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Useful history and explanation of the Argyle Cut including this picture - www.sydneyarchitecture.com/ROC/ROC23.htm . I have a hunch that a photographer was commissioned to photograph The Rocks and Millers Point in c.1901 after the bubonic plague outbreak to capture the squalor and slums before the NSW Government resumed the area for rebuilding (and later the Harbour Bridge). Many similar photographs are showing up in the State Records NSW photostream on Flickr. My idea is that the prints are the documents the relevant Government department required, but the glass negatives from the unnamed photographer eventually became part of the Tyrrell collection.

A print on Flickr from State Records NSW -

It;s always good to see an old friend ! - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/3682752967/

Ah, after uploading over 1000 images that was bound to happen sooner or later :-)

This photo was recently determined to be part of the Rocks Resumption photographic survey, the title and date of the image has been changed accordingly Here is a map of the Rocks Resumption area (last one in the sequence) AB

I'll get my guess in early and then see if I can actually find it. Stephen's Green (South).

When and how? The butler did it with a candlestick, at two in the morning.

I am working on the words in the broken window, also are some of the holes in the wall and defined holes in window from bullets ? yes, there may not be a dog (yet) but there are bare foot children

Well, that was a miss, anyway.

Foxglove It does look a bit shooty, alright.

I see the loopline bridge, they are on the quays at the Custom House in Dublin. Streetview of the steps. The date range is off - the Clarecastle was built in 1914 and bought by Gunness in 1915 : Clyde ships page. Date is before 1953 when the Clarecastle was sold again.

All the boys are wearing shoes, which also suggests a later date range. I think some of them are fishing with bits of string. They have a big empty tin can to put their catch into.

Flickr is sometimes amazing and the NLI is always amazing - we have visited those steps before -

A wonderful looking image.

It looks like the boys are Crabbing. A ball of string or a sock is the bait on a line.