Images/Photos

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Canterbury Bankstown District Ambulance

 

[DinkumDog]

Canterbury Bankstown District Ambulance

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As used to patch up Foz until 2020 .

 

[Ripley]

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Canterbury Railway Station, circa 1900

 

[Greenmachine121]

So i can't put up my framed 3d picture of Susan boyle and castle having a 69er ?

For the love of Pete that’s horrific …




pm me

 

[Roll the Bones]

Manhattan (not Brooklyn) Bridge construction

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Beamish Street, Campsie

 

[Roll the Bones]

Storm over Grand Canyon

 

[bulldogsfan_88]

Brooklyn Bridge construction

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Isn’t that the Manhattan Bridge?

 

[Roll the Bones]

Isn’t that the Manhattan Bridge?

Yes, I think you're right. I'll edit my caption.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Mosquito production line, at de Havilland, Bankstown, 1943

 

[Roll the Bones]

Kiss with their parents in 1976.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

 

[south of heaven]

Mosquito production line, at de Havilland, Bankstown, 1943

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Watching a doco on them the other night, they were very very underated and made from a lot of timber

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Watching a doco on them the other night, they were very very underated and made from a lot of timber

One of my uncles was working on them at de Haviland during the war, balancing propellers.

 

[south of heaven]

One of my uncles was working on them at de Haviland during the war, balancing propellers.

I have a model kit, ( unopened) and digital combat simulator are realising it on pc will be pretty interesting to learn about it. I've seen one in Newcastle and Albion Park can't wait to get in the virtual cockpit and play ,they are like a forgotten hero

 

[Chris Harding]

That my friend is the good old days of Lakemba.

Before it was sewered, and the streets were dusty in the dry and muddy in the wet, horse manure everywhere, and men worked five and a half days per week, while women stayed at home and did the housework without the appliances we have these days. No TV or mobile phones. No air conditioning - you would have loved it.

 

[Chris Harding]

Fairly similar carriages were still in use on that line in the 80s. But would have been slightly different, for electric trains. The above ones, would be pulled by a steam train. Definitely remember going to school on those red rattlers in the 70s and 80s between Bankstown and Canterbury, Hurlstone Park. The doors could be left open... nice and breezy in summer, cold in winter, rain pouring in...

Yes, it is the steam days - when peak hour services were every seven minutes on the Bankstown line. Some of those carriages were converted to run in electric train sets from 1926 (BTW- they were never called "red rattlers"; that's a Melbourne term the media picked up. We called them "sparks").

That station building still exists, with some modifications. Lakemba was used as a terminus for trains- only every second train ran to the end of the line at Bankstown. There was a reversing siding between the up and down tracks where terminating trains were put. The track was removed decades ago, but the gap between the present running lines is still apparent at the Wiley park end of the station.

 

[rainman]

It’s a shame to see those great old suburbs turn into shit holes
All the old shops gone replaced by Shitty red brick flats

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Cycling in Bankstown, circa 1900