Friday 18 March 2011

Surry Hills, stack

This chimney stack rises above a former industrial building in the inner city suburb of Surry Hills. It dominates the skyline behind Shannon Reserve and is much taller than the chimney stacks on the residential terrace houses beside it. Surry Hills is a suburb that once contained a lot of heavy industry and manufacturing but has gone through gentrificaton, with many of the old buildings redeveloped. This stack is redundant now since the building is used for residential and commercial purposes.

27 comments:

  1. Good find! It really looks beautiful there.

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  2. Looks like an exclamation point and perfect to accent your wonderful BLUE skies! Terrific capture as always and as always, I love your composition! Have a great weekend, Jim!

    Sylvia

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  3. on dirait une cheminée d'usine

    Publicity ;o) Every Friday (and the Weekend), The Challenge "Walk In The Street Photography"

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  4. Hah! Don't know that I have ever seen this.

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  5. I like it there. I hope they don't take it down.

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  6. Ah yes! a lovely touch of history - I love the chimmney pots

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  7. What a beautiful mean to measure time and life.

    Please have a good Friday.


    daily athens

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  8. Great capture of the chimeny stack and the sky is such a pretty blue!

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  9. It may be redundant, but it is still very impressive.

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  10. It looks like a beautiful area, and the industrial stack fits right in!

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  11. Hi jim. I always enjoy my visits to your blog. a great variety of interesting shots

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  12. I like how the walls surrounding the walkways mimic the old tower.
    Lovely shot.

    Thanks for dropping by.

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  13. Great stack - they don't build them like this anymore.

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  14. Carletta, that's an interesting observation. I hadn't thought about the pillars around the reserve matching the stack.

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  15. I love the blue sky of Sydney. I used to just lie on the grass, admiring the blue sky (in my school days).

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  16. What an oddity gracing that lovely blue sky.

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  17. Interesting post and great shot ... enjoy you weekend!

    Irene

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  18. Lovely chimney,so lucky it's being preserved.

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  19. Old chimney stacks are a nice reminder of past industries.

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  20. I like to see the old stacks, suggests something of the history.

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  21. Awesome architecture! Unique submission for SWF! :)

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  22. Beautiful blue sky. I've got to disagree with most who've commented. While the chimney itself is impressive, it looks as if it's just been stuck onto the rehabbed building and doesn't really belong there. To each his/her own. :-)

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  23. The chimneys are usually round, but this is square. Very interesting.

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