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We have lost that world forever, there's absolutely no comparison, you could say it was a time of innocence, a time were people respected one another, have genuine friends, and for most part people were happy, even when most people weren't well off but made doo with what they had, what has happened, how could it change so much in such a short period of time, and seems to be getting worse by the year.

As a postscript, I've never seen anyone cover the work of one of his sons, Keith (aka 'Bill'). He was involved in developing standards and works for aviation both locally and internationally. The diversion of the canal to enable Sydney KSA airport to expand is one of the more visible. More subtle are the inputs into the development of worldwide airport and airways systems and standards. It's ironic that Bradfield (the town centre) is next to a new airport that will contain many modern echoes of the work of his son, yet virtually no acknowledgement exists. The Ghost of Bradfield Senior I'm something of a fan of Bradfield senior. It's hard not to be, but we need to be cautious about projecting his superlative vision for Sydney without limit into the future. After all, he expected his vision to do the job for probably 25 and certainly no more than 50 years. That vision included a harbour-centric view of Sydney. That was appropriate once Parramatta ceased to be the colony's early centre of government, and the harbour took off as vibrant working port. It's not that any more. Harbour-centricity is no longer true, yet it still 'infects' many Sydneysiders to this day. For example, Western Sydney (you know, that bit 'way out there') has a larger population than the rest of Greater Sydney, faster growth and provides most of its employment and real productivity. Sydney's centre of population is now actually in the City of Parramatta, not even remotely around Sydney Cove. Yet we still persistently think of the now gentrified harbour as the 'centre' of Sydney'. While the Sydney rail system was a great accomplishment, much of its outer reaches evolved rather than were planned. We think of suburban sprawl as being a more recent car-generated phenomenon. But long before that, the outer suburbs developed as in-fill between little villages and small towns along its radiating railway lines, originally designed (pre-Bradfield) to bring rural products from country to Sydney for export, or milk and produce from closer in to satisfy its residents. I discovered recently that the Fire Brigade, up to about the 1960s, located many of their suburban fire stations on the basis of 'along each rail line, about 3 or 4 rail stations apart'. The 'three cities' and 'six cities' concept offers a more accurate view of Sydney. In the case of Western Sydney, I suggest it is evolving from a place where people who once depended on the 'real Sydney' for any serious shopping, study, well paid employment, government services, treatment, entertainment and events; to an era when the Harbour City (stripped of serious industry, and increasingly reliant on 'water glimpses', finance and tourism) will owe the heart of its economic dependance to the West. The West increasingly has its own industry, employment, shopping, entertainment, events, educational facilities, health care, etc. And all of that with a much more pragmatic social capital and work ethic. WSI Airport will be a catalyst to solidify that. The legendary 'Latte" or "Red Rooster" Line in Sydney separates quite different urban cultures. Innovation nearly always comes from the edge, so the future of Western Sydney is probably a great deal more widely based, vibrant and optimistic than for its shallower (some would say decadent) 'East-Enders'. Bradfield City As for Bradfield (the town centre) I have a few doubts. The marketing spurge talks of it being a 'third CBD" (so, purportedly bigger than places like North Sydney, Chatswood, Bondi-Junction, Hurstville, Strathfield, Liverpool .... I could go on). I quite sure it will be very nice, green and 'techy', albeit a bit expensive for the average Westie to live there, but I make the following observations. - The town centre itself is quoted as providing 20,000 jobs, 10,000 residences with 20-24,000 residents (i.e. a fraction of the size/population of Burwood???) - It will be 114 hectares, with a 2 hectare Central Park, that the brochure subtly compares with New York's Central Park (over 300 hectares?????) - At times it is equated with the 'Aerotropolis', but other references are more about the much larger (wider Aerotropolis) area surrounding the airport. - It may be a geographic centre for 'Parkland Sydney' and perhaps become its 'show pony', but it is ringed by an inner semi-circle of much larger cities (Penrith, Blacktown, Fairfield/Liverpool and Camden / Campbelltown, each of which has over 200,000 people, their own centres, shopping complexes, transport hubs, large hospitals, Uni campuses, and so on. It's hard to imagine any of them handing a baton of 'urban leadership' to Bradfield, or that their denizens will be flocking there for the shopping.

Funny how this came up. I just took the kids into Sydney on the Rivercat yesterday. We docked at Circular Quay and walked past most of all this. I was 4 years old in 64 and this all looks very familiar. The clothes, cars, buildings and all the old men sitting around smoking. Thanks for the memories.

Interesting fact, the restoration of the QVB was funded entirely by a foreign consortium that has a 100 year lease on the building that expires in 2086. QVB is one of my favourite buildings in the world and ironically not even in the UK is there a building as grand and bespoke as the Queen Victoria.

Sydney was so beautiful in those days. No Indians, no Chinese. Look at it now-a cloaca maxima indeed.

where was the amp building ?...

Not a habib in sight

No need to play '' Spot the Aussie'' here.

Nihan ❤😂🎉

No electric banking,no computers,no radars,no cameras,no mobile phones,locally made goods,neatly dressed people,no junkies,better politicians with a clear direction, no gst,I wish😢

That was our emerald city, beautiful, affordable, liveable.

People were so Modernist in the 1960s (and well into the 70s and 80s too). Very simplistic in how they saw 'progress'.

I went up to the top of the AMP building at circular quay that year when it was the tallest building in Sydney - I felt like I was on the top of the world! It was beaten as tallest building a year or two later when the state office block (shown under construction in the video) made it to the top spot for a while after which Australia Square took the title.

As a person who was born in Sydney its so great to look back on childhood memories.

Millionaires place now

Praise Murdoch ❤

Make Sydney great again

I got so emotional watching this, I'm not really sure why. The Sydney I just saw in this video seemed so future-focussed, classy and respectable. I hate to say it but it feels like the entire world has regressed.

NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF..MURDERS, RAPE, PEDOPHILES, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT..THIS IS A SICK CITY..

The Luck Country it was, but successive Australian governments had other plans.

How nostalgic, so many familiar places. Great to see Harry Seidler's Australia Square at the foundation stage. 6 years later, it was part of the opening scenes in the film Walkabout.

I used to ride the trains and buses just to see how Sydney looked , I was 8 years old when I started.

my Mum hadn't even met my Dad!, until the Next Year?, i don't Remember Dad!, he past 10 years later!, Cyclone Tracy 1974!, Darwin NT, was only 2, but, I remember Grandad taking us kids, to the Top of Sydney's Tallest Building, Australia Square, around 1977!, GO AUSTRALIA.

The EH Holden taxi! Back when Australia was the lucky country. My mum and dad were from this era. RIP mum and dad.

Right next to that tall AMP tower is (still) the Customs House - when it was the centre for Customs Department officers and their work around the wharves of the time (and the airport). In 1965, my first such work was at 2/3 Walsh Bay - now either apartments or restaurants. Though that building still retains that office and its sign "HM Customs". With the advent of containerised cargo in the 1970s, the ships docked elsewhere at Port Botany and those wharves at Pyrmont, Darling Harbour, Walsh Bay and Cowper Wharves, Wolloomoolloo became derelict. Though most were subsequently turned into rather expensive apartments. As were most of the cargo warehouses in The Rocks, formerly used for storing imported cargo still under Customs control (as it had not been duty-paid, while on the import wharf). I had many delightful walk up through The Rocks, to examine such cargo in those warehouses - smelling wonderfully of a century of stored goods.

Over population with chinese and muslims ruined Sydney. Post 2000 Olympics the city slowly declining into slums and high rise

Finds me recalling coming into the City from the Western Suburbs with a school mate when I was sixteen. The old AMP building had electronic doors, which was a novelty at the time. A touch of the Jetsons. Next we would take the lift up to the top of the AMP building to have a look around.

bring back our manufacturing!

Bring back the bench seat.

I suppose I'm one of the dwindling number of people who can remember the tram platforms at Wynyard in operation. The trams went through tunnels to emerge on the eastern side of the bridge, travelling to their station at Milson's Point before crossing the traffic lanes to continue to the various destinations along the lower North Shore.

All the 'unhealthy, non-OH&S practices' goings on AND how lucky we were to have Jack Munday🤞back then 😊

I love Martin Place station

ABsolute bulls^&t first settlers were 850 convicts and their guards in 1788 and the first free settlers were 5 single men and two families in 1793

2024 saw another rail line under the harbour and cbd

Great posting. Brilliant John Bradfield, No computers in his day. John Bradfield was a master at maths and armed with a slide rule he used 7 forms of maths in his designs especially on the Sydney Harbour Bridge to which was calculated to hold 37 large steam locomotives with ease. More of this history can be seen in the Harbour Bridge Cinema , Pylon lookout ,South east Pylon . Entry, Bradfield expressway ,Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Love this building!

Thanks to Jack Mundey "The Rocks" was never "swept away to make way for "modern buildings" again thank you Jack Mundey.

The evil bstrds were going to knock down the rocks and build their horrid tacky office buildings. But thank god they, the people, saved it.

I came to Sydney from interstate. There are plenty of buildings. Circular quay being open with a full view is a relief to the soul looking out to the harbour and with some view of the city from the other side. I’ve taken some interesting pictures in the areas of some buildings and of the quay including when cruise ships have come in. It’s easy to become bogged down by the buildings of the city and forget you are near a harbour. The open view gives you a feeling of freshness and freedom from the constraints of the city walls with a good view of the quay.

My parents arrived in Sydney as immigrants from Ireland in 1964, so this is the very city that would have greeted them back then! Wasn't much different really to me as a kid exploring the city with my dad in the mid 70's, albeit with a few more of those projects featured in the film such as Australia Square & the Opera House having just been newly completed. Very different city now though, for better and for worse...

They should put lights in those long dark tunnels in the city circle.

Worst Designed city of ever been to, Redfern like the poverty of Asia, small over price petty blocks of concrete, Roading is a nightmare, Traffic lights are screwed to hold you up while lanes to tolls remain empty so to push for the use of tolls, plus the poor quality of patches and potholes, Lack of signs so you know what road goes where

Brings back memories when i was on the rail staff helping train and educate at the front end. New ticketing process thank goodness. I think the naration voice was similar on various projects or promotions of the time.

looks much better now

I went on it the first day it was open to the public

Glad that The Rocks wasn’t completely replaced, as it mentions in the video 2/3 way through

And now a super expensive s-hole, unliveable, murderous traffic, with most homes owned by external investors. Most shopping centres are owned by same including Queen Victoria building

There is a tank stream also in Parramatta

Fresh water is the determining factor in any new city location. Farming and crops demand it in addition to people. What happened to Sydney's tank stream is truly TRAGIC. 😞😞 M 🦘🏏😎

Great vid