Images/Photos

[Chris Harding]

Dr. JJC Bradfield inspecting the tunneling work on the Sydney City underground

 

[Chris Harding]

Railway station at Rookwood (Haslem's Creek) when it opened 1867- and abandoned in the 1950s. The station was taken away, stone by stone, and reassembled in the ACT - It is today, the All Saints Church in Ainslie.

The Cemetery was opened to remove graves from the city area, where Town Hall now stands. It is officially called Sydney Necropolis -from the Greek for 'city of the dead'. The town of Haslem's Creek objected to the way Sydney people started calling the cemetery "Haslem's Creek cemetery", so they had a town meeting and agreed on a name change - Rookwood. And we know how that turned out.

So, they went for a third name change. Some wanted to call the suburb after the first mayor, a Mr. Lidbury. others wanted to the name of the current mayor, Mr. Larcombe. In the end they took the first syllable from LIDbury, and the last syllable from LarCOMBE, and called it LIDCOMBE

 

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That's outside Central station. Belmore Park, and the lines of the city underground are behind the trees on the left. On the right is a Goggomobile, if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah, a Goggomobil Dart, I think.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Railway station at Rookwood (Haslem's Creek) when it opened 1867- and abandoned in the 1950s. The station was taken away, stone by stone, and reassembled in the ACT - It is today, the All Saints Church in Ainslie.

The Cemetery was opened to remove graves from the city area, where Town Hall now stands. It is officially called Sydney Necropolis -from the Greek for 'city of the dead'. The town of Haslem's Creek objected to the way Sydney people started calling the cemetery "Haslem's Creek cemetery", so they had a town meeting and agreed on a name change - Rookwood. And we know how that turned out.

So, they went for a third name change. Some wanted to call the suburb after the first mayor, a Mr. Lidbury. others wanted to the name of the current mayor, Mr. Larcombe. In the end they took the first syllable from LIDbury, and the last syllable from LarCOMBE, and called it LIDCOMBE


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I was thinking about Mortuary Station at Regent Street yesterday, back to when they had pancakes on the train there (mid-80s).

 

[Chris Harding]

Devonshire Street Cemetery. This is the site of Central Station, and was just behind the tram in the colour photo. The graves were removed to Botany Cemetery, by steam trams with flat cars for the coffins and headstones.

Rookwood had a railway, with four stations in its heyday, and Botany had a tramline that ran right through it to la Perouse.

 

[Chris Harding]

Herding cattle on the Savannahlander near Forsayth Qld. This is one of the tours I host.

 

[Chris Harding]

I was thinking about Mortuary Station at Regent Street yesterday, back to when they had pancakes on the train there (mid-80s).

That was the Sydney end of the line. It was officially called the Receiving House, but "Mortuary" became the more popular name.
The dead actually had a better station in 1867. This was the Sydney station for the living, back then

 

[Chris Harding]

Punchbowl carriage sheds - behind Punchbowl High School - now a housing development.
As a contrast, this is the first train to Bankstown from

the brand new Central Station, which opened that morning. The carriages behind the locomotive were converted to the first electric trains in 1926.

 

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Railway Square, Sydney - circa 1910

The upper level and clock tower weren't added to Central Station until the 1920s because WW1 took away the resources for the steel framework.
Incidentally, Central is built from brick and reinforced concrete; the sandstone is just a decorative covering.

Those look like coupled sets of E Class, and F and G class trams. The tram building in the middle of George St. is now at the Tram Museum at Loftus.

 

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Where's the cheese

 

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[Bulldog Wrestler]

Nambour, Queensland - 1955. Back when local motoring enthusiasts could still enjoy driving an Australian made pineapple.

 

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The Batavia in Fremantle museum, well worth checking out it and the history.
It was Australia's most horrendous mutiny and massacre, off the coast of Western Australia in 1629. More than 125 survivors of the shipwreck of the Batavia were murdered by other survivors, led by a psychopath whose name is known to many in WA: Jeronimus Cornelisz.

 

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Sydney Sharp, VRD, RANVR is rightfully amongst the claimants to be the first man in World War II to shoot down a Zero fighter aircraft with a shot from a .303 rifle.

 

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The night of 31 May 1942 was the closest the east coast of Australia came to war, when Japanese midget submarines entered Sydney Harbour. HMAS Kuttabul bore the brunt of the attack

 

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The Convair Model 118 ConvAirCar (also known as the Hall Flying Automobile) - prototype flying car of which two were built. This one is flying over San Diego, USA - 1947.

 

[south of heaven]

Guess who ?

 

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Guess who ?
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Hitler ?

 

[south of heaven]

Hitler ?

Correct it is baby hitler, imagine going back in time and you got to change history but you had to stomp baby hitlers head in ? You would be like hmm yeah he was fucked up and shit but stomping a babies head just don't seem right, it would be a tough decision, then you would have to explain to baby Hitler's parents he was going to be a total **** when he gets older