Pages published today:
1. This one
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Barber & Dutton’s Tavern 1st
May 2017
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I thought I’d missed the chance
to get a photo of the buildings knocked down when this site was cleared. But I
stumbled across this photo, taken on the 1st of May 2017, on my
computer. I don’t have one taken at street level but in this photo we can see the
old barber’s shop, behind the tree, and Dutton’s Tavern taking up the width of
the other low-rise building there. The Dutton’s building looks as though it was
built after 1890 and before 1915. The original window, the one at the right
end, supports my theory. The barber’s building is probably from the same time
or a bit earlier. It looks as though its facade has been modernised since then.
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| 16th August 2017 |
When I was taking this photo
and the ones below, I was lucky enough to get a few minutes chat with someone
involved in the building site. He told me the flat area of the site behind the
ledge we can now see across the middle of this photo is the loading deck and it
had to be cut so the dock is level with the access lane at the back of the site
because the site had a slight but distinct slope from back to front.
In the bottom level of this
tower there will be a restaurant. The 2 levels above will be offices, there’ll
be a carpark above that and then the rest of the tower will be those nice
luxury apartments.
And I hope I get to see the
views from the top of this tower. I’d like to see what the Brisbane Water looks
like from up there and how much of Sydney can be seen from the top floors,
whether the top floors can see Terrigal Beach as well as the Tasman Sea to the
east, whether they can see the whole of the Blue Mountains to the west and how
far up the Central Coast they can see to the north.
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| 16th August 2017 |
Meanwhile, the site continues
to come along at a good speed. This is it on the 16th of August 2017, two days ago. Fresher photos below.
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| 18th August 2017 |
Just before the end of the
working day on Thursday 18th of August on the Bonython Tower site.
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| 18th August 2017 |
Orange fencing marking the ledge of the loading dock area and diggers and shovelers at work.
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| 18th August 2017 |
We’re seeing elbows and backs,
as the Roy Orbison song says, and the digger hard at work too. And, just above
the digger, to other scoop sizes it can change to for different sizes of hole
and for lifting and moving piles of dirt.
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The other two pages I published
today on this website are Tiny Houses Site and the Watt Street Sites.
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