The Pastoral Finance Association's wool store was immediately to the west of Admiralty House at Kirribilli. The 1921 fire was so large, they needed to bring appliances and fire crews by car ferry across from Bennelong Point. You can see a fireman wearing a beret doing just that from 3:58. At 4:32 is a fire engine with a brass "1" below the driver's seat indicating it came from Headquarters Fire Station, Castlereagh Street. There has been some displaced editing; early in the fire there is no wind and the flames and smoke rise vertically up from an intact façade, eg: at 3:07 filmed from Bennelong Point, whereas towards the end of the fire a westerly wind can be seen blowing the smoke from a partially collapsed building, eg: at 2:40.
The Pastoral Finance Association's wool store was immediately to the west of Admiralty House at Kirribilli. The 1921 fire was so large, they needed to bring appliances and fire crews by car ferry across from Bennelong Point. You can see a fireman wearing a beret doing just that from 3:58. At 4:32 is a fire engine with a brass "1" below the driver's seat indicating it came from Headquarters Fire Station, Castlereagh Street.
There has been some displaced editing; early in the fire there is no wind and the flames and smoke rise vertically up from an intact façade, eg: at 3:07 filmed from Bennelong Point, whereas towards the end of the fire a westerly wind can be seen blowing the smoke from a partially collapsed building, eg: at 2:40.
"Trams move 1,000 per minute". We can't seem to equal that today. That was ninety years ago.
The rugby league crowds were probably larger then than now
International crowds would have been larger. Club games not.
Watching the Randwick Racecourse footage, you could play a game of spot the guy not wearing a hat and lose, didn't see one bloke without a hat on lol.
07:13 - litterbug.
Given Australia's hot and sunny climate; why did Australian men stop wearing hats?
Hats are optional now
Akubra must of been kept busy.
@@petermortensen8022 it's akabura
Paul Mateo do you own an Akubra? You better check the inside label or the band, it is Akubra.
@@petermortensen8022 nope
Some men lose hats