Hargraves & Kendall

Hargraves Street is the steepest site in Gosford, taken 3rd July 2018

The workers in tiny, tucked away Hargraves Street are still slogging through the digging out phase. It's the steepest site in Gosford so that must be making it extra tricky.

Worker at lunch & materials stacked at Hargraves Street, 3rd July 2018

The Hargraves Street site is in a tiny and narrow street with a very steep drop on the other side of the road. The drop is as steep and covered in trees as the drop in Kendall Street but the road is narrower and one way. So access and storage of materials is a bit tricky. There's level ground for spoil and delivery vehicles and pump trucks to park on but that's the only thing making access to this site the second worst. (The worst is still Batley Street up on the peak of the hill in West Gosford.)

'Skye' site in Hargaves Street, 3rd July 2018

"Sanctuary amongst the trees" it says and that's no exaggeration. The rear of the building will face the serenity of the tree-covered Presidents Hill.


 Kendall Street

 Vue

'Vue' in Kendall Street very close to topping out, 3rd July 2018

In the upper right of this photo, we can see a nice long concrete pouring hose sailing up into the cloudy sky to swing across into the top of the site

This site will very soon be topping out and work is going gangbusters inside, with kitchens and bathrooms going in on the lower floors as I type.


 Icon 

'Icon' in Kendall Street, 3rd July 2018

On a cold gloomy day, at lunchtime, workers have readied another load of materials to be lifted into the site. This site is going gangbusters too, despite all the interference from the weather this past month or so.

Lifting into the site at 'Icon' on Kendall Street, 3rd July 2018

I love a good sequence of photos, a crane sequence being my favourite. I'm old enough to remember seeing men riding the loads as they were lifted and lowered. There was very little OH&S in the sixties.


 Extra 

'Apex' site in Donnison Street East, 3rd July 2018

The still dormant 'Apex' site, on Donnison Street East, just near the railway line and around the corner from the stadium.

I've been told they're waiting for the building next door, which we can half of on the right edge of this photo, to be knocked down. Its upper facade has been squared off but the stepped outlines of the original facade can still be seen. Like Monti's fish and chip shop opposite the Gosford waterfront, it was built in the 1920's - 1930's and the stepped outline is Art Deco.

More again in a few days and another crane count this month.