Then & Now - Spring Street

Last Friday, on the way down to The Quay, I stood at various positions on Pitt Street, and pointed my camera up Spring Street, which is only short. I wanted to get the Lands Department building - the one with the clock tower - in the centre.

And then I wanted to show you these two histoic images of the same street. The sepia one was in the 1870s and is courtesy of the Powerhouse Museum. The B&W image is bewteen 1893 and 1901 and is courtesy of the NSW State Records. To round out this little wallow in the past, here are two links courtesy of the State Library of NSW, riffing on a similar theme: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemLarge.aspx?itemID=413573 (which shows the southern side of Spring Street, and http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemLarge.aspx?itemID=413572 (which is another Bayliss beauty!)