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CÚL OF THE ROCK

A man standing right in the bow of a rowing boat – the same
boat that the three young people were holding just off the beach
in the 3299.W.L. image – is doing something at the middle one
of three iron stanchions that have been set into the stone at the
very edge of the ‘Cool of the Rock’. Two horses and drays can
be seen, either passing or just standing in front of the entrance
to John Doyle’s coal yard below Bethel Terrace, one at each side
of the gate which appears to be open. It is a W.L. photo but only
the very tops of the four digits in the number are visible. It looks
very much as if the number actually reads 3333. Derek Paine
captioned it ‘Harbour Area, no dock, no slip, early 1880s’. I feel
this date is the more likely one for the series of images.

The second of the photos (see below) that was taken from
the jetty that day appears at the top of page 103 in Derek’s 1993
book and it is also available online under the original number
3334.W.L. And it is from the Cabinet Collection. It too looks
straight in along the rocks to Bethel Terrace, where the same two
horses and drays appear to be stationary on the road in front of

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