Barangaroo 1865

This is an awesome pic of a ship-builder because it's so early in Sydney's photographed history, and look behind. I've spliced two old stereographs together and enhanced the details. Top left on the hill is Sydney Observatory, and top right is the church tower of St Philip's, both still intact today. The steep cliffs and shoreline have been redeveloped many times over many decades so that today they're unrecognisable from the original.

And how do we know we're in the same spot as the photo above? Triangulate the Observatory tower and its west dome, and they match.

Google Street View (clickable).

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RocketOct 14, 2020, 12:16:00 AM
Truly an Awesome Photo
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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.