Today's pages

There's very little time available for blogging today and the internet is playing up again too. I'll put up more pages on Monday, including Singo's tower AKA the Bonython Tower.


Today's pages:

Lynn Avenue

Beane Street East



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One of the smallest sites & one of the largest in Gosford, November 2017

In the foreground, we can see one of the smallest building sites in Gosford, the expansion of a medical centre. In the background we can see one of largest, if not the very largest building site in Gosford, the Gosford Hospital site on both sides on Beane Street West and bordered by Holden Street above and Showground Road below. You can see it in the middle of this photo as a biscuit-coloured expanse of bare ground.

The large building in the top right corner of this photo is the 500-bed extension to Gosford Hospital. 500 new beds doubles the previous bed capacity of the hospital, which is the largest between Sydney and Newcastle.

Paragliding off Crackneck Point, November 2017

Paragliding off Crackneck Point in Bateau Bay on the weekend.

Paragliding off Crackneck Point, November 2017

Paragliding off Crackneck Point in Bateau Bay on the weekend.


Come back on Monday for the Bonython Tower and more.

Lynn Avenue

It was overcast by the time I got to Lynn Avenue, November 2017

Lynn Avenue is quite a short street, just behind the Gosford Yacht Club and 30 seconds’ walk from the foreshore. From the yacht club to the Bonython Tower (Singo’s tower) in the very heart of Gosford is about 20 minutes’ walk or 3 minutes’ drive along the foreshore and up Mann Street.

Some locals think of this area as East Gosford but technically it’s Point Frederick.

Landscaping happening at Lynn Avenue site, November 2017

As well as the plants we can see here being planted in the top left corner of photo, out of view are the little pots of a purple and white native violet (Viola hederacea) waited to be planted too. Violet hederacea is local to the area so it does well in local gardens. It makes a great filler in garden beds and a great groundcover too. So do the other two local native violets, the all-purple Viola betonicfolia and the purple and white Viola sieberana. Most local garden shops have them.

Stones carefully placed to look as natural as possible, November 2017

Stonework was underway in the entrance way, next to the letterboxes on the front of the building.

It won’t be long before the residents are moving into this site. Just some finishing to be done on the inside and then the views down the length of beautiful Brisbane Water are theirs to enjoy.

Beane Street East

Beane Street East's very active site, November 2017

A very active site on the corner of Beane Street East and Watt Street in Gosford. For a long time, this site was fenced and an old house sat there waiting to be demolished but now it’s full steam ahead.

Locals, Watt Street is the street with the post office on the corner, opposite the north side of the Imperial Centre. HillsStreet and Watt Street are the same street. The name change happens right at this very corner.

Concrete pouring arm (black) & crane tower (grey) November 2017

The concrete pouring crane on the back of its red truck. Beane Street is blocked off just there while pouring is going on. I wonder how often they have to delay pouring in high winds? The southerlies from Sydney can blow hard here every now and then, quite hard enough to make mucking about with cranes and concrete pours a dicey business.

Arty angles at Beane Street East, November 2017

Even building sites can form arty angles.