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Rear of Miles Buildings Cumberland St. [Sydney] (c.1901) [SLV: H42656, b28037]
Miles Buildings (rear) Cumberland Street (November 1933)* [SLNSW: d1_21668] [*note: the date the photograph was re-photographed]

pellethepoet Larger version as requested! I think it could be another Will Daley poster...? AB

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

Interesting history of this corner - www.shfa.nsw.gov.au/sydney-About_us-Our_heritage_role-Her...

beachcomber australia Thanks for adding this link.

All that remains today are the buildings at right (Argyle Stores) on Argyle Street - Google Maps Street View

History of Ragged Schools in UK - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragged_school And in NSW - hdl.handle.net/1959.14/15140

beachcomber australia Very interesting, thanks for sharing those links. A small excerpt from the NSW page "...established to counter the growing problem of destitute and neglected children in the nineteenth century...due primarily to the combined influence of the pattern of ragged school movements in England and Scotland in the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as the social and economic dislocation caused by the gold rushes of the 1850's. ... Ragged schools first emerged in Sydney in 1860 and the movement lasted until 1924... limited to the inner city areas of Sydney. ..." AB

Julian Ashton "Old Houses, Cumberland Street", circa 1901, AGNSW www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/5858+old-houses-cumberland...

Numbers 97 and 95 to the right are demolished -

Number 99 was evidently "Cumberland House", the subject of a drawing by Sir William Johnson in 1896 - nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an2962546

I think this is the same view today - Cumberland and Gloucester Streets were later realigned so it is confusing - Google Street View

beachcomber australia Thanks for these links. The painting is beautiful and you can even spot the lamp in it that you see in the photo above. Modern view not quite so attractive! AB