Canberra aerial photography from the 60's

Roundhead, you do realise that Capital Hill is also visible in the photo…?

the hill at the back of the shot is capital hill though… 🙂

Pork Hunt said :

Wonder what those buildings in Commonwealth Park are?

I wondered that too. A plant nursery maybe?

I’m also liking the old skool “pchop” work on the lake as well, haha.

Roundhead89 said :

That’s not Capital Hill, it is City Hill which is very much the same now as it was back then.

It’s Capital Hill in the background.

Holden Caulfield said :

Pics not working for me and only the second high-res link works too. 🙁

Limit of referrals from a site has been reached. Just copy and past the link url into browser and it should be fine.

GardeningGirl said :

That is so great! Thanks for sharing!

and from me as well.

Pork Hunt said :

Wonder what those buildings in Commonwealth Park are?

In the far right corner is the church land, controversially given the church for a public cathedral and public use, but in reality used as a private residence. There’s a lot of politics going on with that even now.

To the left of that, is Mulwala Hostel, it would have been demolished soon after these pics were taken.

Roundhead89 said :

Paul0075 said :

Beautiful photos. And nice to finally see a colour shot of Capital Hill before parliament house ended up there. I grew up coming to Canberra regularly from Sydney as a kid, but we never ventured over the lake most of the time as our family friends lived in Watson and their family lived in Dickson and Braddon.

That’s not Capital Hill, it is City Hill which is very much the same now as it was back then.

Unless Paul is referring to the hill on the other side of the lake round about where parliament house now sits?

Paul0075 said :

Beautiful photos. And nice to finally see a colour shot of Capital Hill before parliament house ended up there. I grew up coming to Canberra regularly from Sydney as a kid, but we never ventured over the lake most of the time as our family friends lived in Watson and their family lived in Dickson and Braddon.

That’s not Capital Hill, it is City Hill which is very much the same now as it was back then.

Wonder what those buildings in Commonwealth Park are?

johnboy said :

problem apparently fixed for now.

Thanks to you both.

Awesome pics! 8)

Thanks for sharing, I love these kind of old images.

problem apparently fixed for now.

Google decided that I was out of bandwidth, should hopefully be fixed now. I need to stop hosting so many photos.

Solidarity said :

I wish I could spend a day in 60’s Canberra….

If Tony Abbott wins the election you may very well be able to spend time in an interpretation of the 1960’s!

Beautiful photos. And nice to finally see a colour shot of Capital Hill before parliament house ended up there. I grew up coming to Canberra regularly from Sydney as a kid, but we never ventured over the lake most of the time as our family friends lived in Watson and their family lived in Dickson and Braddon.

I’m getting an error from google. “Rate limit error”. Is it just me or is this picture so good it broke the interwebz?

Pics not working for me and only the second high-res link works too. 🙁

I wish I could spend a day in 60’s Canberra. Just stroll around, looking at stuff…

It looks like a really ugly model of the city. Dis-Craceful, even. Trees make it look so much better.

That is so great! Thanks for sharing!

Look at all the carparking!

Yep, that is where the City to the Lake project will be focussing, from Commonwealth Avenue round West Basin. You can really notice how open it is without the barrier of Parkes Way. It will be nice to be able to stroll down to the lake without crossing six lanes of Canberras finest.