newtown square

I came across this photo on the Picman database, the National Library photographic archive. It's from a small series taken at Newtown intersection opposite the station, which was titled 'compensation claim'. It seems someone had been run over on the pedestrian crossing in the early to mid 1960s and these were part of the insurance investigator's case.

I went past the spot today and took a shot. I transposed both images and cropped and scaled until they were exact matches.

If you're wondering what that neon sign on the roof of the bulding says, it's 'Mercantile Mutual Insurance', the MMI that collapsed in the FAI fraud a few years ago.

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Welcome, this site is all about Sydney 'then and now'..

The pics: Do click to enlarge the old photos as I've restored most of them from their faded small originals, and the details you'll often see in them can give an awesome insight into how ordinary people, your and my ancestors, actually lived.

Then: Where nothing today remains of a 'Then' scene, the Google Street Views of the 'Now' location have been verified through old maps and the NSW government's SIXMaps.

Sources: Most of the old photos have been collected over many years through the now-defunct Picture Australia and the original sources lost, but almost all are now found through Trove; variously from the National Library, the State Libraries of NSW and Vic, and the National Archives. Some are also via Flickr, so if you know the source of any, do let me know and I will add the credit.

Me: I'm Ross, a major oldsydneyphile (that's a word, really - well, now it is anyway). I grew up here from the 60s. Originally, I made the site in 2006-2008, and restarted it in 2018 using the 'now' scenes supplied by Google Street View.

newtown square

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