There's not much point showing old photos without noting where and when they're from. It's not always easy to recognise places that may have changed dramatically over the years.
A fascinating collection., despite the apparent errors. Thank you very much. Too many grand buildings have gone, sadly not fit for present-day occupation. And isn't it exemplary to see how accurately these buildings were photographed. These days, our cameras don't properly capture perspective, and we have walls that lean backwards: horrible.
The aerial shot of Manly 1933-39 (at 0.15) was fairly much the same as when I lived there in the 1960s. PS the captions are there - but in awkward grey on black.
The photo at 21.33 is not in Sydney NSW. It is during the “Siege of Sydney Street” in Houndsditch, London on Jan 3rd 1911. The man at the head of the onlookers in the top hat is the then Home Secretary Winston Churchill
Lovely collection of old postcards and photos of Sydney, New South Wales, before they butchered it, and also a few of the suburbs, and the right amount of time to appreciate each one. Thanks for sharing. I'd just like to point out that the ones at 2:41, 20:43, and 23:32 are of Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. The one at 21:37 is the "Siege of Sidney Street", Stepney, in London's east end. The one at 23:04 is of Adelaide, South Australia. I'm not sure about the one at 6:01 but it's not of Sydney, NSW, I don't think.
You picked more than me. 21:37 is the only one I picked up (Winston Churchill in the centre). 23:04 I knew wasn't Sydney. 23:08 is definitely Sydney. It's Devonshire St Cemetery - where Central Train Station is now. If you look up Devonshire St Cemetery on Wikipedia there's a good drawing of that scene.
@@pigboy77 (At 6:01) good call on the Devonshire St Cemetery pic! I noticed the cemetery in the background and Devonshire St passed my mind but I couldn't make it fit. The sketch by Norman Selfe puts it all in perspective - so much has changed on that block. Thanks!
@@scorpion_travel Are they available online? I'm particularly interested in the postcards and couldn't find them on either the State Library of New South Wales website, nor that of the National Library of Australia.
where are all the people? where are all the cars?...horse and buggy...and we are expected to believe all those magnificent buildings with clock towers and paved roads were all built before electricity was supposedly invented? before the power tools? ...we have been led down the garden path....they had a reset....the buildings were "founded"...meaning found, not built ....thank you for the photos, confirmed everything
Thank you for sharing photos and an interesting musical accompaniment 😊
A caption for each photo would help to know 'where' I'm looking at. Better with the sound muted.
The photo at 2:46 is of the Canadian Sydney at Cape Breton NovavScotia. Otherwise the rest of the pics are a delight.j
Thank you, no wonder I could not work it out. Conifers and "Montreal" are a large clue.
At 7.39 "GPO" doesn't stand for "Government Printing Office". It means "General Post Office".
There's not much point showing old photos without noting where and when they're from. It's not always easy to recognise places that may have changed dramatically over the years.
There are captions on all of them - just in dark grey against black backgrounds. Rather difficult to see.
Fantastic photos! A lot I haven't seen before too!
A bit of information for each image so one can identify places and year would have been better. Music is painful.
A fascinating collection., despite the apparent errors. Thank you very much. Too many grand buildings have gone, sadly not fit for present-day occupation. And isn't it exemplary to see how accurately these buildings were photographed. These days, our cameras don't properly capture perspective, and we have walls that lean backwards: horrible.
Many of the grand buildings pictured are still there, perhaps dwarfed by more recent buildings.
The aerial shot of Manly 1933-39 (at 0.15) was fairly much the same as when I lived there in the 1960s.
PS the captions are there - but in awkward grey on black.
The photo at 21.33 is not in Sydney NSW. It is during the “Siege of Sydney Street” in Houndsditch, London on Jan 3rd 1911. The man at the head of the onlookers in the top hat is the then Home Secretary Winston Churchill
Lovely collection of old postcards and photos of Sydney, New South Wales, before they butchered it, and also a few of the suburbs, and the right amount of time to appreciate each one. Thanks for sharing.
I'd just like to point out that the ones at 2:41, 20:43, and 23:32 are of Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. The one at 21:37 is the "Siege of Sidney Street", Stepney, in London's east end. The one at 23:04 is of Adelaide, South Australia. I'm not sure about the one at 6:01 but it's not of Sydney, NSW, I don't think.
These photos are from the National library of New South Wales
You picked more than me. 21:37 is the only one I picked up (Winston Churchill in the centre).
23:04 I knew wasn't Sydney.
23:08 is definitely Sydney. It's Devonshire St Cemetery - where Central Train Station is now. If you look up Devonshire St Cemetery on Wikipedia there's a good drawing of that scene.
@@pigboy77 (At 6:01) good call on the Devonshire St Cemetery pic! I noticed the cemetery in the background and Devonshire St passed my mind but I couldn't make it fit. The sketch by Norman Selfe puts it all in perspective - so much has changed on that block. Thanks!
@@scorpion_travel Are they available online? I'm particularly interested in the postcards and couldn't find them on either the State Library of New South Wales website, nor that of the National Library of Australia.
Original photos of Australian cities on my website "The history of cities of Australia in old photos" - fotonail.com/oceania/australia/australia.html
love these old photos, though not having any luck when trying to get tot the link where they're located
Original photo on my site - fotonail.com/oceania/australia/s/sydney/sydney.html
@@scorpion_travel@scorpion_travel Thanks, I can access them now; good work putting this together!!
MUD FLOOD ! MUD FLOOD ! Everything here screams Sydney is unburied mud flood city, where 10 feet giants once walked !
Rubbish !
Where are the dates???
19th and 20th century
@@scorpion_travel what dates what years?
@@rkomgm3932 makes you wonder...why they are so evasive ! Im thinking there is another agenda....but they aint goin there !
where are all the people? where are all the cars?...horse and buggy...and we are expected to believe all those magnificent buildings with clock towers and paved roads were all built before electricity was supposedly invented? before the power tools? ...we have been led down the garden path....they had a reset....the buildings were "founded"...meaning found, not built ....thank you for the photos, confirmed everything
It's all from a parallel reality
Completely unnecessary music accompaniment- Sydney is not in Turkey or Arabia.
They should have kept the trams wouldve saved billions
Whats with the horrid music!
Think its indian....just waiting for the elephants to arrive !
Then the jazz !....now im waiting for thr lions !
It's kind of middle eastern. That's where Sydney is headed.