Hargraves Street

Tools down, 1st March 2018

I never seem to get to the Hargraves Street site until tools have been downed for the day. It’s so tucked away, off Kendall Street near the corner of Faunce Street West, and it’s a narrow one-way street too, so it’s practically invisible.
(There is nothing I can do about any strange gaps or tiny text, etc. on this page today. Blogger/blogspot is playing up again.)

The cage of foundations is moving along, 1st March 2018

At the front of the site, clearing continues. Meanwhile, the border foundations and walls have gone up at the back.

The steepest site in Gosford so far, 1st March 2018

The Hargraves Street site is the steepest building site in Gosford. It doesn’t look as steep in this photo as it does in real life. As well as being very steep, it’s also a rather awkward street to get machinery into and spoil out of and it will only get worse for the worker when the foundations go in and the building starts to rise.

According to its sign, it’s going to be another 7-storey apartment block and called ‘Skye’ like its twin immediately to the left of the site. That doesn’t sound very impressive compared to the mighty 15 storeys of the Bonython Tower on Mann Street or the double tower planned on the old Union Hotel site. But extra height is well and truly provided, to get those views, by the site being high up on the hillside of Presidents Hill (Waterview Park on many maps).

The views from Skye Part 2 will be east across Gosford to the wooded ridge of Rumbalara Reserve and north along the lovely Narara Valley. (Gosford sits at the mouth of the Narara Valley.)

Old steps up to an old house, 1st March 2028

Old garden wall of an old house, 1st March 2018

Old steps leading up to an old house, from the 1920’s – 1940’s judging by the stone used, and the old garden wall behind a lot of bits and bobs on the edge of the site.

Big old interlocking blocks of concrete, 1st March 2018

Big old blocks of concrete found on the site, with their crosses on top locking them together and their iron loops for the crane’s hook.

Small earthmover in the left background, pile-driver (I think) in the middle, 1st March 2018

Yellow pile-driver in front and a little earthmover behind.

Scoopers large & small, 1st March 2018

Scoopers large and small work day after day to clear sites of spoil and load it into trucks to be taken away. On sloping sites, there is so much more spoil to be shifted than on level ones.


I’ll come back to this site in a couple of weeks, due to the amount of spoil still to be removed. See you then, gentlemen.


 Extra

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