Today's pages

Just two pages today, due to some mystery glitch in all three browers it's taken to put up just these two pages.

Here they are:

Singo's Tower AKA Bonython Tower
Gosford Hospital


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Singo’s tower AKA Bonython Tower

White mystery tower, October 2017

The mystery tower is still a mystery to me and to many of you. Any construction workers or other building trade types care to enlighten us as to what it is?

Last week we saw this tower, at the site on Mann Street Gosford, being prepared to be raised into position. Clearly, something is going to be bolted onto the top but is it another crane or is it something else entirely? To have your say about it, click on “comments” at the bottom of the page.

Footings in the foreground, a drain on the right and plumbing and other pipes to left and right. And, in the left foreground, that blue box that looks like Dr Who landed with his light on top is the rather more mundane construction workers’ convenience: the porta potty or, for our American readers, mobile toilet.

The floor of the first floor (Americans, read “second floor”) has gone quicks sticks in this past week. Last week only half of it was floored. Now it’s all the way to the border of the loading dock, visible at the bottom of the photo.

This looks to me like a nice elegant well for a nice elegant staircase from the ground floor to the first floor. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens next.

Last for a change, the whole of Singo’s Bonython Tower site.


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The sky was heavily overcast when I took this snap. I had a little tinker with it in photoshop because it was very dark but its slightly spooky gloom is not much different to the real light at the time.

 

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Gosford Hospital

Gosford Hospital from Cape Street North, October 2017

The spanking new wing of Gosford Hospital, as seen from Cape Street North, must in its final stages and buildings in their final stages tend to look as though nothing’s happening because it’s all happening on the inside.

So I think we won’t see much on this site for at least a few weeks.


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Froggy's Icerink site, October 2017

The demolition of the buildings on the Froggy's site has been happening in fits and starts and overall progress has been very slow so far. It's known locally as "the Froggy's site" because one of the bigger buildings on the site used to be Froggy's ice-rink.

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Singo’s tower AKA Bonython Tower

Whole of the Bonython Tower site, October 2017

The whole of Singo’s Bonython Tower site on Mann Street Gosford.

Loading dock area of site, October 2017

The loading dock area at the laneway end of the site. It looks nice and smoothed off and ready for its concrete pour. Next week, we’ll find out if that’s happened.

First floor above the ground level, October 2017

The floor of the first floor (Americans, read “second floor”) is slowly but surely creeping from the front to the back of the site.

Off-cuts ready to be taken away, October 2017

In the middle at the front of this photo, we can see off-cuts of re bars, metal reinforcing bars, stacked into a green metal cage. I would say the crane operator will carefully lift out the cage of the site when it’s full.

More detritus awaiting removal, October 2017

More off-cuts and other building site detritus waiting to be taken away.

A tower for pouring concrete up high? October 2017

A tower for pouring concrete up high?

A tower for pouring concrete up high? October 2017

Is this a tower for pouring concrete as the floors rise up? That red pipe certainly looks suitable for pumping concrete through. We’ll just have to wait and see.

A forest of re-inforcing bars, October 2017

A worker planting another tree in the forest of reinforcement bars that springs up on every building site everywhere.

Stacked materials awaiting use, October 2017

Stacked units of construction material waiting to be used. And, on the brick wall behind the stacks, we can see the profile of the old tavern building that once stood on this site. It was Dutton’s Tavern and there was a long narrow barber shop beside it.

That’s enough for today. Any more photos today from this fast-paced site and we might be overwhelmed. It’s always such an interesting site to photograph.

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Today's other pages:

Kendall Street

Tiny Houses