MUSEUM STATION
One Hundred Years Ago
23 May 1924 - 23 May 2024

(1924-NSW State Archives / 2024-Stephen Thomas)

SYDNEY
1966 - 2024

A city constantly under construction.
Both views from a Manly Ferry.
With thanks to Stephen Fleay.

[1966-Alexis J Favenchi/Stephen Fleay>2024-Stephen Thomas]

Blast from the STAN past - The escalator down from Platform 1 at Circular Quay Railway Station on the station’s opening day, 21st January 1956 and the same view on the 62nd Anniversary, 21st January 2018.

[1956-Fairfax Archives>2018-Phil Harvey]

c1965 ~ 2024

Circular Quay, Sydney Harbour

Images National Archives of Australia / K.Sundgren

REGENT STREET RAILWAY STATION (Mortuary)

1970 - 2024

Regent Street railway station, formerly known as the Mortuary railway station.

(Douglas Baglin/ Stephen Thomas)

Blast from the STAN past - Platform 1 at Museum Station in circa 1927 and in 2016.

[circa 1927-original postcard in David Critchley's collection>2016-Phil Harvey]

1936 ~ 2024

From the garage to the restaurant.
This building still sells fuel, only of a different nature.
Marrickville, corner of Marrickville and Petersham Roads.

Photos: Marrickville Library / A Jedrych

c1950 ~ 2024

Streetscape of Downshire Street, Millers Point.

This street is found down Downshire Place off Lower Fort Street not far from the Garrison Church.

Images L.Bartholen / Pix magazine c/- State Library of NSW / K.Sundgren.

Blast from the STAN past

Reverse parking 40 years on..

Looking west across Pitt St near Bathurst St 1976>2016.

Courtesy-City of Sydney and Allan Hawley.

Blast from the STAN past - The main staircase at the Sydney GPO/1 Martin Place in circa 1900 and in 2015.

[circa 1900 - State Library of NSW>2015 - Phil Harvey]

GEORGE STREET
circa 1900 - 2024

Original photograph, hand tinted for a postcard.

(State Library of NSW / Stephen Thomas )

Blast from the STAN past - The rear of 'Tarana' at the tip of Potts Point, viewed from Wylde Street in the early 1900's and 2014. Wylde Street was extended around the point circa 1943.

[early 1900's - State Library of NSW>2014 - Google Street View]

1901 ~ 2021
Millers Point, The Rocks.

Images NSW State Archives / K.Sundgren.

THE ROCKS
Argyle Street looking east
1950s - 2024

Government House is visible in the distance. A few years before East Circular Quay was redeveloped.

(Philip Spicer early 1950s / Stephen Thomas Jan 2024 )

c1911 ~ 2024

The Rocks.

Cnr George St & Jack Mundey Pl (formerly Argyle St). The Taft family stand outside their pub the Harvey Taft A.S.N Hotel now a Guylian Belgian Chocolate cafe.
A.S.N i believe is Australasian Steam Navigation.

Images Rocks Discovery Museum / K.Sundgren.

Blast from the STAN past - The Argyle Cut viewed from the Cumberland Street Bridge in the 1940s and in 2017.

[early 1950's-Lianne Essex's family collection>2017-Phil Harvey]

1926 ~ 2024

St James Railway Station.

Images State Lib. NSW / K.Sundgren.

Blast from the STAN past - A rainy day at Central Station’s Eddy Avenue pedestrian concourse in the 1920s and in 2020.

[1920s-Fairfax Archives>2020-Phil Harvey]

1983~2024, Westfield, Parramatta.

Source:-Old Shops Australia Facebook Page and René Grandjean

Blast from the STAN past - The north west corner of Market and Pitt Streets in 1967 and in 2017.

[1967-Alain Debiz/Panoramia>2017-Phil Harvey]