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Sydney Architecture Images- Pyrmont Goldsbrough Mort Woolstores Goldsbrough Apartments |
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Fig Street |
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1935 (four extra stories on rooftop 1994, Straesser Poli Little) |
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Inter-War Free Classical |
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brick, wood 55 m 180 ft 12 stories |
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Warehouse |
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| In 1883, Richard Goldsbrough built a warehouse in Pyrmont St for storing thousands of bales of wool. By the Second World War, twenty multi-storey warehouses had been built in Pyrmont and Ultimo to cater for what was then Australia’s major export industry. Goldsbrough’s store used hydraulic goods and passenger lifts, and had the largest floor area of any building in the colony, with its own railway siding. It burned down in 1935 and the present building went up on the site. By the beginning of the 1970s the woolstores had begun to empty as the wool brokers relocated activities to the new Yennora Wool Centre, west of Parramatta. The Goldsborough Mort Woolstores were converted into apartments in 1995. | |
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