Sites & views

The 32 Mann Street site, seen from Batley Street West Gosford. This site too is close to topping out and has just 2 or 3 pours left before that happens.

On its left, we can see the long-finished Australia Tax Office (ATO) building, with the orange-brown vertical slats. The light blue structure in front of them both is Grahame Park AKA Bluetongue Stadium AKA "the prettiest stadium in NSW" due to its views from the seats down the length of Brisbane Water.

Behind, up near the left top of the photo, we can see John Whiteway Drive snaking up through the trees and disappearing around the corner to pass the old Gosford quarry up there on the top of the hill. It was operational from the 1920's to 1974 and the overgrown remains of the quarry are still visible from the road.

The ridge on which the quarry sits is part of or on the edge of (some maps are unclear) Rumbalara Reserve. The ridge in the background looks like Kincumba Mountain at Green Point. (The Mountain is spelled Kincumba and the town Kincumber.)

While we're still up on the hill at Batley Street, this is a view of the 3 cranes currently visible from there. From left to right: 'Vue' at Kendall Street Gosford, Donnison Street West near the corner of St George Street and, away over on the right of the photo and halfway down, the 32 Mann Street site.

The 'Harbour View' site on Wilhelmina Street West Gosford has shot up another 2 or 3 stories since I last blogged it and is just as busy as ever.

As well as having had the biggest whole to dig for the foundations and the whole of that hole having been the hard yakka of sandstone all the way down, this site also wins the prize for the most languages spoken on site. Hello to you all.

'Acqua' is just one block downhill from 'Harbour View' on Wilhelmina Street and St George Street. It was cleared months ago and then sat idle for a while but, as we can see here, it's now active and roaring along with its foundations. It's a lot steeper than it looks in this photo and there's a lot of clay in it so it must be another very slippery worksite.

Donnison Street West site, near the corner of St George Street. Another big sandstone hole had to be dug for this site though, luckily for the workers, it was half the depth and half the width and length of the hole for 'Harbour View'.

The trees in the background are on Presidents Hill, which looks down into Gosford. Other sites backing onto Presidents Hills are the 2 sites on Kendall Street, the steep little site on Hargraves Street and the site on Faunce Street West, behind the hospital.

A closer view of the Donnison Street West site. The day I took this, the 20th of June 2018, this site and all the others I saw that day were crawling with workers making up for time lost to recent dark rainy days.


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I've just noticed that I'm now over 100 articles, also known as posts, on this blog. In fact, this one makes 112. And I've had 4,336 page views and 4 spam comments. You know you're getting popular when you get spam comments.


More photos in a few days.