Gosford Hospital

Corner of Racecourse Road & Holden Street, November 2017

This small site on the corner of Holden street and Racecourse Road was an old (c.1940's) nurses' residence and is now to be a little park for the use of staff and visitors and those desperate for a cigarette.

In the background, we can see the big new building around at the Cape Street North side of the hospital and. partially behind the big tree, the lovely big new helipad for the use of the air ambulance.

Beane Street West building site, November 2017

Grading and levelling work continue on the lower hospital site, the one between Holden Street and Showground Road. With the old houses that were demolished here, there would have been a lot of old plumbing to be found and dug  out before it was safe for the graders to come in and start preparing the ground. And the slope of the site must make a lot of extra work too. It could be a few weeks more before we see foundations poured on this site.

Beane Street West building site, November 2017

Back to work he goes, after afternoon smoko. We've had a bit of rain recently and you can see it in the shape of the mud clinging to the roller on this grader.

(Gentlemen (and ladies) of the construction industry, please let me know if I'm using the wrong names for any of the equipment or machinery or processes going on. I want to know.)


More progress photos will be published of the hospital's building sites next week or the following week, depending on how much visible activity there is on them between now and then.

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