Sunday Round-up

A very quick update today. Too much work going on in the rest of my life to get to the sites on Saturdays. Will have to work something out there.

Old quarry site at John Whiteway Drive, 16th September 2018

This is what remains of the old Gosford quarry. It sits atop the hill encircled by the upper and lower parts of John Whiteway Drive. You can get there from the easternmost end of Donnison Street. There's also a map showing it in Kibble Park, on the side of that little kiosk thing. Put "old quarry on gosford hill" into Google for lots of images of this and the other active and inactive Gosford Quarry sites around the Gosford area.

This site has been fenced for as long as I can remember and I've lived in Gosford for 20 years. But the materials and equipment on the site now suggest something is finally going to happen in the way of building. Whatever it is, the views from this site will be magnificent.

Riou Street, opposite the railway station, 16th September 2018

A hard to photograph site, on Riou Street opposite Gosford railway station. They're going ahead gangbusters with digging down and getting the cage in. Why does this site need bracing in the corner? Anonymous explanations welcome in the comments box below.

Risen up fast on the big hospital site at Beane Street West, 16th September 2018

My white whale is getting much easier to photograph now its building have risen so far up. This is the site that covers Beane Street West. Its bottom edge is on Showground Road (shown here) and its top edge in on Holden Street, right across the road from the currently blocked-off emergency entrance to the hospital.

Beane Street East site, seen from Riou Street, 9th September 2018

The Beane Street East site, opposite the Beane Street West site, has been going ahead well. It's gained another 4 stories and is nearly the same height as the other new apartment buildings in Hills Street. (It's on the corner of Beane Street East and Hills Street.)

Movement at last on Henry Parry Drive, 16th September 2018

This site on Henry Parry Drive has been at this stage for about 12 years. Its inactivity has been one of the great mysteries of 21st century Gosford.

In that 12 years, a small forest has grown on site, 16th September 2018

In that 12+ years, a small forest of casuarina (she-oaks) has grown up on the site.

Pipes & tracks as seen from Henry Parry Drive, 16th September 2018

Pipes sticking out of the ground, tracks of the tamper-downer vehicle and, in the foreground, a bit of the casuarina forest.

Tamper-downer on site & Henry Parry Drive behind, 16th September 2018

The tamping-down machine, the gate open and a ute parked in the access driveway (could not see the site visitor) and, in the background, Sunday afternoon traffic on Henry Parry Drive.

Frederick Street site, 16th September 2018

A new site that opened on Frederick Street in East Gosford. The view from here, when the building is finished, will be of Kariong Ridge (visible in distance) and Fagans Bay and the Gosford foreshore. From Frederick Street to the main street of Gosford is a 20 - 30 minute walk up and down the little hills of Henry Parry Drive. Very good for strong, shapely legs.


That will have to do for today. It's back to the grindstone for me. More round-up later this week and a Crane Count too, with cranes going up and cranes going down.