Sunday 29 April 2018

Annandale / Stanmore

North Annandale Hotel on the corner of Johnston & Booth Street on top of the hill...

Johnston St corner with Booth St looking South to Parramatta Rd - 1888.
Northern main sewer, White's Creek Aqueduct in Annandale between 1898 & 1910
Johnston's Creek Heritage listed Aqueduct, Annandale. Built in 1898 to connect the Western Suburbs to the main sewer line. Those aqueducts were the first reinforced concrete structure in Australia. 
The 'Olympia Milk Bar', on Parramatta Road, Stanmore; frozen in time since 1939. Its original name was 'Olympia Talkies'.

Ben Summers took this photo in 2019. 
Olympia de Luxe Theatre showing MGM's 'The merry widow' with Jeanette MacDonald in 1934 or 1935.

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