Gosford May 2017

The streets of my town are changing rapidly and the skyline soon will too. The new buildings of Gosford, outlined against the tree-covered ridges and hills that frame the mouth of the Narara Valley, will soon rise above the tops of those ridges and hills and change the town enormously. So I’m taking photos of those changes as they happen, to keep track of both old and new.

You can see in this photo of Gosford, taken in May 2017, that there are already quite a few blocks of flats and apartments in Gosford.

Gosford is a small town an hour and 10 minutes north of Sydney in Australia. A railway line connects Gosford to the heart of Sydney and a lot of the people who live in those flats and apartments commute daily to work in Sydney. Gosford is the centre of local government for the part of the coast between Sydney and Newcastle that is called the Lower Coast or the Greater Gosford. The whole of the area between Sydney and Newcastle is called the New South Wales Central Coast.

It’s a beautiful area and a lovely place to live.

Gosford sits at the north end of the Brisbane Water, which is an estuary, essentially a saltwater lake that’s open at one end to the sea.

Around Brisbane Water there are dozens of public wharves and jetties, a few marinas and hundreds of moorings and private jetties. The public wharves are used by ferries taking passengers from Woy Woy to Saratoga, Davistown, Empire Bay, Hardys Bay, Wagstaffe and back, from Ettalong to Palm Beach and back and also from Gosford and Woy Woy on a nice lunch cruise around the Brisbane Water to see the sights. It’s a lovely place to live and a lovely place to spend time on a boat.

The old 1940’s primary school at the corner of Mann Street and Georgiana Terrace was knocked down last year and a tax office is going up in its place.

This is one of a dozen building sites in and around Gosford at the moment. That’s a lot of building sites for a small town and there have never been so many building sites here at once in all the years I’ve lived here.

I will be taking many more photos and tracking the rise of all these new buildings in and around Gosford and how they change the town.

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