White whale, Singo, Lynne Avenue & WWII

 The view from afar

6 of Gosford's cranes visible from Pt Clare station, 29th June 2018

Today we're starting with an overview of the town. In this photo, only 6 of Gosford's cranes visible but there are currently more than double that many cranes working in Gosford. The photo was taken on the 29th of June 2018 from beside Point Clare railway station.

The next Crane Count and map are coming in July 2018.


 Bonython Tower AKA Singo's tower

Bonython Tower from Mann St footbridge, 9th of June 2018

Between the flu and the weather, this is as good a photo of Mann Street as I've been able to snap recently. Taken on the 9th of June 2018.

The angle makes the Bonython Tower look quite small but it's at least twice the height of the building in the left foreground.

Bonython Tower from Mann St footbridge, 9th of March 2018

What a difference 3 months has made! In this photo, the tower was unnoticed by some people. Now, as it is in the photo above, everyone stops and stares at it every time they go into Gosford.

(Singo workers, I'll be back for my more usual snaps of your site when I've caught up with all the other Gosford sites.)


 Lynne Avenue

Lynne Avenue site nearing topping out, 25th June 2018

Not long now, gentlemen. The Lynne Avenue site was close to topping out on the 25th of June 2018. And the weather in this photo is the ideal weather for building site photography: nice and dry for both photographer and workers. Pity it's not the same again today.


 White whale sighted at last

Hospital site between Holden Street & Showground Road, 9th June 2018

The hospital's Beane Street West building site. The blue-metalled access lane stretching up from the foreground to the back of the site is where Beane Street West used to be.

In the middle of the photo, on the right, we can see the construction itself going gangbusters at last, after months of earthmoving and foundation work on this tricky hill site. Right up the top, up past the curve of white and orange barriers and the earthmover still hard at work, we can see the tops of existing hospital buildings, near the emergency entrance of the hospital on the western side of Holden Street.

Hospital site between Holden Street & Showground Road, 9th June 2018

Due to flu versus weather versus traffic, I had to take these 3 snaps of the hospital site on a Sunday. I prefer photos with workers in them but photo access to this site has been a photographer's nightmare.

Workers' access is not much better and, with so much equipment stored within the fence and the buildings going up starting to crowd the site, I think you're going to have an even bigger squeeze soon. Good luck with it.


 Extra

Old Nissen hut in Miller Street Ourimbah, 9th June 2018

And now for something completely different: an old world War II Nissen hut on the edge of the university campus in Mills Street Ourimbah.

During the war, the land the university now sits on was used as a military training ground and there are a few remnants of that military installation still to be seen. There is another Nissen hut nearby, in a side street on the other side of the railway line. I'll add it when I spot it.


Okay, that's it from me for today. There's a pile of work waiting on my desk for me. I'll put some more photos up later this week and the Crane Count and it's new map will come this month too.