Circa 1920 - "Panorama of Como and the Georges River, New South Wales" - The Enemark Collection (cropped & enhanced enlargement)

IMAGE INFORMATION
- The view is looking south-south-east from the north (Oatley) side of the Georges River.
- From left to right of pic can be seen the entrance to Carina Bay, across the Como Pleasure Grounds, the Como boatsheds (Murphy brothers boat houses & residence on the left, Bryant's on the right side of pic), the Georges River rail bridge & Illawarra railway line at Como Station.
- All the hill at the right of pic (lying to the west of the railway line) later became the leafy garden suburb of Como West (where I would spend most of my early formative years - great memories!)
- The railway line winds into the distance, towards what would become the next suburb of Jannali & beyond that to Sutherland & the south coast.
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CREDITS
Credits go to -
(a) the creator of the original excellent negative(s) that form the image I used for this particular restoration - John H. Enemark of EB Studios (a partnership with Hilda Bridges at 278 George Street, Sydney).
(b) the National Library of Australia for their valuable historic photograph digitization & archiving program(s).
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PROCESS INFO
- Restoration from the original image quality was done using using Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 8.0
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COPYRIGHT STATUS
- The original image was never published & is no longer restricted by any form of Copyright, per the National Library of Australia Copyright statement below -
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141555402

"Out of Copyright
Reason for copyright status: Created/Published Date is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
Material type: Photograph
Published status: Unpublished
Government copyright ownership: No Government Copyright Ownership
The National Library of Australia supports creativity, innovation and knowledge-exchange but does not endorse any inappropriate or derogatory use. Please respect indigenous cultural and ethical concerns".

- As for my own work in substantially restoring this unique part of the original image, the only Copyright(s) I have applied for anyone wishing to use this restoration in any form is by Attribution-Non Commercial Use-No Derivatives.
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HISTORIC INFO
- From Wikipedia - "The original Como Railway Bridge opened on 26 December 1885 as part of the extension of the Illawarra railway line from Hurstville to Sutherland. It was a single track lattice truss bridge designed by John Whitton, the Chief Engineer of the New South Wales Government Railways. The double tracks converged to a single gauntlet track on the bridge, which enabled trains to cross in either direction without points. When the rest of the line was duplicated, it became a major bottleneck.

Between 1935 and 1942, the Metropolitan Water Sewerage & Drainage Board built two 60 centimetre diameter pipelines to pump water from the recently completed Woronora Dam to the reservoir at Penshurst. The pipeline was supported on new steel outriggers cantilevered from the main girders.

Second bridge -
To relieve the bottleneck, a new double track reinforced concrete bridge immediately to the west opened on 27 November 1972. The original bridge reopened as a cycleway (& pedestrian path) on 15 December 1985".

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Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Sydney / Oatley (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1920

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