Pyrmont Bridge 1962

Looking west from Market Street. It gives an indication to modern eyes that Sydney then was still an industrial city with a working harbour. I remember a lot of grit and grime around the harboursides and inner city, old buildings blackened from decades of smoke and smog. Now everything is spruced and restored, so you'd never know.

In a previous post, I mentioned that Pyrmont Bridge was the main western entry to the city, and crossing point to the Eastern Suburbs, now replaced by tunnels and overpasses. This picture looks like morning peak, there are rows of double-decker buses on the bridge heading in.

And of course today (clickable).

While the bridge is still there, it's been pedestrianised, and its off-ramp made way for the Western Distributor which cuts through.

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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.

Pyrmont Bridge 1962

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