Industry Gallery — Pyrmont History Group

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Abattoirs

Industry Gallery 2

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Glebe Island Abattoirs, 1870s

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Glebe Island Abattoirs, 1870s

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Pickering, Glebe Island abattoirs, 1870

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Pickering, Glebe Island abattoirs 1870

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Killing cattle, 1879

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Killing and dressing sheep 1879

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Clubbing pigs, 1879

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Glebe Island scalding and dressing pigs, 1879

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Burley Griffin Incinerator

Industry Gallery 2

Walter Burley Griffin & Marion Mahoney Griffin

Construction of new incinerator 1934 Saunders St looking SW into Blackwattle Bay

City of Sydney Archives

Griffin Incinerator – sandstone wall on Bank Street (still remaining)

Griffin Incinerator – rear under construction – 1930s

Griffin Incinerator – gatehouse & weighbridge, trucks dumping garbage into pit

Griffin Incinerator

City of Sydney Archives

Delivering garbage, Incinerator, Saunders St, late 1930s

Griffin Incinerator – ash collection point

Griffin Incinerator

City of Sydney Archives

Griffin Incinerator – garbage pit, grab crane and furnace shutes

Griffin Incinerator – grabber

Griffin Incinerator – landscaped bank 1938

Griffin Incinerator – landscaped gardens 1938

Griffin Incinerator – stack detail

Griffin Incinerator – tile detail – 1

Griffin Incinerator – tile detail – 2

Griffin Incinerator – twin-flued stack

Griffin Incinerator – rear – 1976

Griffin Incinerator – NW facade – 1976

Griffin Incinerator from Bank Street 1976

Griffin Incinerator – furnace room – 1976

Griffin Incinerator with stack partly dismantled c1977

Caneite

Industry Gallery 2

Caneite factory

Caneite factory

Caneite factory

Defibrators

Defibrators

Defibrator

Heritage Sphere from Pulp House on the move November 1997

Decommissioned caneite factory

Defibrators in Waterfront Park

CSR

Industry Gallery 1

Pacific Islander sugar cane labourers

Refinery 1878

Outside Pyrmont refinery workshps ca 1878

Small boats moored at Pyrmont refinery wharf ca1878

Some of those employed at CSR’s works in its first year of operation 1878

CSR works, circa 1880s

Free wharf at the CSR works, circa 1885

CSR works, 1892

CSR works & Rotorua late 1800’s

Looking north-east over the refinery, circa 1904

Tindall, CSR 1906-08

CSR Refinery, Boiler Station, circa 1907

Horses in Refinery Square 1930s

Bowman St near Bank St 1932

Fleet of Morris Commercial Leader 5-ton lorrries for sugar cartage 1939

CSR

Unloading bulk sugar from ship with drays (horse and cart) at CSR wharf, Pyrmont

Pyrmont aerial view c1949

Liquid sugar delivery truck, 1965

Aerial of Pyrmont Refinery ca 1970

Lewis Morley, Bulldozing raw sugar

Sugar cranes, Mark Johnson

Char towers, Mark Johnson

Refinery, coal silos, Mark Johnson

The factory, Micky Allan

Self-portrait in front of clocking-in office, Lewis Morley

Refined sugar transported by McCaffery Services Pty Ltd, circa 1980

CSR Bowman St 1984

Jane Bennett, C.S.R. Sunset 1995

Distilling

Industry Gallery 1

Molasses fermenting vats, circa 1940

Packing dry ice (solid carbon dioxide), 1947

Spirit safe in still room, 1947

Spirit storage vats, 1947

Methylated spirits tanker, circa 1950s

Distillery Hill storage tanks 1930s-1990s

Ethanol vats 1930s 1990s

Molasses Tanks and Distilllery 1930s-1990s

Distillery Hill storage tanks 1930s-1990s

Carbon dioxide (dry ice) compressor, 1947

Distilling

Anzac Bridge and Glebe Island. 1994 CSR Distillery

CSR Distillery from the carpark 1994

Distillation process

Flour Milling

Industry Gallery 1

Convincing Hill, Macarthur’s windmill built in 1807

Edwin Davey Flour Mill in 1909

The Australasian Baker

Darling Harbour & Gillespie flour mills 1932

Darling Harbour, Jones Bay, Gillespie Bros Flour 1930s

City of Sydney Archives

Flour milling

Gillespie Bros flour mill, City of Sydney Archives

Gillespie Bros Flour Poster

Humping bagged flour for the ship’s hold

Fielder Gillespie Flour Mills being demolished 1992

City of Sydney Archives

Union and Edward Sts. New York Hotel and Gillespie Bros Flour Mill 1992

City of Sydney archives

Davey Mill facade, 2000s

Edwin Davey sign, 2000s

Davey Flour Mill before conversion to apartments, 2012

Ceerose

Edwin Davey Flour Mill

Painted by Jane Bennett

Edwin Davey Flour Mill from the back

Painted by Jane Bennett

Davey Flour Mill conversion 2013

Trish Curotta

Harbour Mill apartments under construction 2014

Trish Curotta

Media and Hi-Tech

Industry Gallery 1

Channel 7

Channel 10

Media and hi-tech

Metal Working

Industry Gallery 1

City Iron Works, Charles Pickering, 1871

State Library of NSW

Metal working

City Iron Works

ASNC engineering works 1880s

State Library of NSW

Australian Steam Navigation Company, 1882

State Library of NSW

Power in the Peninsula

Industry Gallery 1

Ultimo Power House

State Library of NSW. Government Printing Office

Interior of Pyrmont power station

Interior of powerhouse – Pyrmont, NSW 1900

State Library of NSW. At Work and Play

Pyrmont Power Station. Preparations for construction of Switch Gear House 1919-1921 August 1918

City of Sydney Archives

Pyrmont Power House 5000 Volt Switch House construction November 1920

City of Sydney Archives

Power in the peninsula

Pyrmont Power House. Sydney Electric Light Co. power house building with 3 smoke stacks August 1919. Pyrmont Street, City of Sydney Archives

Pyrmont Power House 5000 Volt Switch House. Construction of Switch House. January 1921

City of Sydney Archives

Boiler House Extensions. Pyrmont Power Station. August 1921

City of Sydney Archives

Pyrmont Power station by Mark Ray c.1976-84

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Pyrmont Quarries

Paradise quarry, 1883

Sydney Town Hall, 1889

A. Tischbauer, 1893, Pyrmont Quarry

GPO completed, 1891

Queen Victoria Market, 1896

Mortuary station entrance detail, 1897

John Dalton

Pyrmont quarries,1900

State Library of Victoria

Paradise plaque 2005

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Slave trade in the South Seas - seizure of the schooner Daphne

Hoeing weeds in sugar cane Queensland

Refinery 1878

Sugarcane, by Henry King, ca 1890

Small mill in northern New South Wales

CSR Childers mill, Queensland

Raw sugar store, circa 1930s

Noel Butlin Archives Centre

Unloading bulk sugar from ship with drays (horse and cart) at CSR wharf, Pyrmont

Max Dupain

CSR Sugar Bag

Aerial of Pyrmont Refinery ca 1970

Max Dupain

Ethanol vats 1930s 1990s

Molasses Tanks and Distilllery 1930s-1990s

Caneite factory

Asbestos in Wittenoom

Shipbuilding

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ASNC engineering works 1880s

State Library of NSW

The Brothers, first Manly ferry built at Chowne’s shipyard

Shipbuilding

Patent slip belonging to Australian Steam Navigation Company 1859-1871, Frederick Garling

Australasian Steam Navigation Co. engineering works

State Library of NSW

Australasian Steam Navigation Company 1871

State Library of NSW

Australasian Steam Navigation Co. engineering works

State Library of NSW

Elginshire at Pyrmont (before World War I)

Australian Steam Navigation Company, 1882

State Library of NSW

Darling Harbour works: Darling Island 1899

State Library of NSW

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Saxton’s steam saw mills

Illustrated Sydney News, 25 July 1889

Goodlet & Smith, 1892

Goodlet & Smith building materials price list

Goodlet & Smith catalogue

Goodlet & Smith staircase windows

Goodlet & Smith Stained and painted windows

McKenzie sawmill Blackwattle Bay 1899

McKenzie catalogue

Messrs G. Augenson and Company's Timber Yard and Wharf at Pyrmont, 1900

Australian Town and Country Journal

Saxton & Binns Timber Merchants

Town and Country Journal, 13 October 1900

Goodlet & Smith Steam Saw Mills

Sand’s Sydney, Suburban & Country Commercial Directory, Sydney, 1910

Interior of Ingram’s timber yard 1914

Timber wharves on Blackwattle Bay 1938

Timber

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Refinery 1878

Small boats moored at Pyrmont refinery wharf ca1878

Horses in Refinery Square 1930s

Liquid sugar delivery truck, 1965

Noel Butlin Archives Centre

Refined sugar transported by McCaffery Services Pty Ltd, circa 1980

Noel Butlin Archives Centre

Shipbuilding

Patent slip belonging to Australian Steam Navigation Company 1859-1871, Frederick Garling

Glebe Island 1857, W.G. Mason

Pyrmont 1858, Rebecca Martens

State Library of New South Wales

SS Keera

First screw-driven vessel in Australia

The Brothers, first Manly ferry built at Chowne’s shipyard, 1851

CSR 1906-08

C.E.S Tindall

M&S yards, Bayview St, 1903

Hecla in front of the Royal Edward Victualling Yard 1910

Elginshire at Pyrmont (before World War I)

US 5-masted schooner 1920s

Royal Victualling Yard 1920s

Abattoir Road - British Imperial Oil Co Wharf 1920-39

State Library of New South Wales

Doepel at Pyrmont wharf 1930s

Shipping at Pyrmont, 1932

SS Tambua 1940s

Vessel berthed at Jones Bay Wharf 1950s

Shipping

Balmain and Pyrmont 1950s

Jones Bay Wharf 1960s

Stables, Pyrmont St & Marion Lane 1903

Horse drawn carriages and carts 1911, Union St & Pyrmont Bridge Rd

City of Sydney archives

Horse-drawn carts at the corner of Jones and John Streets 1920s

McCafferys Stables

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Fleet of Morris Commercial Leader 5-ton lorrries for sugar cartage 1939

Waterside Cold Store Wharf 1930s

McCafferys sugar truck 1930s

McCafferys truck 1930s

McCafferys truck 1940s

Methylated spirits tanker 1950s

Locomotive arriving in Pyrmont 1880

Wooden-blocked road surface Jones St 1947

Wool train Darling Harbour 1901

Railway yards to Darling Harbour 1932

City of Sydney archives

Light rail, Star City 2010

Photo Ambanmba

Goods Yard, Darling Harbour, 1964

Darling Harbour Goods Yard from the top of Pyrmont Power Station 1989

Jane Bennett

Transport

Harris St overbridge

Tunnel exit, Jones St

Last day of 443 bus – 3 October 2015

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Proclamation to establish the Goldsbrough Wool Warehouse, 1884

State Library of New South Wales

Wool train Darling Harbour 1901

Wool stores

Kellick’s wool store on Elizabeth Macarthur Bay 1930s

Kellick’s woolstore cnr Bowman and Lawson Sts 1930s

Wool Store Hill Clark & Co., 1930s

State Library of New South Wales

Fire at the Goldsbrough Mort Wool Store, 1935

State Library of New South Wales

Goldsbrough Mort No.1 store 1935

State Library of New South Wales

Wool clips, 1937

State Library of New South Wales

Wool trucks gather to deliver their precious cargo to Pyrmont wharves, 1939

G. Short, Fairfax

Moving wool bales, No 22 Wharf Pyrmont, 1940s

State Library of New South Wales

Wool sales Winchcombe Carsons, 1948

State Library of New South Wales

Goldsbrough Mort men using F.G.R. Power Press on wool bales 1950s

Weighing wool bales, Goldsbrough Mort, 1950

State Library of New South Wales

A student examines different grades of merino wool at the School of Sheep and Wool, Pyrmont, 1962

Jeff Carter

Ultimo woolstore fire 1978

After the Ultimo woolstore fire

Australian Mercantile Land and Finance co wool store fire 1992