Sydney, Now and Then

[den]

These are two photographs of aerial photographs of Sydney, taken in 1951 and 2001.

The originals are 1.5m x 2m in size, so I could only take the center of the city. The original 2001 photo shows everything right back to Botany Bay.





Note the tram sheds on Bennelong Point. The Opera House will go there. and the Harbour Bridge empties into three main streets instead of the later spaghetti junction of the freeways. The Cahill Expressway is yet to be built, so the people of Sydney can still see Circular Quay instead of a wall.



Not a bad town really, all things considered.

Comments

[trpeal.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's quite the dramatic change! It reminds me of then-and-now pictures of Pittsburgh, except the downtown of Sydney grew much more.

Where did you find these?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The colour one is owned by a friend. The b&w one is owned by my uncle, who got it from a friend who works for the national mapping authority.

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Neato!

I love aerial photography. :)

Scott

[chezmax]

That's quite cool to see.

[ironbark.livejournal.com]

I am surprised how few trees there were around Govt House/Botonic Gardens in 1950.
and of course there was not the wall of buildings separating the gardens from the Quay.

It may be just chance but there does not seem to be the water traffic or the boats were slower and did not produce the long wakes.