Hargraves Street

Recently finished on Hargraves Street Gosford, September 2017

Hargraves Street is a small new block of apartments recently finished in Gosford. Hargraves Street has only this building in it and the building site below it in the whole street. It's a tiny street. On the other side of the street, the ground falls away sharply, down to the level of a house below on Holden Street.

This apartment block is 4 or 5 minutes walk from Gosford station and about the same distance from the Emergency department of the hospital, should the residents ever need the Emergency department.

The top floors of this building should have views of the trees on Presidents Hill to the back of the building, views over the trees along Holden Street and Kendall Street and views down into Gosford itself as well as straight across the treed serenity of Rumbalara Reserve on the other side of Gosford. I don't know if the eastern side of the building, the Gosford side, has a few little views of Brisbane Water or not. I hope so.

Building site directly beside photo above, September 2017

There was no sign to tell me what this site is. It's hard up against the side of the apartments in the photo above and, as you can see, it's not a big site. Perhaps it will be a carpark for the apartments. That would make sense with the amount of apartments verses the amount of cars parked on this street. We'll just have to wait and see.

Hargraves Street marked in green on left side of map

You can see from this map how close Hargraves Street is to Gosford railway station for commuter residents and how close it is to Mann Street, the main street of Gosford.

Just under the words "Hargraves Street" on this map, you can see the word "hill" in black. That's Presidents Hill. On the other side of the map, again in black, you can see "Rumbalara Reserve". Between those two hills is the commercial heart of Gosford, a mere 8 streets wide. And that narrowness, caused by Gosford in the narrow mouth of the Narara Valley, is why Gosford must have all these thrusting new towers as it's population grows and cannot remain the town is now, in September 2017 and before the first tower is finished. The future has good and bad in it but it cannot be avoided.


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Rhythm Hut Faunce Street Gosford

 
Colourful mural on a wall outside the Rhythm Hut in Faunce Street. A little local colour to finish off the page.