Marrickville Town Hall.
Saint Brigid's
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
R.P.A.H. on Missenden Road, Camperdown in 1986.
RPAH ward 1880-1893.
Orderly Collin helps a patient out at Prince Alfred Hospital in 1986.
Saint Andrew's College
a Residential College within the University of Sydney.
George Street
George Street in 1964; Anthony Horden on the right-hand side.
Regent Theatre in 1967.
George Street in 1954; Century became a MacDonald's; the Plaza was demolished.
Just across the road on Boxing Day, 26 December 1976.
Elizabeth Street
Elizabeth Street looking North from Foveaux Street in 1965.
Elizabeth Street in 1977.
Elizabeth Street & Hunter Street in 1967.
Saturday, 8 September 2018
Friday, 6 July 2018
Neil Sedaka in Australia
When Neil Sedaka's career was in the dolldrums circa 1969, he traveled to Sydney and recorded an album for Festival helped by local talent like John Farrar, as arranger. 'Wheeling West Virginia' was the most popular among the many songs put together for the LP 'Workin' on a groovy thing'.
Saturday, 16 June 2018
MARRICKVILLE 1930s
Undercliffe Bridge over Cook's River overlooking Illawarra Road in Marrickville.
Illawarra Road, Marrickville in 1956...
Marrickville Kings Theatre first entertained patrons with independent & foreign-language films in 1937. It lasted for a little more than 3 decades. The cinema was demolished and a strip of offices & flats was built in its place in 1971.
Opened in 1921 as Hoyts De Luxe Theatre, it had a Spanish Colonial style of decoration. It was closed in March 1938 and was given an Art Deco style makeover, after which the De Luxe name was dropped. The Hoyts Marrickville Theatre re-opened on 23rd April 1938.
The Addison Theatre opened its doors as the Victoria Theatre on 29 October 1924. The Addison was a typical suburban cinema, running double-bills every week. After almost 4 decades servicing movie-goers, it finally, closed its doors on 21st June 1958 after screening Frank Sinatra & Sophia Loren's 'The pride and the passion'. Today, a petrol station occupies the site on Addison Road.
Monday, 11 June 2018
Cumberland Street in the Rocks
Stairwell from flat 34-C Cumberland Street, Rocks.
Cumberland Street, Rocks.
Old Sydney Terminus Railway Station in Redfern
Old Sydney Railway Station in Redfern - corner of George & Devonshire Streets in 1890.
Old Sydney Terminus in 1902.
Central Railway Station
Central Station Square looking West in 1921.
Central Railway Square in January 1929.
Central Railway Square on George Street having Christ Church, St. Laurence in 1900.
1910.
Central Railway Square in 1914.
Devonshire Street tunnel, opened in 1906, allows pedestrians to walk unimpeded from Central Station to Railway Square, and then on to the Marcus Clark building after an extension in the early 1970s, a total distance of some 380 metres.
I have memories of walking through it after night classes at the NSW Institute of Technology (now UTS). It was rather a dismal and dirty place, and somewhat scary when a beggar with a hand in his pocket asked if you could spare a dollar or two.
It now extends to Darling Harbour after the closure of the old goods railway line. This photo, taken circa 1977, by Niels Ellmoos, is held by the City of Sydney Archives. Derek Woodlands wrote at FB in 2026.
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1939.
Central Railway Square, 1945.
Central Station under construction in 1903.
Central Railway Station tower sometime between 1922 & 1927.
George Street at Haymarket.
slog up Pitt Street to Central Station circa 1912.
Cemetery where Central Station would be...
same cemetery seen at a different angle...
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