AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY / YARRALUMLA
SYDNEY / YARRALUMLA
GEORGE BULLOUGH -
WORLD TOUR 1892-1895
Written from
first-hand and on-site research and illustrated from his personal
photographic archive by George W. Randall, co-founder in July 1996
and former Vice Chairman Kinloch Castle Friends’ Association.
Article 17 of 28 * Published in
the Accrington Gazette on the 5th of September 1896
Time of visit: June 1893
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TOWN HALL, SYDNEY
INTERIOR OF TOWN HALL SHOWING GRAND ORGAN SYDNEY Original photographs by Charles Bayliss, Photographer, Sydney. George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive |
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Article
seventeen continues the description of the 1892-1895 world tour made by George
Bullough,
(later Sir George, Baronet of Rum, Scotland) and his travelling companion,
Robert
Mitchell, published in a series of twenty-eight articles written by Mitchell published
in the Lancashire newspaper the Accrington Gazette in 1896.
in the Lancashire newspaper the Accrington Gazette in 1896.
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The original photograph was taken by Charles Bayliss, born at the town of Hadleigh, Suffolk, England in 1850. His father, also called Charles, a saddler, and mother, Elizabeth, née Gardiner, emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, in 1852 when their son was two years old.
 at the Bayliss home with his horse drawn caravan/dark room in the hope of selling some of his pictures. Merlin was proprietor of the American & Australian Photographic Company and sixteen year old Charles was so fascinated by this infant technology, (the collodion process captured the image on a glass plate), that Mr. Merlin offered him a position as his apprentice, later becoming his assistant. The pair spent the next four years touring Victoria and New South Wales photographing every home and building and offering them for sale. In 1870, after setting up a studio in Sydney, the pair resumed their photographic wanderings during which they captured amazing images of the gold fields, particularly the New South Wales gold towns of Hill End, and Gulgong, respectively 173 and 190 miles north-west of Sydney. Henry Merlin died on the 27th September 1873 and twenty-three year old Bayliss returned to Melbourne. The same year he took a series of photographs of Ballarat including a 360 degree panorama. This brought his work to the attention of politician, gold miner and businessman, Bernard Otto Holtermann who had emigrated to Australia from Germany at the age of twenty in 1858. In 1875, under Holtermann's patronage, Bayliss took a 360 degree panorama of Sydney. The 36 x 63 inch wet plate view of Sydney was exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition the same year where it received a bronze medal. In 1876 the Bayliss family moved to Sydney where Charles’s photographic experience allowed him to successfully establish a studio at 348, George Street.
Seven years later he married Christiana Salier, they had five sons and two daughters.
During the 1880’s Bayliss travelled to Queensland taking panoramic views around Maryborough, 159 miles from Brisbane. In 1886 he was appointed official photographer to the Royal Commission on Water Conversation during which he photographed large stretches of Australia's third longest river, the 914 mile long Darling River.
On the 4th of June 1897, aged only forty-seven , Charles Bayliss died after catching a chill
which quickly turned to pneumonia, his eldest child, Raymond, only thirteen,
his youngest, Eric, barley one year old.
Recognised as one of Australia’s most accomplished landscape photographers.
Charles Bayliss is remembered through his photographs,
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| POST OFFICE SYDNEY
Album VII * Image 30 * Size 8 x 6 inches
Charles Bayliss, Photographer, Sydney, embossed on image.
George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive
Designed by Scottish
born Colonial Architect, James Johnstone Barnet, 1827-1904 and constructed
between 1866 and 1891 of local Sydney sandstone the building is considered “the
finest example of Victorian Italian Renaissance architecture in New
South Wales.”
Almost
380 feet in length it remains one of the largest sandstone edifices in the
city.
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During World War II the clock tower was taken down as it posed a landmark for an air attack.
It was re-built in 1964 at which time the word “Eternity” was found written in chalk inside the bell, but that is a story all on its own!
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DETAIL FROM
POST
OFFICE SYDNEY
Album
VII * Image 30
George
Street showing the premises
of C. Collins, Photographer, and
Hippolyte
Felix Delarue & Co.,
watchmaker, Jewellers, Silversmiths & Opticians 378 George Street – sign left of big clock. |
After leaving
school at age sixteen James Barnet moved to London where he became apprenticed to a builder and studied drawing under the distinguished Scottish artist, Professor
William Dyce and architect and inventor Charles
J. Richardson, F.R.I.B.A., whilst
serving as clerk of works to London’s Worshipful Company of Fishmongers.
Aged
twenty-seven he married and sailed to Australia with his wife landing
in Sydney in December 1854, where he worked for English born architect and builder
Edmund Thomas Blacket.
Edmund Thomas Blacket.
Blacket,
a pioneer of the revival styles of
architecture, particularly Victorian Gothic, is best known for designing the
University of Sydney and
St.
Andrew’s Cathedral.
In
1860, aged thirty-three, Barnet joined the Colonial
Architect’s Office in Sydney and within two years was
acting head. In 1865 he was promoted Colonial Architect,
a position he held until 1890.
Architect’s Office in Sydney and within two years was
acting head. In 1865 he was promoted Colonial Architect,
a position he held until 1890.
Sadly his wife, Rosa, died the same
year.
James Barnet had little time for, and was highly
critical of, the new styles of architecture which were becoming fashionable in Sydney during the late
19th century. He died in 1904 being survived by three sons and four daughters.
James Barnet had little time for, and was highly
critical of, the new styles of architecture which were becoming fashionable in Sydney during the late
19th century. He died in 1904 being survived by three sons and four daughters.
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The
watchmaking,
jewellery business of
H.
F. DELARUE
Hippolyte
Felix Ferdinand Delarue
was
established in George Street,
Sydney
in 1850.
Mr.
Delarue arrived in Sydney
in
1840 from Berck,
Normandy,
France.
Royal
Australian Air Force Commodore Hippolyte Ferdinand Delarue, C.B.E., D.F.C.,
born 1891, died 1977, was the grandson of jeweler H. F. Delarue.
In 1899 James Barnet, R.I.B.A., published a paper titled,
Architectural Work in Sydney, New South Wales, 1788-1899.
(It can be viewed on Google -
The Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Volume 6, page 505 - published 1899)
(It can be viewed on Google -
The Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Volume 6, page 505 - published 1899)
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BRICK STORE CUM CHURCH
St. Philip's Church, George Street.
Sydney’s first
place of worship was erected at the
expense of
Yorkshire born the Reverend Richard
Johnson,
the first Christian cleric in Australia
and
completed on the 25th of August 1793.
Rev. Johnson and
his wife arrived
with
the First Fleet in January 1788.
Constructed of
strong posts, wattles and
plaster, it
was here on the 6th of May 1798
that
Elizabeth Beckford married fellow
convict Abraham
Lee.*
Within a few
months it was burnt down,
suspicion falling
on a convict or convicts who
were compelled to
attend or lose privileges.
The building
illustrated above, just completed
for use as
a brick store, was immediately
requisitioned
and fitted out as a church.
* See Article 16 in
this series.
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The article by James Barnet includes this drawing of the first church in Sydney dated 1846 by Joseph Fowles.*
In July 1793, five years after the foundation of the Colony, Lieutenant Governor Major Francis Grose laid the foundation stone for
St. Phillips, the first stone church built in the Colony. Although not consecrated until the 25th of December 1810 it had been
used as a place of public worship since 1797. King George III presented a silver communion service.
used as a place of public worship since 1797. King George III presented a silver communion service.
The church was demolished in 1856.
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* Joseph
Fowles arrived in Sydney on the 31st of August 1838 from Gloucestershire,
England, with his wife, Sarah, after a voyage of five months. He is best
remembered for his publication Sydney in 1848 in which Fowles
wished and indeed does capture the city as it really was. His accurate drawings
and accompanying descriptions make it a unique and valuable resource of Sydney
sixty years after the arrival of the First Fleet
in January 1788.
To view Joseph
Fowles’ Sydney in 1848
go to: Sydney in 1848 –
Project Gutenberg Australia
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| MANLY BEACH, SYDNEY HARBOUR
Album VII * Image 24 * Edited from size 8 x 6 inches
No. 282 Manly Beach. Charles Bayliss, Photographer, Sydney - embossed on image.
George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive
As First Fleet Commander, Captain Phillip explored the northern reaches of Port Jackson
in January 1788, he came across a long golden sandy beach in a sheltered bay. Upon landing he met a party of native Aborigine, the Kuringgai people who fished and hunted in the surrounding bush-land trading with their neighbours. Their confident demeanor and manly interaction so impressed
Captain
Phillip he named the place Manly Cove.
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SYDNEY - PARRAMATTA RIVER AND BERRY'S BAY
Album VII * Image 27 * Edited
from size 8 x 6 inches
Original by J. P. (John Paine)
George
W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive
Berry’s Bay lies
along the north shore of Sydney Harbour, almost opposite Circular Quay.
In the early
1800’s Alexander Berry and Edward Wollstonecraft constructed a stone wharf,
stone warehouse
together with worker’s cottages and huts “for maritime purposes”
the site
as a repair and storage facility and coaling depot to shipping lines, including Orient.
Between 1872 and
1880 a distillery serving hotels in Sydney operated from one of the
storehouses. Around this time the site was rented to the New South Wales
Torpedo Corps
as a depot for
the defence of Sydney.
Prior to the
opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 boat building and
repair yards
flourished along the north shore.
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The original image was photographed by John Paine, born in England in 1833.
Emigrating to
New South Wales in his early thirties he worked as a photographer
in the town of Tamworth,
260 miles north of Sydney.
In 1875,
following his marriage to Mary Baker in Tamworth
the previous
year, the couple moved to Sydney where he established his own
photographic studio
at 96 Elizabeth Street, Sydney.
Paine exhibited
at the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879 winning
a silver medal
and later in Amsterdam, Calcutta and London.
He recorded the
establishment of the British Protectorate over south-east New Guinea in
1883 when the Government of Queensland annexed the territory for the British
Empire.
His images
reflect his skill in composition and at capturing the atmosphere of his subject.
Paine died in
Australia in 1908.
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TOWN HALL, SYDNEY
Album VII * Image 31
Edited from original 8½ x 6 inches * Image by Charles Bayliss, Photographer, Sydney.
(George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive)
The horses and
carriages are standing in Druitt Street, in front of Sydney Town Hall.
Muhs & Harder, 65, Druitt Street and carriage business of Charles Aaron, Carriage Proprietor. 
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| TOWN HALL, SYDNEY
Original photograph by Charles Bayliss, Photographer, Sydney.
George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive.
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| GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY Album VII * Image 29
Edited from original 8 x 6 inches image by Charles Bayliss, Photographer, Sydney. No. 622
(George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive)
Detail from Town Hall, Sydney, photograph by Charles Bayliss.The horse-drawn omnibuses operated by T. Brady.
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REFERENCES:
Australian Museum, Sydney website
Immigration Place website
Obituaries Australia
George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive 1992 - 2018
Sydney Morning Herald - 20 January 1868
AcKnowledge Consulting - De La Rue
The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 5 December 1875
The Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Volume 6 - 1899)
Johns's Notable Australians - Who's Who in Australia - Fred Johns
Encyclopædia of Nineteenth Century Photography - John Hannavy 2007
Project Gutenberg - Australia
New South Wales Government State Archives and Records
ORIGINALLY POSTED WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL 2018
REVIEWED BY THE AUTHOR 2 NOVEMBER 2022
GEORGE W. RANDALL RESEARCH AND PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
GEORGE W. RANDALL RESEARCH AND PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
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