woolbales

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

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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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Men and wool bale trucks outside a warehouse probably in Woolloomooloo, Sydney

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

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beachcomber australia said:
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Good finds, good work there - I have zilch to add about the footy players. But old Lawson Street is found on this late 1920s map near the kink in Bowman, between Harris and Point. The warehouse was on steep ground, hence 4 floors on one end and six on the other (a popular arrangement for wool stores, using gravity to go through the various processes). GoogleMapsStreetView - imagination required! - goo.gl/maps/ka1ip
beachcomber australia said:
I am also having no luck with finding a name and date for the building, but there is a good zoomable birds-eye view in 1919 - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-f273-4-sd&rgn=...
beachcomber australia said:
E U R E K A ! [https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] You have already correctly named it as the Goodlet & Smith warehouse. They built it originally as a store for their timber merchant business in 1884. " ... There is also a stone building in progress, to be used as a store. It measures 70 feet by 130. ... " - Two small sentences in a lengthy article of purple prose about "Industrial Works in Pyrmont". See SMH 5/7/1884 p.9 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13561628 And the "Goodlet & Smith Ltd offices" - that cute building to the left in the State Records NSW photo - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=188768
beachcomber australia said:
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] I think you may be confused by the two G&S buildings described in that wonderful North Australian (!!) article. As I understand it, the store is described - "The solid rock has been hewn out to a great extent, the material being used for building is a magnificent rock-faced stone. The store 70ft. by 130 six storeys high." Then the article describes the workshop building "distant 100 yards or more" with all the steam apparatus etc. This large building (five storeys on the water side?) is seen on the birds-eye view above the words of Herbert St, with three-pointed roof and tall chimney (a hint for the steam engine), and it looks like it is made of timber and galvanised iron as described in the SMH. So I think no later additions of substance. No idea what happened to the sandstone - there was no shortage of it in the area. Similar stonework and blocks are seen on what is now part of Pirrama Road - the whole area has been landscaped to death, but evidence of previous lifeforms is visible on a whizz-round via GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/thPiK . I've said it before - you have got to love this armchair industrial archaeology !
beachcomber australia said:
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Good work - you're on a roll ...

Unloading wool bales from SS CANONBAR, 1927-1940

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

beachcomber australia said:
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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.