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The Trocadero in Newtown was the first electrified public building in Oz. An abandoned Victorian ice rink, left derelict for decades by its owners the Anglican Church.

The church must have finally seen its commercial value, as it opened last summer.

Also last year, I posted that one of the 1920s lamps at the Anzac Memorial's Pool of Remembrance in Hyde Park had been attacked by vandals. Eventually the city council did a risk assessment and some impact reports before taking it away, and even more eventually it was redeemed. Aged patina intact and all.

And the neighbour's lovely old terrace that burnt down rather tragically.

was given a bit of lick and spittle

and scrubbed up all right.

All ends well.

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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.

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