEL was also known as Railway. Hill Street, Eton. Known by locals as the "top pub". It was destroyed by fire on Sunday, October 30, 1932. 1918 - 1932 E. HOWELLS (owner) Source: www.mackayhistory.org/research/hotels/hotels_l_to_z.html