Bradfield - The Harbour Bridge - The Trains - Water - irrigating The Continant

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The Harbour bridge








the Sydney Train System


Sydney has A Number Of Little Known railway Tunnels. The Oldest one Was built Under george Street in 1855 From The Sydney Railway Yard to Darling Harbour. A Gap At Broadway Let the Smoke From The Steam Trains Escape. The Tunnel Is Still in Use ((Not Sure What It is in Use For ))



Another Old Tunnel runs underneath Jubilee park At Glebve. It Forms Part Of The Metropolitan goods line Which Runs From Darling Harbour to Cantebury. The Line Was Started in 1855 & Finished In 1917. The Line Is Only Used For Goods And As No Passengers Travel on It, Few People outside The Railways Knows Of Its Existence.

However the Line Was Known To Thousands of American Troops Whio Labnded At Rozelle Bay Firing The Scond Woprld War,. A Monument In the Rozelle Mar5shalling Yards In A Reminder Of Those Days

A Number Of Unused Tunnels Were Built in The 1920's As Part Of the Dr J. j. c. Bradfield Scheme For Sydneys Transport. They Include tunnels Near Wynyard Station Which WEere Used For Many Years By Trams. They Are now Used As A Carpark Under the Menzies hotel .

Short tunnels Constructed in the 1920's Around Town Hall Were Built In Case trhe Railways System Was Extended At Some Point in The Future`
















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Bibliography

Bibliography


The Queen Victoria Building - A Sketch Portrait - Allan Gamble.
First Published 1988
ISBN 0 947131 12 4




The Copming Of The British To Australia - 1788 - 1829-  By Ida Lee ( Mrs Charles Bruce Marriott)
First Published 1906


Last Stop To Nowhere - the Australian history You Never Learnt At School




Batavia's Graveyard - Mike Dash - Published 14 Feb 2002
ISBN - 0-575-07024-2





Arthur Phillips Commission - Opened At Circular Quay 6th Feb 1788 - Instructions And Setup of A British Colony Making Arthur Phillip Commander In Chief


Governor Phillips instruction - From the british Parkliament - 25th April 1787


Captain Cooks Secret instructions Frmo King George III 1770


Queen Victoria's instructions to governor General - 29th October 1900


Order In Council  Ending Convict Transportation - 22nd May 1840




New South Wales Courts Sct - 1787 - Enabling Judiciary


University Of Sydney Act 1850

An Act For The Better Government Of Her Majesty's Australian Colonies - 16th July 1855






Sydney in 1848 - by Joseph Fowles  - Illustreated By copper Plate Engravings - Principal Streets, public buildings, Churches, Chapels



History of New South Wales From The Records - VOLUME 1 - Governor Phillip - 1783 - 1789





Manly - First Fleet Records - 1788 - 1790


Hstorical contect Of The Conservation Of The Conservatorium of Music Site Which Was the Governemtn Horse Stables


The Founding Of Australia - First Fleet  & convict Notes








Serenade To Sydney



This Fabulous Century



Rum, Rebels And Ratbags

the Dirt On the Rocks - www.dirtontherocks.com
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The Sydney Train SWystem - As Designed by Bradfield

The Bradfield Scheme - Watering Inland Australia

Nationasl Trust Register Listing Report - Circular Quay Railway Station -

National trust Register - The Conservatorium Of Music

Queen Victoria - Diamond Jubilee - 1898

Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee sixty years on the throne — was celebrated across the Empire on 22 June 1897, not in 1898. The live slug is almost certainly confusing the jubilee with Sydney’s municipal thank-you gift: the Queen Victoria Markets Building, which Council resolved in 1897 to name for her unprecedented reign, and which Mayor Matthew Harris opened on 21 July 1898. George McRae’s Romanesque pile on George Street is the lasting Sydney monument to that jubilee; the calendar date of the jubilee itself is 1897.

Treat this post as two linked facts: empire party June 1897, QVB doors July 1898. Don’t invent a second Diamond Jubilee in 1898. Golden Jubilee 1887 is the earlier sibling post on this blog — keep the fifty- and sixty-year marks in separate drawers.

Queen Victoria – Golden Jubilee – 1887

20–21 June 1887 marked fifty years since Victoria took the throne (20 June 1837). London threw the pageant; Sydney kept empire time. The town treated the Jubilee as a public holiday pair — illuminations, loyal addresses, sports, school marches, and a flood of commemorative medals. At the Sydney Mint, Jubilee-head sovereigns and half-sovereigns began striking on 18 June 1887, with the Governor and Lady Carrington present for the first piece (Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June 1887).

This is not the 1897 Diamond Jubilee, and it is not the excuse for the Queen Victoria Building (that naming belongs to the later jubilee). Keep 1887 as golden — processions and coin dies — and leave the Market Street Romanesque pile for 1897–98.

Description Of Sydney New South Wales

Sydney, The Capital Of New South Wales & The Metropolis Of Australiasia, Is Siutated On The Suthern Shore Of Port Jackson, At A Distance Of 7 Miles From The Pacific Ocean,

In Latitude 33 Degres 55 Minutes South

And Longtitude 151 Degrees 25 Minutes East


It Is Built At The Head Of The Far Farmed "Cove",  & With Darling Harbour As It's General Boundary To The West, extends In An Unbroken Succession Of Houses For More Than 2 Miles In A Southerly Direction.

As A Maritime City It Is Unrivalled. Possessing At Least 3 Miles Of Water Frontage, At Any Part Of Vessels With The Heaviest Burden Can Safely Approach The Wharves. The Ground Is Mainly Sandstone

Nelson Head Inner Lighthouse – Nelson Bay – NSW

This is not a Sydney Harbour light — it is the Nelson Head Inner Light at Nelson Bay, Port Stephens, the harbour guide that told vessels they had found the southern shore entrance. Soften the live wreck-count if you cannot cite a register; what is solid is the light itself.

A temporary wooden tower with kerosene lamps went up in 1872 (the Gazette promised a harbour light from 1 April 1872, visible some eight to ten miles in clear weather). The present cottage followed about 1875, and the light was first shown from it in 1876 — not from a tall tower, but through the lantern room of the keepers’ house, which is why the place still looks more like a yellow cottage than a postcard lighthouse. Fourteen successive keepers lived here before automation (1984); the light was shut down as unnecessary in 2003. The house is now a small maritime museum under Marine Rescue care.

Fix the title spelling (Lighthouse), keep the Port Stephens frame clear, and leave Chinese-fishing and early-wreck colour soft unless you are quoting a named source beside the photo.

Nelson Head Inner Lighthouse


Begore The First Permanant Inner Light Was Erected In 1872, There Were At Least 11 Shipwrecks Resulting In The Loss Of 37 Lives. The Wrecks Date Back To The "Cumberland:" I  1797.

The Government Gazette Of 1872 Promulgated Tat "From The 1st Apri 1872, A Harbour Light Will Be Exhibited On Nelson Head, Visible To A Distanver Of 8 To 10 Miles In Clear Weather... To Be A Guide To Vessels Coming To Nelson Bay."


The Light Was Mounted At Nelson Head On A Post, And Was The First Recorded Beacon Light In the Bay. It Is Possible That Other Navigational Markers Were Used Before 1872

Chinese Fisherman Were Reported To be Using The Bay As Early As 1800 Or Earlier.

The Argyle Cut - Argyle Street-Millers Point

THE ARGYLE CUT - THE ROCKS 

Do you go cut is a striking example of conflict public works. It was a colonial effort to overcome a challenging landscape, providing a more level crossing between the rocks and Millers point.

In 1843, convict labour was deployed to cut the roadway through the rocky peninsula. It was completed in 1959 with the use of explosives and council labour. Bridges over the cup were completed later.

The Uncle cup was also taken in the 1920s with the construction of the approaches to the Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Argyle Cut is A striking example of convict Public works. It was a Colonial effort to overcome a challenging Landscape, providing a more level crossing between The Rocks & Millers Point,

In 1843, convict labour was deployed to cut the roadway through the rocky peninsula. It was completed in 1859 with the use of explosives

Whenever I Happen To Pass The ARGYLE CUT I Always Think What An Amazing Piece Of Work It Is. Can You Imagine The Hundreds Of Comvicts All Chained Together In Chain Gangs. With Nothing More Than Blunt Picks Hitting The Sandstone. 

Walking Through The Cut You Just Can't Imagine Gravity Of Human Labour to Cut This Straight Out Of The Rock. 

Also Hard To Imagine The Bits Of Broken Sandstone Being Either Carried By Hand Or Using A Wheelbarrow Style Tool... 

Down To The Coastal Estuary Called Circular Quay And Tipped Into The Tidal Flat. The Reclaimed Land Has Added About 50 Metres To The Quay, And the Semi Circular Walls Were Built. 

When You See The Sandstone Sea Wall That Goes Right Around The Working Harbour From Millers Point, Dawes Point To Circular Quay And What Would Have Been Fort Macqaurie. 

"This Square Forms A Part Of An Area Of Old Sydney Called The Rocks, Once Famous As A Residential District And A Notorius Haunt Of Sailors. Argyle Street Was Named By governor Macquarie In 1810 After His Native Country. 

In The Cut Itself - High On The Wall There Is ThisNotice 

" Chas Moore -Mayor- 1867 - 1868

Above This Spot A Bridge Known AsThe  Princes Street Bridge Spanned The Original  Argyle Cut. As A Memorial Of The Bridge, The Above Stone, Which Formed Part Of It, Is Placed Where The Shadow Of The Bridge 

Royal Victoria Theatre

Sydney’s first large purpose-built theatre sat on the western side of Pitt Street between King and Market — Joseph Wyatt’s Royal Victoria, opened 26 March 1838 with a hotel in the front section. Locals called it the Victoria or the “Old Vic.” Architect Henry Robertson gave it a Georgian street front and a Regency auditorium seating about 1,900 (a deep pit under the dress circle, novel here), and Shakespeare’s Othello opened the house. Gas lighting followed in 1841.

For more than forty years it was a leading stage for drama, opera, pantomime, minstrelsy and touring stars — George Coppin’s Australian debut among them in 1843. Joseph Fowles’s Sydney in 1848 plates still show the Pitt Street elevation. On 22 July 1880 the uninsured theatre burned; the fire also took Hardie and Mitchell’s steam mill behind, and collapsing walls killed three men. It was not rebuilt.

Later the Pitt Street site cycled through auction rooms, cinema and retail. This post is site-and-memory history — the theatre itself is gone.

Joseph Fowles’s 1848 Sydney views document the city’s buildings and streetscapes, while this image records the interior of the Royal Victoria Theatre. The theatre was one of Sydney’s early performance venues, and the engraving preserves its galleries, boxes and decorated auditorium.