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Looks like it was taken from the Silos and the approaches look clean and uncluttered which suggests a date c1921 when the silo opened.

This is White Bay power station. Not Balmain Power Station.

The building to the left of the power station is the White Bay Hotel, quite recently demolished. The street going up the hill behind it is Hornsey Street. Victoria Road, then called Weston Road, runs up the hill but I can't actually see it anywhere in the photo.

I think the two buildings to the right of the last chimney, is the former catholic church at the top of Gordon Street. The large staggered building on the skyline was a cinema, which was later a wedding reception venue, on the corner of red lion street. You can also see St Thomas' anglican church. The two other visible towers are a mystery, I don't know what they are.

Mich Thanks! Yes it looks like this is White Bay Power Station. www.dictionaryofsydney.org/image/20926. Balmain powerstation was an entirely different building on land now occupied by the Balmain Shores apartment development near Iron Cove bridge. www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/balmain_power_station?zo...

What a magnificent photo - full of history - the Rozelle railway yards, with 17 + 2 sidings! - the truss bridges for the Darling Harbour Goods Railway over Whites Creek, but the more familiar trusses over Johnston St. / The Crescent apparently not yet built - White Bay Hotel - White Bay Power Station, with tapered smokestacks, much shorter than the current ones - a toastrack tram heading north on Victoria Road near Maney St. - the Callan Park tower - the Catherine Street and Balmain Road bridges over the Darling Harbour Goods Line - a railway roundhouse! - but most puzzling, the ornate stone wall and decorative gatehouse at extreme left; wonder what that's all about?

Kevin Eadie The Abattoirs

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sydney's Inner West, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Thanks for the invite, retrogoddess73!