The building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge filled the hearts and minds of residents for years. The first person to walk across the Harbour Bridge arches was chief building supervisor Mr Lawrence Ennis. Three planks of wood had been laid across the final, small gap. Now there
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Completed in 1923 The Astor represented an entirely new concept in Australian residential living; private ownership of individual apartments. Located at 123 Macquarie Street the building was thirteen storeys high, Sydney’s first ‘skyscraper’. The 52 ultra-modern flats provided expansive views of the harbour. Premier of New south
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Around Christmas 1950, twin white cats were spotted atop the southern pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There they remained. It seemed the pair had decided it was the best location in the city, with world class views. Well really, who could blame them? The snowy residents
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How many nuts and bolts are there in the Sydney Harbour Bridge? Well, oddly enough, only a handful. Rivets were used instead, some 6,000,000 of them. The majority of the steel for the bridge’s girders came from Britain, but the government contract stated that all rivets were
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Shopping for clothes. 😨 Oh dear, I may be viewed as a disgrace to womanhood, but I detest it. It’s not that I don’t like to look nice, but it’s so time consuming and irritating. The older I get the more I try to avoid the whole
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Was it really twenty one years ago that Sydney hosted the Olympic Games? The photograph at left confirms that in the year 2000 I was a true Olympic nerd! The only previous time Australia had hosted the Games was in 1956, when I was five. I
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