Topped out

 32 Mann Street

32 Mann Street site, 18th July 2018

The finance building at 32 Mann Street has topped out. Congratulations, gentlemen!

The site sits on part of the old primary school site, which we can more of here, and the materials and equipment are still stacked up there as finishing work goes on at the site.

Just for pretty. The goods lift silhouetted against the sky on a cold winter Wednesday.


 Lynne Avenue

Lynn Avenue's second site, the Central Real one, has topped out. Congratulations, gentlemen!

There is another Central Real site immediately behind this one and another immediately behind that one, on the corner of Albany Street and Duke Street Point Frederick. So there's plenty more work for all concerned.
 

 In this photo we can see the top floors at Lynn Avenue will have bigger balconies than those below. But all will be just 30 seconds strolling distance to the yacht club and the Gosford foreshore and a nice bit of exercise, 20 minutes' walk, to Gosford main street.


 Tiny houses

This is Bluey is the front-most of the tiny houses, on the 21st of July 2018.

The tiny houses topped out about a month ago and their residents moved in before the really freezing overnight temperatures came.

Congratulations, students, and congratulations, residents of these delightful tiny houses! These are Gosford's first tiny houses and it will be interesting to see if they are the last or if more are to come.

Mellow Yellow here is another of the 4 tiny houses. The other 2 are Lovely Lilac and Dove Grey. The 5th building on the site is the communal laundry. See here for clearer photos than the nice paling fence now allows.


 Extra

From what I can make out, this old railway water tank at Gosford station dates back to the days of steam. The steam trains started coming through Gosford, doing the Sydney to Newcastle run, in 1887 and steam is made from water, hence the need for water tanks so trains could refill at various points along the line.

According to Wikipedia "the water crane...is used occasionally by passing steam locomotives". Now they mention it, I recently saw the steam locomotive 3801 chuffing up the line towards Gosford.

Train spotters and railway workers, feel free to chime in in the comments box if I've got something wrong or you'd like to add some nice Sydney-Newcastle line info.

The same applies to all building site owners, managers, workers, apartment buyers and tiny house residents.

Hopefully next week's post will be on the day I say it will be but don't put your shirt on it!