Not a splinter left now, soon to be covered by another sprawl of Meriton Lego apartments. We seem to have no idea about preserving 20th Century cultural heritage. So it doesn't have sandstone buildings, but it was a real embodiment of how we did things in what was Australia's most important economic and cultural growth periods - buildings that looked like over sized sheds, with other sheds built against it as the need arose to expand. We just knock it down for land value.
How sad! Same type of thing is happening here in the UK. TV studio centres vanishing every year as ITV asset strip and flog them off for redevelopment. Soon there'll be no examples left of network facilities from the "golden era". How sad that no protection is offered to these buildings. If the best examples
Sad to say the very least! I lived near here and saw this tower being erected. As a child I would ride my bike up here and chat with the security guards (when they were anywhere to be seen - things were lax in those days) Many of my colour slides of sunsets etc feature this tower with its red light, and I think it's even in the pic I took of Sputnik 1 in 1957~! Memories indeed!
How well I remember the newspaper items of the Gore Hill TV towers being erected in 1956.....with mistakes!
Fucking disgusting that such irreplaceable history is destroyed with such wanton disregard to it's history and heritage, rather than preserved.
At the very minimum, it could of been offered to community broadcasters...
Of course we would rather high density, anti-social bloody duplexes and multi-story garbage built in it's place... not !
emanon86 1 year ago
Not a splinter left now, soon to be covered by another sprawl of Meriton Lego apartments. We seem to have no idea about preserving 20th Century cultural heritage. So it doesn't have sandstone buildings, but it was a real embodiment of how we did things in what was Australia's most important economic and cultural growth periods - buildings that looked like over sized sheds, with other sheds built against it as the need arose to expand. We just knock it down for land value.
aeonfloss 1 year ago 2
How sad! Same type of thing is happening here in the UK. TV studio centres vanishing every year as ITV asset strip and flog them off for redevelopment. Soon there'll be no examples left of network facilities from the "golden era". How sad that no protection is offered to these buildings. If the best examples
tonyMCMLXXVI 1 year ago
A national disgrace caused by a corporation which is destroying a once great Television network.
emucentral 1 year ago
Sad to say the very least! I lived near here and saw this tower being erected. As a child I would ride my bike up here and chat with the security guards (when they were anywhere to be seen - things were lax in those days) Many of my colour slides of sunsets etc feature this tower with its red light, and I think it's even in the pic I took of Sputnik 1 in 1957~! Memories indeed!
How well I remember the newspaper items of the Gore Hill TV towers being erected in 1956.....with mistakes!
classy8888 1 year ago