Harbour View For Sale

Harbour View in Wilhelmina Street, November 2017

The whole of the Harbour View site, as seen from Wilhelmina Street. In the background we can see, at the top left, one of the slowest building sites in Gosford and, near the top right hand corner, one of the most iconic buildings in Gosford, the Castle. I don’t need to tell you how it came to be called the Castle, you can see that for yourself. It was built, some years ago and in white brick, by a Chinese migrant and is widely regarded as the most peculiar building in Gosford.

Back in the site itself, we can see why it’s taking so long to finish excavating this site: it’s sandstone not soil. The green machine has a rock-breaking tip at the end of its arm and the orange machine has a scoop for clearing away the broken rocks.

Harbour View in Wilhelmina Street, November 2017

The clouds had scudded back over the sun again by the time I took this photo and the light was very dull.

It's a bit strange to see a site with a "for sale" sigh instead of one with a "SOLD" sign plastered triumphantly across it. This site is only 10 minutes walk from Gosford station and only 15 minutes from Mann Street, Gosford's main street, and it will have lovely views too so I don't see why it hasn't sold out yet.

Harbour View in Wilhelmina Street, November 2017

Earthmover and rock-breaker resting after the site was closed for the day. On the end of the arm of the green rock-breaker, we can see the pointed rock-breaking implement. This site is at the top of the hill and that hill is sandstone, hence the long time it's taking to excavate to the right depth.

Harbour View in Wilhelmina Street, November 2017

Behind the white-ish cab of the machine in from, we can see the grey scoop of the red earthmover resting on the sandstone below. I couldn't get a clear view of either machine, not without falling into the site, and I couldn't work out what the white-ish machine does.

Harbour View in Wilhelmina Street, November 2017

Lovely Fagans Bay as seen from the Harbour View site. There are not many places in or around Gosford where you can get a decent view of Fagans Bay.

This building, when it's finished, will also have views down the length of beautiful Brisbane Water.


That's it for today. There are so many sites active now I need to work out a new plan to get them all photographed and up on this website. Come back next week to find out how I'm doing with that.