Metcalfe Bond Stores

This is one of my favourite buildings at The Rocks in Sydney.

These warehouses at were known as Bond Stores , where goods remained in the storage until importers paid the customs duty on them. The Metcalfe warehouses were named in honour of its founder, Michael Metcalfe (1813-1890), a prominent Sydney merchant who was one of the original founders of the Australian Steam Navigation Company (ASN).

In 1973 the building was converted to offices and restaurants.


Today's main album photo
http://365project.org/onewing/365/2014-05-30

[Lynette]

Great shot Babs - the B&W works really well. Love the Rocks - one of my fav places in Sydney.

[Beryl Lloyd]

Great capture love the repetition of design/shapes and good in b/w

[Marnie]

Love it. And I love it with all of my several hats on too. As an economic historian by trade (Deakin University) I am drawn to old industrial buildings and artefacts - big tick! As a photographer, I really enjoy seeing the past history of places and people, i.e. the workers - big tick! And as a tourist, I love the way the old buildings are built, and the materials and that they're not popped out of an ice-cube mould - big tick!!

[Marnie]

Sorry, fav for me.

[Sam]

The Rocks is such a wonderful place to visit - so much history and the view....oh the view!!! beautiful B&W Babs!

[Newbank Lass]

Lovely shot. Thanks for the follow. Great to meet another fan of b and w photography. It's what I love most.

[Babs]

@net Me too. I just love The Rocks, we are going down there next week so hopefully will get lots more photos too.

[Babs]

@beryl Thanks so much Beryl. The Rocks has such a wonderful history.

[Babs]

@golftragic Wow, thanks so much Marnie. The Rocks is one of my favourite places in Sydney. So much history there.

[Babs]

Oops @golftragic and thanks for the fav.

[Babs]

@gigiflower Thanks Sam. I love The Rocks too.

[Babs]

@newbank Thanks for the follow. I am just coming to the end of a month of b&w photos. I just love how you see something different in monochrome than you do in colour.

[Kat]

Great shot. Very atmospheric in B&W. :)

[Kane Arlow]

Great shot Babs, well composed, and great B&W too.

[sally agnew]

Love these buildings ,just love The Rocks. The brick chimney is an eye catcher. Great B&W image :-)

[Hazel]

Magnificent industrial architecture - good composition!

[Eve Pulsater]

Gosh but there are some nice crisp lines going on here, Babs. I love it. Fave

[8yearson]

I love black and white architecture, really brings out detail as it has here.

[Pat Knowles]

A very handsome building & interesting history Babs........a very uniform roof line which looks quite modern...they knew how to build them then.

[Paula W]

Wonderful repetition and lines, super shot Babs.

[Deb]

I love the history you gave, it adds to the charm of this shot. So many terrific lines here, great shot!

[Rachel]

I do love this row of buildings in the Rocks. So interesting. Great shot.

[April]

I love the story and I love the lines and how everything is so neat and symmetrical.

[Gena Pegg]

Very cool!!! Great information too! Wonderful capture Babs...like that you were able to get so much in the shot!

[Chris Stapleton]

Lovely

[Marnie]

@onewing I must get back to Sin City one of these days.

[Sharon Simpson]

Nice capture.....looks so old!

[Laurie F]

Cool B&W look

[Peter]

Wonderful B&W image with wonderful layers and lead in lines, great area to visit , shame so many wharf buildings demolished in the past;)

[Jane Morley]

What a lot of picture!

[Babs]

@darthkitty @karlow75 @hermann @quietpurplehaze @creampuff @jackie8 @happypat @paulaw @dgrynn @888rachel @april16 @eyesmile @cljs Thank you all so much for your lovely comments and favs. I was so lucky with this shot to manage not to get any people in it. It is a very busy area of Sydney usually with tourists all over the place, but this was on a weekday, after rain, and quite early in the day. Out of season too which helped.

[Ruby]

Fabulous shot of a great and interesting building...fav, love in b/w

[Kathie]

Lovely composition. Great to see the preserved the old building.