woolbales

25 photos tagged woolbales, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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1890

2004

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Lacre truck outside Skinner's Store, Adavale, Queensland, ca. 1925 from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Service station outside Toowoomba, Queensland, ca. 1945 from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2019
Sheep and wool bales on a truck and trailer on Werna Station, Queensland, 1916 from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2019
Load of wool on a motor truck at Northampton Downs Station, Queensland, 1925 from State Library of Queensland uploaded May 2019
John Bates with a laden truck, Boulia, Queensland, ca. 1940 from State Library of Queensland uploaded May 2019
Unloading wool bales from SS CANONBAR, 1927-1940 from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded July 2013
Unloading wool bales from SS CANONBAR, 1927-1940 from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded July 2013
Unloading wool bales from SS CANONBAR, 1927-1940 from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded July 2013
Crew men securing wool bales in the hold of MAGDALENE VINNEN from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded June 2013
MAGDALENE VINNEN berthed at number 2 wharf in Woolloomooloo, Sydney from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded June 2013
Wool bales on board MAGDALENE VINNEN from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded June 2013
Men and wool bale trucks outside a warehouse probably in Woolloomooloo, Sydney from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded June 2013
Crew men packing bales of wool into the hold of MAGDALENE VINNEN from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded June 2013
MAGDALENE VINNEN in port in Woolloomooloo, Sydney from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded February 2013
MAGDALENE VINNEN in port in Woolloomooloo, Sydney from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded February 2013

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MAGDALENE VINNEN in port in Woolloomooloo, Sydney

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

10 older comments, and then…
beachcomber australia said:
Mr Samuel J. Hood, you are making me giddy! I could never climb a mast and wonder how the sailors did it in rolling seas.
Andy Brill said:
Sam Hood certainly earned his reputation.
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
Andy Brill beachcomber australia Crazy! Something we've always wondered too. Choppy seas and climbing the mast = worst nightmare.
beachcomber australia said:
This photo seems to be the bottom bit of a vertical panorama, if you see what I mean -
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia can't believe I didn't notice that until you mentioned it! :S It's amazing! :)

MAGDALENE VINNEN in port in Woolloomooloo, Sydney

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

Phillip said:
The aircraft carrier HMAS Albatross is in the background.
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
Phillip Thanks PhilMono! Our records have been updated.

Carting wool bales

from Powerhouse Museum

8 older comments, and then…
beachcomber australia said:
Anyone know exactly where in Sydney this was?
beachcomber australia said:
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Good work! I think you are right with the Goldsbrough Darling Harbour ID. See also this 1884 illustration - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/64035872 , which shows railway in front - a bit of a hint. The old warehouse was at the corner of Fig and Pyrmont Streets, Ultimo. I think it was rebuilt after a fire and extended to Allen Street, as it now is.

According to the 1895 interactive map, the building on the left is the Meat Market !. The photographer was at the junction of Allen and Pyrmont Streets, looking SE - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-rm3443-sd&rgn=...

GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/Ic8i0

Phew! A relief after four years of sleepless nights!
beachcomber australia said:
" ... Sydney's first wool store was the Richard Goldsbrough warehouse built on the corner of Pyrmont and Fig streets in 1883. From World War II until the 1960s, wool stores on the peninsula employed thousands of men. With lanolin oil soaked into thousands of feet of wood, fires were a constant hazard. In 1935 the Goldsbrough and Mort store went up in a blaze lasting two weeks, filling the suburb with the smell of burning wool and grease. ..."
From PhM - www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/paradise_industrial_...
beachcomber australia said:
Article about the 1935 fire which destroyed the warehouse. A photo shows the warehouse as above with three extra floors built on top - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/83657628
beachcomber australia said:
The Central Meat Market at Ultimo - see how the refrigerated railway truck went under the canopy -
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Interior -
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