Today's pages

On Friday, the internet was playing up again and I had to cut things short. As promised then, here are the other pages I said I'd put up today:


Singo's tower AKA the Bonython Tower

Aqua Sold Out (West Gosford)

Harbour View For Sale (West Gosford)



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Delicate little native violets, November 2017

Australian native violet Viola hederacea which, as Robinson says, "forms carpets in almost any moist shady place". One of my favourite plants and a lovely filler and weed suppressor in the garden, as you can see in this photo. It flowers in spring but also spot flowers through the year.


Come back on Friday for more building site progress photos and more nice extras to look at.

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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.

Aqua Sold Out

Aqua in West Gosford, November 2017

This tower on St George Street West Gosford will have lovely views down Brisbane Water, towards Sydney. The top floors should also have views west over the lovely Glenworth Valley.

Aqua in West Gosford, November 2017

This site too was sold out before the site’s ground has been broken. This site is about 10 minutes’ walk from the railway station and 15 minutes’ walk from Gosford’s main street, Mann Street.

Aqua in West Gosford, November 2017

Looking roughly east from the top corner of the Aqua site. On the right, behind the trees above the grey-roofed units, we can see Brisbane Water and that long white roofed building at the centre of the photo is the Grahame Park football stadium. Beyond the stadium roof, we can see some of the small blocks of units, up there on the hillside, built from the 1940’s through to the 2010’s. Gosford has had blocks of units for a long time. It’s the towers of units that are new.

This site is just a block away from the Harbour View site in Wilhelmina Street West Gosford.

Singo's Tower AKA Bonython Tower

Bonython Tower site on Mann Street, November 2017

The whole of the Bonython Tower site on Mann Street Gosford, from the Imperial Centre rooftop.

Bonython Tower site on Mann Street, November 2017

The white tower waiting to swing into action very soon.

Bonython Tower site on Mann Street, November 2017

Lift shaft (elevator shaft) or stairwell? A few more weekly photos should tell us.

Bonython Tower site on Mann Street, November 2017

Another lift shaft contender beside the white tower against the southern wall of the site. Perhaps there will be one set of lifts for the two floors of offices and another set for the residents above them.

Bonython Tower site on Mann Street, November 2017

What looks like a grid of aluminium laid over the re-bar grid beneath it.

Bonython Tower site on Mann Street, November 2017

These stairs could be just temporary or they could become a permanent fire exit. It will be fun finding out.

Bonython Tower site on Mann Street, November 2017

I could not for the life of me work out what this worker was doing but he appeared to be using an angle-grinder at one point.

Bonython Tower site on Mann Street, November 2017

More materials about to be lifted onto the site. The amount of traffic into and out of the lane behind this busy site is enormous and it has to go right through the very heart of Gosford too, right next to Kibble Park.

Bonython Tower site on Mann Street, November 2017

The worker standing up seemed to be guiding this bundle of materials into place with the little orange box. That would mean the crane operator, who has a bird’s eye view of the site but no close-up view, guides the materials around the site but the workers most likely to get hit by the materials when they’re down low guide them into place. I hadn’t thought about it before but it makes a lot of sense. This building site watching is teaching me quite a bit.

This fast-moving site is one of my favourites. I can’t wait to see what’s been done by this Friday. Come back then and you’ll find out too.