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50 Secrets of Surry Hills & Redfern
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25.01.2022 That’s a rabbit hole worth going down ...
22.01.2022 We’re at Crown Street Public fete today. Annette doing a great job again.
20.01.2022 It was Boxing Day, 1877, almost 150 years ago and less than 100 years after the arrival of the First Fleet. Thousands of people gathered on the Albert Cricket G...round at Redfern to see not only a day of athletic sports but the launch of a "gas" balloon. This photograph is contained within the Sydney Reference Collection of the City of Sydney Archives, ID 064\064816. See more
20.01.2022 Although grainy, this is possibly the first aerial view of Sydney. Showing Sydney Cove and beyond, the scene was captured c. 1870 from a hot-air balloon above t...he north side of Sydney Harbour. The city was not even 100 years old at that time. The photograph is contained within the Graeme Andrews 'Working Harbour' Photograph Collection held by the City of Sydney Archives. ID 080\080041 See more
19.01.2022 Do you like a secret?? In store now ‘ Secrets of Surry Hills & Redfern This book has some fascinating facts about the oldest suburbs in Sydney! All proceeds g...o towards the building of a new playground & shade solution for Bourke Street Public School. . . . #secrets #surryhills #bourkestreet #bourkestreetpublicschool #facts #history See more
19.01.2022 Emerging from infantile imbecilityWhen he arrived in 1810, Governor Macquarie found a settlement "barely emerging from infantile imbecility". Factionalism in the community and the military was rife and infrastructure was in ruins.
19.01.2022 Fascinating look back at early Sydney trams ... https://youtu.be/mpewvmlsWco
16.01.2022 A view of Central Station from the entry throat, 1910. Author's Sydney Mail collection. Classic 20th Century Australian Railway Books.
16.01.2022 South Dowling Street, looking south towards the intersection of O'Dea/Todman Avenue - 1955 City of Sydney Archives
13.01.2022 Seems Coogee was the place to be early last century, with the Pier that has featured recently and dirigibles flying overhead. 1908 Photo by W J Hall, from a book Fixed in Time. The script says "airships have long since ceased to be a novelty" but I find the photo quite fascinating
10.01.2022 Good day out today.
06.01.2022 Knock off time at Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops in Redfern. "The workshops were conceived by Engineer-in-Charge John Whitton to build and maintain the infrastructure for the railway system,[3] including the safe working systems and some of the perway systems. However, their main tasks were the maintenance and repair of locomotives and railway stock and the manufacture of rolling stock such as wagons and passenger carriages. At the time there were no other facilities in NSW fo...r the construction of locomotives[1] and the workshops eventually became the largest railway workshops in the southern hemisphere and operated for over 100 years.
06.01.2022 Great if we could find someone from this class of '52 ...
02.01.2022 Top centre the Hornby lighthouse dating from the 1850s...looking west to Sydney from North Head...and four Australian Oberon class submarines are entering Sydne...y Harbour with excellent navigational skills and station keeping. Some of the interesting and often dangerous things these subs got up to is still classified information. Photo by Leading Seaman Keith McCarron. See more
