Martin Cash- the steel framed ferry - was built in Hobart in1975 as one of a fleet built to the order of Bob Clifford. Clifford got on with the job of building ferries to carry passengers across the Derwent River in Hobart after the Tasman Bridge collapsed.
In the background is Concord Repatriation General Hospital (abbreviated CRGH), commonly referred to as simply Concord Hospital, is a major hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Hospital Road in Concord.
It is a teaching hospital of Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney, where it is referred to as Concord Clinical School, and a major facility in the Sydney Local Health District and the former Sydney South West Area Health Service. The NSW Statewide Severe Burn Injury Service and the Bernie Banton Centre, an asbestos diseases research institute, are located at CRGH.
The current hospital was commissioned in 1939 as a general hospital for the Australian Army. When completed in 1942, the 2000 bed Yaralla Military Hospital (113 Australian General Hospital) was the largest hospital in the Southern Hemisphere. The main hospital building (currently known as the Multi Building) was one of the tallest buildings in Sydney when completed and its design won architects Stephenson & Turner the Sulman Award in 1946. Following the war, the hospital became a repatriation hospital for returned servicemen under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth government, with a change in name to Repatriation General Hospital, Concord (RGHC). In 1963 RGHC became a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney.
Good grief you have some weird names over there. We only have Wellington, Auckland and "Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu" (I shit you not). I mean, really...Yaralla? C'mon! Oh, cool shot too.
@graemestevens hahahaha I have always loved - and bandied about - the expression "I shit you not" i often shit people not - because I am a mind of information I think
I didn't even try to pronounce that - and i usually do - but seriously
Great shot. I like the Orton style processing. And, @graemestevens I want to ring these hospitals just to hear them pronounce the names on the phone. That receptionist must hate her job.
Cool processing. Interesting information. Having worked in a 2000+ bed hospital, I can vouch for it being a big building! Plus very easy to get lost in such a place.
Oh this brings back memories - my younger brother got 2nd and 3rd degree burns (pouring petrol down funnel web holes....don't ask) and he was in Concord Burns Unit for just over 2 weeks.
I didn't even try to pronounce that - and i usually do - but seriously