william street - 'top of'

I bet no Sydney readers would have guessed this is how William St looked before the tunnel was put through. This is circa 1966.

And this is a perfect match, taken in exactly the same spot today.


To get the match right, I found the position of the original median strip from where to take the photo, and aligned the view with the only buildings that remain; there's only three of them which I've blocked in white on the left in the image below.


I reduced the old pic to half transparency and laid it over the modern one, then scaled and cropped it until they were perfect twins, only forty years apart.

[By the way, most pictures on Sydneytecture enlarge.]