Helen Pitt
speaker
898 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 May
Helen Pitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 6 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 5.
Appearances
Conversations · The story behind Sydney’s Luna Park and its impact on the city · 17 Apr 2026
podcast
in the eastern suburbs of Sydney.
So he traced all around Sydney and found this five-acre lot on the former warehouses, the site where, as you said, the Harbour Bridge was put together, the workshops.
It was completely dismantled.
It was just a set of weeds and old bricks.
And so the Phillips brothers signed a lease of agreement with the Department of Main Roads, who owned the land at that time.
And...
You can imagine, can't you?
Like it was not paying its way, the Harbour Bridge.
So they needed to find ways to get people to come to the north side because everyone was going to the city.
So the local North Sydney Council and New South Wales government teamed together to do these twin projects, the North Sydney Olympic Pool and the amusement park.
So they were both begun in 1935.
No, they made a brand new one.
There was no face in Adelaide.
There was only the face in Melbourne.
It was quite a sinister looking Mr Moon.
And this was also a very sinister looking, the first one made by Rupert Brown, the first
artist in Melbourne.
He was brought up to Sydney and it didn't last very long because it was paper mache and canvas and horse hair and all sorts of things.
It was slapped together very quickly.
So once
Showing 461–480 of 898 · page 24 of 45
← Previous
Next →