Batley Street

Directing traffic, corner of Batley Street and Donnison Street East, December 2017

Lollipop man keeping workers, drivers and pedestrians safe with the road half blocked by the concrete pour. Donnison Street West is a fairly narrow backstreet so having active building sites on it is tricky. Luckily, not much traffic uses it, mostly residents and those hungry for hot chips at the Red Rooster in Hely Street.

Pouring concrete up high at Batley Street, December 2017

Two yellow concrete trucks and the white truck that transports and anchors the big mobile concrete-pourer arm. The pourer arm soaring up to the top of the building and looping down to pour the concrete where it's needed.

Guiding the nozzle to the right spot, December 2017

The worker on the right is using the hand-held controls to guide the pouring nozzle at the end of the pouring arm to just the right spot for an even concrete pour. As he was doing that, it started to sprinkle with rain again so I hope the pour went well.

Industrial West Gosford in the distance, residential West Gosford in the foreground, December 2017

Follow the wet grey line of Donnison Street West through the photo to where it stops. Just beyond that, we can see a lot of white buildings running across the photo and back to the edge of the building site. Those white buildings are along Manns Road which is also in West Gosford, just as this building site is. West Gosford’s small residential area runs from Riou Street, beside the railway line, to Racecourse Road. The rest is commercial (from the racecourse to the southern end of Manns Road) and light industrial stretching the length of Manns Road. Beyond Manns Road is Kariong and the long tree-covered ridge that stretches down the western side of the Brisbane Water to Woy Woy, fringed by the narrow suburbs of Point Clare, Tascott and Koolewong.

(To avoid confusing industrial Manns Road with the shops and pubs of Mann Street, just remember that “Mann Street is main street”.)


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West Gosford's changing skyline from Fagans Bay, December 2017

The changing skyline of West Gosford, from Fagans Bay.

Above the blue mesh of the Batley Street building site, locals may recognise the top half of that strange house known locally as “the Castle”. In the middle of the photo is the yellow crane on the Harbour View site in Wilhelmina Street. The yellow crane on the right is on the Vue site in Kendall Street.